“She is thankful to have been enabled to read and understand her bible.—It was for some time a sealed book to her; she read it as a duty, but did not feel its power; she was convinced something was wrong in herself, and one evening, after having suffered much unhappiness at not being able to enjoy her bible as some did, she locked her cottage door, closed her shutter, spread her bible on her little table, and with tears, in earnest prayer, begged that God would show her her error, and the way of true happiness. She chanced to have opened her bible at the 16th of St. John, and her eye caught the verse, ‘Hitherto hast thou asked nothing in my name, ask and thou shalt receive, that thy joy may be full.’ This verse powerfully impressed her mind with the mistake she had been guilty of. She pleaded ever after the intercession of her Mediator, and has constantly enjoyed that peace and comfort his blessed word so fully promises.” The same lady writes:— “The simplicity of a little child may not be uninteresting to those who wish to trace the use of the bible, in its effects upon the poor.—A boy of eight years old, seeing his old grand-mother overwhelmed with grief at a severe loss of property, which she was quite unequal to retrieve, went up and kissing her, said, ‘Pray don’t grieve, God will be sure to take care of you.—The bible tells us, he is a friend to the widow, and that must be true.’ The poor woman was so struck by the earnestness of the child, that she made up her mind not to grieve, but to trust in God, and she is now happy and cheerful again.” She adds of another person who had lingered many years in acute suffering, and whose departure was at length drawing near:— “Poor Mrs. W. continues to evince most strikingly the power of the bible to give comfort and support in the greatest need. She said to me,—‘What would have become of me, had I been born in a heathen land, without a bible to rest upon?’”