A memoir of Adelaide Leaper Newton

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A MEMOIR

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Prefatory Note

The Authoress of the " Song of Solomon compared with other Parts of Scripture" scarcely needs to be introduced to the Christian public. But many will be interested to trace, in her personal life, a singularly vivid pattern of the heavenly walk there so > touchingly portrayed. It is in compliance with a widely expressed desire to have that mind and heart embalmed that the present Memoir appears. — - The poet Southey once wrote to James Montgomery: — "I am one who shrinks in like a snail, when I find no sympathy ; but, when I do, I open myself like a flower to the morning sun." Such was Adelaide Newton. Not many knew her thoroughly ; but there were two or three select hearts to which she "opened herself." To the letters thus called forth this Memorial mainly owes whatever of the life-like it may possess.

A critic lately said of a Memoir now issuing from t

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the press : — " "We wanted a marble bust, with the features delicately chiselled and the features preserved — and we are threatened with a colcssus in bronze." It would have been easy, in the present instance, out of the vast mass of letters and papers, to cast a colossus ; but the Author has aimed rather at the marble bust.

The writer is sensible how imperfectly he may have caught the delicate lineaments of her inner life. But he is not without the hope that He w 1 o made her what she was, will graciously use this " living epistle" to solace some wearied pilgrim? And to quicken the steps of some loiterers by the v&y.

London, December, 1855.

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After these pages had passed through the press, the Author received from the Rev. Canon Stowell, of Manchester, a communication respecting the subject of this Memoir, in which he writes thus :

11 Seldom or never has it been my happiness to see the mighty power of grace so marvellously manifested as in her. She seemed to dwell in the vestibule of heaven — to live on the steps of the throne of grace. The vigour of her understanding, the acuteness of her judgment, the force of her reasoning, the originality of her ideas, and the beauty of her style, astonished me. Tou could not converse with her without being charmed with the freshness, the vividness, the activity, the refinement of her mind. The spring of all was love to her Saviour, intense desire to glorify His name. This strung up all her energies ; this animated all her pursuits. Grace changed the whole tone of her character. From the flexible, tasteful, buoyant girl, she rose into the earnest, elevated, reflective woman; yet all was artless and easy, clothed with humility, and adorned with simplicity.

iC The one grand instrument of the work was the "Word of God. She lived on and in the Bible. Ir savoured every sentiment and toned every thought of her soul. She caught 1*

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the faintest whisper, and analysed the minutest expressions, of 'the lively oracles.' The Scriptures were wrought into the very texture of her inner life : she fed upon them in her heart. Hence the newness, the uuction, the savouriness of her writings. Like the silk-worm, which spins her exquisite thread from her own vitals, fed by the mulberry leaves — so she, from the experience of her own spirit, nourished by the leaves of the Tree of Life, wrought out her lovely tissues of heavenly wisdom. Flesh and blood had not taught her, but the Spirit of her Father in heaven.

" In all she wrote, and said, and did, to glorify Christ was her single aim. This desire was as a fire in her bones. Her zeal was ever burning. Xor was the light of her joy less remarkable. Whilst most humble, she was most assured. Doubt seemed never allowed to overshadow her soul, anxiety to disquiet it. "When you entered her chamber, you felt that she was enveloped in an atmosphere of heavenliness and peace. When she mingled with the family-circle, she seemed like the denizen of a higher world come down on some errand of love.

"Assuredly, grace has seldom shone brighter in any vessel of clay. And for the honour of the Saviour and the consolation of His Church, the memorial of what was done in her, for her, and by her, ought net to be lost.

" Manchester, Dec 4, 1855."

Chapter I. Faqs

The key-note — Ancient fable — The earthen pitcher— Bacon— Birthplace — Early years — Natural attractions — Henry Martyn — " A religions man 1 ' — The bede-roll — The attic — Conflict — " Two masters 1 — The "three hundred and sixty-five religions" 1 — Leila Ada — The "new expedient'" — The bosom friends — Cowper — The felon — The pardon — The turning-point — "Seeing Jesus' 1 — Brainerd — Eeligiousness and godliness — "Annihilation of Religious self 11 — Bepose 15

