ON THE

INFLUENCES OF FEMALE PIETY.

THE advantages of Christian biography are numerous, and readily acknowledged; but there is none which more obviously occurs to the mind of a reflecting reader, than the peculiar insight which is thereby obtained into the varied workings of the renewed, as distinguished from the unrenewed, heart. The principles of religion are seen, not as matters of speculative belief, but in real and active operation, influencing the whole character and conduct. With a living exemplification of Christianity thus set before us, we become more minutely and intimately acquainted with the diversified aspects of the believer's experience. A knowledge of this kind is of inestimable value. We feel more strongly impressed with the truth of the Christian scheme, by perceiving the wonderful effects to which it gives rise; we gradually learn to perceive how we ourselves may imbibe its sacred truths, that our hearts may be bettered thereby ; we are constrained to examine ourselves, that we may