4 LITTLE A1W. [4 sacrifice and work of Him who came into the world to save sinners. We endeavoured to praise Him for past mercies, and to commit all future events into his hands: and then we parted to meet and to converse no more together in the body, until death shall be swallowed up in victory, and the earth shall no more cover her slain. These circumstances would have rendered that journey interesting and important to my mind, had no other events mixed with them. But my interviews with this dying friend were accompanied with several unlooked for and edifying conversations with the pious young stranger whose little history is to be the main subject of my communications. It was in the evening of my arrival at C----- , and not long after I had left the sick room of my friend Mrs. I. when her husband Aspasio thus accosted me, “ There is a sweet little girl at--------, whose parents superintend our poor-house; she lies in dying circumstances. She is a very pious and intelligent child; I think you would like to see her—shall we go 1" It was a well-timed, and I hope, a providential invitation. Providential, if, that the reading of- this little account should hereafter benefit but one child; and well-timed, in that it served to divert my mind from a conflict of feelings, which the sight of an esteemed and departing friend had given rise to, and which at that moment bore too heavy on the heart. On our way to Little Ann’s residence, we passed many people in the streets. Some were carrying branches of holly, and bunches of all the various tribes
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