SUSAN GRAY. 7

cottage-door, and the more so as, by the bless-
ing of God on the instructions of her Christian
parents, she was remarkably modest and cour-
teous in her deportment. Moreover, the very
great neatness and plainness of her rustic dress
was much to be commended, and proved that
her mother was one of those women who are
observant of these words of the apostle: I will
that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with
broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly
array; but (which becometh women professing
godliness ) with good works. (1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.)

I often went to visit these pious persons, and
was greatly delighted with their holy discourse ;
for a foolish or profligate word never proceeded
from their lips, and their child was so clean, so
well ordered, so dutiful, and so gentle, that,
young as she was, I formed the greatest hopes
of her, and believed she would become a good
Christian.

_ It pleased Heaven, however, to deprive this
poor child of her good parents. She was just
turned six years of age, when a fever, which
raged in this neighbourhood at that time, seized
first upon Mary Gray, and then upon her hus-
band; and, notwithstanding all the care that
could be taken, they both died. But death to
them was no evil, for they had always trusted
in. their Saviour, and endeavoured to fulfil his
will; and it pleased him to take them from this
world of sorrow and labour, to that happy place
where men are made equal unto the angels, and
are the children of God. (Luke xx. 36.)