es, nor any thing Dut the
frequently misapprehended; but
at prudent parents did not desire
eir daughters-sober and devoted
umph!' to my tirades of doctrine,
position to talk to me-and men
endeavouring to get information,
ction of Hebrew roots, and asked
died the language-not altogether
my accuracy. This affected not
ay had not been my object: but
and truth, I found myself involved
in confusion, while those whom
t, became more and more regard-
of what I said. And with ample
not understand myself the recon-
forth, and had lost in them all
e truth. Even the
poor whom I
ild talk to them out of their own
s quite different; and some sug-
the Bible turned out to be all

see what was the use of reading

their minds, or dropped discussions that engrossed them as they did me, I found t gain of three or four more years, was u of faith upon the most simple truths, de the ordinary means of grace, carelessness and some certain quantity of Hebrew which I had no longer any use. Still, I know, my purpose of heart was single. but to see my error to abandon it-to per I thought a better way, and enter upon another season, therefore, of doubt, discou and almost despondency, I determined to 1 and return to practical utility.

"I was now the mother of several chi the mistress of a large establishment. experience had given me more knowledge -the society of a pious and well-informe had improved my understanding—and sin

ildren to bring up; a household souls committed to my guidance; ther, disabled and paralytic, dee for every thing. Still no one that my calling might possibly be me to me and asked me to become ciety-another begged to put my mittee-a third requested me to be nt school-a fourth wanted me to ory-a fifth to be treasurer of a xth to be president of a working to be inspector to a tract society pen adult schools-a ninth to retenth to convert catholics laves-a twelfth-but why go on? dred solicitors came to me; each at what she proposed was a field fulness, in which she had exerted with the blessing of God to the nd her own. And I believe that the truth. She had known her

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What good I did, God only knows-if an look graciously on the record he has k There was good done: but I often thought than would have been, had I not been ther no particular turn for business. I had that strong, hard, bustling character, usu management. On most occasions I was tant and well-looking cipher, saying 'ay others proposed. My money and my n all that was really useful, I believe. Он -wise, the good I did I never knew, what done was but too apparent. Having n

attend to my children, I committed the ma of them to others. They had governesses, I left them with unbounded confidence, cident I saw something amiss, and then I away; the children got beyond every b nagement, and then I sent them to scho owe not to their mother any thing they k

listen if he needed my counsel,

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o attend to him. He could not s, or must receive them alone, ays engaged. He could not have se I was drawing up reports and -bed. As he had no participation

I no longer took any interest in creased between us; communion -eling became less frequent; the at up to heaven alone; and while solitary studies, of which in the union he so often communicated having now no time to learn, I ectual, and I believe I may add al advantage that had ever been My grandmother-she is dead. menials, and all that money can

her declining years-but I had ister to her sufferings. In short, as stood in public as the patron een echoed and lauded from insti