The little child, moreover, had become a Christian, and had sat with her sister, side by side, at the communion-table, for several years.

"Forbid it," she prayed with herself, "that I should go where I cannot be allowed to follow Christ till I have separated this dear one from my side." She once wrote a letter on the subject to the gentleman, which he showed, after their marriage, to some of his friends.

There will be no impropriety in its appearing here.

It ran thus: "MY DEAR MR.

E.: Though I am not willing to deny that Roger Williams was, as you say, raised up to illustrate some important principles, and to help on the general cause of truth, I must say that he strikes me as a very unreasonable man in much of his behavior.