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duty called her abroad. The poor and indigent were the objects of her particular attention; and never had she so much enjoyment in temporal things, as when they enabled her to contribute to the happiness of the needy. She was remarkably neat and plain in her dress; and when rallied upon it by her gay acquaintances, her reply was, "How many thousands of my fellow-creatures are naked, and suffering hunger, while unworthy I am so well clothed and fed!" Indeed, like Dorcas, her delight was in preparing clothing for the naked, and food for the hungry. Her zeal in the service of God, and attendance upon all the means of grace, was lively and fervent; so that she greatly kept up the hands of whoever ministered the word; and was instrumental in drawing forth all the energy of his soul for the good of the people. The holy Scriptures were her daily food; she particularly dwelt upon the promises, which, with holy confidence, she was enabled to make her own.

Her own experience now proved, that "Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness." She found the Saviour's yoke easy, and could not be satisfied with the enjoyment of those blessings herself, without endeavouring to make others partakers of the same. She saw the awful state of those who were far from God, and endeavoured to be instrumental in bringing them nigh, by directing them to Him, whose blood cleanseth from all sin. As she was zealous in bearing testimony for the truth as it is in Jesus, so her gracious Master made her word a blessing to several persons, among whom were two Roman Catholic women, who, through her instrumentality, are now adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour. In the summer of 1812, she was ordered by her physician to Mallow, in the county of Cork, for the benefit of her declining health. While here, she became acquainted with a gentleman of great respectability, whose precarious state of health excited in her an earnest desire to speak to him of eternal things. After some fruitless endeavours (as he seemed much averse to any intimacy with her, and the young lady who accompanied her, on account of their being Methodistically inclined,) she at last succeeded in gaining his good opinion, and permission to speak to him freely of an eternal world; and so wonderfully did the Lord bless her humble attempts, that he returned home altogether a changed man.

The death of this excellent woman was brought on by a consumption, under which she laboured above sixteen months. When an eminent physician had maturely consi

dered her case, she asked him what his opinion of her was. He hesitated for some time; on which she mildly pressed him for an answer; when he frankly told her, he could not flatter her with any hopes of recovery. She thanked him for his candour, and with cheerfulness added, "I am not afraid of death, whenever God is pleased to call me home." During her illness she often expressed deep regret at not being more alive to God continually, and more zealous than she felt her soul to be, lamenting her unprofitableness; yet she had a fixed confidence in the fullness and richness of the salvation of Jesus Christ. One day, when Mr. Ellis, seeing her in pain, spoke to her of the state of her mind, with some degree of anxiety, she replied to him, "My dear, you speak to me as if you feared my soul was not happy in God; but I am very happy, and have been so a long time past." She bore her long and painful illness with uncommon patience, and was blessed with the full enjoyment of her intellectual powers to the last. A few days before her death, she said, "This body will soon hunger and thirst no more, nor be sensible of pain: it will have the bread of eternal life to feed on, and rest in the arms of Jesus Christ for ever."

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On Good Friday, when asked what day it was, she said, "This is the day on which my Saviour suffered on the cross for me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood; and I shall soon be with him." On Saturday, the day before her departure, she said to those attending her, " Girls, hold out a little longer, it will soon be over;" and when in great pain, a groan escaped her, she cried, "Oh, shame on me! how unlike a Christian!" On this day she told the friend of her bosom, Miss H-, that she had a very clear and sweet view of her acceptance with God. When she had almost lost her speech, she was asked if she then found the Lord Jesus precious to her soul; she exclaimed, with a strong voice, "O yes!" After this she spoke no more, but calmly resigned her breath, about three o'clock on the morning of the Resurrection, the 18th of April, 1813, aged 34 years; lamented, because beloved, by all who knew her; but by none so much as by the inmates of her own family, before whom her meekness, piety, and sanctity of manners, shone with peculiar lustre. Dublin.

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MRS. TALBOT.

THE Memoir of the Rev. William Talbot, in your Magazine for October, 1815, gave me, and no doubt many thousands, an extraordinary pleasure.

Mrs. TALBOT I knew well; and many names mentioned in the Memoir I recollect with peculiar interest. I assisted Mr. Cadogan at Reading and Chelsea for some years; lived in his house at Reading, with him and Mrs. Cadogan; and saw much of Mrs. Talbot. I thought, therefore, that the following short account of Mrs. T- would gratify many of your readers. I had the account from my most beloved friend, the late Rev. John Eyre; and some persons mentioned in it, are now living at Reading.

When Mrs. T- was returned to Reading, after Mr. Talbot's death, and finding her circumstances so narrow, that she could not retain even onc servant, nor knew how to live herself, she called one maid (now Mrs. Bayley, or Baylis,) into her room, and told her they must part, since she knew not how to live herself." No;" replied the beloved maid, "I will never leave you; nor shall you want a servant, or any thing else while I live. I will maintain you with my own hands, and wait on you while you live." When they were both recovered from a profusion of tears, Mrs. Talbot desired the maid to send Joseph, the man-servant, to her; to whom she rehearsed nearly the same words, telling him they must part, for the reason assigned to the maid. Joseph, with eyes full of tears, replied," No, Madam, I will never leave you; nor shall you want a servant while I live; nor shall you want while I can labour. I can maintain you well enough and myself by my labour." When this trying scene was sometime ended, Mrs. Taibot called the other servant, and told her the reasons why she must discharge her. With her answer I will not trouble the reader.

