asked, "have I grieved any one?" It was replied, "No, you have done us all good; she said, "That is what I wanted, and if I should be but in the least degree a means of saving one soul, what a happiness would it be to my mind." Having paused a little, she said, "The world creeps in, but the Lord is a sun and shield; O still pray for me. Those words of Dr. Watts were mentioned to her :

"Could I but stand where Moses stood
And view the landscape o'er."

She instantly answered, "I am now viewing it." Again, she said, "Pray for me, I am getting very weak; but he will be with me, I am his. O Lord thy will be done." It was said to her, "A little longer my love;" she replied, "Yes, its at my heart. I have thought often," said she, "of Betsy James," (a pious young woman, who died happy some time since in South Wales); "I can say with her, I shall soon be in heaven, singing glory, glory, glory." Being asked if it were not painful for her to speak, she replied, "Never, never mind that, the pain of life will soon be past." I advised her to compose herself and get a. little sleep; she answered, "I cannot sleep, how can I?" It was asked, "Why?" She said, "Because I am going to heaven, I long to be dissolved and to be with Christ" and taking her father's hand, she said, "Feel my breast, I cannot live long." He answered, "No, my dear, your fluttering spirit will soon take its flight." She said, "O yes, it will gloriously." It was now about three o'clock on Tuesday morning, an hour we did not expect her to see. She begun to sleep a little, which she continued to do at intervals, till day light, when she became again wakeful, and said, "I thought I should have been in heaven this morning." Her father answered, "My dear, you will soon behold a brighter sun than this." She said, "I shall, and cast my crown before him, lost in wonder, love and praise." "Then," she said, " do impress what I have said on the Miss C.'s. I have for some time past felt great love for their souls ;" and added, "O father, I am very glad I thought of it, lend Miss C― Janeway's Tokens; it has been a great blessing to me." We then prayed with her, and when we had done, she said, "Come now, let me be swallowed up in God." Shortly after, she fell into a slumber, when all present thought the solemn mo

ment was come; and accordingly we all kneeled down around the bed, to commit her spirit into the hands of God. But, to our great surprise, she revived again. I purposely avoided saying any thing to her, knowing what exertions she had made in the course of the night, and wishing her to sleep. But her wakeful spirit led her to make many profitable observations, particularly on our Lord's promise to the dying thief, "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise," which she seemed to dwell upon with great delight. She said, "My body will not support the joy I felt some time since, but I am still happy. Do you think I have deceived myself?" I replied, "No, there is no reason to think that." "No," said she, "I have not." Then she said, "I have not the joy I had last night;" but I said, "You have the same confidence ?" "O yes," said she, "I have." After this, she lay musing some time, and then said with delightful composure, "My grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is made perfect in thy weakness." I said, "Have you still bright views of heaven?" "O yes, very glorious, just the same as last night; the Lord is with me, he will bring me off more than conqueror." In the evening the doctor attended her, and gave us some small encouragement to hope; and as she was desirous to know his opinion, it was with the utmost care communicated to her. She answered, "The will of the Lord be done; I am clay in the hands of the Potter; the Lord's will be done with me; he will bring me through." I observed that "Looking forward to the change was more painful than the change itself." "O," said she, "we must look beyond the change. I cannot help thinking how happy I shall be in heaven. Ollong to be gone." I said, "God loves you my dear:" she answered, "He does." Shortly after she said, "I choose neither life nor death." On Wednesday morning the enemy of souls made a dreadful effort to rob this precious child of God of her comfort; and for a time her çonflict with the powers of darkness was very great. She several times cried out, "OI cannot stay my mind on God ;" and as often repeated, "Pray for me ;" and a number of times we most solemnly and earnestly pleaded with God. I also read some hymns, and a chapter on the sufferings of Christ. Her face now began to recover its wonted gladness, and she said, "By the grace of God I will bear it with patience."

Her mind was now comfortable, and her countenance placid.

"Tell me," said she, "the promises;" and while I was reciting some of them she often repeated them with me, with the greatest apparent pleasure. In the course of the day she often exclaimed, "O Death, where is thy sting! O Grave, where is thy victory?" She often asked after her parents, and said, "I feel for them very much; "but when she was told that they were happy in her happiness, it seemed to give her great satisfaction. In the night she slept a little several times, and about one o'clock on Thursday morning she said, "I bless the Lord for helping me so far, it has been a comfortable night." From this time she was restless, desiring sleep; but unable to compose herself for many minutes together. The hand of death was evidently upon her, and about a quarter before five, on October 5th, 1815, she breathed out her happy spirit into the hands of her Redeemer, without a struggle or a groan.

MISCELLANEOUS.

ASBURY COLLEGE.

Ir affords us real satisfaction to be able to lay before our readers the following information, relative to The Asbury College, recently established in the City of Baltimore. Many sincere friends of Methodism have long realized the great deficiency in the methods and means of education; and have regreted the want of seminaries, under the special direction, and superintendence of that religious community to which they are united. A laudable zeal, for the establishment of such institutions, is now prevailing in different sections of the United States. The Asbury College has probably exceeded in its progress, considering the short time it has been established, any literary institution in this country. The character of the President, the Rev. Samuel K. Jennings, M. D. is too well known to need any recommendation from us. His comprehensive mind, illuminated by the principles of solid science, has long been employed in designing a system on which a knowledge of the important branches of literature might be obtained with the greatest ease and facility. The Plan, and actual operations of the Asbury College, will demonstrate that these exertions have not been ineffectual. The Constitution of this College makes it necessary that the President must forever be a Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Trustees are to be elected annually by ballot, who must be thirty years of age; of, at least, five years standing in the Methodist Church, and resident in Baltimore. Candidates for the itinerant ministry are to have tuition without charge; and, as soon as funds can be provided to defray the expence, any number of the sons of itinerant ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will also be admitted to the utmost extent of the means provided. And whenever ways and means can be procured, the candidates for the itinerant ministry will be

furnished with board and tuition to any number for which the necessary provi sion is made by the friends of the Institution. It will be the province of the Conference to recommend the candidates for each of these benevolent purposes

There are now about one hundred and seventy Students and Scholars in this Seminary, whose progress, taken collectively, surpasses any thing commonly exhibited in public Schools.

