may I have grace to be faithful in instructing these children in such a
way as shall be pleasing to my heavenly Father."

Such being the principles by which she was actuated in commencing the
work of instruction, we cannot doubt that her efforts _to be useful_
were blessed not only by the temporal, but the spiritual advancement of
her pupils, some of whom may appear, with children from distant Burmah,
as crowns of her rejoicing in the last great day.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: She thus describes more particularly the exercises of her
mind, in an entry in her Journal a year later.

"July 6. It is just a year this day since I entertained a hope in
Christ. About this time in the evening, when reflecting on the words of
the lepers, '_If we enter into the city, then the famine is in the city
and we shall die there, and if we sit still here we die also,_'--I felt
that if I returned to the world, I should surely perish; if I stayed
where I then was I should perish; and I could but perish if I threw
myself on the mercy of Christ. Then came light, and relief, and comfort,
such as I never knew before."]




CHAPTER II.

HER MARRIAGE, AND VOYAGE TO INDIA.