10 LITTLE ANN. [10 which is shed for many, for the remission of sins ; Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.” Some time ago she had many doubts, and fears, and buffetings of Satan, to contend with ; but when I saw her, she was strong in faith, and seemed only to look and long for the coining of her Lord. There were many circumstances which made it desirable, as well as necessary, for me to hasten back to the people and children of my charge, yet I could not but feel a difficulty in tearing myself away from this interesting child, just as we had begun to be acquainted, and to feel interested and edified in each other’s society. I could have wished to have seen her tranquil spirit go down into the valley of the shadow of death—to have been permitted to direct its last attentions to the Lamb of God, and to have watched its last and successful effort to escape from its prison of clay, and to wing its flight into the bosom of its Saviour and its God; but duty called another way, and I was obliged to take the last look, and to pronounce the last farewell. Short as our acquaintance had been, it was found sufficiently long to call forth the tear of affectionate sorrow at the moment of separation.! thanked the Lord, that I had seen her—that I had witnessed the power of divine grace in her soul—that! had been permitted to converse and to pray with her—1, it is true, was about to go my way, but Aspasio, her dearest Christian friend, yet remained with her—and that circumstance tranquilized my mind. As I turned from her couch and lifted up the latch of the door, I said to myself “ Farewell, my younger sister, farewell, until we meet in an undying world, and hail each other in a kingdom “ Unstain’d by wo, unchang’d by years, “ Unlike this gloomy vale of tears.” In the full assurance that she would soon be beyond the reach of every pain and conflict, I felt all that is
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