was untouched.  As his pains increased, his impatience increased with them.  He demanded with violent cries that a knife might be given him to stab himself, which being refused, he called for a rope, and persisted with such vehemence that his wife and son, wearied out by his constant shrieking, gave him one, with which he put an end to his own existence.  Lamentable as these awful examples of the deceitfulness and depravity of the human heart were, yet they operated more powerfully than many exhortations, in inculcating upon the baptized the solemn warning, “Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall.”

At the same time there wanted not instances of an opposite description, to prove the reality of God’s work, and the power of divine grace, to recall and establish the deluded wanderer, and to preserve the humble believer amid the strongest temptations and the sorest trials; to enable him to maintain a consistent conduct through life, and to seal the sincerity of his faith by a peaceful, if not a triumphant death.  Early in the year, Judith, a full communicant, died.  She had come to Hopedale with her husband, Tuglavina, and always conducted herself with great propriety.  After his death she married Abel in 1801, and with him came to live at Hopedale, 1804.  When the awakening took place she was greatly enlivened; but like many of the old baptized people, who thought themselves converted because they had some knowledge, and a fluent way of expressing themselves on religious subjects, she did not at first shew much of the Divine life in her soul; till by the powerful work of the Holy Ghost she was brought to see and acknowledge herself an unworthy sinner, and no better than those who were just then alarmed and brought from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan to the living God.  Before partaking for the last time of the Lord’s supper, she was much affected.  “I perceive now,” said she, “that I am a great sinner, and am so ashamed that I dare hardly open my lips, for it is clear to me that I am far behind others in love to our Saviour.  It appears as if he and I were yet strangers to each other, and I can do nothing but weep for him.”  Afterwards she became composed, and earnestly longed after communion with God.  In her last illness, however, she showed much uneasiness of mind, as if something disturbed her peaceful expectation of dismissal.  Brother Kohlmeister, who visited her very faithfully, encouraged her to look up to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; and on one occasion, particularly, offered up a most fervent prayer to the Lord that he would remove all her doubts by a full assurance that her sins were forgiven through the merits of his precious blood, during which the poor patient and all present melted into tears, and felt that their prayer was heard and answered.  Then she unbosomed herself to her teachers, and confessed that she had hitherto concealed some deviations which burdened her conscience, and which she must make known before she departed.