was of the seed of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.  The Sabbath was still to her the sign of his covenant.  On that day of rest, with her Bible in her hand, she used to wander through the woods, renew her self-dedication, and pour out her prayer for the salvation of her husband and her children.  He who ‘dwelleth not in temples made with hands,’ heard her cry from the wilds of Niagara, and strengthened her with strength in her soul.

“By one of those vicissitudes which checker military life, the regiment was ordered to the island of Antigua in the West Indies.  Here she met with that exquisite enjoyment to which she had been long a stranger—­the communion of kindred spirits in the love of Christ:  and soon did she need all the soothing and support which it is fitted to administer; for in a very short time the husband of her youth, the object of her most devoted affection, her sole earthly stay, was taken from her by death.  The stroke was, indeed, mitigated by the sweet assurance that he slept in Jesus.  But a heart like hers, convulsed by a review of the past and anticipation of the future, would have burst with agony, had she not known how to pour its sorrows into the bosom of her heavenly Father.  Trials which beat sense and reason to the ground, raise up the faith of the Christian, and draw her closer to her God.  O, how divine to have him as the rock of our rest when every earthly reliance is a broken reed.

“Bowing to his mysterious dispensation, and committing herself to his protection as the Father of the fatherless and the Husband of the widow, she returns with her charge to her native land, to contract alliance with penury, and to live by faith for her daily bread.  That same grace under whose teaching she knew how to abound, taught her also how to suffer need.  With a dignity which belongs only to them who have treasure in heaven, she descended to her humble cot, employment, and fare.  But her humility, according to the Scripture, was the forerunner of her advancement.  The light of her virtues shone brightest in her obscurity, and pointed her way to the confidential trust of forming the minds and manners of young females of different ranks in the metropolis of Scotland.  Here, respected by the great and beloved by the good; in sacred intimacy with ’devout and honorable women,’ and the friendship of men who were in truth servants of the most high God, she continued in the successful discharge of her duties till Providence conducted her to our shores.

“She long had a predilection for America, as a land in which, according to her favorite opinion, the church of Christ is signally to flourish.  Here she wished to end her days and leave her children.  And we shall remember with gratitude, that in granting her wish, God cast her lot with ourselves.  Twenty-five years ago she opened in this city a school for the education of young ladies, the benefits of which have been strongly felt, and will be long felt hereafter,