There on those high and flow'ry plains,
Our spirits ne'er shall tire;
But in perpetual, joyful strains,
Redeeming love admire.

It is through the tender mercy of God, that I am alive and out of hell! O that I may be renewed in the spirit of my mind! May all the earthly dispositions of my heart be changed into heavenly, that I may be prepared to bid adieu to this world of sorrow, and find an habitation of peace, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary be at rest. My God help me to be faithful the few days that I have to spend on earth. My heart hath been much sunk under a weight of sorrow when I consider how far from God and heaven, and what I would be, I am!--O that the cry of my soul may be, Dear Jesus, raise me higher! I long to be holy, as Thou art holy. May the Lord help me to rely on his mercy and goodness for all that is to come-and say without reserve, The will of the Lord be done."

"O God, my help in ages past,
My hope for years to come;
My shelter from the stormy blast,
And my eternal home."

Prepare me for that happy day, when all the saints get home-and sit down at the right hand of Godwhere we shall be freed from all the toils and troubles of life, and have pleasure without end-where trouble and anguish cannot enter, but all shall be harmony and peace!

"O what a glorious company,
When saints and angels meet"-

in robes of white arrayed-when Christ shall wipe all tears from our eyes, and we shall be admitted to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the saints that have gone through much tribulation, and washed THEIR robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. May my heart and life be conformed to the gospel, that I may be a comfort to my companion, and a blessing to society:

"And may my sun in smiles decline-
And bring a pleasing night."

The men that love the Lord are happy in this world and in the next! O may that be my happy lot-may the Lord help me to tear every idol from my heart, and may he reign without a rival there. I feel my heart's desire is, to love the Lord with my whole heart.

"This is a world of trouble and grief I plainly see;
But when in deepest sorrow, O God, I look to Thee!
Thou deliver'dst Daniel, when in the lions' den-
And if thou didst protect him, O why not other men!"

Help me to pray without ceasing, and in every thing give thanks! May my soul's concern and only care be, to secure a lot among the blest-that when my days are ended on earth, I may receive an inheritance that can never be taken from me! May God preserve my companion while absent.

In my days of childhood, the Providence of God was over me to preserve me from evil; although I lost my mother, one of the most invaluable blessings that a child can be deprived of,

particularly a female. Yet the Lord was my friend, and brought me up to the years of maturity, with a mind as little tainted with the evil practices that are prevalent among young people as most. My sister was very careful to teach me the way of rectitude in my earliest days, which was of great benefit to me in my journey through life. And I doubt not, if mothers would begin with their children when they are young, they might mould them into almost any frame they chose. But instead of paying that attention to their morals while their minds are young, and susceptible of good impressions, as they ought; they suffer them to mix with those that are wicked to a proverb; thinking there is no danger-they are too young to be injured by any bad example or precept. But they find, when it is too late, that their minds are too easily impressed with evil; and habits, which are imbibed in childhood, are not so easily eradicated: and through their neglect, many that might be shining characters in socie

ty, a blessing to the age that they live in, they are but a nuisance to mankind, and are rearing up another set to walk in their tracks. Thus the world is contaminated by the mismanagement of mothers! My heart has often been pained, to see the dear little innocents suffered to run at random; and taught nothing that would be of service to them, either in this world, or in the next! May the Lord open the eyes of those that have the care of children, to see the importance of their charge; and enable them to do their duty-that the rising generation may be more obedient to their parents, more attentive to the duty they owe their God-then they will be a greater blessing to society, and will be better qualified to fill up that sphere in life which they may be called to and above all, be prepared for those happy regions, where all will be harmony and peace!

After my marriage, leaving the place where I had lived from my early days, I was placed in quite a different sphere of life. Unacquainted with