respecting all events-the doctrine of man's total moral depravity with the abfolute neceffity of fpe cial, unfought, fovereign grace in regenerating the foul, and that God fhould have all the glory of man's falvation: She appeared to be pleafed with the infinite atonement of Chrift and with the plan of fal vation founded on his righteoufnefs and death. From former hatred and contempt she turned to a warm and affectionate friendship to her brother. She appeared to perfe vere in this begun path of righteouf nefs and peace, and altho' fhe had to pafs through many intervening clouds of dark trials, her path ap. peared, upon the whole, to fhine brighter and brighter through the courfe of a number of years, after the first appeared to be in a renewed state, and the at laft appeared to die in the triumphs of faith-and the lively hope of joining with the redeemed in heaven, in finging the fong of Mofes and the Lamb forever and ever. that this brother who opposed him with fo much bitterness for nearly twoyears, was now an humble, penitent believer in the Lord Jefus Chrift. With what joy and confolation, and true friendship could these two brothers, and fifter, now converfe upon the great and important glories of the Redeemer's kingdom no tongue can fully exprefs. This elder brother made a public profeffion of religion and joined a Prefbyterian church-and ftill continues to appear to perfe vere in the faith of the gospel. I fhall now pafs from the conftituent parts of the family, who lived a confiderable time together under the fame roof after the death of their father, to the younger filter, who, I gave notice, was married to a young gentleman in the vicinity.--Forfeveral years the appeared to be careless and gay, and in about five years after the converfion of the first in the common family which I have mentioned, the was bereaved of her hufband, by his death, and fhe was left a widow with two children. The last converted brother who lived in the old manfion houfe of their deceased father, took her, and her children into his family. But she still continued without giving any evidence of any religious impreffion.-At this time the younger brother had taken his degree in College and was ftudying divinity about one hundred fifty miles from the place of his nativity.-Being from his native place about fix months from the time of his laft vifit, he had an earnest defire and intention to make another vifit to his friends. About two weeks before he fet out for this vifit, the ftate of his younger fif ter came to the view of his mind, in all its affecting importance. He viewed her as in an unconverted itate; and often did he carry her Ggg After the converfion of this fif ter, the younger brother gained ftrength in the family, having an own fifter to join with him in talking to his elder brother about the important things of religion. But while the younger brother lived in the family, there appeared no change in the elder brother and nothing like a rational conviction of truth. But as the younger brother was engaged in the purfuit of learning, with a view to the miniftry, he found it convenient for the better profecution of his studies to remove to a Grammar school, about forty-five miles diftant. In about fix months after his departure from his native home, he received a letter from his elder brother which appeared to favour of true religion. He went to vifit his brother and found abundant reafon to believe VOL. I. No. II. cafe, within these two weeks, with more than his common engaged. nefs, to the throne of grace. But while he was earnestly praying for his fifter, with an importunity which could not be fatisfied, unlefs his petition fhould be granted: these questions came to view, are you not felfish, in praying for your younger filter? God hath converted all who are left of your father's children, but her, why are you not now fatisfied? He was afraid that he was felfifh; but ftill his anxious defire continued for her converfion, and he defired that God would, in unmerited mercy, make his intended vifit a mean of this defired object. feffed her wicked feelings towards! him. She told him that before be came home she had, from the feelings of natural affection a defire to fee him; but no fooner than he began to talk to her about religion, fhe heartily wifhed that he had not come home, because it appeared that he had come home to torment her. She appeared, feelingly to confefs her vilenefs, and rejoiced in the divinė fovereignty; but fhe could not fee how it could be for the glory of God and the happiness of Angels, for God to fave her. Upon the youngest brother's explaining the nature of Chrift's infinite atonement, to declare God's righteouf nefs and her ill-defert, and that it With fweet delight,, he goes to was for the glory of God, freely the throne of grace and feels a to pardon all who felt aright topleasure that his younger fifter is inwards their own character, and the hands of a merciful and fove. reign God. Thus the younger brother gave up his youngest fifter, with cheerfulness, into the hands of a fovereign God; but he was still mor€ and more fervent in prayer, that if it were confiftent with the fovereign purpose of an infinitely good God, he would convert her, and make the intended journey a mean of this defirable object. At