After saying something to each one present, turning to me, she said: 

“My dear mother, I thank you for your kind care of me, for keeping me from places of dissipation.  I thought once you were too strict, but now I bless you for it.  I shall not be permitted to smooth your dying pillow, but I shall be ready to meet you when you land on the shores of Canaan.  Dear mother, come soon.”

To Mr. H. she said:—­“Dear husband, you were the loadstone that held me longest to the earth, but I have been enabled to give you up at last.  I trust you are a Christian, and we shall meet in heaven.  Take care of our children, train them up for Christ, keep them from the world.”  She then prayed for them.  After lying still for some time, she said: 

“Mother, I thought I was going just, now, and I tried to put up one more prayer for my husband, children, and friends, but (looking up with a smile), would you believe I could not remember their names, and I just said, Here they are, Lord, take them, and make them what thou wouldst have them, and bring them to thy kingdom at last.”

When she was almost cold, and her tongue stiffened, she motioned me to put my head near her.

“My dear child,” said I, “it seems to distress you to talk, don’t try.”

“Oh, mother, let me leave you all the comfort I can, it is you who must still suffer; my sufferings are just over; I am passing over Jordan, but the waves do not touch me; my Savior is with me, and keeps them off.  Never be afraid to go to him.  Farewell!  And now, Lord Jesus, come, O come quickly.  My eyes are fixed on the Savior, and all is peace.  Let me rejoice! let me rejoice!”

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NOTICES OF BOOKS.

“ROGER MILLER,” OR “HEROISM IN HUMBLE LIFE,”—­Is the title of a small “Narrative”—­a reprint from a London Edition, by Carter and Brothers, 235 Broadway, New York.

The field of benevolent action of this holy man, was that great metropolis—­London.  His life and character were in fact a counterpart of our own Harlan Page.  The somewhat extended “Introduction” to this reprint was prepared by Dr. James Alexander.  We feel justified in saying, with his extensive experience, and his keen perceptions of truth and of duty in such matters, this Introduction is worth all the book may cost.

The main thought of the work suggests “The condition of our metropolitan population”—­points out the “true remedy” for existing evils—­shows us the value of “lay agency,” and “how much may be done by individuals of humble rank and least favored circumstances.”

Every parent has a personal interest to aid and encourage such benevolent action.  Vice is contagious.  Let our seaboard towns become flagrantly wicked—­with “railroad speed” the infection will travel far and wide.  Mothers are invited to peruse this little volume—­as an encouragement to labor and pray, and hope for the conversion of wayward wandering sons—­for wicked and profligate youth.