Chapter II

Henry Martyn — " A resignation of the heart" 1 — " Whose am I ?"— The alternative — The test — The Geranium — "A living sacrifice" — Self-surrender — The "better part' 1 — The harvest — Worldly society — The line — Tersteegen — Self-denial — The new affection — "Degrees of worldliness' 1 — Half-reconciled— Blackheath — "Winning cheerfulness — Ireland — A duty— "Kept from the evil 1 ' " Jesus in company 11 —" Conscience in secret 11 24

Chapter III

Lord Bacon — "Another himself" 1 — Xew friendships — Instinct and grace — The "truant flower" — Heart never poor — Family-gathering— The Sunday-school— The district— " Win souls'"— "Old Betty 1 '— The prayer at the door — The sickle — The hope"'— Schiller

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The preparation— Labours— Health broken down— Yin et— Chastisements, sacrifices — Chain of sin — Cecil — "Do something"' — Tersteegen — "Bringing up,*' and " Bringing down 1 '' — The Invalid at the window — " Uncrossed lives" — Irish readers — A gleam of sunshine 44

Chapter V

The Blnmlis Alp— Torquay — Increasing illness — " Image of a suffering Saviour" — Praising the Lord in the fires — A snare of Satan — Real experience — "God's gentle pressure" — Unworldly, not unhuman — An incident — Lonely Sabbath — Idolatrous attachments — Herbert — A visit— Patience under little trials — A training-place for heaven — " A secret" 1 52

Chapter VI

** Our business" 1 — "Absorption in the Bible 1 * — The two silences — "Walk with God — Letter-writing — Christ's sympathy— Thorn in the flesh — Canticles — New devotedness — A congratulation — "Little confessions" 1 — "Mounting to the sky" — A silent communion — The cloud of witnesses — "Married to Christ" — Entering into Jesus — Fruit — Present service and future glory — God breathing through us — Return to Torquay

Chapter VII

"Living martyr"— Bacon— Cecil— " New tent in the wilderness" — " Clinging in the dark Prayer — The consecrated chair — A conversion — "Only one lite' 5 — Second Coming — Humility — God satisfied — The seed-basket — Love — The blank — "Marry in the Lord 11 — Improved health — Christ's Life — The vail of flesh — The pruning-knife — Another conversion — Leaves Torquay — Sympathy with Christ's joy 81

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Chapter VIII. Pagb

Bath — Keturn home — Chariots of angels — " Thought I was dying" — Another separation — ''Heart deep" — "Work on Canticles — "Drawing on God's forgiveness" — The one Book — The conflict — The muddy stream — God in little things — Forget-me-not — Self-examination — Watchfulness — " Bible enough'" — Eagged-school — The earthly house — " Balancings of the clouds" — Eeturn to Torquay 100

Chapter IX

The "highest attainment" — Another conversion — "In the world again" — A pervert — A Personal Christ and a personal devil — Cross-bearing — Discipline, its aim — Closer intimacy with God — "Eccentric philanthrophy" — Home-affections — The earthen vessel — The earnest—" Cannot be agitated" — A snare — The look — Working — The "talents" — "Dashing on the rock" — Payson — Ridley— A longing— Not Christianity, but Christ— The "meeting-place" — "Wilderness-lessons — A communion--" This do" — A retrospect — Final leave of Torquay 117

Chapter X

Diary — "Not streams, but wells" — Letter-writing— A test — Marriage — The "fatal calm" — " Eipen for glory" — "Senses exercised" — The primitive taste — Spirit breathing through us — Genial affections — Self-reproach — The Magnet — "Abetter communion" — "Treasures in heaven" — A bereavement — "An eternal present" — Meditation — Grace and sin — A gourd withered — " Expect" — Impotence and OmniDotence — " Playing with flowers" — Habakkuk — David — "Live upon God" — Self-sacrifice — " Money, money !" — " Ourselves" — The love-token — Christmas thoughts 143

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Chapter XI. Paoi

"Work on Canticles— The press—" Slighting the Word"— Gilding the pathway — A birthday wish — "^Tearing the port" — "Vivacious self-interest" — The thorns—" Dacis"— The furnace — " Only two men" — The Father's eye — Thankfulness — "Tides of love" — Christ for us — The two things — Her church — " My baseness" — Embittering the world — "The earthly hut' 1 — The Evil One — Keligious dissipation — " My leanness" 1 — Christ and bodily tiredness — The three visitors — A Tuscan prison— Sealing and witnessing — Unbelief and humility — " Our own clay" — Haifa Saviour — "That brink" — Christ leading the praises - Outward adorning — Clothed with immortality — Tinging of the dark cloud — Jesus a personal Friend—" The balm ' 163

