sharers in that rest which remaineth for the people of God.

But I must needs rehearse somewhat to my beloved sister, of the things which, by Divine appointment, have befallen me since the present eventful year began. After my removal into this, my Patmos, with my dear afflicted wife, the next painful part of my concern was to attend with anxious solicitude to the declining state of my beloved daughter, Mrs. Bell, until it pleased the Lord gently to gather her, by death, as a ripe, full blown lily, and transplant her into the celestial Paradise above. This was on the twenty-seventh day of January last. Her end was truly blessed; and in reviewing this trying dispensation, and all the circumstances of it, I can from my heart testify, that I would not have the least change or alteration in this all-wise, gracious, and holy dispensation, for all the riches and glory of this poor world.

Such was the debilitated state of my dear wife, that she was, at the period of Mrs. Bell's death, unable for some days to see her, though under the same roof. But two days afterwards, Mr. Bell and myself assisted her down stairs, and led her to the side of the coffin, where she steadfastly looked awhile, then lifted up her hands, and said, with a calm composure of spirit, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.' She was then helped back again, and never left her

apartment afterwards. In this gradually declining state my dear partner continued until the fourteenth day of June, when she gently breathed her last, took a final leave of this mortal state, with all its concomitants, bid an everlasting farewell to all sin and sorrow, and entered into the joy of her Lord. This, this is my strong consolation under that bereaving dispensation.

During this long affliction of ten months' duration, the dear sufferer was favoured with frequent gracious visitations, and indulged with a remarkable degree of patience, quietude, and resignation to the will of God, so that it was a source of melting comfort to my heart, to see the serenity and tranquillity of her spirit while constantly attending upon her.

I sincerely hope this sheet will find my sister 'Bethiah' in a good degree of health, while every expiring day brings you nearer to your Heavenly Father's house above. Here we are surrounded with manifold tribulations, arising from manifold causes; but Oh! what a blessed prospect now lies before us! Yet a little while and every storm will subside, every enemy will be as still as a stone, and, together with every sin and sorrow, will be cast into the depths of the sea, even that boundless sea of God's everlasting love, whose first grand source flowed forth in the purpose and counsels of Jehovah, and in the fulness of time was, by the overflowing fountain of Immanuel's

blood, filled to its utmost bounds and unfathomable depths.

The prophet Ezekiel, in his forty-seventh Chapter, was favoured with a vision of those astonishing waters, which issued out from under the threshold of the house, and they came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar; and he was thrice brought through them, to the ancles, to the knees, and to the loins; then this wonderful overflowing water so increased that he could not pass over it, for it was boundless in length, breadth, and depth. The same holy waters John saw in his vision, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb, and the same tree of life, with its rich fruits and healing leaves, when he was closing up the canon of the Scriptures. And we, my sister, have in our measure experienced something of the same blessed effects of what they saw and felt, and hope, ere long, to enter into the full enjoyment of the whole blessedness thereof. The glorious resurrection morning will succeed the valley of the shadow of death, and then body and soul re-united shall enter into the full fruition of that rest, peace, and joy, held forth in those sublime visions, and which is reserved and laid up for all them that are looking for and hastening to the great and grand appearing of the Son of God.

I am now residing in comfortable apartments under the roof of my near kinsman, Mr. John Bell, whose

kindness to me is wonderful indeed; and what renders him so much the more valuable to me, is the grace of God with which he is eminently endowed; so that in him I have found both an affectionate fellow-pilgrim, a kind son-in-law, and a profitable companion. This, you will acknowledge, is no small mercy to me, in the seventy-third year of my age;and thus the Lord God of Israel hath made good to me his most gracious promise,-'And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry and will deliver you.'-Isaiah, xlvi. 4.

If I obtain the favour of another epistle from you, I will endeavour to acknowledge it with more promptitude.

In the inviolable bond of all perfectness,

I remain affectionately your's.
JOHN KEYT,

From Mr. Keyt to Mrs. Fradgly.

London, March 29th, 1832.

MY BELOVED SISTER IN THE FAITH AND HOPE OF THE GOSPEL, AND FELLOW PILGRIM IN THE PATH OF TRIB

ULATION.

On the 18th instant I received your tender and affectionate epistle, dated the 10th of February, and felt my heart thankful to the Almighty for his merciful kindness towards his bruised reed,' and that he still continues to hold your soul in life, and your heart in hope, in the midst of all the changing scenes of this mortal state, the mutability of all creatures, and the uncertainty of all earthly enjoyments.

Blessed is that divinely instructed man and woman, whose hope the Lord is, and whose sole dependence is fixed upon the mighty God of Jacob; for they shall be as trees planted by the waters, whose roots shall be nourished and fructified by the living streams of the river of God's pleasure; and being thus watered every moment, their leaf shall abide green and ver