Excerpt from The Thatcher's Wife, or an Account of Mary Camps But while its vibrations again and again struck our ear, our minds were comforted with the strongest assurance that, in both cases, as soon as the spirit was absent from the body, it was present with the Lord, to behold and partake of his glory. The first of these individuals was truly an aged pil grim: she had sojourned nearly one hundred years in this vale of sorrow, having all that time no earthly store, save her food and raiment, and these of the most humble sort; but she was rich, for she had, during more than sixty of her last summers, possessed all things in Christ.

The other person, Mary Camps, was call ed away just as her sun had reached the meridian of life; just when the calls of her family, when the tender affections of her husband, and the love and friendship of her fellow Christians, were uniting their voices, and saying, Leave us not yet, the day is but' little spent; we need thy' presence, thy counsel, and thy conversation. Abide with us yet a little longer, and then depart in peace. But she is gone! Like a meteor.

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