consisted of two small houses and a plot of ground.

When a committee of the Free Church at Thornhill waited on Janet, to see if she would sell them her ground, she utterly refused to do so, because she said she had vowed to give it to God, and therefore it was only as a gift that she could part with it. In the meantime, an agent of the Duke of Buccleuch offered to purchase the ground. But Janet cut short all his overtures, by the noble reply, "She had devoted it to her Maker, and she wouldn't take five hundred pounds sterling, (or about $2,500,) no, nor all the Dukedom of Queensberry, for her ground, under a prohibition to give it to the Almighty." She gave it, therefore, to the Free Church, and upon it now stands the commodious Church of Thornhill.

This resolution or vow of Janet, (who, by the way, is a poet and an authoress, and keeps a very full journal,) had its origin in a purpose which she formed at a sacramental occasion and as she regards it as an occurrence of “too serious a nature to have one flaw in it," we shall quote from her own MS. account. "I essayed," she says, "on the Friday before, to devote

myself to my Redeemer, soul, body, and spirit, with all I could claim as mine, to be at His service. I sat down at the Lord's table on Sabbath, when an old woman followed; and when the bread came, she took her piece and laid the rest on a plate, which was handed down the tables. But in the discourse, before distributing the elements, the minister repeated these words, quoted from Isaiah xliii. 1: Thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.' I thought they entered my soul, and lifted it up in joy which I could hardly contain; and when the bread passed, such fear came on me, as that I durst not lift it off the plate. I wished the cup might pass likewise, if I did not belong to God. I tasted the cup, but the minister observed I had missed the bread. He spoke to the elder who was carrying it back, that a person or persons had missed the bread. The elder offered it to a man who sat beside me, who said we had all eaten of it, when I replied, it was I who missed it; so he gave me a piece. I admired the providence, as much as the promise, and I have now need

of them both. Lo, in all these things God oftentimes worketh with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. God is good to Israel."

Such is her own simple account of her feelings. Like many-indeed we might say like all the children of God at times-she had been in a state of coldness, and dark misgiving. She "was in a strait betwixt two things." She knew it was her duty to go to the communion, and that she ought to be in a suitable and proper frame of mind and heart, and yet such was not, as she feared, her condition, and therefore she was in dread of committing sin by coming to the table of the Lord. But still, as her state of coldness was a burden and a grief to her, and she anxiously desired to be delivered from it, she ventured, like the poor woman in the gospel, to press forward through the crowd, so as to get as near her Saviour as she could, knowing that "if He would, He could make her whole," even though she could but touch, as it were, the hem of His garment, or have one ray of His life-giving countenance lifted upon her. This was faith walking in darkness and struggling in weakness. And it was rewarded. He