long. Then, what a paradise below they will enjoy! How it
animates and enlivens my soul with vigour to pursue the ways of God,
that I may even now bear some humble part in giving glory to God and
the Lamb!

"Sir, I began to write this on Sunday, being detained from attending
on public worship. My dear and only sister, living as a servant with
Mrs ---, was so ill that I came here to attend in her place and on
her. But now she is no more.

"I was going to intreat you to write to her in answer to this, she
being convinced of the evil of her past life, and that she had not
walked in the ways of God, nor sought to please Him. But she
earnestly desired to do so. This makes me have a comfortable hope
that she is gone to glory, and that she is now joining in sweet
concert with the angelic host in heaven to sing the wonders of
redeeming love. I hope I may now write, 'Blessed are the dead which
die in the Lord.'

"She expressed a desire to receive the Lord's Supper, and commemorate
his precious death and sufferings. I told her, as well as I was able,
what it was to receive Christ into her heart; but as her weakness of
body increased, she did not mention it again. She seemed quite
resigned before she died. I do hope she is gone from a world of death
and sin, to be with God for ever.

"Sir, I hope you will not be offended with me, a poor ignorant person,
to take such a liberty as to write to you. But I trust, as you are
called to instruct sinners in the ways of God, you will bear with me,
and be so kind to answer this wrote letter, and give me some
instructions. It is my heart's desire to have the mind that was in
Christ, that when I awake up in his likeness, then I may be satisfied.

"My sister expressed a wish that you might bury her. The minister of
our parish, whither she will be carried, cannot come. She will lie at
---. She died on Tuesday morning, and will be buried on Friday, or
Saturday (whichever is most convenient to you), at three o'clock in
the afternoon. Please to send an answer by the bearer, to let me know
whether you can comply with this request,

"From your unworthy servant,

"ELIZABETH W---."

I was much struck with the simple and earnest strain of devotion which
this letter breathed. It was but indifferently written and spelt; but
this rather tended to endear the hitherto unknown wr