plenteousness of God's love, and satisfied with large draughts of living water.

I was reading, a few mornings ago, the third of Hebrews, and I resolved in my mind to menion it to you the first time I wrote: it appears to me one of the most expressive paintings of the dreadful nature of an evil heart of unbelief in the whole Bible, and to contain enough to incite us to a continual praying, that that cursed sin may not hinder us from entering into the rest prepared for the people of God.

MY DEAR BRAILSFORD,

WITH regard to our journey, the hand of God, that kind and bountiful hand, which from the first moment of our lives has been showering upon us innumerable benefits, was still over and with us, to guard and to guide. It was well worth being detained a few days in Bristol, to have the roads in the agreeable state which we found them and I think I may learn from henceforward never to murmur at any disappointment, but to believe that every particular circumstance is ordered for some wise and good end. I am happy to inform you, my dear aunt's amendment is answerable to our most sanguine expectations. I hope that breathing this fine air for two or three months, will give her as much health as

her delicate constitution will admit of. My dear uncle is in much the same state as when he left you; friendship interests itself in all the concerns of the beloved object, and makes its cares and pleasures her own; to you, therefore, there needs no apology for treating particularly on the health and affairs of my dearer halves; on the contrary, should I neglect them, you would be disgusted with my ingratitude, and banish me from your esteem.

From the window where I sit, I behold cloudtopt hills and lowly vallies, rural cottages, and pretty chirping birds, which form a pleasing variety to charm the senses, and fill the heart of every susceptible creature with sentiments of love and gratitude to the beneficent Creator. Our parlour commands a view of the sea, and as the wind has been pretty high, I have had an opportunity of observing the awful works of Nature, while the swelling billows, with an angry roar, dash themselves against the submissive sand.

I hope soon to see you in Teignmouth; but should the decree of Providence appoint another lot for you, believe me, I shall ever be tenderly solicitous about your welfare. Your temporal, but especially your spiritual concerns, will ever lie near my heart, and I shall never cease to entreat a merciful and a prayer-hearing God, for the sake of our dear Saviour, to grant you abun

dance of grace, to strengthen you with might by his Spirit in the inner man, and so to lead you here with his counsel, that hereafter he may receive you into those mansions of unfa. ing bliss, which he hath prepared for every true believer.

That the blessings of God may ever attend you, is the constant wish and prayer of your af fectionate friend,

M. LAURENS.

TO MRS. WILSON, NOW MRS. SIMONS.

MY DEAR COUSIN,

I SEND you the book, Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion, which I promised, and which I beg you will accept as a token of my affection. I think it is a most excellent treatise, well calculated to awaken those who are careless about their soul's salvation, and full of heavenly comfort for those who are in trouble of mind, body, or estate; you are very much on my heart and in my thoughts, and my earnest prayer to God for you is, that he may support you in all your trials, and so sanctify them to you, that in the end you may have reason to bless him for what at present seems most bitter and severe, and to say, “It is good for me that I have been

afflicted, for now have I learned thy word." With sincere christian sympathy and friendship, I remain your affectionate

October 22, 1790,

M. L. RAMSAY.

NOTE TO MISS JULIANA HAZLEHURST.

MY DEAR JULIANA,

April, 1811.

WILL you oblige me so far as to lend me the memoirs of Miss Elizabeth Smith. This book is not in the library, which is the cause of your receiving this little note of entreaty from your admirer, and affectionate friend,

M. L.. RAMSMY.

To this an answer was returned, but by mistake addressed to the daughter Martha instead of the mother of the same name, which occasioned the following note.

TO MISS HAZLEHURST.

I SHALL never again be able, my dear Juliana, to reproach my daughter, M. H. L. R. for writing a careless note, and still more careless hand, since her discriminating neighbour has seen no difference between her performance and mine, in either style or penmanship.

From your favourable opinion of Miss Smith's Memoirs, I shall read the book with a prepos.session unfavourable to impartial judgment, so much am I influenced by the opinion of those I esteem and love. I am, dear Juliana, your af fectionate

MARTHA, Senior.

TO MISS HAZLEHURST.

Ir, my dear Juliana, the contents of the annexed note, an acceptance on the part of the Rev. Dr. Kollock, of an invitation to breakfast the next morning, joined to the pleasure your company will give us, have any weight with you, I request you will breakfast with us. Dr. Kollock was the first person who mentioned Elizabeth Smith to us with tender encomium. You have known how to appreciate her merit; and I believe, so sincere has been your admiration of it, that in the most valuable circumstances of her life, you are imitating her example. I hope I shall feel, that you are so obliging to those you love, as she was, by your permitting me to introduce a person on whom maternal care has been so well bestowed, to a gentleman (Dr. Kollock), so capable of valuing female merit. I remain your affectionate

April 9, 1811.

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PATTY.