the appointed time, the younger brother went to visit his friends in the Delaware ftate-repaired to the place of his nativity-faw to his great joy his elder brother and fif ter whom he believed to be in a gracious ftate. But the apparent ftate of his youngest fifter now refiding in the fame family, marred his joy. He began to talk to her of the wickedness and danger of an unconverted state. Thus, from day to day, he talked to her about religion; but he could get no direct answer, which was a fource of great difcouragement to him. But in about ten days, the frankly con that thofe whom God faves, he faves, not for their fakes, but for the fake of his own glory; the was pleafed with the plan of falvation through the Divine Redeemer, obtained an humble hope of mercy-made a public profeflion of religion in joining a Prefbyterian church, and hath appeared to perfevere in true religion through the courfe of a number of years, and it is hoped that the willperfevere to the end of life, and at last be admitted to the celeftial kingdom to the praife and glory of divine grace, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. I came, and mine eyes had feen it; and behold, the half was not told me.' "The half was not told me," faid the enraptured queen of the South, when from unbelief in the reports, which circulated at her court of the wifdom and greatnefs of Solomon, fhe had come up to Jerufalem, to behold, with her own eyes, the glory of his kingdom; and to hear, with her own ears, the charms of his wifdom. "I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it.” "The half was not told me," faid the pleafant and gay Matilda to her filter, (who had frequently written to her, on the happy revival of experimental religion, in her abfence,) on the first evening that The attended a religious conference meeting, after her return to the place of her nativity, from a fummer's employment in a diftant town, "I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had feen it."— "When I read your letters, I thought it could not be real; that there was nothing in reafon, or religion that could fo affect people's hearts. But, when I entered the place of worship, this night, all was foleman and filent as the grave. My gay companions had dropped all their thoughtless and trifling airs ;-their countenances were folemn their eyes were wishfully turned upon the preacher. -When he arofe, a folemn filence and univerfal attention prevailed; and when he spoke, if an angel had come down from heaven, to alarm a guilty world, and bid them prepare for the day of judgment, it feened, as tho' there would not have been a greater attention paid. How many weeping eyes were to be feen! How many covered faces, to hide from public view, the pangs and forrows of a guilty foul ! When I went to meeting, I thought I should return light and airy as ever :—but, I was ftruck-I was aftonished--I never felt fo folemn in my life, before, eternity never feemed fo near.-I began to feel myfelf on its very borders. I could not for my life keep from being ferious, I became alarmed, to think how different my feelings were from all that were prefent, left I should make myself forever miferable, in trifling with the concerns of eternity.-O, the half was not told me, in your letters. Thefe meetings cannot be defcribed upon paper. None will ever believe the reports of them, who have never been witneffes." "The half was not told me," faid the trembling Matilda to a female friend, with whom, (from a religious meeting,) fhe went home to fleep, a few evenings after, when a difcourfe had been delivered from these words,-"If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had fin: but now they have no cloak for their fin.”—“ Ó, I nev er knew what it was to be a finner before. I had no fenfe of my own guilt and wretchedness ;-no fenfe of this dreadfully wicked and rebellious heart.--But, now, alas ! I fee I am totally depraved-I fee my guilt-I feel my danger.-0, I fhall die-I fhail perifh-I fhall fink down to everlasting misery, a wretched finner. Chrift has come from heaven, in infinite compaffion, to redeem. O, the dying, Redeemer has spoken to me from his erofs, and in his gofpel; but, I have rebelled. I have turned a deaf-ear to all his warnings and entreaties. I have, even wickedly derided that, which I now believe to be the glorious work of divine grace. O, I am, certainly, the guiltieft of mortals. I have no cloak for my fin, it is fo great; nothing to cover it-nothing to ex cufe it-nothing to give me any WI at joy can be compared with this, To ferve and please the Lord?" "Once, I thought Chriftians the most gloomy and uncomforta is rebellion. There is no cloak that can cover the greatness of my fin. There is nothing to hide it from an holy God. Can fuch pain-ble people in the world; but now, ful fenfations of guilt, as I now I believe them to be the most hapfeel, be conviction, Almira? If ry How inconfiderate-how they be, the half was not told me. blind I have been to God-to reOh, I fear, that it is but the con ligion to my own happiness !demning evidence of the greatnefs When I look back upon my past of my guilt before God, to fhew life, I am amazed at the long for me, that I am without excufe, and bearance of an holy God, in fparI fear, wholly without hope. Oh, ing fuch an