according to medical opinion, recovery was exceedingly doubtful. But prayer was heard, the means were blessed, and in the first week in May, with recovered health, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis embarked, and pursued their way towards New South Wales.

The loss of Mrs. Threlkeld's society, whom serious illness detained, was keenly felt during the remainder of the voyage. The captain, who was a young man, and had for the first time been entrusted with the command of a ship, behaved with great unkindness; and by his incivility obliged Mrs. Ellis, who was now the only female passenger in the cabin, to absent herself from his table during the greater part of the voyage. The kind attention of Mr. and Mrs. H-who, with their family, occupied one side of the cabin below, alleviated in some measure the unpleasantness arising from the captain's ungentlemanly behavior.

In the beginning of July the ship reached the entrance of the port to which she was bound, but, owing to the ignorance and obstinacy of the captain, passed it, and was thus kept out at sea on a dangerous coast for nearly a fortnight, a portion of the voyage more irksome and perilous than the whole of the previous passage had been. On the 22d of July the vessel anchored in Sydney cove, the passengers hastened on shore; and the kind attention shown to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis by Christian friends was a grateful evidence of the interest they felt in the missionary cause. The following extract of a letter from Mrs. Ellis to her brother shows the state of her mind in the vicissitudes through which she had already passed.

"We landed safely in Port Jackson, after a passage of thirteen weeks, from Rio: this part of our voyage (the particulars of which you may read in Mr. E.'s letter) was not so pleasant as the preceding. Our captain behaving so unkindly, that, had we not provided a few supplies at Rio, we should have been exceedingly uncomfortable; but here, as in every other instance, the goodness of God (unworthy as we are of the least of his favors) shone conspicuously; He kindly raised us up friends in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. Howe, fellow-passengers; and every person on board, excepting the captain, treated us with the greatest respect and kindness. We have abundant cause for thankfulness: goodness and mercy continue to follow us. The weather, for the time of the year, was remarkably fine, much more so than we expected, particularly as we passed the Cape of Good Hope. It was in the Missionary Week when we passed it; thought much on our dear friends in England, and did not doubt but that your prayers for us at that time were answered. I rejoice to inform you that we have both enjoyed a tolerable share of health, excepting a renewal of the sea-sickness on our leaving Rio de Janeiro; but we had Mr. Threlkeld's berth, which was more light and airy than ours; and I was enabled to read, write, and work in our own cabin.

"On our arrival at this port, though strangers in a foreign land, our dear Lord inclined the hearts of kind friends to receive us as a brother and sister in Him, and the tie of kindred in Christ soon united our hearts. Our conversation of course was about England, and in

imagination we were soon with our dear friends and relatives there. We found it, indeed, pleasant to enjoy the communion of saints, and the conversation of fellow-pilgrims travelling to a better country. Mr. Marsden, to whom we were directed, lives about sixteen miles from the port at which we landed. We did not see him for many days; and when we did, at first we were rather discouraged, as he appeared a person of few words, and rather reserved. But after knowing him more, we became much attached to him, and find him a kind fatherly friend, who takes great interest in the Missionary's welfare. He resides at Paramatta, where we now are, under the roof of Mr. and Mrs. Hassell, who were formerly Missionaries, having come out in the ship Duff, at the commencement of the mission at Tahiti, twenty-two years ago. They are still interested in the work, though obliged to leave the station. They have a house and heart open to all the Missionaries who come to this colony, and behave to us with the hospitality and attention of parents. It is a very comfortable family, consisting of four sons and four daughters, the youngest of whom is eight, and the eldest twenty-three years of age. Most of them appear to be seeking the God of their fathers, which makes them very pleasant companions.

"We have very pleasing prospects before us, as it respects the arduous enterprise in which we have ambarked. King Pomare has regained his throne, and gone back to Tahiti. The Surrey (in which we expect our brethren and sisters, Orsmond and Barff,) has not yet arrived, but we are looking for it every day, and hope it will come time enough for them to go with us, as the mission wants strengthening very much,

to believe, the gracious promise in which Jehovah declares, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins; return unto me, for I have redeemed thee." This and similar passages of inspired truth, which brought her again with weeping and supplication to Him who was set forth to be the propitiation for sin through faith in his blood, diffused a soothing influence over her troubled spirit, which was followed by a hope that endured to the end, and a peace of conscience, the foundations of which were never afterwards destroyed.

Increasing acquaintance with the requirements of scripture confirmed her experience of the benefits of Divine ordinances, and the privileges of affectionate and Christian intercourse, and early in the following year, 1813, Mrs. Ellis was induced to seek admission to the fellowship of the people of God with whom she had been accustomed to unite in Christian worship, and more publicly to profess her faith in the Redeemer by the observance of that ordinance, of which he hath said, "Do this in remembrance of me," and whereby the church is to shew the Lord's death until he come. Her application was cordially welcomed by her esteemed minister, the Rev. E. J. Jones, and with an intimate female friend, afterwards the wife of one who is now a devoted missionary of the Cross, she was admitted to visible communion with those with whom she had long been virtually united, and with many of whom, there is reason to believe, she is now associated in that more exalted fellowship, of which the communion of saints on earth is but the imperfect emblem.

About the same time, Mrs. Ellis became a teacher in the Sunday school of which she had formerly been

a scholar. He with whom there are diversities of gifts but the same spirit, and who distributeth these gifts with infinite wisdom, had endowed the subject of this memoir with peculiar qualifications for teaching. Her general knowledge rendered her lessons instructive; the circumstances under which her own childhood and youth had been spent, had given her much experience in the most useful methods of conveying instruction; her frank and affectionate disposition secured the confidence and love of her scholars, while her eminent piety rendered all subservient to their spiritual benefit. The ardor of her love to the Savior led her also to improve the seasons of leisure which her residence with her brother afforded, for engaging in every suitable work of benevolence. Amongst these, the claims of the missionary cause received her early regard, and she became an active and efficient instrument in diffusing intelligence of the progress of the Gospel in the world, and collecting the offerings of those who contributed to its extension.

Thus happy in the enjoyment of peace with God, and increasing comfort in all the public ordinances of religion-and thus engaged, with beloved associates, in works of benevolence and piety, and sharing with her affectionate brother much domestic comfort in his welcome and retired home,—she was favored with a large measure of present enjoyment, and afterwards often spoke of the Divine goodness during this period of her chequered life with liveliest emotions of gratitude, observing, that she did not think it possible to be happier in this world than she was at that time.

Mrs. Ellis appears to have possessed at all times a mind remarkably active, with a disposition peculiarly sensitive and tender, united to a body never robust,