lives. Your dear sister has left a number of letters. altogether on spiritual matters, which, if we live, I intend to copy and send to you. We cannot express the comfort your last sympathizing letter was to us, though they dared not show it to me, until some time after it was received. Do write when you can. Grandmother, Homan and all of us send our love to you, and the family where you live.

"From your affectionate parents,

"JEREMIAH AND MERCY HALLOCK.”

CHAPTER XVI.

Tour of preaching.-Unexpected spiritual joys.-Letter to a nephew. -Private fast.-Bodily illness.-Letters to a son.-] -Revival in 1816. -Letters to a son.-Letter to his brother.-Illness at Southampton. -Sickness of his younger son.--Trial in view of youthful vanity. -Letter to a son.—Joyful anticipation of heaven.

IN 1814, as in 1812, the Litchfield North Association, of which Mr. Hallock was a distinguished member, appointed several of its members to go, two and two, throughout the churches within its limits, to promote their spiritual interests. Mr. Hallock was one of the brethren designated for this service. The tour so much resembled some already noticed, that particulars may be omitted.

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Aug. 22, 1814, Monday morning. I am now setting out on a tour of preaching in the west part of this Association. Mr. Gillett is going with me. O Lord Jesus, wilt thou be with us, and with those who come to the eastern part of the Association. May we find thy people prepared, and be sent to them in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.'

"Sept. 2. To-day returned. We visited NorthCanaan, South-Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon, Ellsworth, Warren, Kent, South-Cornwall, North-Cornwall, and Goshen. In most of these places, attended two or three meetings. Were cordially received. Had agreeable meetings in all the places. Where there have been awakenings of late, the effects were visible.

"Jan. 22, 1815. Have been feeble and discouraged the past week, and looked forward to this day with trembling. But have been helped in every part of public worship, beyond my expectation, especially in the latter sermon, so that I came home refreshed in body and mind. O Lord, help me to thank and praise thy glorious name, now and for

ever.

"March 12. Though full of tossings the past night, worried and discouraged this morning, yet have had more freedom and mental comfort, and attention, all day, than usual. Bless the Lord, O my soul. God's spiritual law has been a pleasant theme; O let me never rest short of perfect conformity to it."

The letter, which follows, was written to a nephew, now Rev. William A. Hallock, Secretary of the American Tract Society, soon after a revival of religion in Plainfield, where he was then fitting for College with his father.

"Canton, March 18, 1815.

"MY VERY DEAR COUSIN WILLIAM-I thank you for your rich letter of February 4, so full of interesting intelligence. We have also received your father's letter of February 16, by Doctor P. This, too, was like cold water to one athirst. I do sincerely wish, that the few of our name might not be strangers to each other. What you write respecting our decayed, decaying, aged parents, is affecting, and full of

awakening instruction. As you live near to them, I hope your father will see that they have what is for their comfort. I hope, that we may all so honor them, as to be sharers in the first commandment with promise,' instead of being tortured, after their decease, with the harrowing accusations of a guilty conscience. The situation of my afflicted sister, your dear aunt P—, none can know, but by experience. How comforting to hear of her apparent faith, patience, and submission. O may she have the peace of Jesus. And though we meet no more on earth, yet may her hope be realized. How sweet, that eternal rest will be to the Lord's weary, almost fainting pilgrims!

"The prosperity of my beloved brother's family, is surely joy to me. But we must never depend on any earthly enjoyments, which are all fleeting as the wind, and withering as the grass and its flowers. Where is your late blooming, affectionate cousin Sarah ! Her pleasant form lies all withered in death! Yet, all God's outward blessings, viewed in their true light, are precious, and to be thankfully received, and piously used for Jesus and his cause. I am glad to hear, that you and your brother are studying, and that you make proficiency. I have long been of the opinion, that industry is not only essential to usefulness, but also to happiness. If those in heaven had nothing to do, or were they to become idle and inactive, I believe their happiness would cease.

"Give the love of my heart to your dear sister Martha and Miss D-- [two young converts] with

whom I conversed. How glorious indeed, my dear William, is their situation who are walking in the paths of peace, and preparing for a happy eternity; and how do they excel those who are grovelling in the dust, even though they should gain the whole world, and the Christian live and die in the most uncomfortable, destitute condition. In respect to your observations concerning yourself, I hardly know how to reply. You think, you have had little or no real sense of the divine perfections-of sin-of the hardness of your heart and its opposition; and that your late serious impressions in the awakening are abated, so that you shudder to reflect on your dread situation-the harvest past and you not gathered. But, how came you to be sensible of all this? It must be the awakening of his Spirit, and because it is still striving with you. It is much better to be even many years under distressing conviction, than to rest in the joys of a false hope. But there is hope in the free, almighty, sovereign grace of God in Christ. We know not, what God in his great mercy may yet do for you. I hope the prayers and good instructions of your anxious parents will not be lost. May God prosper you in your studies and shine into your heart, with the rays of his glory in the face of Jesus. I thank you for your affectionate notice of our dear Jeremiah, for whom my feelings have often been unutterable. I am feeble, yet through mercy, able to supply my pulpit. From, &c."

"Saturday, April 1, 1815. Having written for the Sabbath, and hoping brother Jerome will come and be with us to-morrow, I would devote this day