XXTT1E ANH." LETTER L My dear friend, I wild now endeavour to comply with your request, ill transmitting some account of the little girl I named to you on my return from C--------. Convinced how much you enter into the spiritual welfare of the poor children of your hamlet, and how much you desire to edify and lead on their young minds to the best of subjects, I shall, here and there, endeavour to unite with you in this good work and labour of love, by dropping a few hints, and making a few reflections, as I proceed with the story of Little Ann. You were too much interested with my esteemed and invalid friend, the late Mrs. I. to have forgotten her, although your acquaintance was as short as that of a wayfaring man, who calls and tarries but a night. To that friend the last solemn hour of life was fast approaching. On her struggling spirit all the realities of an eternal world were about to open, when I setoff from home, if, peradventure, I might once more enjoy communion with her; if so be I might hear her once more expatiate on the theme of redeeming love, before she went that way whence she would no more return. That privilege was granted—we did once more discourse on the attributes, the compassion, the merits.
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