Chapter XII

The daily resurrection — Mental trials and bodily — Another conversion — The heliotrope — "Seeing Jesus" — "Looking on Him" — " Handling 11 Him — "Nearer to Thee' 1 — The blood — "Do all for Christ 11 — Infancy of the heart — Christ in His right place — " The Church and the Churches 11 — Manifold discipline — Her book blest — Hours at the Throne — Strength revived — 7%t?lesson — Hebrews — Guidance — " One indulged sin" — Sanctification — Bright side of the cloud— Diary — Lowering lessons — "Covered with Jesus"— Battle-field 1S5

Chapter XIII

The family-affections — Christ and Antichrist — Her father's last illness — "Cried myself to sleep' 1 — Diary — Fruit ripe — Insensibility — "Fainteth not" — "But one sting' 1 — " We shall meet again" — Polishing other side of the stone — Occupy to-day— Anticipations — Closing scene — " All joy' 1 — " G-o up' 1 — Eesurrection — Recosnition — " Jesus wept" — " Come forth 1 ' — Unclothed state — At home in the body — Absent from it — " Clothed upon 11 — Left behind —

. Uppermos* feeling — Adoration — " Happy in his happiness 11 199

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School of affliction — New lessons — Isolation and desolation — Christ's body — The " daylight" — Diary— Breathings — " Glory" — River's brink and rivers side — A retrospect — The waves and ihe haven — "A thorough pilgrim" — " Not satisfied"' — The "higher occupation" — Satan's method of temptation — u Fighting in Canaan" — The burnt-offering — Visits — "Each moment's need" — "Xot understood" — Suffering and service — " Strengthening to carry the cross" — The worm at the root — Restraining grace — Study of Hebrew — Sanctifying wealth — A "weight" — "Sensitive to sin" — "Better home" — Future recognition — "Shut up to Jesus" — The oak and the storm 210

Chapter XV

Ritualism — "Outside things" — "Visiting the people" — High- Churchism — "My notions of the Church" — Only true value of life — Henry Martyn, at Calcutta and at Dinapore — Congenial home — The eternal day — Brainerd — God, not self — "Never wearies of me" — "No silent moments*' — "Turn your bed'' — Sick-room — The reward — Luther — Atonement — The " living sacrifice" — The fashioning of the "mystical body" — Infancy and manhood — Person of Christ — Answer to prayer, why delayed — ""Within three days" — The ravens — The " bruising" and the " darkness" — The "sacrifice" and the "burning lamp" — The misty atmosphere — The lambs and the sheep—" Dread not" I

CHAPTER XYI.

Portrait — Bible in hand — "Absorbed in God"— Strong Conflicts — Mental habitude — Diary — The orange -tree — Life a business — "Joy of the Lord" — The preparation — Krummacher — "The holy dove" — " Purging the floor" — The " two rests" — Unuttered groanings — Prophetic study — The "conflict in the land" — The " garment of praise" — The " waves" — " It is I " — V airing — Evans — Hewitson — Intercession — " Unripe fruit" — The valley — Health stationary — The Spirit and the flesh — Secret of usefulness —Tenderness and hardness — Earnest labour - 247

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" A real stratagem''— The child and the dog— Glimpses through the lattice — " A grasp of His hand" — Soft whispers — The shell and the kernel — " An uncertain sound*' — " Come up higher" — " Tender grapes"— Watch!— The narrow way — Infidelity — Sinaitic inscriptions — The buds and the fruit — Memoirs — The un clouded sunshine — Bodily depression — The white hyacinth — "Solitariness" — A "beloved Persis" — Maturing experiences — Intimacy with Jesus — The " wheel full of iron spikes" — The new wine of the kingdom — Melchizedec — The Man of Sorrows — Eesurrection — Ever-varying tides — " Traitor-like character" — The blind children — " Waiting upon God" — Bible"s adaptedness — A cure for " wretched spirits" — Ripened Christians 266

