by a friend, who assisted her father in the education of his daughter-all the prayers were written by her own hand, and all had been composed by herself.

As she advanced in years, her amiable and excellent qualities developed rapidly and progressively, she became the delight, and even the instructress of the aged of her rank, and a model for the young-she took her place in all the religious institutions which had been formed in the last few years, in this city, and manifested not merely a benevolent interest in their success, but a Christian and spiritual attachment to the sacred cause they were intended to advance. During several years preceding her more decided profession of faith in the doctrines of the Gospel, it was easy to discover, on public occasions, by the fixedness of her intelligent countenance, the attitude of her fine form, and the suffusion of her beautiful eyes, that her whole

heart was occupied and engaged with the truths and facts to which she listened with breathless eagerness. Clementine was a member of a committee of twelve ladies, who superintended the Female School of the Lutheran Church; and she not only attended with regularity the classes, but she visited frequently the young persons in their families, that she might be useful both to the aged and the young. She founded a benevolent society, composed of young females of the two Protestant communions; she drew up the plan, and obtained the necessary assistance. This little society had only existed about two years; but in the course of the last year, more than sixty families were relieved by gifts of clothes and linen, the work of the ladies themselves, and by distributions of bread and meat, purchased with the savings of their purse. Clementine was also one of the collectors of the Ladies' Bible Society,

and of the Ladies' Missionary Society; and besides these and other similar occupations, she frequently visited the Hospital for Aged Women, where the Protestants were collected in a room while she read the Scriptures, and the Psalms, and Prayers of the Church to them, and addressed them, with modesty and wisdom, on the subjects that had been presented by their reading, or on those most suitable to their peculiar conditions. and delightful exertions, she was assailed by a pulmonary disease. Towards the close of the year 1826, her health was seriously affected; and from the month of December, till the February of the following year, she was confined to her bed. It was during this season of suffering, that God more particularly manifested to her the beauty and the glory of the Gospel, and prepared her for that further manifestation of his love, to which, in a few short

In the midst of these useful

months, it was her happiness to be admitted. Her habits of respect for religion, contracted in childhood, and manifested in the regular performance of all her relative and social duties, did not satisfy her desires, nor afford tranquillity to her mind. She felt that she must love an infinite object, and that Christ alone could fill the soul in which he had already excited those spiritual appetites which he has promised to supply. Even surrounded as she was by all the enjoyments and illusions of this world, she was only happy as she was conversant with the spiritual and substantial blessings of the kingdom of God. She read and reflected much: dreading on the one hand the pride of reason, and on the other, the impulse of the imagination, she examined with severe application of mind, both her own religious state, and the doctrines that were presented to her faith. Buck's Christian Experience, Scott's Force

of Truth, Gregory's Evidences, Appia's Christian Life, and especially Chalmers' publications, were read with delight; and that they met both her taste and her wants was evident from the numerous extracts that she made of those passages that were more particularly calculated to bring the mind into subjection to the obedience of Christ.

Long after every doubt had been removed as to the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, she complained that she did not feel her heart sufficiently affected by the remedy which the Gospel revealed, and of which she felt, increasingly, her need-at the same time she was convinced that faith is the gift of God, and that no man can call Jesus Christ, Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. In this state of mind, writing to one of her friends, she said

"Every day brings me fresh proof of my own insufficiency, but, ask, and it shall