At a quarter past twelve o’clock, being the morning of the 27th of July, 1814, her spirit gently winged its flight from a mansion of clay to the realms of glory, while around the precious remnant of earth her family and friends stood weeping, yet elevated by the scene they were witnessing.  After a silence of many minutes, they kneeled by her bed, adored the goodness and the grace of God towards his departed child, and implored the divine blessing on both the branches of her family, as well as on all the Israel of God.

Thus she departed in peace, not trusting in her wisdom or virtue, like the philosophers of Greece and Rome; not even like Addison, calling on the profligate to see a good man die; but like Howard, afraid that her good works might have a wrong place in the estimate of her hope, her chief glory was that of “a sinner saved by grace."*

This was Howard’s epitaph, dictated by himself.

After such examples, who will dare to charge the doctrines of the cross of Christ with licentiousness?  Here are two instances of persons, to whose good works the world have cheerfully borne testimony, who lived and died in the profession of these doctrines.  It was faith that first purified their hearts, and so the stream of action from these fountains became pure also.  Had not Christ died and risen again, all the powers of man could never have produced such lives of benevolence, nor a death so full of contrition, yet so embalmed with hope.  Hallelujah, “unto Him who loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father:  to him be glory and dominion, for ever and ever.  Amen.”

At the next weekly prayer-meeting which she had usually attended, the circumstances of her death were made subjects of improvement.  On the 16th of July she was a worshipper with her brethren and sisters there, and on the evening of the 30th they were called to consider her by faith as in the immediate presence of her God, among “the spirits of the just made perfect.”  The services of that evening were closed with the following hymn from Dobell’s collection, which is beautifully descriptive of her happy change: 

“’Tis finished! the conflict is past,
The heaven-born spirit is fled;
Her wish is accomplished at last,
And now she’s entombed with the dead.

The months of affliction are o’er,
The days and the nights of distress,
We see her in anguish no more—­
She’s gained her happy release.

No sickness, or sorrow, or pain,
Shall ever disquiet her now;
For death to her spirit was gain,
Since Christ was her life when below.

Her soul has now taken its flight
To mansions of glory above,
To mingle with angels of light,
And dwell in the kingdom of love.

The victory now is obtained;
She’s gone her dear Saviour to see;
Her wishes she fully has gained—­
She’s now where she longed to be.