exhortation, by example, and by many tears, did she study to advance our knowledge of the true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent.

'She had herself experienced the sweetness of unaffected godliness, and was greatly concerned that her children also might "taste and see that the Lord is gracious." A warm-hearted and prudent mother will exert almost unlimited influence over her children, during the first six or eight years of their life; a period of all others when the heart is most susceptible of deep and lasting impressions.

The Divine Author of our frame hath thus in his infinite goodness, furnished a pious mother with efficient means of moulding the tempers of her children, and implanting in their tender minds those principles of piety and virtue, which will excite them to every thing great and excellent in conduct, and prepare them, as immortal beings, for the high destinies of a never-ending existence. She will lead her tender and interesting charge to the feet of the good Shepherd, to fill their glowing bosoms with high admiration of his condescension and grace; by reminding them, that when parents brought their children to Him, whilst he sojourned on earth, he laid his hands on them and blessed them; and that now when he is exalted to the skies, he still promises "to gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom."

Solomon frequently adverts with great tender

ness to the pious counsels of his mother. Timothy appears to have been instructed when a child, by his mother and grandmother, in the knowledge of the scriptures, and it would be difficult to find an instance of children brought up in the fear of God, and the love of the Saviour, while their mother shewed no marked solicitude to cherish a life of piety in her family.

What an incalculable blessing to the churchwhat a glorious prospect of the revival of religion, to behold our young females, amidst all the amiable and useful accomplishments which adorn their sex, engraving the words of Solomon on the frame and temper of their hearts-" Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised."

Few men have attained to high eminence, either in science or religion, who have not expressed deep-felt gratitude for the example, and counsels, and prayers, of an affectionate and pious mother; and in the case of Dr. Waugh, this grateful feeling was strikingly manifested. It were injustice to her memory, not to record most prominently the reverential affection with which he ever spoke of the character of his mother. It was his delight to breathe into the ears of his own children, the story of her piety and kindness. To her he looked back, even at the age of three-score and ten, with all the humility and fondness of a child; and when, nearly forty years after her death, he

heard the summons issued that was to gather him to his fathers, his filial tenderness even then prompted the wish, that his pillow could have been softened by the hand of his mother, and his heart refreshed and strengthened by her prayers. Thus recommending on his death-bed, the performance of that duty to which he ever was so anxious to direct the attention of the young,"Honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee."

The laudable exertions of this excellent parent, in the religious education of her children, were followed by a rich recompence of reward. With a mind constituted like hers, she tasted the sweetest of all pleasures, in beholding her three children give satisfactory evidence of fearing God from their youth.

Elizabeth, her only daughter, experienced in her childhood the fulfilment of God's gracious promise, "They that seek me early shall find me.' She was equal to her mother in tender sensibility, in ardent piety, and in the faithful discharge of every Christian and domestic duty, as a wife, as a mother, and as a friend.

She had a numerous family of children, towards whom her heart yearned with all the kindly affections; but her chief and deepest solicitude was ever occupied about their eternal interests; in her estimation infinitely more important than to see them in possession of thousands of gold and silver.

They were indeed children of many pious counsels and fervent prayers. Her dying chamber was like "the gate of heaven." The affections of her heart seemed to be altogether overpowered, whilst contemplating the unsearchable riches of sovereign grace, and telling the members of her family, and Christian friends who came to visit her, what God had done for her soul.

So long as she was able to express her feelings, the high praises of redeeming love were continually on her lips. On the evening of October 27, 1809, when her articulation had become so indistinct that it was with great difficulty she could make herself to be understood, the last request she made to her family was, to sing the twenty-third psalm. Her lips were perceived to move all the time they were singing, and in about ten minutes after, she breathed her last, without a struggle or groan, and fell peacefully asleep in the arms of her God and Saviour.

Thomas, the eldest son, appears to have been decidedly religious in early life, and after a consistent Christian course, died August 8th, 1820, in the full assurance of faith.

On his death-bed, Dr. Waugh spoke of his mother, and said, 'If I could see my mother at this moment, it would make me leap for joy.' The feelings which the idea of his grand-children had awakened, led him back to his infancy; and a mother's tenderness is the charm of life's early

and liveliest scenes. We have often remarked, in the old and feeble, a tendency to dwell on the idea of a mother's care, the helplessness she cherished is brought to their recollection by infirmities, under which no human aid can strengthen, and the voice of consolation is doubly sweet, when it soothes with a patience, and a skill, and a softness like hers. With what rapture would he meet a mother so revered and loved, amongst the spirits of the just, take up her song, and hear her join him in saying, "Magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name."

LIFE OF DR. A. WAUGH.

EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE

OF

MRS. ISABELLA GRAHAM.

THE life of Mrs. Isabella Graham contains several striking instances of the manner in which God hears and answers the prayers of his people, on behalf of their children, when they are cast in faith upon him.

Mrs. Graham thus writes, in a paper dated New York, Oct. 10th, 1791. I have cast my fatherless children on the Lord, and he has begun to make