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speaking features; while her soft, musical voice, with its silvery tones, seemed already attuned to accompany the golden harps of heaven in the 'song of the redeemed.' Years have elapsed since she departed 'to be with Christ;' but her countenance, with its radiant expression, is distinctly before me, and my ears seem to drink in again the mellow sounds they loved to hear. These were saints indeed. 'Their witness was on high; their record was above.' They were not of our external communion; but truly their 'fellowship was with the Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ;' and deeply had they drunken of His Spirit. 'They rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.""

Mrs. Chrystie was survived by her son, Albert Chrystie, Esq., who married Frances, daughter of the very distinguished Colonel William Fen (one of the framers of the American Constitution, member of the first Senate of the United States, etc., etc., etc.), originally of Georgia, but, after his marriage with Catharine, daughter of Commodore James Nicholson, a resident of New York, who died August 7th, 1854, on her ninetieth birthday. Mr. Chrystie inherited, with a strong personal resemblance to his mother, her pious, retiring, benevolent, and zealous character. Mr. Chrystie, at the time of his death, was a greatly beloved elder of the Reformed Dutch Church of Hastings, upon the Hudson, a church he helped to found, and whose continued prosperity is a monument to his worth. "Having the refinement and polish of the

circle in which he had always moved, with a heart of unaffected kindness, the only and unfailing source of true courtesy, he evinced, wherever he went, the "bearing of a thorough Christian gentleman, and commanded universal respect." Mr. Chrystie died in 1856, in his 67th year.

Mrs. Mackanness, another intimate associate of this period, whose name was often on Mrs. Bethune's lips, and never without expressions of affectionate reverence, was the early and intimate friend of Mrs. Chrystie, being mentioned in her journal as the instrument of her brother-in-law's conversion. She was a woman of strong mind, warm feelings, and most elevated piety. With dignity of manner that almost inspired awe, and ever checked frivolity and levity, she yet. inspired confidence and love. Her imagination was not lively, but common sense marked all her acts. So clear and discriminating was her mind, and so pure her conduct, that the ascendency she possessed over all who approached her was almost unbounded —ever mingled with the deepest reverence. The storms of the Revolutionary War swept over the youthful days of Mrs. Mackanness and Mrs. Chrystie. The stirring scenes of that period, so full of toil, care, and perplexity to American women, cemented their. young hearts; and the blasting of early hopes taught them to look beyond the blessings of this world, and to cast the anchor of their souls above, where "no sad changes come." . . . They walked meekly and quietly here, and both departed peacefully to take

possession of mansions on high; not there to lose the kindly affections of love and joy which had refreshed them in their path through the wilderness, but, having laid down the clogs of earth, they are forever "filled with all the fullness of God."

It is said of Mrs. Mackanness that her joy and confidence, when dying, exhibited a perfect victory over the last enemy. "All," said she, at one time, "all that we have ever seen, all that we have ever heard, are bubbles-bubbles now!" Even when her mind wandered, the same heavenly peace possessed her soul; and, imagining that she saw her departed friends, she joyfully saluted them by name, bowing her head and smiling in the most animated and delighted manner. Mrs. Mackanness died in New York, after a very short illness, on the 17th day of March, 1806.

The intimacy between the Mackanness and the Bethune family must have been close; and it would seem, from the following obituary notice written by Mr. Bethune, that there were business as well as social relations between them.

"Sacred to the memory of Thomas Thornton Mackanness, co-partner in the house of Divie Bethune & Co., and son to Thomas Mackanness, Esq.: a most excellent youth, endeared to his parents and relatives by all that is tender and dutiful, and to society by all that is amiable and upright. He fell a victim to the yellow fever, on the 10th of September, 1805, aged 22 years.

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CHAPTER X.

INTRODUCTION OF SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.

Journey to Scotland.-Sunday-school Movement there.-Mr. and Mrs. Bethune's Labors in New York in 1802.-The Mother of Sabbath-schools in America.-Plans of Usefulness.

FOR a number of these years the health of Mrs. Bethune suffered greatly from several causes, which shattered her nervous system to a degree from which she did not recover until late in life. There is, consequently, little to record of active engagements during this period. In 1801, Mr. Bethune, hoping to get benefit for the invalid, took his wife and eldest child, Jessy, to Great Britain, that they might visit the place of his birth (Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland) and their surviving friends. They returned to New York in September, 1802. Their visit to Scotland was, in one particular, attended by a remarkable result.

"As early as 1797 a public movement was made in Edinburgh in favor of Sunday-schools in Scotland. A number of pious persons of various denominations had, for a few months, been in the habit of meeting to pray for the advancement of religion at home and abroad. The duty of accompanying their prayers with personal exertions naturally occurred to them, and led their minds to the education of poor children. They formed 'The Edinburgh Gratis Sab

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