On the evening on which she had dictated her letter to Dr. Conyers, she addressed her son to the following effect. I am very happy; I am going to my mansion in the skies; I shall soon be there, and oh! I shall be glad to receive you to it. You shall come in to go out no more. If ever you have a family, tell your children they had a grandmother who feared God, and found the comfort of it on her death-bed. And tell your partner, I shall be happy to see her in heaven,' adding, 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.'

Toward the close of the same evening, 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.'

In February 1785, Mr. Woodd was appointed morning preacher of Bentinck Chapel, Lisson Green, in the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, of which he some years afterwards purchased the lease. This formed

1 About the same time he was admitted a member of a society of Clergymen well known as bearing the designation of the Eclectic Society, composed of twelve members, ten of them members of the Established Church, and two

the chief scene of his valuable labours, to the termination of his life, comprising a period of nearly forty-six years. At about the commencement of this period, he married Miss Ann Wood, daughter of Colonel Wood, of the East Indies, by whom he had four children, one of whom died in infancy. Three survived her, of whom accounts will appear in the sequel. She herself, soon after the birth of the last, became a victim to a disease which terminated her mortal career on the 23d day of April 1791, at the early age of twenty-six years.

In the Christian Observer, for the year 1828, will be found a series of letters addressed to a family of young children, by that revered and eminently useful missionary, the Rev. Christian Frederick Swartz. These were the children of Colonel Wood, of whom Mrs. Woodd was one. Her father had died at Madras in the year 1775. The letters, it is stated, were written as the effusion of an affectionate pastor who had constantly dined at the table of the Colonel, and experienced from him many instances of patronage and protection during the invasion of the Carnatic by Hyder Ali.' It was no small privilege, in that

pious ministers of Dissenting congregations. They met once every fortnight in the Vestry Room of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, for the purpose of discussing some Theological subject, chiefly relating to the duties, trials, difficulties, and encouragements, &c. of the ministerial office. Of this Society Mr. W. appears to have been a very constant and efficient member. In the Christian Observer a few years back, will be found one thousand questions, stated as having been discussed by the Society, and from a title which he is reported to have acquired amongst them, that of question-monger, it may be presumed that a large proportion of these questions originated with him.

far distant and idolatrous country, to be favoured with the pastoral ministrations and pious counsels of so truly devoted a servant of God; and there is reason to believe that in Mrs. Woodd's case, to whom four of the letters were particularly addressed, his labours were not in vain. Of this, as well as of her general character and experience, the reader will be able to form the most correct judgment from the following memoir, drawn up by her bereaved husband shortly after her decease, and addressed, in the form of a letter, to a clerical friend, the late Rev. William Goode, then curate and lecturer, and afterwards rector, of St. Andrew's by the Wardrobe, and St. Ann, Blackfriars.

MRS. ANN WOODD.

In compliance with your request, I send you some memoirs of my late beloved wife, Ann Woodd. 'She was the daughter of the late Colonel Wood, of the East Indies, and was born at Madras, Oct. 24, 1764. Our marriage was solemnized Feb. 8, 1785; and it pleased the Great Ordainer of events to dissolve our union, as to this world, the 23d of April, 1791.

The disorder which occasioned this affecting event, was a deep decline, produced by an excess of attention to her maternal duties, following upon a long illness under which she had suffered in the preceding year. Her natural constitution bade fair for more advanced life; but, with all the advantages of sound health, and youthful vigour, she fell a victim to disease at the early age of twenty-six.

The progress of the consumption was awfully rapid. I do not recollect any appearances of the cough before the month of January. From about

the beginning of February a quickness of pulse succeeded. From this time she was attacked with the colliquative sweats, was unable to sleep on her right side, and was oppressed almost to suffocation, if the room was warm. The sweats were removed by medicinal aid by the 20th of February, and returned no more. During the whole of this last illness, she slept well; and seemed disposed to sleep almost all day. She discovered, in February and March, great indifference to all about her, never had any apprehension that she was in danger; and never felt any pain throughout the whole progress of the disorder. The dispensation altogether was to her a dispensation of mercy, as well as of judgment. This will appear very evidently as we proceed. I shall chiefly confine myself to the state of her mind ; and will transcribe for your perusal a few extracts from the diary which I kept during this very severe affliction.

'I have no doubt but that it pleased God to call her by his grace at a very early period of life. The seeds of genuine piety were gradually and imperceptibly sown and cultivated, by God's blessing on a religious education. Its progress, however, was as silent as it was real, and marked rather by the security of its root, than by the luxuriance of its blossoms. This was principally owing to the natural closeness and reserve of her disposition; heightened by female timidity, and a scrupulous fear of pro