was simple and earnest, zealous without passion, and often particularized in the devotions of the family the special cases of its individual members.  Her’s was the cry of a child to its father, the appeal for help, that felt confident of success.  Her prayers, which were offered continually, day and night, might truly be said to be mighty; and her children, even when distant from her, have often felt conscious that her intercessions were going up on their behalf.  But they were urged for many,—­for all; and in particular for the prosperity of Zion, and the ministers of divine truth.  The Rev. John Hartley writes, “I feel that in your mother’s removal I suffer loss.  I have seldom been more affected than when she told me, on the last occasion of my seeing her, that not a day passed without her pleading with God for me.  Who am I, I thought, that this saint of God should thus remember me in her prayers?” Her zeal in the cause of God was constant, patient and persevering; not as we sometimes see, now bursting into a furious blaze, and then dying away; it burnt with a bright and steady flame,—­being fed by the secret supplies she obtained through constant communion with God.  Although ready for every good work, and glad to take her share in the mere machinery of the Christian church, her chief aim was the salvation of souls.  This she never lost sight of, and generally, when collecting for Missions or other benevolent objects, availed herself of the opportunity of warning, exhortation, or prayer.  One who frequently accompanied her on such excursions says, “We called at every house in the district.  Some of the people were exceedingly poor.  At one door I said, ‘Mrs. Lyth, you will not beg here.’  Her reply was, ’It is my duty to ask them, if they give us but a penny, it will not lose its reward.’  In another case the people were Roman Catholics; she at once exhorted them to come direct to Christ, and not allow the priest to come betwixt them and the Savior.  In a third, where a member of the family was sick, we went in, and Mrs. Lyth prayed.”  Another writes, “I first became acquainted with her about 1823, and have always found her the same consistent character.  She assisted me in the formation of my class in Acomb.  Her visits to us were always welcome and profitable.  Her eye was single.  She had light in her own soul, and it shone in every society in which she was cast.  Many a round we have had together among the villagers, to beseech them to be reconciled to God.  In this work she went, perhaps, even beyond her strength, that sinners might be brought into the fold of Christ.  She rejoiced to lend a helping-hand to the seeking soul; warning the unruly, comforting the feeble-minded, and encouraging believers to seek after a full devotion of heart and life to the service of Christ.  Her faithfulness in the administration of reproof was exemplary; and though naturally of a retiring disposition, in the defence of truth and the cause of her Master she became bold and fearless.”  Her ready