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Having several blisters which prevented her from walking, she was observed to weep. On being asked why she wept, she answered, 'I should go into the room to pray, but now I cannot.' Being told that the Lord knew her state and that if she lifted up her heart to him, he would accept her prayer, and answer it, she appeared satisfied. The night before she died, her father asked, 'Have you prayed to night?" She replied, Yes; and 1 think upon God, and am very happy.' Next morning the Lord was pleased to release her from all her sufferings, and take her into his presence, where there is fulness of joy, and happiness forevermore.

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11.An Account of Martha Vorley, aged twelve years and six months, who died at Wellingborough, March 10, 1802.

She was the only child of her parents, who loved her very much, and to whom her death was a great grief. Her illness lasted but about the space of ten days. A very short notice indeed; yet many have not so long a time as that to prepare for dying. Her death was not thought to be so near by her parents and friends, who soon had to mourn the loss of so good a child.

She was a girl of a quiet turn of mind, and very fond of reading good books. She was kind and well behaved to her young acquaintances, and very dutiful to her parents: which gained her great respect from all around her.

She was sometimes asked, after she had been at public worship, whether what she had heard had affected her mind. She replied, 'No.' A little before her last illness, her friends talked with her about death, and the need of a change of heart to prepare her for it; this drew tears from her eyes, but she made no reply.

There was nothing farther spoken on these subjects until her illness; when her answers to several questions that were asked, shewed that the Lord was with her.

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Being asked if she was afraid to die; she answered, No, if I am going to Jesus: but if not, I am afraid." friend then said, 'You know you are a sinner.' She replied, looking very earnest, 'Yes, and a great one too.' It

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was then said, Christ came to die for such. To this she said, 'I long to see him on the tree, pierced for me.' On being asked whether she saw that she was lost, she said, 'I am.' A friend told her, that Jesus came to seek and to save them that were lost. She then with earnest desire, looking upon those around her, said, Say more, say more.' Proper passages from the Bible were then read to her, which she seemed to drink in, and said, 'Say more.' told her, You are very ill indeed. is nothing to hell.'

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One present said, 'Do you think you deserve hell?" She feelingly said, 'A thousand hells." She was asked if she could pray. She said, 'No.' It was then said, “ Prayer does not consist in words, but in desires.' She lifted up. her dying hands for some time, and seemed to pray.

After being silent a few minutes, she said, 'Let my funeral text be this: "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." (This passage was therefore improved at her funeral.) She repeated that verse in Dr. Watts' Hymns:

"That awful day will surely come,
The appointed hour makes haste,
When I must stand before my Judge,
And pass the sulemn test."

She was asked, if she was willing to leave her father and mother. 'Yes, (she said) to go to Jesus.' When asked whether she could repent, she said, 'I shall, if God enables me.' And just before she departed, she called out, 'Come, Lord Jesus!' which were nearly her last words. Soon after she fell asleep in the arms of death, without a sigh or groan.

III.—An account of the life and death of Ellen Foulds, of of Great Harwood, aged ten years.

WHEN about three or four years old, she gave proofs of a serious mind. It was a great blessing to her, that her parents feared God: she did not hear them swear and tell lies, as too many do; but often heard them say, that they

that do so, could not be happy when they die, unless they repented.

Ellen was not like those wicked children that do not mind what their parents say to them: for she did not say bad words; and when she heard others swear, she would say, 'I think if they do not mend they must go to a bad place.'

When she went with her parents to worship, she did not look about and behave rude, but hearkened to what the minister said. One Sunday, while she heard what a bad place wicked people go to when they die, the tears ran down her face, and she wept very much.

When Ellen was about six years old, she was afflicted with the measles, and from that time was often unwell, and sometimes rather impatient. But in her last illness she was very different in this respect, and seemed much changed in her temper, and become very serious.

During the last two months of her life, her desires were placed on heaven. She was not afraid to die, nor did she wish to get better.

