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faith and Christian hope, lost to our sight but not extinguished, sinks calmly and sweetly to rest."

Rachel Price survived her husband more than ten years. She lived to cherish his memory, enforce his example, and enjoy the affections of her children, relatives, and friends. She was especially the object of the personal care of that daughter, who had for many years been resident with and the comfort and solace of her parents, whose father bore, as his last testimony of her, that “We are of one heart and of one mind;" whom all the other children considered as their representative in that precious and sacred charge. In the blended narrative the history of Philip and Rachel Price has been told in their principal outlines. In a more limited sphere, in her own meeting, in those near home, and in her daughter's school, the same earnest and pathetic appeals in Gospel love continued to be made by the survivor unto the end.

A few extracts from a letter written to absent sons, in 1839, will show the continued occupation and concern of her mind. "I have much to be thankful for. I am still able to get to meetings, to visit the afflicted, and my children in the neighbourhood, which I consider a great favour; and also to experience that love in my heart to increase, which binds together in the bonds of life and love. May we all know a partaking thereof, and obey the command of our Redeemer, given to his immediate followers, that we love one another, for 'by this shall all

men know ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.' * * "I am solicitous that for the short time I may yet have to remain, I may be enabled to fulfil my duty towards you; yea, to double my diligence, craving Divine aid therein, and I recommend to all of you who have tender plants committed to your care, to endeavour to guard and protect them from the many defilements of this vain world, and the besetments of the enemy of our souls' happiness; who is seeking to draw our minds off the watch, and encumbering them with the cares of the world. I know by experience that there is a great care necessary for those who have large families to provide for, to guard against the unlawful love of lawful things; and the language is, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you, for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.' Let us endeavour to be in readiness when the solemn inquiry may be made, 'What have you done with the lambs committed to your care in the wilderness of this world?' May we not have to answer that while we were busy, hither and thither, they made their escape." "Men that are engaged in public business are often exposed and in danger of being drawn into party feeling in politics, whereby the mind may be much engrossed, if there be not a strict watch maintained; but I do hope a word to the wise is sufficient to induce a renewed care upon this subject, as coming from the heart

of an affectionate mother, whose petitions are often put up, in sincerity and truth, on behalf of herself and endeared offspring."

In the last week of her life, a son, then visiting her, writes to his distant sister: "It is very gratifying to find that with the infirmity of disease and great age upon her, our dear mother retains a clear mind, and the dispositions and affections that have characterized her through life. None of the irritation and fretfulness that is so frequently incident to such age and sickness is perceived. On the contrary, like our father, she regrets her inability to help herself, and expresses a grateful feeling for all the attentions she receives. There is a quiet dignity that will probably remain with her, however much she may be enfeebled by the further progress of disease and age. Love to all mankind abounds with her, and this love and the religious sentiments with which she has been so thoroughly imbued through life, remain with her, as part of her nature, only to cease their manifestations with the extinction of life. Many are the scriptural expressions she continues to repeat to us, with the same sweetness she has ever uttered them from the gallery and in the family circle, on serious occasions. These are now additionally impressive, as they may be the last, and are sanctioned and sanctified as if they were, as she expects not to be long with us. She has not strength to enlarge in her remarks, but from time to time repeats those truths

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which abide with her,-expressions and promises which are not only her own reliance and source of comfort in the extremity of life, but which she wishes to impress upon her children as their reliance and as their hope for the future;- Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.' 'Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.' 'Christ's invitation is for all to come unto him; I will give unto him that is athirst of the waters of life freely,' &c. The great end and purpose of religious faith she summed up in this: 'To know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, this is Life Eternal;' and her last charge to that son was, 'Keep a guarded care over all those placed under thy authority. Be obedient unto the law written in the heart; and endeavour to draw others unto it; in this you will find your present and everlasting peace. A few days after, when expecting her close, he wrote, "I am sad and sorrowful; yet my reflection teaches me I should be otherwise. Our mother has reached a great age, and a continuance of life would be a burthen to the spirit. Her long life has been one uniform and beautiful example, and at fourscore and four years of age, the intellect is bright; to the last her heart has remained full of love and affection to all of human kind. Through nearly a whole century, she has in simplicity and truthfulness preached the precepts of Jesus,

and she departs without a blemish or a shade upon her character or intellect. If the Gospel truths she preached were few and simple, their influence was constantly present, and imparted their own serious and sublime simplicity to her character. These deeply felt and sincerely believed, with a constant hope beyond this life, she seemed never to suffer vacillation from doubts or natural propensities, in conflict with the holy influences that dwelt on her mind. Is it not then a cause of gratitude that the close should be bright, and that, almost without pain, her spirit should be released from its mortal tenement? Surely it is; and when her memory shall be all that is left of her to us, it will be most pleasing in all the residue of our lives to reflect that she lived so long and so well, and was gathered as the ripe corn, that felt not the sickle that severed it from its earthly connexion." On the evening of the same day, the 6th day of the 8th month, 1847, he further wrote, "Our beloved mother has departed this life. It is now a solemn certainty that we have heard her sweet voice for the last time; that we shall see her living countenance no more, so divinely good. If the good recognise each other in the future world, then have the blessed spirits of our beloved parents met this day in joy, and felt the felicity that they were united in an endless bliss. This was our dear mother's fervent hope, expressed for herself and beloved offspring.

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