The woman who sells molasses candy has been here, but when she leaves she does not carry the confusion with her which she causes....  Deborah requested eight of us larger girls to remain last evening, for the purpose of reproving us.  The cause was the levity and mirthfulness which were displayed on Third day of the week previous.  She compared us to Judas Iscariot, who betrayed his master with a kiss.  She said there were those amongst us who would surely have to suffer deep affliction for not attending to the manifestations of truth within.—­I have been guilty of much levity and nonsensical conversation and have also permitted thoughts to occupy my mind which should have been far distant, but I do not consider myself as having committed any wilful offence.  Perhaps the reason I can not see my own defects is because my heart is hardened.  O, may it become more and more refined until nothing shall remain but perfect purity.

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2nd mo. 11th day.—­First day evening Deborah came down and sat with us.  In a few moments she called for her Bible, and in a short time she read, “Jesus wept;” and then, after a long pause, she said, “There are those present who, if they do not attend to what has been said to them, will have their strings shortened, even as short as this verse.”  This she said after having inquired on what subject Abraham Loire preached in the morning and none of us was able to tell.

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2nd mo. 12th day.—­Deborah came down in the afternoon to examine our writing.  She looked at M.’s and gave her a severe reproof; she then looked at C.’s and said nothing.  I, thinking I had improved very much, offered mine for her to examine.  She took it and pointed out some of the best words as those which were not well written, and then she asked me the rule for dotting an i, and I acknowledged that I did not know.  She then said it was no wonder she had undergone so much distress in mind and body, and that her time had been devoted to us in vain.  This was like an Electrical shock to me.  I rushed upstairs to my room where, without restraint, I could give vent to my tears.  She said the same as that I had been the cause of the great obstruction in the school.  If I am such a vile sinner, I would that I might feel it myself.  Indeed I do consider myself such a bad creature that I can not see any who seems worse.—­And we had a new scholar to witness this scene!

Think of causing all this anguish and humiliation to a young girl because she did not know the rule for dotting an i!