SIR,-Agreeably to a hint given in one of your former numbers, I beg to send you the following copy of a monumental inscription in Charles' Church-yard, Plymouth :

Though in the dust her body lies,

Her soul, in Christ, eternal life enjoys:
Saved from sin, and justified by grace,

Christ was her life, and so her death was peace.
Reader reflect! if out of Christ you die,

Your soul is lost through all eternity.

SUSANNA BURGOINE,

Having known the Lord twenty-four years, fell asleep the 24th of April, 1816. She died triumphing in covenant love, being clothed in the righteousness of Immanuel.

By her side lie the remains of
JOHN BURGOINE,

her husband, who, at the age of 78, was, by the Spirit of God, brought acquainted with the salvation wrought by Jesus Christ; he lived four years after, and died the 12th of February, 1828.

This stone may well be termed a powerful, though silent preacher to every examiner thereof. Very beautiful and solemn is the sermon on it, in which are exhibited, with much force, the doctrinal, experimental, and practical truths of the Gospel. In it are most scripturally preached the absolute necessity and allsufficiency of the regenerating influence of the eternal Spirit, and the complete salvation of the great Redeemer; the sweet and powerful effects of the grace of God manifested in Covenant love through Christ to sinners, imparting to the soul a saving knowledge of the only true God and Jesus Christ, by which is communicated happiness through life, peace in death, and a glorious immortality hereafter. In it is also a very solemn and practical appeal for a serious consideration of these important subjects, by pointing to the awful consequence of being destitute of an interest in Christ, our blessed Saviour. Indeed, so comprehensive is this short sermon that comments on it are unnecessary; only we may briefly remark the striking instance given in it of the Almighty power and sovereign freeness of Divine grace, exemplified in the conversion of one at the eleventh hour; in which act of mercy may be discerned a very encouraging proof that the Lord is not unmindful of his people's prayers, but, though he bear long with them, he will in his own time most assuredly answer them. We may safely infer that this pious woman who had for many years been acquainted with the Lord, and had experienced the blessedness resulting therefrom, was frequent and earnest at the mercy-seat, supplicating for her husband the like precious faith; and it should seem the blessing was not vouchsafed during the period

of her sojourn in the wilderness. However, the Lord did not disregard her petition, but eight years after the dissolution of her earthly tabernacle he graciously accomplished her desire, by imparting to her husband that knowledge which maketh wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

May the record of these two departed Christians (in addition to the great cloud of witnesses wherewith we were already surrounded) prove as a bright example, effectually inciting us to run with patience the gospel race, looking unto Jesus, the Almighty author and finisher of faith. J. M. L.

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER,

Detailing a few particulars relative to the last moments of a most devoted Christian, who entered her rest, October, 1832, after a lingering illness and much suffering.

'I am anxious to give you a correct view, as I think it, of the dealings of the Lord with the now happy and glorified saint in the sufferings of mind she experienced, and the sad darkness which shut out Christ from her view, and made her illness still more painful to endure. She had been always a very happy Christian, and in many ways had been rendered an i nstrument for good to servants and others; was much beloved, much looked up to, and it was a great lesson to be taught what every man is in best estate, when God withdraws his sensible presence, and ceases to supply the oil of joy. M. was constantly saying, "I am nothing, I have nothing, I could not bear the

thought of dying if I knew not that Jesus would cover all my deformity. I know what his love really is now, for I know he will receive me, and loves me still, and I am cold, lifeless, and unwilling to go to him." Often did she say that she could much better bear her bodily sufferings than the oppression of spirit she felt in this awful moment; and when the hour of darkness was past, she thus emphatically expressed herself, "that God had emptied her that she might be filled, and her joy be full." The night of her death she began her song aloud, and talked a night and day nearly incessantly in the following strain :-"I am so happy, you must come and hear of my joy; I never knew happiness before in my life, and it is the truth that makes me happy. Blessed Jesus! dearest Saviour! where art thou now? Oh! so near me, so very near, so present." To her sister she said, "We have walked together, dearest, through much tribulation, and we shall rejoice together in eternity." She then expressed to her Physician her gratitude that God had made her husband willing to resign her. When in pain, and even when wandering from the effects of Laudanum, she constantly remarked, "These sufferings are not light, but they lead to the weight of glory; weight of glory, that blessed place!" She told her children, "she was going to Jesus, and trusted they would be with him too!" Then asking for them a second time, she immediately checked herself, "No, no, those precious little things have kept me too long from Jesus, and he is with me now." In her delirium she often repeated, "Oh! that sweet little head keeps me from seeing Jesus." This was part of her sorrow and reproach, that she had found it so hard to give up the children.

Her talent for education was certainly great, possessing such excellent sense, and invariable temper in the management of them. Her dear little boy most minutely remembers every thing she told him to do, and his grief at her loss was very affecting; not like a child's, he could not cry, but moped about the house, and with difficulty opened his mind to his aunt. The Sunday after his mother's death, when no one went to Church, he had been reading with his aunt, and then spent a long time in prayer by himself; at last he said, he had been so disappointed, that he expected God would have heard his prayer for his mamma, so he had not even believed her, when she told him she was going to Jesus, for she could not know what God meant to do. It seems that in his long prayer he had been trying to quiet his mind, for he came to the conclusion that God had a mercy to his mamma in taking her, and that though he heard all our prayers, he only gave us what was good for us. Surely this was wisdom from the mouth of a babe in years!

'I accompanied that inexpressibly saddening solemnity, which shuts the last remnant of comfort out, and saw the poor husband throw the earth over the coffin of her who had then joined her heavenly Bridegroom, and entered into the marriage feast of the spiritual Canaan. When I looked at the sorrowing yet patiently resigned husband and sister, that sweet text was often before me," As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted." It has been, indeed, a season of heavy trial and of deep sorrow, but how delightful to mark the strength just apportioned to the needy, and to hear the poor mourners acknowledge that consolation and support have