nto his banqueting house and his banner over
us be love; may his grace be magnified and his name glorified; and may
he send a portion to my dear children--yea, a Benjamin's portion; may
he open wide the leaves of that new testament, and let them read their
rich inheritance and rejoice in their portion.

"Farewell, my dear children. The Lord bless you, keep you, guide
you, and cause his face to shine on you, prays your affectionate
mother."

The following to the same, was written while on a visit to a
worldly friend:

"MAY 21, 1801.

"I would fain begin to hope that my children are now on, or near
the green fields of Albion. Many a severe gale has agitated them, and
tried their faith and confidence before this day. But as He who
sitteth on the clouds, commanding and governing the elements, is
their own God in covenant, who loves them, careth for them, and
perfects what concerns them, I hope they have had much of his
presence: I hope they have found, even on the boisterous ocean,
amidst the horrors of the swelling deep, agitated with winds and
tempests, all things necessary to life and godliness in these great
and precious promises, accompanied by divine power, by which they are
made partakers of divine life, and escape the pollution that is in
the world through lust. I hope they are enriched in experience, and
advanced in the divine life, by all they have suffered, and all they
have tasted of divine support in their sufferings; that Christ is
still more precious, his word more tried, and their confidence in him
more established: if so, great is their gain. And our darling J----,
being a sharer in the suffering, shall, at her God's hand, be also a
gainer, though it be not evident to our perception. O how rich is the
Christian, how inexhaustible his portion! his table is ever
furnished, his cup ever full; all is blessing, no curse mingled--that
our Surety took to himself; prosperity and adversity, sickness and
health, light and darkness, all, all shall bless us, work for our
good, turn to our profit, and end in the glory of God and our
unspeakable, inconceivable happiness.

"I have been here a week yesterday; all vegetable nature glows
and shines in the perfection of beauty; flowers, shrubs, trees, grain,
grass, falling waters turning the busy mill, the brook murmuring on
its way to the ocean, fit emblem of eternity, all glorify their
Creator