circumstance to her father and mother; and by their benevolence, joined to that of some other branches of their family, the latter days of the good clergyman's life rolled on in comparative ease. To the same clergyman, she regularly sent at Christmas several dozen of Bibles, to be distributed among his poor hearers.

But nothing proves more convincingly the power of religion on Mrs. Campbell, than her deep selfdenial and humility in a course of close walking with God; and her habitual serenity, tranquillity, and cheerfulness, if not triumph, in near views of death, continually and long presented to her mind; though she was sometimes assaulted by doubts and fears, arising from enlarged views of the evil of sin, and a penetrating sense of personal unworthiness, on the one hand, and the remains of unbelief on the other.

By very violent rheumatic complaints she was deprived of the use of her back, and of one of her sides; and for the last six years of her life she lost the use of her limbs also. Under these afflictions, however, her patience, her complacence, her happiness in contemplating that of others, and, while she herself was enduring bodily anguish, the delight which she felt in relieving the wants and distresses of her fellow-creatures, never abated. The little rest which, during the severity of her trouble, she received, was towards the hours of three or four in the morning. Her posture, which even during the moments of repose, was obliged to be almost erect, was often attended with most excruciating pain. Though she endured the greatest agony while the servants placed her in her chair, which was visible in violent perspiration on her face, she would, when wheeled into her drawing-room to meet some young friends who frequently called to see her, preserve such serenity and cheerfulness, as gave her face the appearance rather of an inhabitant of the other world. In her desire to impress favourable notions

of religion on her young friends, she forgot her own sufferings; and lest they should suppose that religion produced in her the effects of moroseness, she preserved an aspect of calm serenity, which the power of grace over her heart could alone communicate. Her conduct, in this respect, was such as to command the wonder and admiration of all. When asked, why she endeavoured to preserve such composure, and even cheerfulness, under such an accumulation of bodily distress, especially in the presence of the young? she said, "That she thought the best way in which she could recommend their Saviour to her young friends, was to shew them that his religion was not of a gloomy cast; that experience of the truth of it, and of the blessings which it held out, was calculated to support us under the heaviest earthly trials." When in the company of her Christian acquaintance, such was the modesty and diffidence of Mrs. Campbell, that she was more frequently a silent hearer, than an active partner in the discourse.

Let it not, however, be supposed that Mrs. C. was a silent Christian. She took daily opportunities of recommending Christ to all about her, and, in the tenor of her life, proved by her own conduct the truths she spoke. She was not one of those talkers about religion, who have Christ continually in their mouths, but want him in their hearts; but one who preached him in her works, and who shewed forth the truth of his religion in every act of her life. During one particular period of her disorder, she was seldom heard to utter any thing but the following lines:

With an unruffled meekness and profound submission, resigning herself to her all-wise Father, to

her compassionate Redeemer, "strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering, with joyfulness," she possessed her soul to the last. As her departure approached, she became more spiritual in her affections, and more detached from the world. At length, though she had suffered long and severely, she was liberated from her pains, without feeling the common convulsions and struggles of dissolving nature. She died at Killermont, near Glasgow, December 30, 1799, in the sixty-fourth year of her age.

Mrs. Campbell, of Clathick, may truly be said to have been one of the brightest ornaments of her sex. Very few in our age and country, especially of her rank and fortune, have exhibited such a pattern of excellence as she exhibited. Happy will it be for us, if we "be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises! These are they who have come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them; and shall lead them to living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes!

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MRS. FRANCES CUNNINGHAM.

THE subject of this Memoir was descended from a respectable family in the west of Scotland. She was the daughter of John Stewart Hawthorn, Esq. of Phisgil, in Galloway, and was born on the 27th Feb. 1743. From infancy, she was instructed in the truths and obligations of religion; and in early life was brought under religious impressions, which appear to have been gradually deepened and improved, till she cordially yielded all her powers to the governing influence of the truth. Her education was conducted at home. The earliest papers of her writing are dated in 1760: they contain only the subjects of the lectures and sermons which she heard at church. Sometime after this, she began to keep a common-place book, which is chiefly occupied with remarkable facts and anecdotes, extracted from ecclesiastical historians. The first part of her diary is dated in 1765 or 6; and the manner in which it is written, furnishes abundant evidence that before this period she had devoted herself with earnestness to the cultivation of personal religion, and that she felt it to be of all things the most important, to obtain evidence of an interest in her Redeemer. In the close of the year 1766, she came to Edinburgh, where she remained till the autumn of the following year. During this period, the one object of her pursuit appears to have been, the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, She sought after religious instruction with the earnestness and constancy of a student devoted to the acquisition of the knowledge necessary for his chosen profession; and resorted to the ordinances of religion with the avidity of the votaries of pleasure in the pursuit of fashionable amusements. During

her stay in Edinburgh, scarcely a day in the week passed in which she did not attend the public ordinances of religion. Her papers at this period, consisting chiefly of an account of the sermons she heard, place the state of her mind in an interesting light. They every where manifest a sacred veneration for the word of God, a deep and often oppressive sense of sin, an earnest longing for the consolations of the Gospel, and a grateful admiration of the love of God in Christ. It may be proper to preface these, and the other extracts, with remarking, that as the writer was not a literary character, and had manifestly no expectation that her papers would meet any other eye than her own, she expresses herself in the simplest manner, and often writes in a very unfinished and careless style. We have, however, used no other freedom than that of sometimes changing an obsolete for a more modern expression, and occasionally transposing or inserting a word or two, in order to improve the form of a sentence. This liberty has been but seldom used, and has never been suffered to affect, in the least degree, the meaning or sentiments of the writer.

"Wed. Dec. 17, 1766. Mr. Plenderleith preached from Rom. xv. 4. • Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning; that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope.' He earnestly exhorted us to study the Scriptures, to be often comparing one passage with another, and to look up to God in prayer to reveal his word to us. He spoke much of the vanity of all other learning in comparison of the learning to be found in the word of God. entreated young people to make a duty of reading their Bibles: it could never be a detriment to any of their other studies; and nothing could equal the comfort to be found in a well-spent life. Alas! this went with pain to my heart, when I considered how ill I had spent my youth. He made a pretty remark,

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