immediately; and on my entering
her apartment she exclaimed, 'O, servant of God, come and tell me what I
must do.' Perceiving that she suffered great mental distress, I
inquired the cause of it, when she replied, 'I am about to die.' 'Well,'
I rejoined, 'if it be so, what creates this agony of mind?' 'O, my sins,
my sins,' she cried; 'I am about to die.' I then inquired what the
particular sins were which so greatly distressed her, when she
exclaimed, 'O, my children, my murdered children! I am about to die, and
shall meet them all at the judgment-seat of Christ.' Upon this I
inquired how many children she had destroyed, and to my astonishment she
replied, 'I have destroyed _sixteen_, and now I am about to die.'" After
this Mr. Williams tried to comfort her, by telling her that she had done
this when a heathen, and during the times of ignorance, which God winked
at. But she received no consolation from this thought, and exclaimed
again, "O, my children, my children." He then directed her to the
"faithful saying, which is worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners." This gave her a little comfort;
and after visiting her frequently, and directing her to that blood which
cleanseth from all sin, he succeeded, with the blessing of God, in
bringing peace to her mind. She died soon after, rejoicing in the hope
that her sins, though many, would be forgiven her. Well may you exclaim,
my dear children,

"Holy Bible, book divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine."

Infanticide still prevails in India, but as I have given a particular
description of this crime in my Sermon to Children, on the Condition of
the Heathen, I will here say nothing farther on the subject.

CHAPTER XXI.

THE DUTY OF PRAYING AND CONTRIBUTING FOR THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL.

My dear children--There is another story connected with India, which I
might have mentioned in my last chapter while writing about the
destruction of infants. I will relate it now, in order that you may be
constrained to pray more frequently for the heathen. Some time ago, the
wife of a native prince had a little daughter. The father ordered it to
be put to death, immediately after it was born. Had it been a son, an
heir to the throne, he would have taken great care of it. A second, a
third, a fourth, a fifth little daughter was born. All these were also
put to death by the command of the father. When a sixth little daughter
was