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entering the invisible world, was essentially different from that insensibility which many have discovered. She was too well acquainted with the Gospel to suppose that persons are admitted indiscriminately into heaven. She knew that "there is no other name, given among men, whereby they can be saved, but the name of Jesus;" and that "without holiness no one can see the Lord." In the days of health, I have observed her turn pale, as her attention has been directed to the awful solemnities of a dying hour, but when the eventful moment came, no gloomy fear sat brooding on her countenance; no expressions of alarm escaped her lips. After exemplifying an observation which she made in her diary, November the 12th, "We ought to wait the appointed time that God has set for us, with cheerfulness and resignation," she departed in peace, to dwell with beings of a nobler order, and employ her active powers in exercises and services of a more refined and spiritual nature than those with which she had been conversant on earth. Her departure, which increased the joy of the celestial inhabitants, occasioned great lamentation amongst her bereaved friends, but if her voice could have been been heard, she would have said, in strains as sweet as angels use,

"Weep not for me," I am ascending to take possession of my undefiled inheritance, and to

see the King in his beauty:" but weep for yourselves and your children, who are still doomed to sojourn in Mesech, and dwell in the tents of Kedar.'

Letters to Young Ladies.

On the Attention which should be paid to Religious Impressions when at School.

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LETTERS TO YOUNG LADIES.

On the Attention which should be paid to Religious Impressions when at School.

LETTER I.

HAVING left home, you find yourself as in a new world. The place, the society, the laws by which it is governed, and the exercises in which you are engaged, appear novel and strange. You are restless, but guard against dissatisfaction. You should reflect on the design which your Parents have in view, in placing you where you are. They wish you to occupy some important and honourable station in life, and circumstances render a preparatory course of instruction absolutely necessary. Your understanding must be matured, the dispositions of your heart must be

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