"What sinners value, I resign; Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine: And stand complete in righteousness. "O glorious hour! O blest abode ! I shall be near, and like my God! The sacred pleasures of the soul." Oh, happy they, who, through the influence of that Almighty grace ("producing the same effects, whether in the soul of a noble or of a gipsy,") can with her say, "Christ is all and in all." (Colos. iii. 11.) "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee!" (Ps. lxxiii. 25.) VISITS TO A COTTAGE IN SCOTLAND. "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee." PSALM lxiii. 25. 205 VISITS ΤΟ Α COTTAGE IN SCOTLAND It was in the year 18—, we first visited Elizabeth W. She was one of "the poor of this world, rich in faith, and an heir of the kingdom," (James ii. 5;) one of whom "thus saith the Lord of Hosts, and they shall be mine in that day, when I make up my jewels." (Malachi iii. 16.) She conversed little with her fellow-creatures, but much with God: when her hands were busily engaged with her worldly calling, her heart was given to him. It was the Holy Spirit, our helper and teacher, who thus enabled her to be "fervent in spirit, serving the Lord," and to do worldly things with a spiritual mind. (Rom. xii. 2.) "My medita |