Mr. Cadogan hearing of Joseph's and the good maid's conduct towards Mrs. T-, promoted him to the clerk's place soon after this, it being vacant. I believe it might be about 201. per annum. A matrimonial connexion soon took place between Joseph and this excellent young woman; and from it sprang a fine boy, whom the writer knew well when a child, and who is now a clergyman, and serves two churches, or did serve them some years ago, near Oxford. A relation of Mrs. Talbot, hearing of her embarrassed circumstances, and being a person of ample fortune, settled a very handsome annuity on her for life. Joseph Baylis and his wife lived with her the remaining part of her life; and he became, I believe, parish clerk as well as the former; by which a very decent income was settled on a most worthy

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Mrs. T-sent daily from her table, and, I believe, in ge

neral, before she helped herself, to the sick and poor, plates of meat, from two to perhaps six or eight at times. This was done with so much meekness, and so free from all ostentation, that the writer, who often ate her bread, has been overwhelmed with her spirit and her bounty.

Mr. Cadogan and Mrs. T-- seemed to strive who should do most for the poor of the flock; and let me indulge my soul in saying, that their love and kindness were directed to Christ's sheep, whether called churchmen or dissenters. The dissenters frequented his Church on his lecture evenings; and he and Mrs. Talbot lived in Christian union with them. Mr. Meech and his excellent lady were among Mr. C--'s most intimate friends. Oh, how Mr. Cadogan, Mrs. Talbot, and Mr. Meech, would have hailed the Bible Society and the Missionary Societies, had they lived to have seen these, and to have read of what God is doing by them in the world!--They would have rejoiced to have seen how these Societies have drawn pious churchmen and dissenters close together; and proved that they have one cause at heart; and one Master, Jesus. They would have sent "Velvet Cushion," and its Answers, into darkness, as tending to divide them whom Jesus Christ hath united in one family, and in whom he reigns.

I am, Sir, your affectionate friend in Christ,

A PRESBYTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

St. Edmundsbury.

JUVENILE DEPARTMEMT.

From the Sunday School Repository.

"A circumstance lately occurred in this school, which, as you have frequently requested me to communicate such anecdotes, I am induced to mention. It was very gratifying to Mr. C― and me, as we have always endeavoured to impress on the minds of the children, that acts of love and tenderness are duties all owe to each other, and that our Lord's impressive exhortations to charity applied not merely to such as have money to bestow, but to all who can even give a cup of cold water to his fellow creature in distress.

"A little orphan boy, who had been a considerable time at the Free School, was some time ago thrown destitute on the charity of the town, by the inhumanity of his aunt, who turned him out of doors to seek a friendlier shelter, which he found for several nights with some of his little companions, who took him home with them, till his board was taken from

a decent woman with whom he now resides. From the peculiar circumstance of his case, however, a lively interest was excited in his favour among his little school-fellows; and at the commencement of winter, Mr. C— and I were surprised to hear them propose to raise what they termed a subscription, to buy poor little Edward a pair of shoes; money, however, few of them had; but many of them had tickets acquired by good conduct, one hundred of which entitled them to one shilling at Christmas, and on making their wishes known to us, we readily consented to advance the money for them, to devote to so laudable a purpose. We further told them, that if any boy were disposed to labour in so good a cause, he should receive extra tickets in proportion to his diligence in learning extra tasks. Accordingly a number of them forsook their accustomed sports (no small sacrifice,) to commit to memory portions of the Scripture, and in the course of sixteen or seventeen days, nearly six hundred tickets were raised, with the amount of which they purchased the shoes, and joyfully presented them to their little favourite. This matter was entirely at their own suggestion; one little boy pleaded the orphan's cause among the rest with much simplicity, and several who were also orphans, as ready as he, subscribed the fruits of their diligence, to the amount of three pence or four pence, with the utmost alacrity and good will."

A lady who was employing herself in the benevolent work of collecting subscriptions for the Stroud Bible Association, called at a cottage where a family resided, some of the children of which attended a Sunday School. In the course of conversation with this family, it appeared that the father of the family was in the habit of profane swearing, and that one of the daughters who attended a Sunday School, reproved her father for swearing, in the following manner, sobbing as she spoke, "Father, don't swear, for if the lady who takes care of the Sunday School, should know that you use such words, I am afraid she would turn me out of the School; and do come and hear the minister, for if you hear him, I don't think you would swear any more."

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In a mountainous district in Ireland, a family had been visited with sickness. In their solitude, there was as little help from the world, as intercourse with it. The father died,

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