The communications from the Professors will give to the public some idea of their respective abilities, and of the probable efficiency of their plans of in

struction.

Professor Blackburn, by long experience, has acquired the talent of making the mathematicks both easy and delightful-an attainment as rare as excellent. And Professor Power, by an unusual attention to his department, has likewise introduced some very valuable improvements in the method of communicating classical learning.

THE EDITORS.

To the Rev. S. K. Jennings, M. D. President of the Asbury College of Maryland.

DEAR SIR,

Ballimore, January, 1818.

I report to you the progress of my department in this seminary. I do this the more willingly, because my pupils have been frequently applauded by you, and because many of them stand high in my own estimation.

In the short period of six months, since the commencement of my labours here, I have accomplished a task, which, I know has occupied two years in colleges, with the manners of which I am intimately acquainted, and which rank as respectable institutions in this country. I have carried two classes through the whole of Euclid, plain and solid, in the modern way, or rather in my own way; through Mensuration of surfaces and solids: also through Logarithms; the theory and practice of plane Trigonometry, Surveying, &c. One class has finished simple equations in Algebra, and a second, quadraticks, and a few have progressed in the theory and practice of Spherics.

Yet notwithstanding this great attention to the Mathematicks, the progress of my whole department, in the minor branches, is very remarkable. Geography has been taught by methods peculiarly my own, and with uncommon success. To reading, writing, cyphering, and grammar, we have paid great attention, and in all these our improvement merits praise. The sum is :—we have attended to the sciences as if they were our only employment; and to the minor branches as though the sciences were no part of our study.

Some of these branches have caused immense trouble to myself and to my pupils, owing, chiefly, to the difficulty of unlearning bad habits, which they had, almost universally, acquired. This part of our task has called for no ordinary exertions. We have found it an Herculean labour, and such it continues to be, and such it will continue to be, until our pupils can be entirely educated from the very beginning, upon the plan we have adopted. But we have undertaken a great work, and we must not be deterred by difficulties, whilst we possess the means to surmount them. To describe all those minutely, and to designate the means I have used to obviate them, would exceed the compass of a letter. I assert that there never was placed in my hands a more heterogenous mass of materials, crude, and unprepared, wholly unacquainted with the true method of science;-they had every thingto learn; yet the greater part have done well, and many merit the highest praise.

You saw my notice preparatory to the late examination, and you enquired with some degree of earnestness, if what I proposed to do, was possible. I perceived that you were incredulous, and perhaps afraid that I should commit myself. I had the pleasure to tell you in the Eutaw church, before highly respectable auditors, that I had fulfilled my promise, and that I had never witnessed an examination of superior merit in Europe or America. If any should deem this vanity, I care not, I now repeat my assertion.

If I have any real claims to the praise that some of my friends have bestowed upon me, I freely own that I owe much to my experience in America. Seventeen years, the most valuable part of my life, have been occupied in the southern states. There I have been a pioneer of science; and I have the pleasure to know, that my toils there are known and respected.

I was strongly prejudiced in favour of the method of the Grecian schools, or rather, in favour of this method as used in the schools of the British Empire. But I soon found it necessary to adopt a plan widely different from their prolix and tedious manner; and, in many respects, new;-at least new to myself. 1 was opposed by ignorance, presumption and prejudice; but I persevered, and I now find that this new method will probably prevail. It is adopted in the military and marine academies of France and England, and it will soon be the only one used in the United States.

I expect that we shall be able, during this year, to introduce the higher sciences amongst our students. With many of them the preparatory work is already done, and the foundation laid for an excellent superstructure.

My time in this country has been, almost wholly, devoted to the business of teaching, and to collegiate discipline. I have therefore given my attention principally to matters of utility rather than of speculation. I have acted under the impression, that the teachers best calculated to do real good, are they who can, with ease and clearness, explain the works of the illustrious inventors and discoverers who have preceded them ;-and who, as far as possible divest them of their technical form and phraseology.

I congratulate you, Sir, upon the dignified and liberal plan, that your trustees have adopted. They contemplate their professors, as men who possess zeal and talents, and who are not to be unduly controled. They have wisely ordained, that their teachers shall give proofs of their fitness, and that they shall not be finally appointed or displaced, but by a large majority of the board. -They moreover give to them all the profits of their toil. Under such circumstances, there can be here no scramble for the loaves and fishes. It will be impossible for an incompetent man, however well supported by his friends, to hold an office in this institution, and to hang as a dead weight upon it: such things I have seen in other places.

Permit me, Sir, to express my grateful sense of the conduct observed toward me, by you and the trustees; in their unanimously conferring upon me, the professorship of Mathematicks, Philosophy and Astronomy, requiring only my previous consent; I appreciate this as the strongest proof of their confidence in me.

Long accustomed to occupy the chair of professor in other colleges, there was no charm for me in the title, and indeed I had determined never again to wear it. I thought to bestow the remainder of my life on the improvement of youth in a system of my own, and was on my way to effect this object, when I accidentally became acquainted with you. I liked your plan, and I soon discerned in you, those qualities that are essential in every public institution. I mean industry, talents, and decision; wherever the professors of a college unite these qualities, with real skill in their several departments, and where