DEATH OF HER DAUGHTER--FIRST MISSIONARY
SOCIETY IN NEW YORK.

Marriage of Mrs. Bethune--Death of Mrs. Stevenson--Strong
consolation--Singular receipts and liberality--Devotional
exercises--Anniversary of her daughter's birth and death--
First Missionary Society in New York--Reflections--
Acquaintance with Mrs. C---- near Boston--Letter and
devotional exercises--1795-1797, ............................. 115


CHAPTER VI.

FORMATION OF THE WIDOWS' SOCIETY--
CLOSE OF HER SCHOOL.

Rise of the Widows' Society--First monthly missionary
prayer-meeting--Letter to a young man on joining the
church--The Essay on Man--Marriage of Mrs. Smith--Close
of her school--Labors for widows and the poor--Letters to
Mrs. C.--The yellow-fever--Death of Washington--Devotional
exercises--1797-1800, ........................................ 144


CHAPTER VII.

BENEVOLENT LABORS--MRS. HOFFMAN--
CORRESPONDENCE.

Schools and labors connected with the Widows' Society--Her