as to whether the world, or Christ, were the better master. Deliberately
she examined and proved the truth, and with equal deliberation she came
to the decision--a decision most remarkable in a girl so young, and so
dangerously situated.

Her own review of this period of her life, written thirty years later,
sums up the matter more forcibly and calmly than any utterance of a
biographer can do. She wrote:--

Here ended this important and interesting visit to London, where I
learned much, and had much to digest. I saw and entered many
scenes of gaiety, many of our first public places, attended balls
and other places of amusement. I saw many interesting characters in
the world, some of considerable eminence in that day. I was also
cast among the great variety of persons of different descriptions.
I had the high advantage of attending several most interesting
meetings of William Savery, and having at times his company and
that of a few other friends. It was like the casting die of my
life, however. I believe it was in the ordering of Providence for
me, and that the lessons then learnt are to this day valuable to
me. I consider one of the important results was the conviction of
those things being wrong, from seeing them and feeling their
effects. I wholly gave up, on my own ground, attending all public
places of amusement. I saw they tended to promote evil; therefore,
even if I could attend them without being hurt myself, I felt in
entering them I lent my aid to promote that which I was sure, from
what I saw, hurt others, led them from the paths of rectitude, and
brought them into much sin. I felt the vanity and folly of what are
called the pleasures of this life, of which the tendency is not to
satisfy, but eventually to enervate and injure the mind. Those only