best pleased her, and had written in it, with a trembling hand, some words of tender and Christian affection. One day she made him come to her bed-side: "Lay your hand there," said she; and, placing her hand on it, she added, "O Lord, bless us both; Lord, preserve me, that I

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may love thee better; but if thou hast otherwise appointed, thy will be done."

The last hours (September 28th) which this heavenlyminded young woman spent on earth were even more remarkable than any of her preceding days. The night had been passed in delirium; it still continued; but she had intervals of reason, and her heart never wandered. The idea of her approaching end did not seem to present itself to her mind; but she was even more than ever pervaded with resignation, faith, and love. Let us not ask why her heavenly Father veiled from her the glorious eternity which she was so shortly to inherit. Undoubtedly, if she had been aware of her real situation, she would have expressed even more forcibly the feelings of her soul: but, without anticipating death, all her hope was in Christ, in his mercy, in his precious blood shed for

sinners upon the cross; and the strength of her Saviour was made perfect in her weakness. Though still detained upon earth, her heart incessantly aspired towards that heavenly country whither she was going. "You know," said she to a friend a few hours before her death, "that you are my sister in Christ-for eternity-that is lifenothing else deserves the name." During her delirium she wished to rise; and imagined that her desire was fulfilled, and that she was in the garden. She seemed overwhelmed with delight, and exclaimed, "How beautiful is the sun! I delight to see the sun! Look at the sky! How blue it is! How much good the air does me!” and many other expressions, which, though uttered in a state of delirium, showed the serenity she felt, while all around her were overpowered with their emotions. She at length perceived that Mr. D. had been weeping: "What is the matter with you?" said she; "I am grieved to see you ill-well, all is right, since it is the will of God." Her agitation now became great, and her last hours were passed in dreadful agony. She recovered, however, the use of her speech about half an hour before her death. She called her parents and friends; but she could

only pronounce their names, and receive their embraces, and reply by the pressure of her hand. God mercifully shortened this scene of grief; he soon terminated this severe struggle: she became calm, uttered a last sigh, and a sweet smile of inexpressible serenity spread itself over the beautiful enclosure which her soul had just quitted for the bosom of her God and Saviour.

MEMOIR OF A. E. G.

MY DEAR FRIEND,-Though our intercourse has been for some years interrupted by distance and other duties, you will remember my eldest girl, who was born on the 19th of December 1816. My beloved wife, had in prayer devoted her child unto the Lord from the womb; and failed not on the first dawning of A.'s faculties, to set before her in the simplest manner the evil of our fallen nature, and the love of Jesus in redeeming us from its curse.

I pass by the events which occurred, until she attained her tenth year, most of them being such as are met with in children of quick natural capacity, under the advantage of tender parental watchfulness and Christian instruction. At this period it pleased Him, who is wisdom, and love, and mercy, to take to himself my dear wife; and as the disease sent to inflict this painful stroke was

considered infectious, the children were removed from the house. A. was thus prevented from witnessing the seal which her dear mother's dying experience impressed upon the truth and value and reality of that Saviour's love, and that help of the Spirit, and that power of the word, in which she had been instructed. But enough was conveyed to her and impressed upon her by those under whose charge she was placed, to show her clearly that the Christian's greatest enemy and burden in life, is sin, and that hence only has death a sting,—" but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

After this afflictive visitation, the dear child appeared to feel at times the great responsibility of her situation as the eldest of eight little ones without a mother. She increased in affectionate deference towards, and consideration for me, and tender attention towards her younger brothers and sisters; but her constitution was delicate, and there seemed an inaptitude for steady, persevering application; and an irritability arising greatly from physical causes, which hindered the progress of her education, and her usefulness. She received religious instruction