Her favourite poet was Young, from whom she often quoted at length; her favourite divine, Wesley; and her favourite book the Bible.  This last she not uncommonly read upon her knees, seeking the assistance and blessing of the Holy Spirit, who is the best expositor of His own word.  Her knowledge of scripture was remarkable, and her apprehension of its great doctrines distinct and clear as noonday.  “With increasing ardour she continued to dig in this inexhaustible mine of truth, until the close of life, and within the last three or four years waded through the greater part of Henry’s Commentary.  Her study of divine truth was mainly prosecuted with a view to its experience and practice; and hence her piety assumed that rare and exalted character which develops itself evenly in all the various relations of life.  In her, the image of Christ was not, as in too many instances, caricatured; but presented in its just and fair proportions; and, as a necessary consequence, Impressed all who came in contact with her with the certain conviction of its genuineness.  Zealous in the church, she was equally active and faithful at home. Little duties were not neglected on the pretext of performing others of a higher character.  By a strict economy of time, which she prized more than, gold; by early rising, method and punctuality, she found time for everything; so that her house was a pattern of neatness and order, and her family was as well provided for as though she had no public duties to perform.  “She looked well to her own household, and ate not the bread of idleness.”  Naturally of an active temper of mind, she was always employed; and, from an habitual consciousness of her responsibility, well employed.  Her hand was ready at every turn, and knew nothing of that silly squeamishness which leads a woman to suppose that she demeans herself by meddling with household affairs.  Fond of singing, and possessed of a good voice, she lightened her daily toil with the voice of song, and discharged the humblest duties as a sacrifice well-pleasing to God.  Her conscientiousness in little things was remarkable.  She was a determined enemy of all trifling and tittle-tattle, as not only unbecoming the Christian character, but destructive of religious feeling; and the consciousness of having uttered a useless word, or engaged in unprofitable conversation, always occasioned her pain.  Among other peculiarities she displayed a singular aversion to debt, and if by any means such an obligation, however small, was incurred, she never rested until it was discharged.  The writer remembers on one occasion walking a couple of miles to pay the trifling sum of sixpence to a party, who was at the time indebted to his father as many pounds.  Notwithstanding the severity with which she judged her own actions, her piety was entirely free from asceticism;—­it was always cheerful, recollected, and heroic; and in her intercourse with others, characterised by great humility and christian courtesy.  In prayer she