who could have hoped for it? A society
of _young ladies,_ in rank the first in the city, in the very bloom
of life, and full of its prospects, engaged in those pleasures and
amusements which generally engross the mind, and shut out every idea
unconnected with self, coming forward and offering--what? not their
purses, that were _trash;_ but their own personal services to
instruct the ignorant, and become the saviors of many of their sex.
It is indeed a new thing, and more strange in this age of dissipation
than that institution from which it sprung. May this too become the
darling of Providence. May God put his seal upon this also. May he
bless and prosper you in this undertaking, bless you, and make you
a blessing."

We next have her wrestling supplications for the revival of God's
work in the church with which she was connected.

"FEBRUARY 21, 1804.

"O Thou, who art Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, who
holdest the seven stars in thy right hand, and walkest in the midst of
the seven golden candle-sticks, who livest and was dead, and art alive
for evermore. Amen. And hast the keys of hell and of death. Out of thy
mouth goeth a sharp twoedged sword, by which thou reachest the hearts
of the most hardened. O write with power, speak with power, in the
heart of the angel of this church. Hast thou not in former days had
thy dwelling among them? in days of trouble didst thou not work in
them the fruits of labor and patience, so that for thy name's sake
they labored and fainted not? Thou blessedst them and gave them peace,
and they rejoiced in the light of thy countenance; thou multipliedst
them also, so that from a handful they became _two bands_. Alas,
Lord, we have, Jeshurun-like, 'waxed fat and kicked;' we have left our
first love; we have not watched and prayed, as thou gavest
commandment, and thou hast left us to enter into temptation; we have
forsaken the counsel of our old men, and given heed to flatterers; we
have forgotten our dependence on thee, and said, 'Ashur shall save us,
we will ride upon horses.' We have set up our idols in our hearts, and
put the stumbling-block of our iniquity before our eyes; we have taken
counsel, but not of thee, and covered ourselves with a covering, but
not of thy Spirit; we have gloried in our own wisdom, and strengthened
ourselves in our own strength.

"We are poor, and blind, and miserable, and naked; rich