We are aware, that any notices of such a character will be deemed trite and monotonous by a certain class of persons, who are rather fascinated with the sparklings of wit, the elegances of sentiment, or even with tales of the marvellous, than by the substantial and unsophisticated records of christian piety. To others, however, of congenial tastes and habits, the sketches of sainted excellence are fraught with the liveliest interest: they awaken in their bosoms sparks of kindred feeling, sweep every string of their sympathies, and regale their spirits as with the scent of violets. In the views of such, what is interesting in character is chiefly identified with religion, which is capable of conferring dignity upon its possessor, in the absence of every other accomplishment. She arrays her children in the beauties of holiness, and crowns them with a diadem of unfadding glory. It is with piety alone that God is well pleased; the virtues which it inspires are alone, in his sight, of great price. To purchase these he would give the blood of his onlybegotten Son; to create them he sends forth his renewing Spirit; to preserve them fair and untarnished, his eye and hand are ever engaged; and after that day when he shall have

made up his jewels, he will employ them to enrich and beautify the pavilion of his glory. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father."

To return from this digression, we may remark, that Miss S. during her whole christian career, was distinguished for constancy and perseverance. She seemed to have perpetually in mind that animating passage, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Her piety did not, like that of too many professors, resemble the glare of the nimble and fleeting meteor, but the steady brightness of the solar light. To an inflexible fortitude of temper, she joined an invincible patience, and a lamb-like meekness; graces which assimilated her to Him, in whom there was the most exquisite combination of the active and passive virtues, and who said, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls." In those visitations of providence which required the exercise of faith and patience, she discovered a mind superior to all external circumstances, and would often say, with a smile, "These are little rubs, which Providence sends to enhance the value of its blessings!"

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teousness to every one who believeth. An epitome of Miss S.'s views may be collected from the following hymn:

"SAVIOUR from sin, I wait to prove
That Jesus is thy healing name;
To lose, when perfected in love,
Whate'er I have, or can, or am:
I stay me on thy faithful word,
The servant shall be as his Lord.

"Answer that gracious end in me,

For which thy precious life was given :
Redeem from all iniquity,

Restore, and make me meet for heaven!
Unless thou purge my every stain,
Thy suffering and my faith are vain.
"Didst thou not in the flesh appear

Sin to condemn, and man to save?
That perfect love might cast out fear?
That I thy mind in me might have?
In holiness shew forth thy praise,
And serve thee all my spotless days?
"Didst thou not die that I might live
No longer to myself, but thee?
Might body, soul, and spirit give

To him who gave himself for me;
Come then, my Master, and my God,
Take the dear purchase of thy blood.

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Thy own peculiar servant claim,
For thy own truth and mercy's sake

Hallow in me thy glorious name;
Me for thine own this moment take,
And change and throughly purify :
Thine only may I live and die."

WESLEY'S HYMNS, p. 359.

The following are her own words on this subject:-" I take it to be," says she, "a full and hearty persuasion of God's special love to us, such as he hath manifested to us by Christ, which disposes us to love him above every thing else; and this love being a ruling habit, casteth out, or overcomes, all fear of natural and contingent evils,* and we no more doubt the performance of those promises that have a reference to our final perseverance and eternal life, than we do the return of the light. The Holy Spirit, which is the spirit of love, dwells in us, and we in God, (as the eye in the light,) as the great object of our faith and love, and

This is wrong: fear of evil, in the sense of pain and suffering, is a natural, and therefore innocent principle; in fact, it is inseparable from the nature of sentient and intelligent beings. God appealed to Adam's fear when he said, "In the day thou eatest thereof," &c. The fear cast out by perfect love, is unbelieving fear, whether relating to the dealings of God with us in this life, or that which is to come. This, indeed, she subsequently expresses.