Chapter XVIII

Augustine — The Bible — A glimpse into her chamber — The bee — The exotic — "Sharpness" — "Perfect through sufferings" — "A little while" — "Brilliantly happy" — The Jew — Egypt — Sinaitic inscriptions — Hieroglyphics — Alphabet — Researches — '-Harbour insight" — God's immensity — Permission of evil — Prayer, " set speaking" and " athing" — Martin Luther — Thankfulness — Watching for souls — New sorrows and new joys — Aged Christians — Subdue dness — Satanic agency— The two ends — Oil-painting — Consecrated to God — Strokes upon the stones — The "south wind" — "Beg yourselves rich"— Self-possessedness — Lisht of affliction's fire— "All known to Thee"- 2S1

Chapter XIX

5The shell — Its native sea — Land of Beulah— Breaks in communion — Robert Bolton — "When shall lie dissolved?" — "Exalted" — "Going to be with Him" — Pilgrim experiences — "Momentary catches" — "A time-state"— The " perfect"— Eps and downs— The four wings — Self-sacrifice— Hie Same — The "house-devil"' exorcised — Soul-nakedness — Apathy — Foretastes — Emma Maurice—" Self-crushed" — Increasing weakness—" Singing for Jesus'' — Enoch — The pilgrim — Looking back — " Exalted above measure" — Faith and Conception — Bishop Ridley — "Heaven of communion'— David's life— The Potter's field— The spiritual body— The Lord 's appearing «

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Chapter XX. Pagh

Spenser— The "dark cottage" '—"New light" — "Now come I to thee"— "Pity thyself"'— The vails— Ruffled spirit— External ease — Diary — Visits — 'Work on Hebrews — Energy of purpose — "I owe it so much'"— -What sin is" — "My face on the ground" — Sympathies — Job's three friends— Longings — " Downright staggered'* — The Great-hearts— -Heaven's own bliss" — David — The Psalms — "No other path"' — "The provocation" — "Continued with me"' — Cowper— Contemplation — The eagle-pinion — Caleb — " God's joy" — Anticipated evil — " The Nazarue" — New discipline — Christian love — " Godliness"' — Sin of unbelief — "Useless grief" — " Sonship-positiou" — God in sufferings — Renewed elasticity — A glimpse into the sick-chamber — " Maturing for removal" 818

Chapter XXI

** Heaven begun" — Payson — Celestial city in view — " Most of me fled" — Diary — Labours — " Mastering death" — A message — God's pleasures — "Sinking into Christ" — Jesus prays — The bright cloud — The unchanging Priest — "Deep waters" — " Spoken for to God" — " Feeling the bottom*' — God unchanged — Mists — Brightened — "Verifying my experience by the Word" — Work on Hebrews — Irish Missions — Christ "showing Himself" — "Simple faith" — Prostrated — "All bright yonder" — "The grand whole" — A farewell — " Foundation-realities" — " Eemembering Him in the night-watches" — Legh Eichmond — Silent fortnight — "Looking heaven" — "Eock-like peace" — Payson — "Praise waiteth" — "Higher up" — A parting gift — "Never mind" — Eev. A, Dallas — The silent tear — "I icill get up" — Heavenly peace — Dismissal — Polycarp — Living martyrdom — " Sweetest Canticle'' —The Epitaph 343

Chapter I

" I long so earnestly to be growing in grace hourly — ' filled with the Spirit' — burning with love tc Christ, and Christians, and sinners — to be a reflection of Him in the world, and working whilst it is day." So wrote, on one occasion, the beloved disciple whose brief but bright course we are now to sketch. That aspiration was the key-note of her life.

It is fabled by an ancient poet, that, " when Hercules went to unbind Prometheus (a figurative personification of human nature), he sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot, or pitcher." And Lord Bacon, applying the fable to the Christian life, describes the saint as sailing most marvellously in the frail bark of the flesh, through the waves of the world, to that home where he shall be "free indeed."

It was emphatically a frail bark and a stormy ocean which carried Adelaide Newton to her haven. And others who are still on that ocean, " toiling in rowing," may be comforted mightily as they hear the articulate voice of Him who so often came to her, saying, " It is I; be not afraid."

