when we happen to consider the subject, in nothing more than in reference to the papers we regard as

reverent hand those Her hand will not be assert her ownership,

private. We turn over with belonging to the sainted dead. laid again on those papers to and her voice will not be raised to protest against any use we make of them. But we would not employ them as she would not wish them to be employed. We forget not how soon some one must use similar discretion concerning any trace of our doings.

Miss D. expressed no wish concerning her papers. It is probable that the thought of their being used in the compilation of a memoir never occurred to her. Yet her friends have reason to know what would have been her judgment, if convinced that good was likely to be done, by making any portion of them known. During several years of her brief life she earnestly sought the glory of her Saviour, and especially in the early conversion and godly life of the youthful around her. She was not accustomed to consult her own feelings when there was the opportunity of commending the Lord Jesus to a youthful mind. The responsibility of selection, and of connecting narrative, must rest of course with the writer. But the friends of Miss D. are not embarrassed by any misgiving concerning the views which would have been taken by her, had she been consulted. She would doubtless have said, "Let Christ be magnified, whether it be by the records of my short sojourn on earth being entirely and at once committed to the flame, or by some portion of them being put into a permanent form and rendered accessible to the public." In the judgment of several, Christ will be magnified by some memorial

of the grace of God in our departed friend. Those youthful pilgrims, and they are not a few, who used to listen with interest and profit to her instructions concerning the heavenly way, and who were thus cheered, and guided, and strengthened, will be pleased and benefited by having the opportunity of more fully tracing the footsteps of their friend now glorified. Others who knew her not may be assisted to enter the path to the holy city wherein she now dwells, or to press forward along that path.

Sophia Denham was of Methodist extraction. Her maternal grandfather was a Methodist preacher, the Rev. W. Arnett, who entered the ministry in 1811, and was removed to the heavenly world in 1838. On her father's side, Miss D. was a Methodist of the fifth generation. Her father, the Rev. Thomas Denham, after many years toil in the itinerancy, still lives, devoting such strength as is spared to him, to the furtherance of the glorious work in which the best of his energies have been employed. Sophia's grandfather, Mr. Edward Denham, was a Yorkshire Classleader, greatly esteemed in his day, and his wife Grace, who died suddenly about a year after the birth of her eighth child, is still remembered as a model of Christian excellence. We must go farther back to mention the name of one other worthy included in the Methodist lineage of our departed friend. The grandfather of Sophia's grandmother Denham was a Methodist preacher, and one who was well known in his day, Mr. Parson Greenwood, one of the early Methodist Preachers.

Parson Greenwood was a notable man. the ranks of the Itinerancy in 1762.

He entered The first burst

of phrensied opposition, with which the revival of the old religion was received, had partially spent itself. But men were still wanted who were prepared to do and dare to the very death. Magistrates were beginning to understand that a Methodist Preacher must not be thrown into a horse-pond to drown, nor be tarred and feathered, nor be mained by brick-bats, nor in any similar manner be injured. But the doctrines of salvation were received by many with derision and contempt. The men who preached salvation from sin through Christ Jesus were still hated by many in most places. Men were needed who would hazard all for the sake of the Lord Jesus. Among those who were raised up, qualified, and sustained, by the Great Head of the Church, was Mr. Greenwood.

One who was himself a burning and shining light, Mr. John Pawson, rejoiced to have as his colleague in the Birstal Circuit, Parson Greenwood and designates him “an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile." Mr. Wesley, himself, refers to this "helper" of his, in his sermon on "the Education of Children." Mr. Wesley is maintaining that the tempers of children, by kind and judicious firmness may be so far subdued that loud and passionate crying shall be unknown in the family; and yet the child shall not be divested of that proper elasticity of spirit needful for future life. Having referred to the family trained by his own mother, who "had ten children, each of whom had spirit enough; yet not one of them was ever heard to cry aloud after it was a year old," Mr. Wesley brings forward the testimony of Parson Greenwood, delivered when the training of children was the subject of consideration. "When some were objecting to the

possibility of this, Mr. Parson Greenwood, (well known in the North of England) replied, 'This cannot be impossible: I have had the proof of it in my own family. Nay, of more than this. I had six children by my former wife; and she suffered none of them to cry aloud after they were ten months old. And yet none of their spirits were so broken, as to unfit them for any of the offices of life."" Some may be disposed to think that, perhaps, the induction of facts scarcely sustained the wide generalization of Mr. Wesley and his helper. Yet we cannot but think that the home of the early Methodist Preacher must have been a happy as well as quiet dwelling. Those who most grievously err in the training of their own children would prefer to spend a leisure hour at the fireside of a friend who had a wife like Mrs. Parson Greenwood to spending it at a fireside around which the training resembled that allowed by themselves. Thanks to the veteran for his lesson. The holy stillness of his home no doubt solaced him when "the six weeks' round" had been accomplished. Reflection thereupon does us good. We cannot fully trace the benefit of such godly discipline. But we are certainly now thinking of the Christian life of his grandaughter's grandaughter.

During the early part of the present century Parson Greenwood was a connecting link between the Methodism of early times, and of modern days. There are some in Leeds who can remember the patriarchal man, and who still repeat some of the sayings uttered by him in the pulpit, and class-room, and elsewhere. Until a few months before his death, he was strengthened to declare the Truth as it is in Jesus. "At the last Christmas Quarterly Meeting he rose up, and

leaning on the top of his staff, gave a most impressive and solemn charge to all present, and informed them that he believed it was the last quarterly meeting he should ever live to attend. A few weeks aftewards he sickened, and with calmness and composure resigned his body to death, and his spirit into the hands of him who gave it."

Parson Greenwood had completed his eighty-third year when called to the rest of the glorified in heaven. His descendant, whose footsteps we now strive to trace had only recently completed her twenty-first. Το many who knew her it seemed as though she was just entering on a course of usefulness which would result in much glory being given to her Saviour, and in much advantage being conferred on those around her, especially the youthful. Several dear children were looking up to her as a spiritual adviser to whom they could speak more freely than to others of riper years. To us it seemed as though she could not well be spared. To the Lord it was apparent that she had better be summoned home. We know not the reason, yet bow submissively to the decree. "Clouds and darkness are round about him: Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne." The removal of youthful disciples ought to teach survivors this lesson at least, to seek with all earnestness the accomplishment of our life-task. The Master gives to us no information concerning the termination of the night-watch, yet renders it possible for each of us to ensure perfect and abiding bliss. "Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will