BENEVOLENT LABORS--MRS. HOFFMAN--
CORRESPONDENCE.

Schools and labors connected with the Widows' Society--Her
friend Mrs. Hoffman--Anniversary of the Widows' Society--
Visit to Boston--Want of evangelical preaching--Letters
to Miss M---- of Boston--Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Bethune in
Britain--Anxiety for them--Confidence in God--Church
discipline--Dr. Mason sails for Britain--1800-1801, .......... 167

CHAPTER VIII.

JOURNAL AND LETTERS--LADIES' SCHOOL
FOR POOR CHILDREN.

Death of a grandchild--Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Bethune in
Britain--Death of B.--Of another grandchild--Of Pero, a
colored man--Return of Mr. and Mrs. Bethune--Takes up her
abode with them--Devotional exercises--Ladies' school for
poor children--Address on its formation--Supplications for
a revival of God's work--Labors for the suffering poor--
Letters to Mrs. C.--Letter to the widow of her brother--
1801-1805, ................................................... 200

CHAPTER IX.

ORPHAN ASYLUM SOCIETY--FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.

Letters--Formation and success of the Orphan Asylum--
Inscription for Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Hoffman--Labors in the
New York hospital and among female convicts--Miss
Farquharson, first American missionary to foreign lands--
Visit of Rev. Dr. Morrison and others--Letter to her
children at the Springs--Letter to Mrs. Juliet S.--Visits
Rockaway--Reminiscence of Elderslie--1806-1809, .............. 250

CHAPTER X.

NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY--ASSOCIATIONS FOR PRAYER--
HAPPY OLD AGE.

Letters--Bible Society organized--Efforts for the revival and
extension of religion--Admissions to the communion--
Narrow escape from drowning at Rockaway--Barrenness of
preaching without Christ--Devotional exercises--Letters
to Miss Van Wyck and James Todd--Happy old age--Letter to
Mrs. C---- in affliction--Letter to Mrs. G.Y.--Prayer for
ministers--Magdalen Society--Lancasterian school--
1809-1811, ................................................... 270

CHAPTER XI.

DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES AND LETTERS.

Indwelling sin lamented--Day of fasting--Happiness of the
aged Christian--S