o part with
any of his clothes, but these can be of no consequence to me when I
shall again have joined him for whose sake I kept them; you may
therefore dispose of them, and also of my own, if you think the avails
will be of more service to the children. But I do not choose to leave
any particular directions about my trifling effects; you will consult
with other friends, and I am certain you will act for them to the best
of your judgment. It is a great relief to my mind that I have such
steady and tried friends to leave the charge of them upon. Miss
G. B---- has promised to take J----, and it is my desire that the
others, and the infant yet unborn, if it survive, be sent to my
father, where I will leave them to be disposed of and provided for by
that God who has fed me all my life, by their heavenly Father, who has
commanded me to leave my fatherless children upon him, that he will
preserve them alive, and whose promise I have, that he will never
leave them nor forsake them.

"Mr. Reid will not be less kind to the offspring of his friend
when they have lost, than when they were under a mother's protection.
May the blessing of the widow and the fatherless follow him wherever
he goes, and may God recompense him a thousand-fold in blessings
spiritual and temporal. Let Diana* be sent with my children; if
there be an infant, you know a nurse must be found for it, whatever it
cost. As for Susan,* I am at a loss what to do with her; my heart
tells me I have no right to entail slavery upon her and her offspring;
I know I shall be blamed, but I am about to be called to account by a
higher power than any in this world for my conduct, and I dare not
allow her to be sold. I therefore leave it to herself either to remain
here, or if it be her desire, to accompany the children. I beg Mr.
Reid will be kind enough to allow her a passage with the rest.

*The two Indian girls.

"And now, my dear friend, as the greatest happiness I can wish
you, may that God whom I have chosen as my own portion, be yours also;
may he, by his outward providence and by the inward operations of his
Spirit on your heart, lead you to himself and convince you of the
truth. But O, my dear friend, shut not your eyes and ears against
conviction. You are not satisfied that the Bible is indeed the word of
God. Is it not worth inquiring into? What would you think of a man who
had a large fortune, and the whole depending on proving some certain
facts, a