uisite enjoyment to which she had been long a
stranger--the communion of kindred spirits in the love of Christ: and
soon did she need all the soothing and support which it is fitted to
administer; for in a very short time the husband of her youth, the
object of her most devoted affection, her sole earthly stay, was taken
from her by death. The stroke was, indeed, mitigated by the sweet
assurance that he slept in Jesus. But a heart like hers, convulsed by
a review of the past and anticipation of the future, would have burst
with agony, had she not known how to pour its sorrows into the bosom
of her heavenly Father. Trials which beat sense and reason to the
ground, raise up the faith of the Christian, and draw her closer to
her God. O, how divine to have him as the rock of our rest when every
earthly reliance is a broken reed.

"Bowing to his mysterious dispensation, and committing herself to
his protection as the Father of the fatherless and the Husband of the
widow, she returns with her charge to her native land, to contract
alliance with penury, and to live by faith for her daily bread. That
same grace under whose teaching she knew how to abound, taught her
also how to suffer need. With a dignity which belongs only to them who
have treasure in heaven, she descended to her humble cot, employment,
and fare. But her humility, according to the Scripture, was the
forerunner of her advancement. The light of her virtues shone
brightest in her obscurity, and pointed her way to the confidential
trust of forming the minds and manners of young females of different
ranks in the metropolis of Scotland. Here, respected by the great and
beloved by the good; in sacred intimacy with 'devout and honorable
women,' and the friendship of men who were in truth servants of the
most high God, she continued in the successful discharge of her duties
till Providence conducted her to our shores.

"She long had a predilection for America, as a land in which,
according to her favorite opinion, the church of Christ is signally to
flourish. Here she wished to end her days and leave her children. And
we shall remember with gratitude, that in granting her wish, God cast
her lot with ourselves. Twenty-five years ago she opened in this city
a school for the education of young ladies, the benefits of which have
been strongly felt, and will be long felt hereafter, in different and
distant parts of our country. Evidently devoted to the welfare of