sionate Saviour's gracious invitation. (Prov. xxiii. 26.) (We must turn all his demands into petitions:) Beseech him to take it, for you cannot give it; to sanctify it by his Spirit, to fill it with his presence, that you may live to his glory. We pray God, that every reader may in heart and affection rise and dwell where Christ dwells; that conformity to his image, in desire and purpose and aim, may be formed in them, as an earnest of their dwelling with him in glory! Amen and Amen.

CATHERINE RADDEN.

"That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this."

ISAIAH xli. 20.

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CATHERINE RADDEN.

PART I.

"Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me."-PSALM i. 15.

"Bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure."

ISAIAH Xxxiii. 16.

CATHERINE RADDEN was born in Scotland, and had shared in the blessings which a gracious Providence has so peculiarly vouchsafed to her native country, in furnishing the poorest with the means and opportunity of learning to read the Bible, and of having a Bible to read. It pleased the Holy Spirit also to enlighten her mind; and from a child she had known the Scriptures, which are able to make us wise unto salvation, by faith in Christ Jesus; (2 Tim. iii. 15.) And there is salvation in none other! She

was brought, through distinguishing mercy, to know and believe, that Christ suffered, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, (1 Pet. iii. 18;) that he came to redeem his people from everlasting destruction in hell, by taking upon himself the curse in their stead, (Gal. iii. 13;) and that he who has redeemed them by his blood, will sanctify them freely by the power of his Spirit; giving them a capacity to serve him upon earth, and a meetness for eternal glory, (Col. i. 12.) "The preparation of the heart is from the Lord," in its beginning and in its end; but it is in the use of the appointed means, that we can hope for his blessing: we cannot reasonably look for that blessing, where it has not been sought; nor expect the harvest, where the seed has not been sown. But Catherine had been the child of many prayers; her father's house was a Bethel—the God of all the families of the earth (Jer. xxxi. 1) was there daily worshipped in spirit and in truth, in secret and around the family altar; and, both by precept and example, were their children brought up" in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." These words were sweeter than the sounds of heavenly melody, to their earnest, anxious minds ---"All power is given unto me, in heaven and

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