(USANNAH WESLEY, the daughter of Dr. bookseller, John Dunton. Pious from infancy, a SUSANN Annesley, a distinguished Non-Con- grateful daughter, a loving wife, she was acqu tomed to be much alone, studying her own heart and her Bible, in which she made so great proficiency that no portion of it could be mentioned which she could not refer to the chapter and verse in which it could be found. Amid the joyous anticipations of heaven which brightened her dying bed, she looked back with joy on some of "the early years she sweetly spent in her father's house, and thought how comfortably she lived there." Sweet must have been the companionship of these lovely sisters beneath the roof of the amiable and godly Dr. Annesley. Susannah was the father's most beloved child, and we may imagine the blooming girl, a privileged guest in her father's formist minister, was born in London in 1669 or 1670. Her father was cousin to the Earl of Anglesea, and of an ancient and honorable family that existed before the Norman conquest. Better, however, than this ancient lineage is the story of the simple piety of his life, linking his devotional childhood with a fruitful and vigorous old ageof the daily Bible reading of twenty chapters begun by the boy of six, and not forgotten by the man of sixty. He was a man of noble mien, vigorous health, abstemios and self-denying habits, and devoted piety. He ministered with great success to two of the largest congregations in London, till the Act of Uniformity, in 1662, deprived him of his vicarage. He continued, how-study-a room at the top of the house—and a ever, to reside in London, and was most eminent and useful among the Non-Conformists, having, in some measure, the care of all the Churches. For thirty years he enjoyed uninterrupted peace in his soul and a blessed assurance of God's favor; and he could say on his death-bed that he had been faithful in the work of the ministry for fifty-five years. diligent reader, too, of her father's books. That she did not adopt all her father's opinions we learn from the fact that, at the age of thirteen, she reviewed the controversy between the Dissenters and the Established Church, and decided in favor of the latter, thus becoming "a zealous Churchwoman, yet rich in a dowry of Non-Conforming virtues." Prayerful she was; for she conscientiously gave as much time to devotion as to recreation. She was faithful in her studies, and Greek, Latin, Logic, and Mathematics, with their severe discipline, gave strength and tone to a mind destined to stamp enduring impressions on the character of one who was to stand "prom Susannah was the youngest and the latest survivor of twenty-five children. Of two of her elder sisters, who would naturally exercise a controlling influence over her expanding powers, we have interesting notices. Judith, a beautiful woman, whose portrait, by Sir Peter Lily, is in the possession of Charles Wesley's family, was emi-inent among the worthies of all time." nently pious, finding her sweetest entertainment in her books, especially the Book of books, and keeping a constant watch over the frame of her soul and the course of her actions. How faithful she was in that watch we may infer from her rejection of the addresses of a gentleman of VOL. XVII.-25 Nobly descended, carefully and piously educated, highly gifted, graceful in form, and more beautiful even than her beautiful sister Judith, Susannah Annesley "Was a perfect woman, nobly planned |