under delirium, evinced the holiness of her mind, with the incalculable strength of her Christian habits and attachments. The last remark she made, with respect to her dissolution, was, the prospect of death is sweet.' Thus, through divine grace, did she prove victorious over the last enemy, the king of terrors. Thus did her faith carry her forward to the glorious contemplation, and full fruition of God which she now enjoys. If her Christian principle stood the test, nay triumphed, amidst all the weakness and agony of a dissolving frame, how unspeakably glorious must she now be freed from every element of corruption, delivered from every assault of the evil one, and blessed with the presence of Deity itself! Let every believer be encouraged by her experience-for he rests on the same Saviour, and the same God. What she said to two dear Christian friends, John Williams, Esq., C.S. and Captain W. M. Webb, is applicable to all:—' I am now in the dark valley; but I am not forsaken. When you pass through it, you will also find the Saviour present to uphold and enlighten you.'

"On the morning before her death she was quite collected, but extremely weak. She recognized the kind friends who were around her bed, and mentioned their names, but was unable to converse with them. She traced along with them several passages in the Psalms, into the devotion of which she seemed fully to enter. As the day proceeded, I perceived that the happy spirit would soon put off its earthly tabernacle, that it might be clothed upon with its house which is from heaven. It did not need a human ministration to its comfort, its peace, or its joys, for the communications of the divine grace to it were very abundant. It

appeared to animate the decaying and dissolving body with undiminished power. As the shades of evening were drawing on, when I presented to my dearest wife the last communication I made to her, The Lord Jesus is with thee,'—her response was, ‘and with thee, my beloved one.' I was recognized by her on several occasions during the night; but though she attempted to address me, she could not speak so as I could understand her. The last words I heard from her lips were, 'The kingdom of the Saviour;' but in what connection they were used, I do not know. At eight o'clock on the morning of Sabbath the 19th April 1836, sacred to the commemoration of the Redeemer's triumph over the grave, she died without a struggle, and her soul winged its flight to that glorious abode. where He lives and reigns."

The death of this amiable and devoted Christian produced a very deep impression on the native and European community of Bombay. It was a loss of no ordinary kind. She had displayed, during the few years of her residence in India, a character so consistent, a disposition so amiable, a zeal so unwearied, that she was beloved and admired as a noble example of the true influence of Christianity upon the heart. Her labours in the cause of Missions had, by the divine blessing, been attended with remarkable success. The education more especially of native females engaged much of her attention; and the flourishing state of her schools, even at the present time, shows that her anticipations of success were well founded, and that the principles on which the schools were originally established, were judicious and well matured.

MISS MARTHA REED.

THIS amiable and devoutly pious young lady was born in London on the 2d of June 1793. From her early childhood she was dedicated by her excellent parents to the Almighty. Before her infant lips could lisp the name of her Creator, she was committed, in many an earnest prayer, to his fatherly care and protection. “I can well remember," says her brother, in one of the most beautifully written biographies that has ever issued from the press, "I can well remember, on several occasions, seeing my father walk the room with his beloved daughter lying in his arms. I have marked his lifted eye, his moving lips, and his more measured tread. Child as I was, they told me that he was in prayer. I recollect nothing at this period that gave me such an elevated idea of my father's goodness as this act, performed, as he evidently thought it was, without a witness. Thus was he commending one child to the blessing of heaven, and opening the pas sages to the heart of another for the blessing he had already so often solicited." And not only did the parents of Martha pray, they acted as well as prayed. To the mental and moral training of their children they directed their most strenuous efforts, and, fully aware as they were that unsanctified knowledge was injurious to the best interests of the immortal soul, they sought to impart to them, not merely a complete, but a decidedly

religious education. From the cradle Martha was taught to pray, and made acquainted with the simplest elements of divine truth. Every opportunity was eagerly embraced of impressing her infant mind with religious views and feelings. The Sabbath evening, more especially, was appropriated to sacred exercises, and the description which Dr. Reed has given of the manner in which the family were then in the habit of employing themselves, may be quoted to show the privileges which, even in childhood, Martha enjoyed.

"At these seasons we were required to repeat what we could remember of the public services; we then went through our catechetical exercises; and at the end of these we generally took our places, my sister on the lap, and myself between the knees of our beloved parent. His countenance, naturally grave, would wear a serene smile; and he would enter into familiar conversation with us, answering our questions or proposing his own. We then chose a hymn, and he sang it with us; we thought no one could sing so sweetly. Afterwards he would caress us, and smile upon us, and frequently he would close, by pressing us nearer to his side, and saying with a feeling we could not then understand, God Almighty bless ye, my children!' By this time, our mother usually joined us. talked and sang afresh. It was an hour of gladness. Our parents embraced us, and we embraced each other. At such a moment there was but one thing that could heighten our joy. It was simply to hear our father

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say, as he often said, children to stay up and sup with us to-night.' If these

words were uttered, whose parents were so good as ours; or what children so happy!"

The result of such a mode of training was, by the divine blessing, productive of the most pleasing effects upon the amiable subject of our present Memoir. She early displayed a remarkable tenderness of conscience, and when at any time her conscience reproached her she repaired to a throne of grace. The all-seeing eye of God she realized as ever upon her, and under such an impression her childhood was passed comparatively free from those follies which too often characterize that early age. And the circumstance which, perhaps, more than other tended to confirm Martha in the genuany ine principles of piety was, that her education at school was intrusted to a lady who endeavoured to pay peculiar attention to the religious welfare of her pupils. At the age of twelve she began to attend, along with some of her school companions, a catechetical exercise, conducted by Mr. John Scott, an elder of the Tabernacle, Moorfields. The instructions and advices of this excellent man produced a deep impression upon the mind of Martha, and she delighted in repeating them to the younger children of the school. It was not, however, till her fifteenth year that she began to add to the profession the actual power and possession of religion. The sermon which first aroused her to seek after the quickening influences of the Holy Spirit was one which she heard preached by the Rev. William Allen of Exeter on the devices of Satan. In the discourse itself there appears to have been nothing remarkable, but it was blessed of God in directing Martha's atten