if I cannot do the will of God by active. service, I may by patient resignation. To bear trial well, as much manifests the power of grace, as to discharge duty well. May my friends see, in me, how patient, how cheerful, how contented, grace can make a dying sufferer. Let them see how God can fill the heart of a pardoned sinner with hope and joy, with all the pains of dissolution just before him. I have not, as I ought, lived to the Lord; but may other Christians learn by my example what it is to die to him! If, through all the suffering and languor which are yet reserved for me, I can bless him for all that is past, and trust him for all that is to come; if my will is lost in his, so that I can say, as my Redeemer did in Gethsemane, Not my will, but thine, be done-if

my friends can see that God is enough to make me happy, though all the outward sources of enjoyment are changed into wearisome, or even excruciating, pain-then will He be glorified in me. Whatever, then, He appoints for me, I may still be useful and happy. I am ready for death; when He sees fit to call me, it will be for me far better to depart, and be with Christ; but while He appoints me to live, I may, by his grace, glorify him no less than by the most active exertions. Should my example teach my dear friends how to die, that will repay them for their kind attention to me. And, though I am reduced to the feebleness of a child, in mind and body, God can bestow upon my spirit a giant's strength, to bear His will and love him for all he does. May he grant it to me, for the sake of his dear Son.

XVIII.

SUBMISSION TO THE WILL OF GOD.

WHEN Jesus Christ was on earth, he said to his disciples, My meat is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work *. Blessed be God for giving me some measure of my Saviour's spirit! My will is almost gone. God is so wise and good, that I am sure what He wills is best; and His will has become my will. will. He has given me his Son; He has given me his Spirit; He has made me his child; and now He will not appoint any

* John iv. 34.

thing which can do me harm. And, if He could do so, how can I a sinner say, what dost thou? He has a right to do with me what he pleases. My desert was eternal punishment: instead of which he is about to raise me to immortal glory; and, after that, shall I question his will? Oh, let him do with me what he pleases! Send, Lord, ease or pain, strength or weakness, life or death; protract these sufferings, or terminate them; just as Thou wilt. Thy will be done. All that Thou dost ordain is best. Glorify Thyself in me, whether by my life or by my death, and then receive me to glory.

Happiness of a Christian.

When languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet by faith to look above,
And long to fly away.

Sweet to look back, and see my name
In life's fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward, and behold
Eternal joys my own.

Sweet in His righteousness to stand, Which saves from second death; Sweet to experience, day by day,

His Spirit's quickening breath.