22 LITTLE ANN. [22 Christian’s history as has hitherto been laid before you, until an opportunity offers for sending you a further account. Meanwhile, I remain, Tour’s truly, LETTER III. My Dear Friend.—In my first letter I mentioned, in a general way, that our young disciple had been, then admitted to the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.' I will now turn back, to that part of her history, and enter a little into particulars. Ann was then in the last year of her earthly pilgrimage—young, indeed, in months and days, as we compute time, but far advanced in the divine life; and, when compared to many a hoary-headed grandsire, she was old in grace, and much established in the faith. The Lord had hastened his work in her soul, because he intended soon to complete, and to cut it short in righteousness. She had long known what repentance for sin meant. She had a clear understanding of the Gospel plan of salvation. She could and did receive the divinely consecrated emblems with understanding, with sincerity, and with truth. She did not presume to advance to the Lord’s table, trusting in her own righteousness, but in God’s manifold mercies in Christ Jesus. She felt herself unworthy so much as to gather up the crumbs from under his table. But then she knew that He was that same God whose property is always to have mercy and to forgive. It was not a
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