Once her mother asked her, why she was so desirous to die. She answered, 'I long to go to heaven.' Her mother then asked her if she never had any fears of going to hell. She said, 'No.' She put the same question to her again, and received the same answer. She then asked her if she thought she had never sinned. She said, 'Yes, many and many a time; but I think I shall be saved." She believed when she died she should see Jesus Christ and his holy angels, and be happy forever. This good little girl loved to pray, and often wanted her father to pray with her. She desired her mother to read about the sufferings of Jesus Christ: this she was very fond of, and one time when her mother read to her the account of our Saviour's sufferings in the garden, she was much affected with these words; "And his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." The tears ran down her cheeks, a pleasing smile sat on her pale face, and she seemed desirous of going to Jesus, to live in his presence.

She felt a great love to Christ, and to all children who loved him. Jesus says "I love them that love me, and they that seek me early, shall find me.”

About two days before her death, she said to her mother, 'I think death is near-send for my father,' On her mother replying he would be at home about eleven o'clock, she said, 'But if he does not come soon he will be too late. If I see him no more, tell him be sure to live to God when I am dead.'

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At these words her mother was much affected, and said, 'The Lord bless thee, my lamb.' She replied, ' I am blest, and shall be blest; do not weep for me; and do not weep when I am buried; I shall go to heaven. If I had lived till I had been a woman, very likely I might have gone through a deal of trouble; and perhaps might have been very wicked, and been lost at last but if I die now, I shall be saved. This world will soon be over, and then some must go to the right hand of God, and some to the left. Whatever you do, be sure to live to God; and tell people when I am dead, to be good, and let none of your children break the Sabbath.' In this way she talked as she could, till her strength failed her.

About two hours after she appeared very happy, and repeated, as she sat up in bed,

"For me my elder brethren stay,
And angels beckon me away,
And Jesus bids me come."

The day before she died, some of the children she had gone to school with came to see her, whom she exhorted to fear and love God. She told them never to say any bad words, nor break the Sabbath; and when they left her, she bade them farewell, and said, 'May God bless you, and bring you to heaven when you die."

At night she was very ill, and continued so until five or six o'clock the next morning, at which time she was much better; and seeing her father kneeling at her bed side, she said, 'Father, you have a great deal to do in this world; but it will soon be over; and whatever you do, take care to live to God.'

Upon her mother saying that she thought her sensible, Ellen looked at her and replied, 'Yes, I am sensible; and whatever you do be sure to live to God, and tell people, when I am dead, to be good.'

She begged of them to take care of her brother and sisters that she was going to leave behind her, and to bring them up in the fear of God.

A little before she died, she said to her father, 'I am happy.' He replied, 'Then you are not afraid to die.' She answered, I am not; and soon after, her happy spirit left this world, to be blessed with the joys of paradise.

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IV. An account of Ann Simpson, of Hull, who died in 1790, aged six years.

SHE had parents who considered it their duty to train her up from her infancy in the way she should go, and who often prayed for her and with her, and in order to teach her to pray herself, they would frequently tell her that the Lord heard the prayers of children-that it was never too soon to begin to pray-that she had a wicked heart, which must be made better-that the Lord had promised to give a new heart, and that this he would do in answer to prayer.

As she grew up, they had the pleasure of seeing that their prayers and instructions were not in vain. The Lord planted his fear in her heart, that she should not sin against him. Her father says he never knew her to tell a wilful lie, and if ever she was overtaken in a fault, she would weep bitterly, and ask her parents' pardon, and then would ask whether the Lord would forgive her.

She was always very glad to go with her parents to public worship; and when they had heard a sermon, either her father or mother would remind her of what she had heard, of the Lord's threatenings against wicked people, and his promises to them that love him; striving to make her sensible that "it is an evil and bitter thing to sin against God;" and how happy those are that live in the fear of God, and who serve him with all their hearts..

She heard what was spoken with great attention, and the good effects appeared in her hatred of sin, in her fear of offending God, and in her obedience to her parents. She was afraid of grieving her parents, because she tho't it displeased the Lord. She always prayed morning and

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