hardened, ungrateful Almira, pray for me, pray for me, finner! When I reflect on the an undone finner, pray for my poor dreadful abyfs of mifery, from the foul. O, Lord, have mercy upon brink of which, I have juft been me, a guilty finner! Save me, Oh! hopefully fnatched, by almighty fave me from perdition." In this grace, as an out-cat-abrard from manner, as Almira told me, Ma. the burnings, I tremble for fear of tilda fpent a fleepless night, in a mistake; but my foul rejoices, tears, and cries, and prayers to and I cannot but cry thanks be to heaven for grace and falvation God; by all on earth and all in heaven thanks-eternal thanks be to God, for his unfpeakable gift. I never believed the words of Chriftians, when they related their The half was not told me," faid the humble Matilda, to her Minifter, a few days after, when having hopefully found a pardoning God, and an all-fufficient Sa-fpiritual joys, until I came, and viour, the came to him, to relate mine eyes have feen it, and my heart the joyful exercises of her foul. hath experienced it; and behold, "Oh! I never believed this, I could the half was not told me.” not believe it. What glorious The half was not told me," happincfs there is in religion faid the watchful Matilda, to her Whatan amazing change !-What pious friend Angelina, twelve relief!-What comfort !-How months after entertaining a hope of did the light break in upon my foul, regeneration. "Oh! What a in that ever memorable morning, tempting world we live in! How after unutterable anguish, when I full of fnares and trials! How mabeheld the glory of God, in his ny tempting, eafily befetting fins! goodnefs-in his hatred of fin-Angelina, we were directed to in his holiness and juftice; and felt watch and pray-to watch continan heart to refign up all to hisually, left falling into temptation, fovereign difpofal !-How fweet we fhould difhonor God-be inthe lines of the promife read, whichftrumental in hardening the hearts bid me live; for that the grace of of the unbelieving, and bring a reGod was fufficient for me, through proach upon ourselves. Littlethea DEAR SISTER, reach you, death will terminate my probation here, and I fhall be happy, or miferable forever. None about me have hopes of my feeing another morning. Short space to accomplish the mighty work of preparing for eternity! Yet I cannot leave the world, without admonishing you to be more early in preparing for that dreadful hour, which you are fure not to escape, and know not how foon it may arrive. did we feel any need of fuch advice. Our hearts were warmthey were full, God and his grace engaged all our thoughts. But, alas! The half was not told us. How treacherous and wandering our hearts! We are ftill helplefs, still weak, ftill dependent creatures. In God only is all our help. Our grace, our comfort, our fpiritual rejoicing is ftill all-dependent upon our living nigh to him, in prayer, in public worship, in Chriftian communion, at the Lord's table, in fhort, in all religious duties. Let us then watch and pray. Let us remember that we are ftrangers and pilgrims on this earth. O, Ange-ner, and though accounted very lina, let our hearts be upon an heavenly inheritance." Reader, if thou art a ftranger to regeneration, when thou haft read all the interefting narratives of revivals in religion, which are recorded in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, though thy heart may have rifen in unbelief and in enmity against the manifeftation of the glorious power of God therein described; yet, let me tell thee, if ever thou shalt be fo happy as to become truly acquainted with thine own heart, and to feel the vital power of religion, thoa wilt be found, among the firit, to fay, I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes bad feen it ; and behold, the half was not told me. The power, the fweetnefs, the glory of divine grace are incommunicable by words, or by paper and ink to unfan&titied men. the fouls of fuch, when defcribed, they are as a glorious light thining in darkness, while, alas! the darkness comprehendeth it not. ΑΜΑΝΑ. AN EXTRACT. Το A letter from one fifler to another, penned from her mouth while dying. We have had the fame education, have lived in the fame man much alike, have refembled each other more in our follies, than in our faces. Alas! Of what a waste of time have we been guilty! To dress well, and appear polite, has been our only ftudy; parade, equipage, and admiration, have been our ambition; pleasure our avocation, and the mode our God. How often, alas! have I profaned in idle chat that facred name, by whofe merits alone I have hopes of forgivenefs! How often have I fat, and heard his miracles and fufferings ridiculed by the falfe wits, and abandoned Deifts of the age, without feeling uneafy emotions at the awful blafphemy! Nay, how often have I myself, because I have heard others do fo, called in queftion that futurity, which I now go to prove, and of which I am already convinced! One moment methinks I fee the blifsful feats of paradife unveiled, and hear ten thousand myriads of celeftial beings tuning their golden harps in fongs of praife to the unutterable name. The next, a fcene all black and gloomy prefents itfelf to my view, whence iffue nought but fobs, and groans, and horrid fhrieks. My fluctuating |