August last; we found her scarce able to speak three words together, she is in so weak a state; but after we had been with her a little time she seemed to revive. She said she had not that enjoyment of God that she wished, but trusted he would shine upon her again before she left this world. I said a few words to her, and though attended with great weakness of body, she said she believed her calling was of God, and that it would be of no other; for if what she had heard you preach was true, it must be so. She told us that for nine or ten years she laboured under bondage to the fear of death, miserable through the guilt of sin which she felt in her conscience, and knew no way but that way that seems right to man; in which she could not succeed so as to get rid of her trouble. At length, after many and various workings of heart, these words came to her mind; If the Lord had meant to destroy us, he would not have shewed us such things as these;' this gave her encouragement, but the power was soon gone, only after this she was led to see the suitableness of the Saviour to one in her condition, and his all-sufficiency, attended with earnest longings for an interest in him: here she laboured, sometimes it was as if faith would lay hold of him and bring him in, but then beat off and down she went; she said it was from October till the May following she went on in this way, before her deliverance came. Her husband at that time was at his work all the week

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from home, and one night as she was sitting up late reading beside her bed she felt uncommon power; she went to bed, but her sensations were such she got up again, and after she was up it was as if the Saviour spoke these words: I have given full satisfaction for all thy sins.' She felt the application of his death for her sins, which filled her with joy and real repentance; she said she then knew what repentance was, and if all the world felt as she then did they would love him too. She joined the Baptist church at S. which place she attended for some time, but there fell into her hands some of your books, and among others was, The Kingdom of Heaven taken by Prayer; when she got hold of this she read it through the first night, and left it not. She sometimes in reading it wept, and at other times rejoiced and praised God for you, as one raised up to give such a description of things in it as so suited her. By reading your books she reaped much benefit; but the church she belonged to was by no means friendly to you; they laboured to blacken you as much as they could; however, she heard of your coming to Cranbrook, and was determined to hear for herself, and before she came begged of God to settle the debate they had caused in her mind. You preached from these words, "Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb;" your very naming the words moved all the powers of her soul, and when you described the calling, &c. she went on

with you, and was fed most sweetly. She came to hear you every time; the last night her clothes was half-way bedabbled with mud, but though a weak woman she said it did not hurt her; she was glad enough to find one to cast up the highway and remove the stumblingblocks, which she had found none besides to do. The alarm was soon spread in their camp at S. about this woman's running away to hear Mr. Huntington, and a female of a fierce countenance soon found the way to her house, though near four miles off, to inquire of so dangerous a business as going to hear you. This poor woman seeing her coming, and guessing her business, went and begged of God to give her wisdom and strength to defend his truth she had heard from you. This female soon turned into a father confessor, saying, So you have been to hear Mr. Huntington? Yes, replied the woman, I have. I hear, says the other, you are become quite a traveller after him, and that you went every night; I think enough to kill such a one as you. She told her the journeys did her no harm. Says the other, Well, you did not hear Christ preached. Yes, says the poor woman, I did, and as I never heard him preached before. Why, says the other, he preaches himself, he preaches his own experience. That is what he should preach, replies the woman. Many grievous charges she brought against you, but this poor creature foiled her in all; one was, you said the place was full of hypocrites. The woman said, he did not call me

one, nor did his doctrine condemn me for one, for she found it agree with the Bible and God's work on her heart. Her strength seemed to increase when she told us these things, and a warmth attended her, accompanied with frequent smiles, though such a poor object. She said she never heard faith preached till she heard you. We left her with great satisfaction, and I thought I would send you the account for your satisfaction also. I this morning received yours, and thank you kindly. God will exalt your head above all your enemies round about.

My dear friend's sweet account of the poor woman came safe to hand, and I am thankful to God for his abundant grace. They that are the purchase of Christ's blood shall be the trophies of his victory. Our sovereign has no subjects that are truly loyal but those that he takes out of the hand of the Amorite, with his sword and with his bow; and all that the Lord employs in this work,

or engages in this warfare, had need be good solđiers, and be furnished with all the armour of God: and even then we should despair of success, did not faith and experience inform us, that the Captain of our salvation is omnipotent. When the set time comes to favour any chosen vessel, how many encircling wheels of providence seem to be in motion without, and an army of fears and terrors within; the poor sinner's prejudices in favour of the traditions of his fathers, his bigotry and attachment to an outward form of godliness, his natural bias to the law of works for life and salvation, are all stirred up; his corruptions make head against him; his carnal enmity runs high, and the instrument appointed to be used is sure to be loaded with calumny; evil angels muster all their wiles, friends and relations bear their part; but the worst engines of mischief in this opposition, are those that stand high in a profession, and yet destitute of the Holy Ghost, and enemies to his divine power: these are the briers and thorns which are set in battle array against the Lord, but he will go through them and burn them altogether. What little success I have had has succeeded against all these oppositions and entanglements, which serves to make the almighty power of Christ the more manifest. God will work, and who shall let it? The wise woman's charge is well founded; if preaching my own experience be preaching myself, she is right. There are but two ways of obtaining the word of God, the first