uth as it is in Jesus.
She informed that many individuals and families were still unsupplied;
and for herself, and those around her, expressed her thanksgivings
to God for the wonders of his love in inspiring the hearts of his
children to unite their efforts in Bible and other benevolent
institutions, and to contribute of their substance to extend to the
destitute a knowledge of the Gospel.

The last letter which M. ---- received from the widow, before he left
the country, contained two hundred francs, which she and her children
had contributed as a donation, in acknowledgment of the Bibles and
Testaments which he had, from time to time, forwarded.

M. ---- replied to her that it gave him more joy than to have received
twenty thousand francs from another source, as it testified their
attachment to the word of God. He returned her the full amount of
their donation in Bibles, with two hundred and fifty Testaments from
the Society, together with fifty from himself, as his last present
before his departure, and also six hundred Tracts and several other
religious hooks. Pointing out to her an esteemed friend in Paris,
to whom, if further supplies should be needed, she might apply
with assurance that her requests would be faithfully regarded, and
exhorting her to remain steadfast in the faith, and to fix her eye
always upon the Saviour, M. ---- commended her to God, in the fervent
hope, that, through the unsearchable riches of his grace, he should
hereafter meet her, and her persecuted associates in that world where
"the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest."

NOTE.--The original letters of the widow, in French, are deposited in
the archives of the American Tract Society.

CONVERSION OF PETER BAYSSIERE

FROM THE ROMISH CHURCH

TO THE PROTESTANT FAITH.

IN A LETTER TO HIS CHILDREN.

* * * * *

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

CONVERSION OF PETER BAYSSIERE
IN A LETTER TO HIS CHILDREN.[4]

[Footnote 4: This Narrative was originally entitled, "A letter to my
children, on the subject of my conversion from the Romish church, in
which I was born, to the Protestant, in which I hope to die. By Peter
Bayssiere, Montaigut, Department Tarn and Garonne." (France.) "As much
of the interest of this Narrative," says the preface to the London
edition, "depends upon its authenticity, the reader is referred to the
subjoined extract of a letter from the Rev. Francis Cunningham, Rector
of Pakefield,