into the room, and observing some little delicacy lying upon the window untouched, exclaimed, "Why, how is it that you have been here all this time and have n't taken that?" "Because I must be con—" "Do you mean that you must be conscientious?" "Yes, I did n't take it, because it was n't mine."

At the tender age of five years, she evinced much thought and feeling on the subject of religion. At this time, she began to have particular seasons for prayer, and was often overheard to say, "O Lord, destroy all my sins!". So far as can be ascertained, these impressions never left her.

She was early characterized by great refinement of feeling, and a sense of propriety which seemed intuitive. When about six years of age, she visited a sister who was teaching school. Being invited by some of the scholars to go home with them at noon, she asked and obtained leave to do so. Not many minutes had elapsed, when her sister observed her returning in haste. "Why, Henrietta, what does this mean? Why are you back so soon and alone?" "In the other room, their mother asked them what they brought that little girl home for, when they knew she had nothing for dinner but brown bread. You don't think I would stay then?"

Though remarkably affectionate, yet in an unusual degree did she rely upon herself. In the creations of her own imagination, in her books and solitary plays, she could always find entertainment.

Towards everything that lived she was extremely gentle and tender-hearted. This natural kindness was also manifested in her consideration for the feelings of others. If tempted momentarily to resentment, her unwillingness to give pain seemed a motive sufficient to overcome the temptation. And this reluctance to

occasion uneasiness to others led her to conceal her little sufferings and sorrows.

Her feelings of benevolence were early attracted into the missionary channel. She loved to talk about the heathen children, and to pray for them.

When in her seventh year, Dr. Jackson received a visit from a clergyman, who, by the blessing of Heaven upon the labors of himself and others, has since witnessed the springing of a nation from barbarism into the Christian state. This gentleman became so interested in the little Henrietta, that he afterwards gave a particular account of her to Mr. Evarts. That year she had poured the contents of her treasury one dollar and twenty-five cents—into the missionary-box, expressing the desire to become herself a teacher to the heathen. "And who knows," said he, in finishing his story about this dear child, "who knows but that she may yet be a Harriet Newell?"

Unlike other children, she preferred the study of nature and intellectual pleasures to the childish sports common to her years. At that age she seldom attended school, but by her own efforts at home, with only incidental instruction, she attained the rudiments of her education. She delighted to task her powers, and to solve her own difficulties. In mathematics she especially excelled.

An orphan lad in the family, of her own age, would often puzzle over his sums, and then go to her. Said he, "Henrietta has only to shut her eyes, and she can answer any of the questions."

In the memory of her friends is a vivid image of this gentle little girl, as she used to sit in a rocking-chair, with one hand laid upon the arm of the chair and a book in her lap or before her, rocking gently or rapidly according to her mood. Thus would she sit hour after

hour, entirely absorbed in her book, or in her own reflections.

For a mind like hers, there were undoubtedly peculiar advantages in this course of self-training. He powers were early matured, but it was by no hot-bed process of stimulation. In their action they were natural, healthful and vigorous.

Her intellectual character was strongly marked. She had a quick perception, and an intuitive power of insight. Through the outward manifestations of character, she looked into its impelling motives, its fundamental elements. Her clear vision rested not on the surface of things, but searched into their hidden depths. Beneath mere facts she discerned verities and principles.

As a scholar, if not distinguished for brilliancy, she was discriminating, persevering and thorough, mastering the great principles of any subject with which she grappled. Not content with a surface-knowledge, she would investigate and compare till she reached its primary elements.

Thus was laid the foundation for the superstructure afterwards reared. A complete investigation and understanding of any practical matter seemed with her a substitute for the initiatory practice usually necessary. As a friend remarks, "She was as ready for a thing, if she had studied it, the first as the fiftieth time."

She showed an early fondness for books which tax the mind and discipline its powers, and even from her childhood she was greatly interested in intellectual conflicts, being a delighted listener to those discussions of a metaphysical character which so often occur around the pastor's fireside. Although there was an air of sedateness in her general appearance, she had a

quick sense of the ludicrous, and a keen relish for repartee, having a peculiar enjoyment of her father's quiet humor, at which she was wont to laugh most heartily.

At the age of twelve she left home to attend the school of her sister Margaret, then teaching in Rutland, Vermont.

Under the nurturing care of her judicious and excellent parents, the development of her social, mental and moral nature had, up to this time, been beautifully harmonious; and, by a shorter process than usual, she was now nearly prepared to step from childhood into womanhood.

"Standing with reluctant feet

Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!

"Hear'st thou voices on the shore,
That our ears perceive no more,
Deafened by the cataract's roar?”

EARLY SCHOOL-DAYS AND LOVE

OF NATURE.

"And lo! unto the child,

From out each single, silent flower,
Some holy angel smiled;

And ever to the child there dwelt

Upon the perfumed air

The sound of holy orisons,

Of matin and of prayer."

SOON after Henrietta went to Rutland, she received a letter from her mother, so full of maternal affection and scriptural counsel, that we cannot forbear giving it almost entire.

* "Go to your Bible. There you will find instructions, precepts and examples, to guide both your thoughts and your actions, and teach you how to order your conversation aright. Let it always be seasoned with grace, and whatever you do, let it be in meekness and in the fear of God. Read a chapter in your Bible every morning and evening, for it contains the words of eternal life. If you take heed to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, it will keep your feet from falling, your eyes from tears, and your soul from death. If you have a relish for spiritual things, the truths of the Bible will become the precious bread of life, on which your soul will feed, and be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. If you will listen to the word of God, and set your heart to walk in his ways, you shall want no good thing. You shall have honey from the rock and