of the gospel.  But she was not satisfied with seeing the front doors and windows of these moral pest-houses closed.  She knew that little confidence could be placed in the promises of men whose consciences would permit them to traffic in human blood.  She would, therefore, upon the morning of the Sabbath, pass round and enter these shops through the dwellings occupied by the families of the keepers, where she often found them engaged secretly in this wickedness.  She would then remonstrate with them, until she persuaded them to abandon it, and attend public worship.  In this manner she abolished almost entirely the sale of liquors upon the Sabbath in the worst part of the city.

She also looked after the poor, that the gospel might be preached to them.  She carried with her the numbers of those pews in the church which were unoccupied.  And upon Sabbath mornings she made it her business to go out into the streets and lanes of the city, and persuade the poor to come in and fill up these vacant seats.  By her perseverance and energy, she would remove every objection, until she had brought them to the house of God.  She was incessant and untiring in every effort for doing good.  She would establish a Sabbath-school, and superintend it until she saw it flourishing, and then deliver it into the hands of some suitable person, and go and establish another.  She collected together a Bible class of apprentices, which she taught herself.  Her pastor one day visited it, and found half of them in tears, under deep conviction.  She was faithful to the church and to impenitent sinners.  She would not suffer sin upon a brother.  If she saw any member of the church going astray, she would, in a kind, meek, and gentle spirit, yet in a faithful manner, reprove him.  She was the first to discover any signs of declension in the church, and to sound the alarm personally to every conscience.  It was her habitual practice to reprove sin, and to warn sinners wherever she found them.  At the time of her death, she had under her care a number of pious young men, preparing for the ministry.  These she had looked after, and brought out of obscurity.  As soon as their piety had been sufficiently tested, she would bring them to the notice of her Christian friends.  She persuaded pious teachers to give them gratuitous instruction, and pious booksellers to supply them with books.  In the same way, she procured their board, in the families of wealthy Christians.  And she formed little societies of ladies, to supply them with clothing.  There was probably no person in the city whose death would have occasioned the shedding of more tears, or called forth more sincere and heartfelt grief.  Her memory is still deeply cherished in the heart of her pastor.[L] He has been heard to say, that he should not have felt as severely the loss of six of the most devoted men in his church.