Indeed, we were all very ignorant, and thought if we took care for this life, and wronged nobody, we should be sure to go to heaven at last.

My daughters were both wilful, and, like ourselves, strangers to the ways of God and the Word of his grace.

But the eldest of them went out to service, and some years ago she heard a sermon at -- - Church, by a gentleman that was going to -- -, as chaplain to the colony; and from that time she seemed quite another creature.

She began to read the Bible, and became sober and steady.

The first time she returned home afterwards to see us, she brought us a guinea which she had saved from her wages, and said, as we were getting old, she was sure we should want help; adding, that she did not wish to spend it in fine clothes, as she used to do, only to feed pride and vanity.