l and valuable helpers to me, which you will be all the
more if you get forward yourselves. I see quite a field of useful
service and enjoyment for you, should we be favored to meet under
comfortable circumstances in the spring. I mean that you should
have a certain department to fill in the house, amongst the
children and the poor, as well as your own studies and enjoyments;
I think there was not often a brighter opening for two girls.
Plashet is, after all, such a home, it now looks sweetly; and your
little room is almost a temptation to me to take it for a
sitting-room for myself, it is so pretty and so snug; it is newly
furnished, and looks very pleasant indeed. The poor, and the
school, will, I think, be glad to have you home, for help is wanted
in these things. Indeed, if your hearts are but turned the right
way, you may, I believe, be made instruments of much good, and I
shall be glad to have the day come that I may introduce you into
prisons and hospitals.... This appears to me to be your present
business--to give all diligence to your present duties; and I
cannot help believing, if this be the case, that the day will come
when you will be brought into much usefulness.

As the years rolled on, her boys went to school also; but they were
followed by a loving mother's counsels. From her correspondence with
them we cull a few extracts to prove how constant and tender was her
care over them, and how far-reaching her anxieties. Two or three
specimens will suffice.

Upon the departure of each of her boys for boarding-school she wrote out
and gave him a copy of the following rules. They are valuable, as
showing how carefully she watched over their mental and moral welfare.

"1st. Be regular, strict in attending to religious duties; and do not
allow other boys around thee to prevent thy having some portion of time
for reading at least a text of Scripture, meditation and prayer; and if
it appear to be a duty, flinch not from bowing the knee before them, as
a mark of thy allegiance to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Attend
diligently when the holy Scriptures are read, or to any other religious
instruction, and endeavor in Meeting to seek after a serious waiting
state of mind, and to watch unto prayer. Let First Day be well employed
in reading proper books, etc., but also enjoy the rest of innocent
recreation, afforded in admir