cted. He repeated the discipline stripe upon stripe: I stood
by and saw it, and though my heart melted at times, I said, 'She is in
her Father's hand, let him do his pleasure.'

"I too was unfaithful to her, thou knowest, and often entered
into the same vanity of mind, which stifled the love of God in our
hearts, instead of guarding her and warning her; still, still the
Shepherd of Israel followed after both, and with the precious rod
restored both, time after time, till it pleased thee to finish her
warfare, and deliver her from both body and sin. Lord, I thank thee
for all the circumstances, for the privilege of attending her in her
warfare, for the cheerfulness of her spirits, for the rich support we
all experienced, for the view we all had of thy faithfulness and
fatherly dealing, and for her last words, 'All is well.' O yes, every
thing thou doest is well, and this was peculiarly well. I resigned her
to thee with joy and thankfulness, and I still acquiesce. Her thou
hast taken, me thou hast left, to be yet exercised with further
discipline. It is well; thy will be done. O help me to profit by every
pang. Let sin be mortified and my soul be purified; enlarge my heart
to run the ways of thy commandments. Now may I lay aside every weight,
and that vanity of mind which doth so easily beset me, and hath been
the secret spring of much backsliding both to myself and to my
children. Lord, destroy it.. O let me now live to God, closely and
consistently; down with my will, with self in every form. O purify my
motives, and let my whole heart, soul, body, substance, and influence
in the world be devoted to thee. Empty me of every thing that is my
own, and let 'Christ live in me the hope of glory,' and let the glory
of thy workmanship in my soul redound to thee, and thee alone. Amen."

"AUGUST 13, 1796.

"'As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him,
rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have
been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.' Colossians 2:6.

"O Lord, this is what I pant after. I would fain have done with
wandering, Lord, thou knowest, for the work is thine. I have
received the Lord Jesus as thy gift to a lost world, as thy gift to
me an individual of that world, as having made peace by the blood of
the cross. I account it a faithful saying, worthy of all
acceptation, that 'Christ came into the world t