granted, when I have seemed to behold with my own eye, and to feel for myself in moments too precious to be forgotten, the waves of tumult hushed into a, more than earthly calm by Him who alone can say, “Peace, be still.”  My tossing spirit has never found such a calm in any thing this world can give.

During her first attendance of the Yearly Meeting in London, in 1841, she wrote the following affectionate lines in a letter to her sisters at home:—­

  LONDON THOUGHTS.

The crowds that past me ceaseless rush
Stay not to glance at me,
As falling waters headlong gush
Into their native sea.

But hearts there are that brightly burn,
And light each kindling eye,
And home to them my thoughts return,
Swift as the sunbeams fly.

* * * * *

To home, to home my spirit hastes;
For why? my treasure’s there;
’Tis there her native joys she tastes,
And breathes her native air.

Oh, sweetest of all precious things,
When this wide world we roam,
When meets us on its balmy wings
A messenger from home!

  From home, where hearts are warm and true,
    And love’s lamp brightly burns,
  And sparkles Hermon’s pearly dew
    On childhood’s crystal urns.

  Oh, sweet to mark the speaking lines
    Traced by a sister’s hand,
  And feel the love that firmly twines
    Around our household band!

To one of her sisters:—­

  LONDON, 6th Month, 1841.

* * * * I lay still half hour, and read over thy tenderly interesting and affecting sheet, and poured out my full heart; but what can I say?  How I do long to be with you, and see, if it might be, once more, our beloved uncle!  But perhaps before this the conflict may be over, the victory won, the everlasting city gained, none of whose inhabitants can say, “I am sick.”  And if so, dare we murmur or wish to recall the loved one from that home?  Oh for that childlike and humble submission which is befitting the children of a Father of mercies, and the followers of Him who can and will do all things well!

After the Yearly Meeting, she thus writes in her Journal:—­

6th Mo. 12th.  Many and great have been the favors dispensed within the last five weeks.  The attendance of the Yearly Meeting has been the occasion of many and solemn warnings and advices, and, I trust, the reception of some real instruction.  But, truly, I have found that in every situation, the great enemy can lay his snares; and if one more than another has taken with me, it has been to lead me to look outward for teaching, and to depend too much upon it, neglecting that one inward adoration for the want of which no outward ministry can atone.  But I hope the enemy has not gained more than limited advantages of this kind, and perhaps even the discovery of these has had the effect of making me more distrustful