ring members, or promoting the glory of his
kingdom, are sour, reluctant, mean. Are these the Christians? Can it
be that they have committed their bodies, their souls, their eternal
hope, to a Saviour whose thousand promises on this very point of
honoring him with their substance, have less influence upon their
hearts and their hands than the word of any honest man? Remember the
deceased, and hang your heads--remember her, and tremble; remember
her, and bring forth fruits meet for repentance.

*The author knew her, when in moderate circumstances, to give,
unsolicited, _fifty pounds at once_ out of that sacred purse to
a single most worthy purpose.

"In that charity, also, which far surpasses mere almsgiving,
however liberal, the charity of the gospel, our friend was
conspicuous. The love of God shed abroad in her own heart by the Holy
Ghost, drew forth her love to his people wherever she found them.
Assuredly she had in herself this witness of her having 'passed from
death unto life,' that she loved the brethren. The epistle, written
not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of
stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart; yet read and known of all
men: that is, the Christian temper manifested by a Christian
conversation, was to her the best letter of recommendation. Unwavering
in her own faith as to the peculiar doctrines of the gospel, she could
nevertheless extend love without dissimulation, and the very bowels of
Christian fellowship, to others who, whatever might be their mistakes,
their infirmities, or their differences in smaller matters, agreed in
the great Christian essential of acceptance in the Beloved. Deeply did
she deplore the conceit, the bigotry, and the bitterness of sect. O
that her spirit were more prevalent in the churches; that we could
labor to abase our crown of pride; to offer up with one consent upon
the altar of evangelical charity, those petty jealousies, animosities,
and strifes which are our common reproach; and walk together as
children of the same Father, brethren of the same Redeemer, and heirs
of the same salvation.

"To these admirable traits of character were added great
tenderness of conscience and a spirit of prayer. Her religion, not
contented to justify her before men, habitually aimed at pleasing God,
who looketh upon the heart. It was not enough for her to persuade
herself that a thing might be right. Before venturing upon it, she
studied to