O inspire his soul with a spark of that celestial light in which the redeemed are basking, and in which they will dwell to all eternity! O, if it be permitted thee to be my guardian angel watching my steps, and commissioned to be my spiritual companion in this transitory state during the remaining portion of my pilgrimage here on earth-O, may I so take heed to my path, that I may not wound thy blessed spirit, by thought, word, nor deed!

I believe the sermon which above all the others was the means, under Divine Grace, of awakening her to a. conviction of the error of her ways, particularly as it respects the waste of time and wickedness of card playing, was that from Rev. x. 5. "But there shall be time no longer." The first step she took after her conversion, as it respected herself, was to destroy her idols, as

she called them; saying, if there is any thing a person delights in more than God, it is an idol, and we are idolaters. Now, dress was my mother's idol. As soon as possible, she corrected this idolatry, by altering for her own use such as could be made suitable to her altered state. Others she altered and gave to the poor; and such as were of too flimsy a nature to be so altered as to be useful, such as stupid spiderweb caps, &c. she thrust into the copper fire, although the servant girl begged very hard for them for herself. No, observed she, "these have been my vanity-fair pride, and have injured my soul, and dost thou think I could reconcile my conscience to submit to give them to thee? No:" and with these remarks, they were very properly-committed to the flames. And so tenacious was she ever after not to offend her God by the least display of

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unnecessary finery, that on one occasion having received a very seasonable and proper reproof from a poor woman who had nothing round her cap but a garter, and who was too poor to purchase a ribbon, and who reminded her that she had a bow on her bonnet, she instantly took it off and gave it to her, observing, "the spirit reminds me I have this bow-conscience says, give it to the poor woman who has none; if I resist the spirit I sin." Would, that many who attend our places of worship, with their heads decorated with Satan's trappings, and who only attend the worship of Almighty God to see and be seen, would "go and do likewise."

Before her conversion, she had no intimate connections among the Methodists; there were but few of them there then, and all poor peo

ple. But her God directed her path, and through the same means which was the cause of her conversion, she was conducted to them. In one of Russell's Sermons, he observes, "Join yourselves as much and as often as you can with praying persons, that of them you may have experience and happy communion, and be taught the holy exercise of prayer." She ruminated in her mind on these words; she knew not of any praying people in the village but these few despised Methodists, who were scoffed at, and who bore the insults and indignities so unjustly heaped upon them with the most patient forbearance; knowing who has said, "all who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." She cast in her lot with them, and said, "this people shall be my people, and their God my God for ever;" and she never after repented her choice.

She now began to experience a foretaste of Heaven upon Earth.But, these joys were damped by severe persecution in her own family, and she experienced in her own person that important declaration of our Redeemer, when he says, "Think ye that I am come to send peace upon earth? I tell you nay, but rather division; there shall be two in one house, one shall be taken and another left," &c.

Her father seened determined to prevent her keeping the company of her new associates; her brothers abused her, saying she disgraced them all by mixing with what they styled the filth and off-scouring of the earth; all these bitter sorrows, however, by frequent and fervent appeals to the throne of grace, her blessed Saviour, enabled her to surmount, and eventually she was permitted unmolested to worship