suspense and anxiety, in which, for nearly six weeks, we had been kept. Shortly after the return of the corps to Agra, we marched to Allahabad with the prisoner and family, whom we left in the fort of that place; continued our journey a few marches beyond, to Sultanpore, in Oude; and thence, much to our joy, to Gorukhpore, where we arrived on the 28th of March. All our former friends were not here to welcome us, one family and a lady having left for England; but such as still remained received us with much affectionate kindness; and here we are as happy and as comfortable as ever, not a little pleased to think that our troubles are once more over. I am rejoiced to

observe so great an alteration in the religious feelings of ***, and I believe that she takes a deep interest in those concerns which ought to be our highest and dearest. It appears that your kind sister has greatly encouraged her, and induced her to come forward, and partake of the Holy Sacrament. How truly delightful it is to those who are concerned for the souls of their fellow creatures, to see those who were strangers, enquiring after the truth.

I wish I could hear that you are so kind, my

dearest Caroline, as to remember me sometimes at a throne of mercy. I do recollect you, dear, sometimes, but much less frequently than I could wish. Would that I always bore you on my heart, when engaged in communion with my God-but seldom, alas! is it that my whole heart is devoted to my Maker. By a letter very lately

received, we were apprized of the affliction with which it has pleased an all-wise God to visit my beloved Caroline and her sisters. And think not, my friend, that because so many thousand miles separate us, we are the less able to sympathize with you under the present severe trial, and to weep with those that weep. Though we had heard of the precarious state of health of the dear departed, and were aware of the nature of his disease, yet we did not so soon expect to hear that his spirit has returned to him who gave it, and is now in the presence of the Lamb of God who has removed far from him the burden which he was unable to bear. Our hearts were pained at the intelligence, and grieved to think that you should have been called to experience such another afflicting dispensation; but we were consoled with the thought, that neither

of you sorrow without hope:-and have, moreover, the delightful assurance of his having exchanged a world of peculiar sorrow (to him) for one of unchanging and endless bliss. Death is at all times calculated to solemnize the mind, but when it occurs amongst those whom we love, and have been accustomed to see in the enjoyment of health and happiness, it seems to bring a weighty message to survivors, to be ready against the coming of the Lord Jesus:-and that we who are left in this dreary world, may not only be found ready, but willing, at that glorious day, is my fervent prayer. I trust you have all been enabled to say that the Lord is gracious, and even to smile through your tears. I sometimes am tempted to wonder why such heavy sorrows should have been the portion of your youth, and say, 'Could not one suffice, Lord ?' But what am I, that I should dare presume to against the divine will? We who love the Lord, know that all things work together for good; and these trials may, through his blessing, be the means of weaning our affections from our earthly habitations, and enabling us to fix them on objects more worthy

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of immortal souls.

When we meditate on

the joys that are reserved in heaven for the redeemed, the release that will be given by death to our mortal bodies, and the little worth living for, does it not seem unaccountable that our hearts should be so riveted to this world? I have once or twice faintly breathed a wish to be' where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest;' but death's cold floods' have alarmed me, and I dread to meet the scrutinizing eye of God. Yet if my Saviour be near, he will carry me safely over, and when arrived at the haven of bliss, I shall have nothing to fear; for though a catalogue of sins of the deepest dye be found against me, and I be considered the chief of sinners, I shall be pure, having been washed and cleansed by the precious blood of the Redeemer.

SECTION V.

"Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ."--1 Cor. xv. 57. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,

even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."--1 THESS. iv. 14.

"And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."-REV. xiv. 13.

"These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

"Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

"They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

"For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne

shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."-REV. vii. 14-17.