ore going to rest in the evening. The Lord has
honored your family worship with genuine fruits, follow it up in all
places. Like Abraham of old, wherever you pitch your tent, for a
longer or shorter period, there raise an altar to the Lord, to that
God who has fed you all your life, carried you as on eagle's wings,
and will carry you to old age and gray hairs."

To Mrs. Juliet S----, New York, one of her former pupils.

"BELLEVILLE, September 16, 1808.

"MY DEAR JULIET--Since the hour I received your letter, you have
been little out of my mind. You call upon me as mother, friend,
counsellor. Shall conscious unworthiness, or weakness, or ignorance,
prevent my answering? No; for God often chooses weak instruments to
bring to pass great ends, I have been once and again to a throne of
grace, for wisdom to direct me, and grace to be faithful. If your
desire after spiritual knowledge be sincere, and from the Spirit of
God operating on your heart, you will bear searching.

"You are a communicant, my Juliet; this presupposes that a very
great and important change has taken place in your mind--that you have
been made deeply sensible of what the word of God testifies of every
son and daughter of Adam's race. 'As it is written, There is none
righteous, no, not one.' Rom. 3:10. Man is born as the wild ass's
colt, going astray from the womb. Job. The heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked; I the Lord search it. Having the
understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God, through the
ignorance that is in us, because of the blindness of our hearts. Dead
in trespasses and sins. Eph. 4:18; 2:1.

"Your profession presupposes that this chapter may be addressed
to you, Juliet, by name: 'You hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the
course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among
whom also we all had our conversation in times past, in the lusts of
our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and
were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is
rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we
were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ; by grace
are ye saved, through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast.'
Works there are,