lucas ares

like a little
child, and expressed a great desire to be instructed, telling me that
she longed very often to come to me for instruction, and wanted to live
at my house, that I might tell her what was her duty.

She often expressed a sense of the glory of God appearing in the trees,
the growth of the fields, and other works of God's hands. She told her
sister who lived near the heart of the town, that she once thought it a
pleasant thing to live in the middle of the town, but now, says she, I
think it much more pleasant to sit and see the wind blowing the trees,
and to behold in the country what God has made. She had sometimes the
powerful breathings of the Spirit of God on her soul, while reading the
Scripture; and would express her sense of the certain truth and divinity
thereof. She sometimes would appear with a pleasant smile on her
countenance; and once, when her sister took notice of it, and asked why
she smiled, she replied, I am brim-full of a sweet feeling within. She
often used to express how good and sweet it was to lie low before God,
and the lower (says she) the better! and that it was pleasant to think
of lying in the dust, all the days of her life, mourning for sin. She
was wont to manifest a great sense of her own meanness and dependence.
She often expressed an exceeding compassion, and pitiful love, which she
found in her heart towards persons in a Christless condition. This was
sometimes so strong, that, as she was passing by such in the streets, or
those that she feared were