OF THE Rev. Claudius Buchanan. By the author of Pierre and his Family. Revised by the Committee of Publication. KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD Philadelphia: No. 146 Chesnut Street. MEMOIRS OF THE REV. CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN. HAVING seen, in our former little work,* something of the beauty and excellence of true religion, as it operates in forming the female character to all that is lovely, benevolent, and amiable; we now purpose to exhibit to our dear young readers, the worth and grandeur of true religion, when operating not on the heart and affections of those only who may be supposed more disposed to feel, than to reason on the subject; but also on the heart, and on the highest powers of intellectual man; leading him to devote himself, with all his strength of mind-with soul, body, and spirit, to the service of God, his * Select Biography; or Memoirs of Pious Females, inscribed to Sabbath School Girls. 17662 4086 RECAP) Maker, and, by the blessing of the Almighty upon his exertions, benefiting, not one dear individual only; not one little family, nor one little neighbourhood alone-no, nor even one great and populous city; but traversing the earth, and leaving behind him, at every step, a track of heavenly light; putting into operation means that shall, eventually, bring salvation to "nations and to people," to the inhabitants of islands, and of continents, and creating for himself, though unwittingly, a name that shall last for many ages, and a memorial that shall be dear to many generations. If you ask, by what power these great things have been done, or can be done, our answer is, by the power of the grace of God. As, in the commencement of each of our little narratives already alluded to, we have had occasion to say, that this one, or that one, was born-so, of all here, must we say that, before being converted by the word and Spirit of God, they were, as all men are by nature, born sinners, and therefore utterly incapable of proposing to themselves, any |