es to God, and are out of
the ark of safety, I beseech you 'give not sleep to your eyes, nor
slumber to your eye-lids,' until you flee to the Saviour. And those of
you who have tasted that the Lord is gracious, live near to God, bear
cheerfully the cross of your Redeemer, follow on to know the Lord and
do his will, and by his grace reigning in your hearts, you shall come
off conquerors, and more than conquerors!"

When he had said this, and had again commended them to the God of all
mercy through a crucified Redeemer, he drove off amid their prayers
and blessings, to see them no more till that day when they shall meet
in the kingdom of their Father, where sighs and farewells are sounds
unknown, and where God shall wipe away all tears from every eye. After
M. ----'s return to Paris, he had the pleasure to learn from the widow
that all the Bibles he had left with her were disposed of, and that
many, in various directions from the village, were earnest to obtain
them, but could not be supplied. In the meantime a deep interest in
the spiritual welfare of these villagers had diffused itself beyond
the limits of Paris, or even of France. The first sixteen pages of
this Tract having found its way to England, had been published by
the Religious Tract Society of London, and had obtained a very wide
circulation. A parish in one of the interior towns of England had
forwarded to M. ---- twenty pounds sterling for the purchase of
Bibles, to be presented to the widow for gratuitous distribution; and
a family of Friends from Wales, having read the narrative, visited M.
---- at Paris, and proceeded thence to the Village in the Mountains,
where they tarried no less than three weeks, assuring M. ----, on their
return to Paris, that it had been the most interesting three weeks of
their lives.

As the proceeds of the twenty pounds, M. ---- forwarded to the widow
fifty Bibles and fifty Testaments, with a selection of several other
choice books and Tracts. These Bibles, Testaments, and Tracts, were
all actually disposed of in _eight days_, of which the widow gave
early information, accompanied by letters to M. ----, and to the
benevolent donors in England, expressing, in the most cordial manner,
her gratitude, and that of those who had thus been supplied with the
word of life. She gave a particular statement of the eagerness with
which they had been read; of their distribution in many Catholic
families, and the conversion of some to the tr