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 like her. Reach me that prayer book, and the cup and plate. My dear friends, I will now, with God's blessing, partake with you in the holy communion of our Lord's body and blood. When concluded the service, I said, Now, my dear Jane you are indeed become a sister in the church of Christ. May his spirit and blessing rest apon you strengthen, and refresh you! My mercies are great, very great, sir, greater than I can express. I thank you for this favour—I thought I was too young-it seemed too much for me to think of But I am now sure that the Lord is good to me, and I hope I have done right. Yes, Jenny, and I trust you are now both outwardly and inwardly sealed by the Holy Ghost to the day of redemption. Sir, I shall never forget this day. Neither, I think, shall I. Nor I, said the old woman. The Lord has been in the midst of us three to-day, we have been gathered together in his name. Sir, said the child, I wish you could speak to my mother when you come again. Farewell; my child. Good bye, sir; and I thank you for all your kindness to me. Jane was lastening fast to her dissolution. She still, however, preserted sufficient strength of voice to converse with much satisfaction to her self and all who visited her. Those who could truly estimate the value of her spiritual state of mind were but few; yet the most careless could not help being struck with her effectionate seriousness, her knowledge of the Scriptures, and her happy application of them to her own and other people's cases. May the eye that reads, and the ear that hears the record of little Jane, through the power of the Spirit of the Most High; each become a witness for the truth as it is in Jesus.

I remembered the tender solicitude of this dear