The town of Derby cannot boast of many holy memories. But He who noted Bethany as "the town of Mary and of her sister Martha," has noted the birthplace of Adelaide Leaper Newton. It was on 1st March, 1824, that an infant, who was to leave behind her so precious a fragrance, was ushered into this vale of tears.

"Life," it has been said,

" Beginneth as a little path edged with the violet and primrose, A little path of lawny grass, and soft to tiny feet."

To Adelaide Newton, life's early years were eminently smooth and pleasant. Of a good family, and surrounded by every earthly luxury, she grew up into girlhood, her sunny morning betokening a cloudless day. " This sweet spot," we find her writing to a friend, on her return home after a short absence, " seems like an earthly paradise." And a singular aptness in acquiring each accomplishment to which she successively devoted herself, threatened, as she rose into womanhood, to entangle her still more firmly in the world's meshes. A surviving sister speaks of " her peculiarly sweet touch in playing, and voice in singing," which " made her music unusually attractive." Her delicate pencil, too, seemed to mark her out for no ordinary success in drawing. And graver attainments were added. "A natural talent for languages" found its development in the acquisition of various of the modern tongues ; and, in later years, she added to them Greek, Hebrew, and even a little Arabic. She "particularly delighted also in mathematics." And when, added to all this, was the

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idorninent of a " charming manner," whose graceful nodesty was " never for an instant spoiled by the praises which were continually heaped upon her in :he social circle," it will be seen that seldom has the world held out a more attractive allurement than to the subject of our Memoir.

"Like yourself," she writes, long afterwards to a school-companion, describing that season of her early joys, " my heart naturally clung very much to the world. Music was my great snare. I took infinite pains to play well, and delighted secretly in the commendation I got whenever I played before any one. Fancy now its being nearly four years since I have touched either piano or organ. And my singing, which I had once even more reason to be satisfied with, is probably for ever silenced. You cannot think how I thank God from my heart that He would not let me gratify the secret pride wnich was lurking in it, and which was stealing my love from Him."

Henry Marty n tells, that, in his student-days, when self and self-pleasing was as yet the centre of his soul, he contrived to pronounce himself " a reli - gious man." Adelaide Xewton, also, had, for many days, inscribed her name in the same bede-roll.

A child of parents who loved the Lord, scarcely bad she known the time when the "things of the kingdom" were strangers to her ear.

" Pleasant as it was," writes her governess, " to

teach her in the school-room, it was still more so to

be with her at the season for spiritual instruction.

She always appeared to enjoy those opportunities •

2* and on one occasion I remember she said, ' Tnauk you, I shall now go to sleep on the Rock of Ages.' "

And, as years went on, the "religiousness" had grown more intense. " On one occasion," sav^ her sister, "in 1835, when Mr. Greville was here i >r a few days, much that he said, both in the famib and to herself, deeply impressed her. And I well remember how, about that time, we were constantly reading Doddridge's l Rise and Progress,' Fletcher's 'Address,' and James' 'Anxious Inquirer.' " And in the following summer the " religiousness" assumed a still draper hue. The family had removed for a few mont'rs to a neighbouring village, to escape the small-pox which had seized virulently a member of the household. In an unfurnished attic of the house, Adelaide, and three others, used to spend — each unknown to the rest — many solitary hours in " devotional reading and in prayer." And the family governess writes : "From the beginning of 1837 to the end of 1839, I had a daily course of private Bible-reading and prayer with dear Adelaide at her own particular request."

But the " religiousness " did not give her rest, " I am the victim," we find her writing, " of the most distressing and pairful conflict, Sometimes I feel ready to give myself up almost to despair, while at other times I seem to enjoy religion. "When I look back upon the time when I think this conflict first began in me (which I believe is now six or seven years ago), I am tempted to believe that it is quite

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impossible that one who has trifled so long with such things, sinning Against such light and knowledge as I enjoy, shall ever be forgiven." And again : " I am so careless, and so unwilling to pray. Pray earnestly for me, and write faithfully to me. It will not be a small thin^ to deceive mvself on so all-important a subject."

And some years afterwards, referring to this period, she writes: "I can perfectly enter into all your feelings, because I have been in much the same state of mind myself. I was not happy in the world, and could not be, for there is nothing in it which can satisfy an immortal creature. I had no real enjoyment in anything, because I was trying to serve two masters. And this, I now see, cannot be : God will have the whole heart : His promise is, that we shall find Him when we search for Him with all our hearts."

