Heirs together? Heirs of the promises of God-heirs of heaven, &c. PRACTICAL. The grace of God and his word will teach a person to perform the duties of every condition in life. What constitutes the most attractive beauty? Besides thus faithfully instructing her class, Mrs. McFarland sought opportunities to converse personally with those of them who were not pious. When her class consisted of young ladies, she would invite them, in the summer season, to meet at her house as often as once a week; there urge them, in a very affectionate manner, to give their hearts to the Saviour, and then would pray with them, adapting her petitions to the character and wants of each individual. She also observed a season of special prayer, at the beginning of each term summer and winter-of the Sabbath school, that she might have grace to be faithful, and that God's blessing might rest on the school. "She felt a great interest," say her daughters, "for the members of her class, thinking it a most favorable opportunity for keeping up a profitable acquaintance, both with young and old. On Sabbath evening she would observe, that they sat together as in heavenly places while they attended to the exercise. When her class consisted of persons much advanced in life, she felt a peculiar tenderness and concern for them -thinking that they, as well as herself, were soon to know by experience the realities of eternal things." God in his infinite mercy grant that all who enjoy the privilege and honor of teachers in the Sabbath school, may copy her example, and attain as we doubt not she has the reward of faithfulness in the divine kingdom. CHAPTER X. AMEN. EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE LAST SEVEN YEARS OF HER LIFE. It was evident to all who were intimately acquainted with Mrs. McFarland, that during the last few years of her life, grace in her was fast ripening for GLORY. She appeared habitually to live above the world, though conversant, as usual, with its cares and duties. She was happy in her family,-happy in society; but her affection was evidently set on things above, and not on things on the earth. Her feeble state of health was a constant memento of her approach to the eternal world, and her motto seemed to be like that of the Saviour,-I must work while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work. The devout frame of her mind, and her intense desire to do good while she lived, will be happily illustrated by the following brief extracts from her letters: 66 TO MRS. E. M., BOSTON. "CONCORD, Jan. 6, 1832. · My dear Mrs. M.: Forty-six persons were received into our church on the last Sabbath, and I can inform you that S. is among the number. The sight was truly solemn and affecting. O may they be so kept by divine grace as not only to be received to the church militant, but to that triumphant, after this mortal life is over. May I so walk with and influence my own dear child, as that her course may be that of the just, which shines more and more unto the perfect day. May I keep in view that our accounts at the bar of the great Judge must be closely interwoven. O may we all be prepared to meet that day in peace, through the merits of our divine Lord and Master, being clad in his righteousness, and not that of our own, in which we cannot wrap ourselves. May we make our lives from this a preparation day for that great event, that when he shall appear we may be like him, and see him as he is-lifting our heads with rejoicing that our redemption draws nigh. O! can we form even a faint idea of the everlasting confusion of one who shall be lost, with the gospel light and advantages which we possess? Dear friend, may this year, if we should be spared, be one more strongly marked with devotedness to our God and Saviour than any other. But ah! what are our wishes and resolutions of amendment? Do we not find that if they are not made with a sense of our entire weakness, and with trust alone in his strength and grace, they are transitory as a summer cloud? O for that aid which alone can enable us to live as professing christians ought to live in this age of the world; this day of gospel light and knowledge; this day of revivals of religion; when God is so manifestly using the influence of christian faithfulness as an important means in the conversion of sinners. O how ought we to live as that a holy example might follow continually upon our exhortations to impenitent sinners!How ought our hearts to sorrow for them, to yearn over them, and daily to gush out for them before the throne of grace. O may the Holy Spirit be breathed upon us, so that we may thus feel and do. If left of this influence we cannot feel, nor move Zionward. We shall necessarily become stumbling blocks to those who otherwise would be travellers thither. "How does the past appear to you? In my own view I am constrained to cry out, 'O my leanness, my leanness;' 'God be merciful to me a sinner.' I am less than the least of all his mercies to me-unworthy of all. The chief of sinners! O, blessed be his name that he came, not to call the righteous, but to seek and save sinners. Here is all my hope. 'Here is firm footing; all is sea beside.' "Yours, with much affection, E. MCFARLAND." GRATITUDE TO THE REDEEMER-SCOTT'S REFER ENCES. TO MRS. S. H., OF EAST CAMBRIDGE. "CONCORD, Jan. 20, 1834. My dear Mrs. H.: How ought our hearts to overflow with gratitude to that Redeemer who |