was unbounded, but it was discreet. There
are charities which increase the wretchedness they are designed to
diminish; which, from some fatal defect in their application, bribe to
iniquity while they are relieving want, and make food and raiment and
clothing to warm into life the most poisonous seeds of vice. But the
charities of our departed friend were of another order. They selected
the fittest objects--the widow, the fatherless, the orphan, the
untaught child, and the ignorant adult. They combined intellectual and
moral benefit with the communication of physical comfort.

"In her house originated the Society for the Relief of Poor
Widows with Small Children. Large, indeed, is this branch of the
family of affliction, and largely did it share in her sympathy and
succor. When at the head of this noble association, she made it her
business to see with her own eyes the objects of their care; and to
give, by her personal presence and efforts, the strongest impulse to
their humane system. From morning till night has she gone from abode
to abode of these destitute, who are too commonly unpitied by the
great, despised by the proud, and forgotten by the gay. She has gone
to sit beside them on their humble seat, hearing their simple and
sorrowful story, sharing their homely meal--ascertaining the condition
of their children--stirring them up to diligence, to economy, to
neatness, to order--putting them into the way of obtaining suitable
employment for themselves and suitable places for their
children--distributing among them the word of God, and tracts
calculated to familiarize its first principles to their
understanding--cherishing them in sickness, admonishing them in
health--instructing, reproving, exhorting, consoling--sanctifying the
whole with fervent prayer. Many a sobbing heart and streaming eye is
this evening embalming her memory in the house of the widow.

"Little if any less is the debt due to her from that invaluable
charity, the Orphan Asylum. It speaks its own praise, and that praise
is hers. Scores of orphans redeemed from filth, from ignorance, from
wretchedness, from crime--clothed, fed, instructed--trained in
cleanliness to habits of industry--early imbued with the knowledge and
fear of God--gradually preparing for respectability, usefulness, and
happiness, is a spectacle for angels. Their infantine gayety, their
healthful sport, their cherub faces, mark the contrast between their
present and fo