and tell your partner I shall be happy to see her in heaven. Son, I exhort you to preach the gospel; preach it faithfully and boldly; fear not the face of man; endeavour to put in a word of comfort to the humble believer, to poor weak souls. I heartily wish you success; may you be useful to the souls of many.'

Towards the conclusion of the evening, she addressed her son, in words which he delighted to repeat. When, after speaking of the boundless love of Christ, and his salvation, she added, 'It is a glorious salvation, a free, unmerited salvation; a full, complete salvation; a perfect, eternal salvation: it is a deliverance from every enemy; it is a supply of every want; it is all I can now wish for in death; it is all I shall want in eternity.'

Thus did the sainted mother, of her now sainted son, breathe out her soul for a few days more, till she was peacefully translated, from her couch of sickness, to her eternal rest. The beloved son's name was the last upon her lips, and truly was her hope respecting him fulfilled; that hope which she expressed, by repeating to him the words of a friend, who, adopting the consolation offered to Monica respecting Augustine, had said, 'Go home, and make yourself easy: the child of those tears can never perish.'

The son of this admirable woman early began to follow in her steps. Of his youthful days few

relics can now be traced, but from his very childhood the opening germ of piety seemed implanted within him, so that he would often say, that he scarcely knew when the Holy Spirit first began to impress his youthful heart, though he was led more decidedly to devote himself to God at about the age of thirteen, in consequence chiefly of the pious and affectionate letters of his excellent mother.

His ministry was eminently blessed to the conversion of souls; and his instructions to the young, for whom he ever cherished the tenderest affection, will be remembered by thousands of the rising generation, and of those now in mature life. CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER

IN THE

LIFE OF THE REV. LEGH RICHMOND,

BY HIS DAUGHTER.

RELIGION was unfolded to us in its most attractive form. We saw that it was a happy thing to be a Christian. My father was exempt from gloom and melancholy, and entered with life and

cheerfulness into all our sports. But we should not have been thus happy in domestic affection, had not our beloved father carefully trained us in the religion of Jesus Christ. This was his chief concern, his hourly endeavour. He did not talk much with us about religion, but the books, studies, and even amusements, to which he directed us, shewed that God was in all his thoughts, and that his great aim was, to prepare his children for heaven.

Religion was practically taught in all he said and did, and recommended to us in his lovely domestic character, more powerfully than in any other way. He had a thousand winning ways to lead an infant's mind to God, and explain to us the love of the Saviour to little children. It was then our first impressions were received; and though for a time they were obscured, by youthful vanities, they were never totally erased. He lived to see them, in some instances, ripened into true conversion.

It was his custom, when we were very young, to pray with us alone; he used to take us by turns into his study, and memory still recalls the simple language, and affecting earnestness,,with which he pleaded for the conversion of his child. I used to weep because he wept, though I understood and felt little of his meaning, but I saw it was all love, and this my earliest impression was associated with the idea, that it was religion

which made him love us so tenderly, and that prayer was an expression of that love. I was led in this way to pray for those who were kind to me, as dear papa did.

DR. ALEXANDER WAUGH.

To the habits of devotion, which characterized his father's house, he frequently, in after-life, reverted with the most lively feelings of grateful delight. He was wont often to quote the striking expressions used by his father in family prayer, and in expounding the scriptures to his household, including, on occasions of special solemnity, the hinds and cotters, with their assembled families.

He mentioned, that when his father happened to be from home, the family devotions were conducted by his mother; as at this time indeed was the practice generally observed by religious mistresses of families. Of the impression made upon his heart by these sacred services, and by other congenial scenes of domestic piety, Dr. Waugh would often talk to his own family in after years, with tears in his eyes; and to the purifying and soul-ennobling influence of such scenes, not a little of the simplicity, tenderness, and elevation of his own character, may be clearly traced.

The most marked peculiarities of his habits, of thought and feeling, were evidently formed at a very early period, under his father's hallowed roof, and in the pastoral seclusion of his native moorlands. The substratum of character at least, where it possesses any natural depth, is laid probably at a much earlier period of life than most persons are aware of; and though the surface may be afterwards moulded and modified, as manners are superinduced, and the mind carefully cultivated, or allowed to run to waste like an unweeded garden,' yet the intrinsic qualities of the intellectual soil, and the peculiar flavour f its fruits, are in most cases subsequently susceptible of but little substantial alteration.

Concerning his mother, Dr. Waugh has left the following account.- Piety and meekness, and the tenderest regard for the happiness of her children, formed the outline of her character. Born of eminently pious parents, Alexander Johnstone, (farmer in East Gordon,) and Elizabeth Waugh, her mind, at an early period, was formed to the love of goodness. Through life she maintained the character of a godly, modest, and inoffensive woman. Her devotions were regular and fervent: the law of kindness to all was on her lips; but towards her children, her affection was uncommonly strong; and her religious principles directed her affection into the path of tender solicitude about their eternal welfare. By prayer, by