nexion Chapel, Lindley. Mary Ann became a teacher in the Sunday-school, as well as an attendant of the chapel. She delighted in blessing others, whilst she was seeking good for her own soul. While sitting under our ministry in Zion Chapel, Lindley, she was given to experience the truth of those words-so simple in their demand, so glorious in their result" Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved." This joyful event took place under a sermon of the Rev. J. Wynne's, during the year 1839. She was now "added to the Church," and henceforth lived to "adorn the doctrine of God her Saviour in all things." In the Church she found many helps to her faith, her hope, her joy. Her love to class-meetings was peculiarly strong. She had found them profitable to her soul. In her attendance she was remarkably regular; seldom was she absent. Her experience, as given in the class-meeting, had always a freshness and heartiness that rendered it interesting and profitable. thought to be pledges of her triumph over disease, and promises of a long, bright, and beneficent existence on earth. Hopes were entertained of her recovery almost to the last. This, with a desire to avoid occasions of excitement, induced her friends, who watched by her bedside, to abstain from conversations which they otherwise would have held. We are not, however, without testimonies from her own lips, that she enjoyed the forgiveness of her sins. The writer of this brief memoir often visited her during her last illness, and always found her reposing with joy and hope in the Lord Jesus. To her mother, she once said, "Mother, I shall perhaps die." And on her mother expressing a hope that by the means they were using she might be restored, "Oh," she observed, "vain is the help of man; but we are all in the Lord's hands. We need the aid of him who is the Physician of souls." The greater part of the last week of her illness she was insensible; and even in this state she occasionally gave utterance to pious feelings, and once, or more, sang with remarkable distinctness and loudness, the words, "Sweet Jesus on Calvary, who died for me!" "I believe in Jesus-he died for me. I had thought," she said, "mother, that I should be sitting with you before now." And when her mother replied, She carried the savour of the means with her to her home, and wherever she went. The sermons that she heard in the sanctuary on the Lord's day she would retain in her memory all the week, and with them she would revive, invigorate, and stimulate her piety from time to time. No sermon passed from her memory until her soul had exhausted its nutri-"that she hoped she would be ment. In the latter end of September, 1850, commenced the illness through which we lost her. It was not thought that it would be a sickness unto death. Her youth, her fulness of life, her cheerfulness of spirit, were soon," "Yes," she said, "With Jesus in heavenly places." So it was; she died soon after-being absent from the body she was present with the Lord. She died on Monday, October the 21st, in the 26th year of her age. J. ORME. Queries and Answers.-1, On the 3, On the State of Man as Com- crease its Sale to Twenty Thou- Queries and Answers.-1, On the in the World before Man Sinned. An Example Worthy of Imitation. Another Effort for the JUVENILE Sale to Twenty Thousand THE EDITOR'S DESK-(continued.) PAGE. Shortened for the Elect's Sake. (Matt. xxiv. 22.) 2, On the Change of the Sabbath from the Seventh to the First Day of the Week. 3, The Millennium. 4, Other Queries Ditto. 1, On the Gift of Tongues. 2, On Christ Surrendering the Kingdom to the Father. (I Cor. xv. 24-28.) Twenty Thousand Juveniles for the Coming Year.... Queries and Answers. 1, On Christ being Loosed from the Pains of Death. (Acts ii. 24.) 2, On "God is not the God of the Dead but of the Living." (Matthew xxii. 32.) 3, On the Eternal State of Judas. 4, On Jepthah's Vow. (Judges xi. 30, 247 272 300 BIOGRAPHY. 323 324 324 |