You have learned to mistrust your own strength, to seek it where alone it can be found, to examine your every action by the Word of God, and with these feelings you are safe.

My Caroline will not fail in duty to her husband or herself." "Nor to you, my mother, my devoted mother!" exclaimed Caroline, as she fondly kissed her.

"It is to you, next to my God, I owe this blessing; and oh, if it be my lot to be a mother, may I be to my children, as far, at least, as one so much inferior in piety and virtue can be, what you have been to me.

Oh, might I but resemble you, as my full heart has so lately longed, St.Eval might be happy!" At the earnest entreaty of St.Eval and Caroline, both families consented that the ceremonial of their marriage should take place in the same venerable church where the first childish prayers of Caroline had ascended from a house of God, and the service be performed by the revered and pious rector of Oakwood, the clergyman who, from her earliest childhood, she had been taught to respect and love, as the humble representative of Him whose truths he so ably taught.

Caroline had consented to name the second week of September as the period of her espousals.