h the world cannot give be our
portion.... Although a large garden is now my allotment, I feel
pleasure in having even a small one; and my acute relish for the
beautiful in nature and art is on a clear day almost constantly
gratified by a view of Greenwich Hospital and Park, and other parts
of Kent; the shipping on the river, as well as the cattle feeding
in the meadows. So that in small things as well as great, spiritual
and temporal, I have yet reason to ... bless and magnify the name
of my Lord.

Two of her nieces accompanied her, in 1834, upon a mission to the
Friends' Meetings in Dorset and Hants; and recalling this journey some
time later, one of them said, speaking of her aunt's peculiar mission of
ministering to the tried and afflicted: "There was no weakness or
trouble of mind or body, which might not safely be unveiled to her.
Whatever various or opposite views, feelings, or wishes might be
confided to her, all came out again tinged with her own loving, hopeful
spirit. Bitterness of every kind died when entrusted to her; it never
re-appeared. The most favorable construction possible was always put
upon every transaction. No doubt her feeling lay this way; but did it
not give her and her example a wonderful influence? Was it not the very
secret of her power with the wretched and degraded prisoners? She could
always see hope for everyone; she invariably found or made some point of
light. The most abandoned must have felt she did not despair for them,
either for this world or for another; and this it was which made her
irresistible."

In taking a view of this good woman's religious life and character, it
will be helpful to see her as she appeared to herself--to enter into her
own feelings at different periods of her life, and to listen to her
heart-felt expressions of humility and perplexity. Thus, in relation to
the ups and downs of life with her, we find in her journal this
passage:--

The difference between last winter and this winter has been
striking! How did the righteous compass me about, from the
Sovereign, the Princes, and the Princesses, down to the poorest,
lowest, and most destitute; how did poor sinners of almost every
description seek after me, and cleave to me? What was not said of
me? What was not thought of me, may I not say, in public and in
private, in innumerable publications? This winter I have had the
bed of