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cial to me. I said, 'my dear creature, I find you are about to slip away from us.' With an expression of countenance which I think I can never forget, and a smile which though deathly, at once denoted surprise and triumph, she replied, 'I believe I am!'We dare not desire to detain you here,' I added; no,' said she, that would be cruel.' My mother began saying to me 'O Lydia, she has been so sweetly smiling at me!" alluding to the way in which she received the intelligence of her departure being at hand, on which she remarked, I have -- good cause to smile!' I asked her if her confidence continued firm? She answered Yes-I have no fear'-I said 'death has something very awful in it,' She replied, 'I am -- not afraid,' She then tried to repeat these lines by Doctor Watts:

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"See the kind angels at the gates,

Inviting me to come!

There Jesus the forerunner waits,

To welcome trav'llers home!"

She got through the two first lines, but for want of breath could not finish the verses. My mother

in repeating the rest, made a mistake, substituting the word 'stranger' for 'traveller' in the last line: she impatiently interrupted her, and said with great difficulty, and much earnestness, 'No-stranger- - Mother, I'm--no- - stranger-- Welcome travellers home!' But indeed my dear friend, I feel incapable of conveying to you the full idea of this scene, although I endeavour by dashes &c. to point out the way in which she spoke. Oh! that I had you near me; I think I could render the occurrences of this memorable day still more interesting; yet I know that you will not in this respect perceive any deficiency, and perhaps be impatient of this interruption: I therefore pro❤ ceed :

It was remarked that the room was dark, and I asked the dear creature if she would like the blind drawn up? She said 'Yes;' and after a little pause added, but I'm going--to the full beams--of light and glory!'

My mother then said to her, “ my dear, you'll see such and such dear friends there! (at the same time mentioning several by name,) to which she answered, Mother--I shall see--Jesus!

and that's - better !' a little after she said, 'Mother I said how-shall I bear this! but I find I can!--(referring to that which she had said in the early part of the morning,) indeed the very idea of being near that heavenly home, after which she had so long and ardently aspired, made her welcome those sufferings which brought her nearer to it; and we remarked that after she was made acquainted with her real state, and that a few honrs would in all probability terminate her painful pilgrimage, she might literally be said to lay herself down to die' From that moment the most entire composure was visible, though before, she had been rather restless; she never uttered the least complaint, but described with clearness the gradual approach of death in a way that surprised us all "Mother (said she) it is--like--a cold--hand -- here' pointing to her heart; a little after, 'now--goes--through--to my -back.' Then again, wipe--my face--it's cold' -my dear Mother did so, and found it was the dew of death. About half an hour before she died she said. 'now--my feet--are cold- -put on- -my socks.' She then asked for something to take; when it was brought to her, she said to the nurse, 'lift me→

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up,' the nurse tried to raise her in bed she said 'it--wont do.'-- Nurse tried again, but she said, 'higher. This moving greatly distressed her, she turned very faint, and cried out air.' My mother, in the anguish of the moment exclaimed; 'O dear she should not have been disturbed; she was too far gone to be disturbed.' The dear creature seeing her distress, looked at her with great sweetness and very expressively. When I suggested that perhaps it had advanced her some steps nearer to her heavenly home, she smiled upon me with much complacency after this she never spoke more, but kept looking alternately upon my dear mother and me, with great earnestness.

She was sensible to the last, and in about a quarter of an hour after she ceased to speak, (during which time she lay quite still and seemed to breath easily) she quietly resigned her peaceful spirit into the arms of her God, without a groan, at about half past two o'clock.

"Mark the perfect, and behold the upright, for the end of such an one is peace."

It is rather remarkable that the portion of scripture appointed for that day's meditation, in her fa-"

vorite Bogatzky, was Luke ii. 29. 30.

"Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word; for mine eyes have seen thy salvation."

This prayer of good old Simeon, received its full accomplishment in the case of our beloved Mary Anne. I have heard and read of many of the dear servants of God, who have entered into the joy of their Lord more triumphantly; but never I think of one, whose end seemed to me more truly desirable than hers.

Some indeed appear scarcely to taste of death, they are carried above it; in them mortality is swallowed up of life, and while yet in the body, they seem by delightful anticipation, to be already "with the Lord."

But here is an instance of one, in no remarkable degree possessed of either fortitude or courage-in the full exercise of her mental powers-unsupported by any of those peculiar manifestations-enabled with a firm step, and undismayed countenance to meet the king of terrors, "strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might ;" and this is the victory that overcame him, even her faith:" for she

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