ters. Devote the Lord's day to the religious exercises, to public worship, private reflection, reading, and to earnest prayer for yourselves, your family and friends, the nation to which you belong, and the world at large. Pray for that happy time when the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ. Be not fond of visiting on this holy day, but rather of retirement. Every Lord's day thus sanctified, will promote your advantage and comfort in time, and your meetness for the eternal sabbath.

And now, my dear and much loved children, nothing remains but to bid you a last farewell. May the blessing of the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, rest upon you! May he pour plentifully into your hearts the riches of his grace, that you may grow up as the cedars of Lebanon! May you be trees of righteousness, of the Lord's own planting! May you be adorned with every grace of the Holy Spirit, that all around you may see that you belong to Jesus! May your will be sunk in the will of God! May you be sincere penitents, true converts, and sound believers! May you be dead to the world and all things in it, and your life hidden with Christ in God. At length may you finish your course with joy. When dying pangs come upon you, and your soul is about to take its everlasting flight! May you then, rejoicing in the Redeemer's complete atonement, and triumphing over death and his sting, be conducted by angels to the bright realms of eternal day. There I trust to meet you, and the rest of our dear fam

ily, and unite with you in admiring and praising the adorable perfections of our God and Savior. Till that blessed period, adieu.

N. B. It is my earnest desire that each of you should take a copy of this letter and peruse it, at least, once a week.

Your affectionate grand-mother,

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ABIGAIL WATERS.

To the grand-children and great-grandchildren of their affectionate grand-mother, ABIGAIL WATERS.

As this little work was undertaken, in the hope, that it might prove useful, especially to those who were personally acquainted with the venerable subject of it; the writer cannot conclude, without a few remarks, adapted to the different characters, and ages of those into whose hands it may fall.

Professors of religion, may learn from it, that the power, is not always an attendant of the form of godliness. Mrs. Waters was several years a member of the visible church, before she became "a fellow-citizen with the saints and of the household of God." And are there not many, who bear the name, and wear

the livery of Christians, whose conversation and whose lives evince that the world is the idol of their affectionsmany, the whole of whose religion consists in a few external observances, which require little or no sacrifice of a selfish and mercenary spirit-many, who are strangers to that communion with God, and that operative concern for his kingdom and glory, which are the infallible fruits of the love shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost?

Would Mrs. Waters's character as a Christian, between the time of her public profession of religion, and the visit of Mr. Whitfield to Boston, suffer by a comparison with that of multitudes, who have named the name of Christ? She loved a novel better than her Bible; so do they. She preferred the company of the gay and thoughtless to that of the serious and devout; so do they. She could talk with more fluency, and greater satisfaction, upon the fashions and amusements of the season, than upon the things which pertain to the prosperity of Zion; so can they. She thought, or hoped herself, a Christian; though not

among the straitest of the sect; so do they. She afterwards found that she was not, save in name and pretence. A similar discovery would they make, were they to scrutinize the principles and motives of their conduct-were they tobring the state of their hearts, and the tenor of their lives, to the touchstone of divine truth-especially, were, that "word of God, which is quick and powerful, sharper than a two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder, the soul and the spirit, the joints and the mar row," to be set home upon their consciences by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Can real Christians, peruse the preceding pages, without being excited to arise and trim their lamps? She, whose character is faintly delineated in them, was not contented with moderate degrees of excellence. She set her standard high. She was for being not only a believer, but "strong in faith." She wanted not only hope, but "a hope full of immortality." Not satisfied with loving God, she aspired after that “perfect love which casteth out fear." What she aimed at, she attained; to her unspeaka

ble enjoyment, in this world, and to her triumphant exaltation in that, whither she has now gone.

And will you not, Christian reader, be stimulated by her example, to forget the things which are behind, and to reach forth to those which are before? Will you not be fired with an holy ambition, to be a follower of one, who so eminently followed Christ? Especially, when it is considered, that not only your own happiness, here and hereafter; but the glory of God, the honor of religion, and the welfare of your fellow creatures demand it. How many she was instrumental, by her conversation and her prayers, of saving from "the wrath to come," will not be known, until that day, when every one will be rewarded according to his works. The number, however, it is presumed, is not small: for there are living witnesses, who can attest to her faithful, and effectual exertions for their spiritual good.

And are not souls continually perishing around you, in ignorance and sin? Souls, whom you might enlighten in the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus