-that I leave entirely in thine hands; but I do importunately ask that they may have seats in the church on earth, and in the kingdom of heaven at last.”

In the arrangements of providence, her companion removed from Kensington, where he was first fixed as pastor, and settled over the church in Camomile Street, London, which was in a widowed state, owing to the death of the Rev. John Reynolds. In the year 1819, the Christian community removing to the new chapel in the Poultry, an alteration soon took place in the times of conducting public worship. It then became the practice of Mrs. Clayton to devote the afternoon of the Lord's day to her children; and she thus states her opinion upon this subject:-"If I were in single life, or had no little family, I should generally deem it my duty to instruct in the Sunday school; but I do not like those ostriches who run to great distances in the desert, and neglect their own brood." Her custom she continued, therefore, until her offspring reached an age when they retired to read by themselves, or attended the services of some neighbouring sanctuary. As they successively passed away into society, and into different positions of life, she was wont to say, "Well, our children are no longer under the wing of our immediate

protection, now let us spread the wings of more earnest prayer for them." During this course of parental proceeding, it was the habit of herself and husband to devote special seasons to prayer, that the blessing of God might rest on their united endeavours to train up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

While Mrs. Clayton shone in the domestic department, to which she was principally devoted in the earlier years of married life, her example in the public scene became brighter and brighter as she advanced. Several of the religious and humane societies at the Poultry originated exclusively in her benevolent agency, assisted for a considerable length of time only by one or two steady coadjutors. In the establishment and movements of all, she became singularly active. Her words were, "I think that I am acquiring some influence among our beloved people, and as it is a talent for which I am responsible, I must try and turn it to a good account. I am ashamed to see so many professors, who have much leisure, but who spend their time in nothing else but idle gossiping, and give themselves up to no useful pursuit whatever. O Lord, may I not be a drone, but a busy bee in the hive to which I belong." The

committees of "the Schools," of the "Maternal and Benevolent Societies," and of the "Cheap Clothing Society," can bear testimony to her zeal for their welfare, and her untiring assiduity to maintain their useful operations. She was the life and soul of "The Friendly Female Society," instituted for the removal of a debt of a thousand pounds on the school-house and asylum; and upon her completion of that enterprise, on her return home, her joy was such, that she wept profusely, and exclaimed, as her husband read over the details of the meetings, "I feel that I am an utterly unprofitable servant towards God; but I bless his name, that he has enabled me and my companions, notwithstanding some have discouraged us, to finish this work!"

Some time afterwards, on the receipt of a silver teaservice, and a purse of one hundred guineas for her husband, from the church and congregation, and which (to use her own words) were "presented in a manner so unostentatious, delicate, and affectionate, as to delight her heart," she was so overpowered with strong emotions, that for many days together, she was occasionally weeping (as she said) with gratitude to God, and tender attachment to the people of her choice;" adding, "I am no admirer of those religious ramblers who rove every

where, and seem to me, after all, to do little or nothing that is effective. I dwell among my own people."

About five years ago, Mrs. Clayton was attacked with an affection which seemed to indicate a disease of the heart, which greatly enfeebled her strength, and which, in connexion with certain painful anxieties respecting some of her children, bore down her animal spirits. On her recovering from a confinement of some months to her chamber, she writes: "I have felt a very strong temptation to retire altogether into privacy; but I must resist it, and hope to pursue an active course with as much vigour as the impaired state of my health will admit." This determination she has amply fulfilled; for until her last fatal illness, she was unremitting in her attempts to sustain and advance those institutions into the prosperity of which she took so lively an interest.

Her death is thus described: about twenty minutes to five, her attendant knocked at his door, and said, "O sir, will you come into my mistress's room, for she has given two or three sighs, and really seems as though she did not breathe!" He hastened into the chamber, and finding no pulsation at the wrist, and no beating at the heart, as he wiped away the cold perspiration from her face, and bent over her to give her a parting kiss,

he saw unequivocal indications that her spirit had fled from the clay tenement, and had winged its way to the bosom of her Saviour and her God. The household was immediately alarmed: several came around her bed: : one or two exclaimed, "No, she is not dead, it is only a fainting fit." But it proved to be the crisis of dissolution, the moment of her glorious birth into a world were no sigh is heaved, no groan is heard, no tear is shed, and where the immortal inhabitants can suffer no painful separations.

MRS. JUDSON.

Ann Hasseltine, daughter of Mr. John and Mrs. Rebecca Hasseltine, was born at Bradford, Massachusetts, December 22nd, 1789. Her early years were distinguished by the qualities which, sanctified by her devotion to Christ, at a later day placed her name among the most illustrious of her sex. Her mind was strong, active, and clear; her spirits buoyant, her attachments ardent, and her fertility of resources for the accomplishment of her purposes amazing and infallible. She was dignified and even commanding in