aming
billows of the ocean. The name of our God is my consolation: 'though
the waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the
swelling thereof, there is a river the streams whereof shall make glad
the city of God. God shall help her, and that right early.' When I
walk about Zion, and go round about her, when I tell the towers
thereof, mark her bulwarks, and consider her palaces, my heart
rejoices that 'this God is our God; he will be our guide even unto
death; and O the joy that my children are the citizens of this Zion,
and the heirs of all the promises by virtue of the new testament in
Christ's blood. A covenant of works it was to our Surety, and his
heart's blood finished the requisites of it. It is now a testament to
you, sealed by the same blood. Wherever in his word I meet the
character, the providence, the work of God, I read my own and my
children's interest. I hope your experience shall be in Psalm 107:28.
If not wholly, it shall terminate in Psalm 23:4. Though you walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, you shall fear no evil, for
this God, who is your guide even unto death, shall be with you, his
rod and staff shall comfort you; and our darling Jessy he shall carry
as a lamb in his arms, and hide her from the horrors, in his bosom. I
dwell much on these subjects, and I feel comforted, whatever be
the event.

"If the Lord has carried you safe through, and you live to read
this in the body, know that our God continues to bless us abundantly
in health, peace, and plenty, as to temporals; we also experience the
peace of his covenant, and have tastes of the bread and of the water
of life. Thanks, all thanks to our new covenant Head for the stability
of the covenant; we change, but he changeth not. He himself is the
covenant given to the people, and because he lives, his people shall
live also, in spite of Satan and his colleague sin in our hearts: sin
may, and does bring his people into captivity, but it shall not keep
them in bondage for ever. The time of deliverance shall come, when
they shall revive as the corn. Oh, is it not a well-ordered covenant,
and sure?"

Her next letter gives an illustration of fidelity in a difficult,
and, it is to be feared, much-neglected duty.

"MAY 10, 1801.

"MY DEAR CHILDREN--Last evening was preparation sermon. Mr. Y----
preached a very excellent sermon from the Song of Solomon,