lowest of the people in the district of St. Giles are required of me, and yet I see difficulties, not a few, in the way, unless there can be some opening for the employment of the most forlorn and destitute.

"May the hours be rightly employed: 'time is than gold more sacred.' I do not know when the sense of its preciousness was more fully before

me.

"23rd. May I be enabled to acknowledge the goodness of Divine Providence in all His appointments. May my heart be ever kept from every feeling inconsistent with gentleness and love; and may I be diligently bent, from day to day, on the right occupation of the precious gift of time. I have been ready to fear, lest there was something either negligent or unskilful in my arrangements, when I possessed a home, which prevented me from gaining what might have been nearer independence; but I may also remember, that even before entering upon the school, I felt a check against giving up the whole of my time to occupations that would prevent my attendance on the poor, and that this check always continued; and that subsequent failure of health, after being too much engaged, threw me necessarily more into quiet, mental occupations, which it appeared my indispensable duty to pursue.

"24th. A grievous conflict of mind in the fear, that should a provision be made for me, independent of my own exertions, there might be some painful fetter to my mind. This was the first day of the week had my view been more fully engaged in things eternal, a part of this suffering might perhaps have been avoided, but it seemed the time to think and speak of it with a dear and

valued friend, who can feel with me, and yet advises that I should leave it, and consider, whether I would not recommend to another to act as he now recommends me, and to think whether it is not best to agree to an arrangement, that shall leave me at liberty for such a sphere of usefulness as might in that way be open to me.

'I feel for the poor, but what do I do for them?' was the impressive query of a young girl, who afterwards acted to excellent purpose, as well as felt an affecting sympathy. What do I do for them?' should be urged on all who profess to feel as Christians for the wants and the sufferings, the sins and the sorrows of that mass of society, who, whether from misconduct or unfavourable circumstances, or both, are dwelling in a land of plenty, but suffering poverty and want, and in a country abounding with means of instruction, yet a prey to ignorance, and the victims of temptation to crime, and suffering under its punishment. We want that Christian institution in action, that will go deeply and fully into the state of the poor, and the causes, as well as consequences, of misery and neglected education. Education comprises not school instruction alone for the poor, but religious care; and I long to see more of this in action among us as a society. Might not Friends collect at their own houses the children of a little local district, and read to them, and teach them, once a week?

My heart was turned towards the poor from a child, and perhaps not being rich myself may have led me to feel more sensibly for them, and to desire that what is done for their good may be done freely and kindly, and so as not to fetter and render them dependent, but to enable them to grow

stronger in ability to serve others.

themselves and

“On the 31st, in a solid and solemn meeting in the forenoon, I was so assailed by a temptation to anxiety and restlessness on one particular subject, that on getting a little over it, through the conviction that in all things my spirit must seek an entire submission to what Providence shall be pleased to appoint or permit, I feel persuaded it must be the enemy that thus repeatedly assaults, and seeks to bring my mind into undue perturbation and bondage, and sometimes at seasons, when the highest concerns and engagements should absorb my attention. The bait is adapted to its object: oh! that I may be taught to beware. I have at seasons been much reminded of the saying of our Lord to His poor disciple:-'Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.' May I be permitted to know finally the precious declaration, 'I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.' I must learn in all things submission, and I believe all will be well.

"In retirement I was led to desire that our friends might be led, in Gospel love, to visit the European colonies in different parts of the world. How much do these need Christian care, and how great will be the influence of these colonies, whether good or bad. Let the soldiers of Christ arise for His cause.

"Many times, and again and again, must the thought of those memorable days spent at the Cape (Birkow) return, accompanied by a deep feeling, that the cause in which we had engaged was good, and worthy of devoted labour. I cannot still relinquish the prospect, that it will be prosecuted, even

on that spot, before the magnificent Atlantic, which rolls its waves with solemn grandeur against the rocky shores of that beautiful coast.

"How sweetly might a little family of Friends resident at Birkow, stroll along that fine beach in the evening, after the labours of the day, conversing together on the objects of their mutual engagements, and enjoying the needful relaxation for the recruiting of their strength. And then in the evenings, instead of keeping school during the whole of the time, to have a part engaged either in retired or social reading. We were ourselves often too closely occupied, and health, in some of us, consequently suffered. Often did A. T. and I entreat our male friends to retire from labour in the middle of the day, for a longer season than just that of dining, but they seldom did. Now I regret that we did not more frequently urge their leaving any thing undone, rather than endanger their health by so much exertion.

"Twelve months ago we were drawing near the shores of England. Great has been my suffering at seasons since that time; and in the last two months, amidst close conflict, I have been ready to cry out in secret, 'When shall it be with me as in days past? When shall I again know something like a home, and a certain prospect?' But let all this be left. I will be thankful that in meeting and in retirement there is a feeling at seasons solemn and precious. Yesterday I was much favoured in this respect. I may thankfully acknowledge that I feel cause to be happy, and to dwell under a grateful sense of Divine goodness.

"How earnestly do I desire the day, in which the powerful and subduing influence of the Re

ence.

deemer's Spirit, shall be so humblingly felt on the minds of professors of Christianity, that His sacred name shall not be uttered, nor subjects connected with the everlasting kingdom ever spoken of, but with the sensible feeling of humiliation and reverHow very painful is it to hear at seasons a plea for what is called the cause of Christianity, urged in hardness, and even bitterness of spirit, and the sacred doctrines of the Gospel spoken of in a feeling, in which nothing is so visible as that self-righteous pride and exultation which our Redeemer so forcibly pointed out, as an object of His condemnation.

"On the 3rd of 8th month I was at Gracechurchstreet Meeting. It was silent, and I do not know that at any time my mind has been permitted to dwell under more weighty feeling of the sublime and heavenly nature of that worship, which needs not the intervention of outward forms, but falls down in spirit before Him, who formed heaven and earth, and who sees all that is passing within us. To dwell in silence before Him, seeking only the influence of His heavenly power to operate to the renewal and refinement of our spirits, what can we desire more than to be partakers of a privilege so precious? Near the close of the meeting, my mind was deeply impressed with the awful language: 'I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.'

"I am ready to fear that sometimes people who are instruments of much good, were their own minds sufficiently prepared for it, by an humble feeling concerning themselves, and a reliance on the aid of Divine Providence, are hindered in their usefulness, by too much reliance on their