"What is it to cast the care upon God?
Is it to keep the heaviest load?

To lay some trifling weight aside?
Still taking thought for every hour,
As if the Lord's protecting power

Were still unknown, at least untried:

"Is this to cast the care upon God?—

"No! the believer doth not so.
As Shiloh's waters softly go,

He keeps his calm and even way.

No evil tidings doth he fear:
His heart is fixed, his God is near,

His strength is equal to his day."

Dependence upon God, and service for Him, became the frequent aspiration of her soul. She laments not having improved the conversation at a company invited to tea; at another time regrets dismissing the servants after the evening reading, without expressing her concern for their good. She had often asked for ability to minister to their spiritual benefit, and when the ability was given, she shrank from the duty.

A wider field of gospel labour was however opened for her and her dear husband. Asbjórn Kloster from Norway, then a youth, had been for some time a pupil in Robert Doeg's school at

Harraby Hill, with the view of acquiring an English education, to qualify himself as a teacher of Friends' children in his native country. The interest thus excited in the Norwegian friends, and a pressing invitation from this pupil, induced them in the summer of 1854 to visit Stavanger. Their intercourse with the Friends there, many of whom were, though "poor in this world, rich in faith," and simple-minded in their reception of the truth, issued in a drawing of heart on the part of the English visitors, to take up their abode among them. Many obstacles presented themselves, but all were gradually removed: and two years after, in 1856 they left their native land, and settled at STAVANGER in the outskirts of the town, on an elevation called Kleven (the Cliff).

The acquisition of the language was of course one of the first things to attend to: but there were several Norway Friends who had a competent knowledge of English; and with some of them as interpreters, Sarah Ann Doeg soon saw it her place, not only to use her ministerial gift at her new home, but many times to visit the little churches around. Most of these visits involved much exposure to weather in open boats, sitting for hours at times, under the inclemency of wind

and water.

Yet all this she endured with much fortitude, and less suffering at the time than might have been anticipated, at least in the earlier years of her Norwegian life.

In most, if not all the places visited, meetings were held, not with Friends only, but with others also: and there is no doubt that her labours were blessed. Some of those who accompanied her had themselves gifts in the ministry, and the spreading of the Truth prospered. It was an opportune time for such labour. The period from 1850 to 1870 was marked by the largest accession to the members and adherents of the Society of Friends, known in that country :-and they were visited again and again, both from England and America. About the year 1860, there were some 360 who more or less regularly attended meetings, of whom more than one-third were recorded members. Notwithstanding frequent emigrations to America, the Society continued to increase. In Stavanger itself, 100 or upwards assembled every First-day, both in the forenoon and afternoon.

The first three years of Sarah Ann Doeg's residence in Norway, were largely occupied in travelling with her husband from place to place. Their first journey seems to have been across the

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Bukke Fjord northwards, to SóVDE, at the extremity of one of the smaller fjords opening from the main one. Our friend writes 8th mo., 10, 1856, A memorable First-day spent with our dear friends in the country. We left Stavanger about one p.m. on Sixth-day, and were favoured to arrive at Sóvde about six o'clock the next evening, after travelling fifty miles or more in an open boat, (lodging at a house on the way.) Friends are very kind, but very poor; and the best accommodation they can offer is very indifferent. So when our breakfast was finished, we sought a retired place among the rocks for reading, &c., till meeting. Here I felt indeed somewhat like a pelican in the wilderness, or a sparrow alone upon the house top.' A sense of our lonely position, and what brought us here, came vividly before me, causing the tears to flow freely. We had a large gathering of poor people, many I believe of the Lord's poor; to whom He enabled two dear friends and my poor self to minister. The afternoon meeting was about as large as the forenoon, say 100 present. We left directly after meeting, and were favoured to reach Stavanger about seven the following evening with peaceful and thankful feelings. Blessed be Thy name, O Lord, Thou art indeed true to

Thy promise, to help those who call upon Thee."

In the following month they extended their journey to RóLDAL: about eighty miles by land and water. Arriving late in the evening, the descent from the mountain in the dark was somewhat perilous, but they escaped with only a few falls and slight bruises. Seventh-day was occupied with visits to some Friends at their homes. In the evening a pretty large company assembled in one of the houses, and a favoured meeting was held, in which four of the party shared in the service. In the morning of First-day, "we went over the lake (six miles)" says the diary, "to another little colony professing with us. We had a solemn meeting. Precious firstfruits were offered on the Lord's altar, in praise and thanksgiving by our young friend T. S. Here I lost an opportunity of doing something for my Lord, by not pressing through difficulties to hold a public meeting in the afternoon, and felt the more tried by finding, when it was too late, another friend's mind was similarly impressed. We returned to an evening meeting at the other end of the lake: and after the meeting many stayed for religious conversation, so that it was past eleven before we could get to bed. Breakfasted at six o'clock the next morning; and when we were ready for read