tell to the travellers coming after us, just how and where we met with this and the other difficulty, how we overcame, and the peculiar lessons learned by passing through this and that trial, and thus be not only advantaged in our own experience, but helpful to fellow pilgrims."

Scarcely had she finished speaking, when the prayer that she might be made a monument of the extent of saving grace to transform the heart and life, was brought by the Spirit to her remembrance, and the inquiry was presented whether she would be willing that the petition should be granted, if, in order for its accomplishment, it were needful that she should be called to pass through trials unheard of in magnitude and duration?

An unutterable weight of responsibility rested upon her mind, and she hastened to prostrate herself in solitude before God. She felt that it was an inquiry proposed by the Spirit, that searcheth all things, and was assured that the decision of that hour would tell momentously on her eternal destiny.

She thought of the various, complicated and

lengthened trials, transmitted by the inspired page, also those that had met her eye and ear, most formidable in magnitude and duration, and after having weighed the matter, that she might not ask to be baptized with a baptism that she was not able to bear, prostrate on her face before the Sovereign of heaven and earth she said, "O Lord, I now renewedly give myself into thy hands, as clay in the hands of the potter, in order that thy whole will and pleasure may be accomplished in me. Let the petition be answered. Let thy power be manifested to transform and save to the uttermost, though trials of inconceivable magnitude may await me. I rely upon thy faithfulness. Thou hast promised that I shall not be tempted above that which I am able to bear. But if thou seest, at any time, my faith about to fail, remove the trial, or cut short the work in righteousness, and take me home to thyself; suffer me not to live to dishonor thee."

The seal proclaiming her wholly the Lord's was now more deeply enstamped, and she realized from that hour that she was taken more closely to the embrace of infinite love, and had

cast anchor deeper within the vail. Ever afterward, in passing through the most painful complex trials, she found blessed satisfaction in referring to this period when she had so fully counted the cost.

In reference to religious associations, and early culture, being taught from a child to know the Scriptures, and made familiar with the writings and experience of those who had, in generations passed away, been lights in the religious firmament, and in more mature life favored with the pious example and precept of a true yoke-fellow in the gospel, with the numerous advantages resulting from being thus favorably circumstanced, it might indeed be said that the lines had fallen to her in pleasant places, yet she proved, notwithstanding all these gracious considerations, that the "servant is not above his Master."

Yes, she was called to endure trials. To the observation of those unacquainted with the christian warfare, such a statement could hardly be understood or accredited. Consequently, the number of those that knew just how to sympathise was not great. Probably for this

reason, in part, she seemed seldom called to dwell upon the particulars of those deep mental conflicts, which she was permitted to endure, when she was called to wrestle, not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, &c.

These mighty conflicts were repeated yet again and again, and through each succeeding year of her pilgrimage with each conflict it seemed, while engaged in the contest, as though it had reached the summit of human endurance, yet the succeeding one was found to be proportionate in magnitude to the increase of strength that had been gained by the former trial, and the intermediate interval, for growth in knowledge and spiritual stature.

These trials, though they sometimes arose from outward causes, yet these were generally merely the occasion. The conflicts were inward, and were in depth indescribable, and in the midst of these she was often called to lean so entirely "with naked faith, upon a naked promise," that nature was sometimes tempted in its shrinkings, to say, "My God, why hast thou forsaken me ?" but still holding with an

unyielding grasp upon the promise, "I will never leave nor forsake thee." And believing that the Saviour was treading "the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with him," when he gave utterance to this expres sion, she was checked ere she had given utterance to the thought, and instead of indulging in these words, which none but he who

"Wept that man might smile,"

need use, she said in the language of faith, "My God, thou hast not forsaken me."