trusted in, not for her high, noble birth, but great Christian excellence, and who most deserves mention in this Memoir, because of her influence over the heart and life of the young Joanna, was the Right Honorable Wilielma, wife of Lord Viscount Glenorchy, only son of the third earl of Breadalbane, a nobleman of immense wealth and equal distinction. This lady is named here with her aristocratic titles because she was one of the noblest among the few noble whom the Lord of all honor has called to glorious rank among the highest in the kingdom of God. This lady, adorned by every accomplishment of mind and person, admired, and beloved, and courted by the highest circles in which she moved, by right of birth, through her intimacy with the family of Sir Rowland Hill, father of the eminent preacher of that name, and, at that time (1764), resident with his family, but especially Miss Hill, his eldest sister, became, at the age of 24, so decidedly an evangelical Christian that she broke through all the temptations of the world surrounding her, and ever afterward devoted herself to the unwearied activities and self-denial of Christ's true follower. The Life, with Letters. and Devotional Papers, of Lady Glenorchy, was edited by the Rev. T. S. Jones, minister of her chapel, Edinburgh; was published, Edinburgh, for William Whyte & Co., there, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, London, in 1822, 8vo, p. 520, and, though not very skillfully executed, constitutes one of the most remarkable and edifying Christian biographies ever given to the world. It is, unhappily, little known in this country, never having been reprinted here, and it is almost lost to the annals of the Church on earth, so that the writer is compelled to exert no little degree of self-denial in making his notice of his brother's early patron and exemplar sufficiently brief for the size of this volume. Suffice it to say, that Lady Glenorchy was one of Whitfield's school of religious doctrine, while her intimate and best-loved friend Darcy, Lady Maxwell, followed the principles of Wesley,* both being divinely accredited as eminent examples of the power which genuine Christian faith exerts over the hearts of Christ's disciples, despite of technical differences of minor doctrine, in enabling them to overcome the world, to purify their hearts, and work by love. Some notice, necessarily brief, of Lady Glenorchy's character and good works, may be found in the Memoirs of Mrs. Graham, revised and edited for the American Tract Society by Mrs. Bethune, and published from her manuscript, and under her close personal supervision, in 1842; where, also, will be found, p. 64-67, an admirable letter from Lady Glenorchy, showing at once her deeply spiritual character, and the faithfulness of her tender friendship for Mrs. Graham. This she also manifested in her kindness to the subject of this Memoir, in receiving her at one time into her own family, and after *Life of Darcy, Lady Maxwell, of Pollock, etc., etc. By Rev. John Lancaster. New York: Bangs & Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 2 vols. 12mo, 1822. ward sending her, liberally furnished with money for her personal expenses and practical exercise of charity, to a French school at Rotterdam, in Holland, that she might acquire the language, and be fitted for greater assistance to her mother in the school. Lady Glenorchy also requested that Mrs. Graham might be sent for to be near her in her last moments, and Mrs. Graham had the mournful satisfaction of closing her eyes, receiving, as a proof of her friend's love, a legacy of £200, which was of great benefit in her then narrow circumstances. Again the reader is asked to note the peculiar leading of a gracious Providence in training His young handmaiden for those walks of usefulness which, in riper years, she pursued so successfully and devotedly. CHAPTER IV. AN UNFINISHED SKETCH BY HERSELF. Self-examination.-A Retrospect.-Decline of Religion.-Orphanage.-Restraints of Childhood.-A Mother's Care.-An Aunt's Praises. A Minister's Influence. - Death of a Grandfather. Lady Glenorchy and her Household.—Their Habits and Example. -Goes to a French School in Rotterdam.-Its effect upon her religious Character. HER religious history up to this period will be best given in the words of an unfinished paper written by herself immediately after her mother's death. "New York, Thursday, August 18, 1814. "A day set apart by the General Assembly for "Heard Mr. Bogue preach from Zephaniah, i., 12, latter clause of the verse: 'And punish the men that are settled on their lees; that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.' He mentioned a number of characters who use such language, and what he said was very good, but I thought that he came short in not speaking more particularly to Christians. Those who seem to walk before God with their whole heart, whose lives and conversation * seem void of offense, have most need to search their hearts. We are apt to be settled upon our lees. We live in such a day of Gospel light that it is rather re spectable than otherwise to be Christians. There are, indeed, those who spend their days in all manner of riot and dissipation; but there are a good number of real believers, of outwardly decent character, that are under no temptation to go out into the world which lieth in wickedness, having so many to keep us in countenance. For my part, with the deepest humiliation and contrition, I would be this day a witness against myself. When I look back on my past life, and all the way by which the Lord my God has led I am ashamed and confounded; and were it not that He hath found out a way by which He can be just, yet the justifier of him that believeth, I could not dare to approach Him, but would be compelled to sit down in despair, and never more open my mouth before Him. me, "I am this day, in a particular manner, called to mourn and to rejoice. I am now an orphan. 'My father and my mother have forsaken me.' My father I never knew. It pleased God to take him away before I could be sensible of the loss; but for the space of forty years I have been blessed with the most exemplary of mothers. Although she deeply bewailed her unfaithfulness to her children, I can testify to her faithfulness to me in the best things. The nature of her business exposed her to many temptations from which I am freed; but the Sabbath was always a sign between her and her God. I have always been kept from openly breaking the Sabbath. "I mean not to record here a history of her life, or |