another, are especially valuable and interesting. Drawing plans and maps to illustrate particular places was another of her favourite occupations while listening to reading; and so carefully had she studied the geography of the Holy Land, and so many were the plans and charts on different scales she had drawn of Jerusalem, and the Temple, that it has been said, the roses of Damascus, the walls of Jerusalem, and the courts of the Temple were as familiar to her as the gardens and the city near which she dwelt.

CHAP. XI.

1848-1850.

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Is the year 1848, Mrs. SchimmelPenninck's powers of walking, so necessary for the preservation of her health, began to fail; and two friends, to whom she was very dear, persuaded her to keep a little carriage. They thought that the inducement which a suitable conveyance afforded to be more in the air, could hardly fail to be useful: while the variety it would give, they also hoped, might, in a degree, refresh her mind, and divert it from its too close habits of study. The use of the carriage proved highly beneficial to her. It was respecting this that she wrote:

"June 17th.

"Since my last letter to you, I have got my little carriage. It is very neat and commodious, and in 'la pau

vreté évangélique.' The only fault I have to find is, that the horse seems too desirous of exercising the right of private judgment as to which road he shall take, and where he shall have his pasture, whenever he sees a new road, or a bit of green grass by the wayside. I hope, however, he will soon be taught to abjure les nouveautés,' and then, I think, he will do very well."

But these happy days were often clouded by illness; if that can justly be called a cloud which was lighted up by divine consolations. She never lost the lesson she had learnt in childhood from her mother to bear pain - shall I say like a Spartan, or a Christian? Certain it is, that to those who knew her sensitive constitution, it was marvellous to see how she endured bodily suffering: great prostration of strength was, perhaps, harder to bear, and both were familiar to her. The word of God was her stay at such times. She would, perhaps, have the 34th Psalm, or the 103rd, or the 121st, or the last verses of the 5th of Ephesians, read over and over again to her. She listened with sustained delight to those passages which declare the close union between Christ and His Church her spirit was like that of a happy, confiding child, in the arms of its father.

Her thoughts on Scripture, conversational remarks, and sayings in illness, often seemed very remarkable to those who heard them. Some were written down, if not at the moment they were spoken, yet soon afterwards, and while fresh in the mind of the writer.

In an illness which she had, in the year 1850, she one

day said to a friend who was with her: "What dost thou think of that servant who wills not to receive his wages?" "Who can that be?" was the reply.

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"The wages of sin is death,'" she answered, "but the gift of God is eternal life.' I will tell thee the depth of my mind. I don't often speak of these things; but to-day it will be a relief to me. Now death, and the pain, sickness, and sorrow, which lead to it, are so trying to my nature, that I shrink even from the thought of them; yet they are my wages and my inheritance. I am now more than seventy-three, and I have passed a long life without receiving these things as I ought. Last year it was first brought in clearness to my mind, that death and suffering should not only be submissively borne as coming from God, but received as the necessary consequence of sin, the wages we have earned, our just due; and oh I do deeply wish to receive them as such, not shrinking from one or the other, but, as it were, meeting the Lord half way in the willingness of my heart; knowing that He is strong, though I am weak; and that grace can conquer nature. I have long known that His gift is eternal life. I am now first learning the Hebrew Psalms by heart. I am a beginner also in the great school of receiving suffering.

After a night of great pain, she said, "I have suffered much pain lately, and so have others I love; and I have thought much of suffering. When the children of Israel were taken to Babylon; though it was the finest city in the world, fifteen miles across, adorned with its hanging gardens, its palaces, its temple of Belus, its orchards, its walks, and filled with luxury and all that could attract the

eye or please the taste; yet they hanged their harps upon the willows, and could not sing the Lord's song in a strange land. But we find, that when in the fiery furnace the three children were walking in the midst of the flame, and the fourth, like unto the Son of God, was with them, then they sang a song of rejoicing, which has been preserved for the instruction of the Church in all ages. Thus it is with us. Our Lord was made perfect through suffering; it tracked His every footstep. As with the master, so with the servant. He forewarns us that tribulation is the path to His kingdom: the experience of His children confirms the same. Let us not faint then, nor be weary.

He walks with us, as with the holy children in the furnace; we will join them in their song of thanksgiving."

At another time she said,

"What a type is our daily food of high and precious truth! We cannot subsist but by the sacrifice of animal or vegetable life; neither can the soul subsist, in blessing, but likewise by the sacrifice of life. Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us; and as, to sustain our bodies in health, we must have recourse to the food our Heavenly Father has provided; so our souls, to be in health, must, no less, be constantly fed and nourished by the food which is from heaven."

The question was asked, if persons of strong affections, which, above all other things, form the tie which binds them to earth, should endeavour to love less; Mrs. SchimmelPenninck answered: "While we love in Christ, we