And again, to the same friend : " I have often thought of you since you once wrote me a note saying you could serve God only as a duty. If this is still your feeling, I can assure you from my own experience, that it is only because your heart is not given up entirely to God. You are trying, as I too long did, to serve God and Mammon ; and therefore you find no true enjoyment either in the world or in religion. I know exactly how you feel, having had precisely the same conflict going on in my heart for a long time."

"Out of about 365 religions in the world," said a highly-educated Jew one dav to his beloved child, an accomplished and lovely girl of nineteen , as she was urging upon him the wonderful graciousness of that Divine Saviour whom she had found in the crucified Nazarene, "I don't think your's the easiest; people have to work so hard, and be so distressingly earnest, and so awfully solemn ; it makes me ill to think of it." " Ah !" replied the youthful convert, " this religion is a very happy and a very easy one. I have an inward peace and joy which is unspeakable. Jesus is precious ; He is Heaven ; He blesses me every moment. Oh ! his boundless love to me !"

Adelaide Newton had not yet found Him who was Leila Ada's all. " It is the constant life," says she, "of watchfulness and self-denial required of the Christian which fills me with despair." Her conscience not yet sprinkled with " the blood," she was without a leverage to move her- to willing service. Her heart, not yet attached to the Lord Jesus, was not, and could not be, detached from a world " lying in the wicked one."

A new expedient was now attempted.

" I did so much wish to see you," she writes, on the 27th April 1839. "You know that I have at times been very anxious about the state of my mind. Many indeed are the convictions God has most graciously granted me ; but they have been rejected and slighted. All this winter, however, I have been very much depressed in spirit, and at times quite miserable. When J was staying with us, she slept

with me. We often talked indirectly on religious subjects; but one night we got nearer and nearer

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home, till it ended in my opening my whole heart to her. This was no sooner done than I felt a burden taken off my mind, which has been weighing me down foi months. She gave me most precious advice. I had never spoken freely to any one before ; and you may imagine what a relief it was. O pray for me ! I trust God is bringing me by a way I know not."

And again, to another : u There is something within which keeps me from enjoying perfect peace. If I could once be sure that I am justified, then all would be right. I wish, more and more, every day, to see some clergyman who would tell me what he thought of me. Still, I can hardly think that God would have brought me so far to put me to shame."

But a brighter hope was now to dawn. " If," says Cowper, of the condemned felon, who, " in darkness and heart-chilling fears," hears the warder at his celldoor, about to lead him forth to death,

"If then, just then, all thoughts of mercy lost, When hope, long lingering, at last yields the ghost, The sound of pardon pierce his startled ear, He drops at once his fetters and his fear ; And transport glows in all he looks and spea!b», And the first thankful tears bedew his cheeks."

And the poet adds :

Joy, far superior joy, which much outweighs

The comfort of a few poor added days,

Invades, possesses, and o'erwhelms the soul

Of him whom hope has, with a touch, made whole,

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Tis heaven, all heaven, descending on the wings Of the glad legions of the King of kings. 'Tis more — 'tis God diffused through every part; Tis God Himself triumphant in his heart."

The bard of Olney himself knew little of this joy; but Adelaide Newton was now to realize it as her own.

One morning, at Leylands, at family worship, a visitor* read the third chapter of Colossians. Selecting the first verse — "If ye, then, be risen with Christ," he spoke emphatically of the " If," — urging the necessity of make sure of this starting point, setting forth Christ and His resurrection-life as the sinner's immediate privilege, and closing with an appeal on the duty of instant decision for Christ. The message went straight to Adelaide's heart. " The words," says her sister, " were used effectually by the Holy Spirit to decide her to be the Lord's."

When Jesus was on earth, the needy " drew near to Him," and found in Him immediate life. Adelaide Newton " drew near " to the same Saviour, and found the same immediate life. Before, she had gone with her burden to the creature ; but the creature could not solace. Now she went direct to Jesus Himself, and she was " accepted in the Beloved." " This," we find her writing, " is the only way to life and salvation — ' Come, and see Jesus.' This is the way to settle all objections. We may have a thousand difii-