Peace to your slumbering dust! For you have 'scaped the cares that must Yours, yours the eternal gain. Who here for you was slain. That loving Saviour says: Dear Lord, we hear thee-and are dumb,* No; we will not forbid Our darlings to depart; Though long the barb of grief be hid In each surviving heart. We also know thy voice; t Thy faithfulness we know ; And, though we suffer, we rejoice Correspondence Department. MR. EDITOR, DESTITUTE FEMALES. A MOTHER. I am glad to avail myself of your pages, to present to my Christian sisters an opportunity of doing good, which many, if they knew, would I doubt not gladly embrace. Being on the committee of the Servants' Home, Millman Place, I can speak that I know, and testify that I have seen." Although, strictly speaking, the design of the institution is a lodging-house for servants, yet until the funds of the society admit of a separate asylum being provided for indigent females, the feeling of benevolence by which the committee of management are actuated compel us to receive the destitute cases into the same house, though separated from the lodgers. Some of the indigent have been so reduced by sickness and other causes as to be quite unprepared to accept any situation, being almost literally without clothes. Our funds are not adequate to supply them gratuitously, and in many instances we deem it unwise to burden their wages (ofttimes very low) with a debt in advance.-For these I plead, and if ladies would entrust us with the disposal of some of their cast-off clothes we think we could turn them to good account. Allow me to suggest to your fair readers that they are not only responsible for what they give, but how they give, and it behoves every one to bestow what they can spare where they believe it will do the most good. Even here there is room for the exercise of that "mercy which is twice blessed, which blesseth him who gives and him who takes," which is surely better than to minister to the greedy appetite of those who are already full, who regard what you give but as a perquisite to which they are entitled, and in many cases goeth but to feed their vanity or extortionate desire for gain. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, A member of the Committee. STATE OF FEMALES IN IRELAND. MY DEAR SIR, * With feelings of no common gratification I hasten to answer your kind letter: nor can I adequately express the thankfulness of my heart at being even in the least degree permitted to aid a cause such as that in which the London Female Mission are so happily engaged. And I only regret my ability not being equal to the sincere and ardent desire which I feel to be of any material service to my dear Christian * An application to write on the "State of Females in Ireland." brothers and sisters in that truly noble country which has ever come forward to comfort and aid my own in all her sorrows and all her wants, and with still unwearied kindness seem, the more we need her love and assistance, only disposed to love and assist us the more. Owing to my dear parents' residence being in this beautiful but remote part of Ireland, my knowledge is too limited, and my experience not sufficient to afford your commmittee the required information on a subject so interesting and important to my poor country women; yet I have no hesitation in stating my deep conviction, that the sad state of degradation in which the poor Irish female exists from her cradle to her grave chiefly arises from ignorance, with no or a very imperfect knowledge of the English language. She remains shrouded in the night of mental gloom, "living without God and without hope in the world," virtually denying the Lord who bought her, by entreating the Virgin Mary, the angels and the saints to intercede for the remission of sins, to make a full, perfect, and sufficient atonement for which he shed his precious blood. Oh! if amid all the advantages which the females of our sister land enjoy-the light, the liberty, the Christian instruction-they call so loudly for the labours of the London Female Mission, what must our poor neglected Irish-speaking peasantry demand? They demand what has long been withheld from them, the word of God in their own native language, the language into which they generally believe no heresy can be translated; and (thanks be to God) they are now receiving it. The time seems now come when, through the instrumentality of the Irish Society, the gospel is to be preached to the poor of this country. The Irish reader has al ready passed over the most solitary mountains of Kerry; he has pierced into her deepest glens; he has proclaimed the glad tidings of salvation to the wild untutored inmates of her lowliest cottages; hundreds that cannot speak a word of English are hearing and reading the tidings of great joy in their native tongue.-Their little children are now receiving Christian instruction, and the rudiments of useful knowledge, in the school at Ventry, which the unceasing labour of the Rev. C. Gayer, of Dingle, has provided for them. We are accused," writes that beloved minister, of bribing the converts;" but could our enemies see sixty of their poor little children almost naked in the school-room this cold weather, cheerfully studying their lessons, they could not say so. And not only has the word of God been joyfully received by these poor Irish, but some among them have taken up the cross and gone among their neighbours entreating them in the energetic expressions of their own language, to believe in Him only whose blood cleanseth from all sin. Several of their infants have lately been admitted by baptism into the Church of England, and that baptismal service, to the delight of the fond parents, has been read in Irish. A clergyman's residence is now being erected, and a church will shortly be commenced at Ventry, amid the wildest solitudes of this interesting country, in a spot where not many months past all was dreary superstition or total ignorance, and where the life-proclaiming gospel of our Lord and Saviour was a sound unknown. Are we too sanguine in expecting that funds will not be wanting to finish that church commenced in faith, and in which an Irish-speaking clergyman (himself a convert from the church of Rome to the church of Christ,) is to declare in accents dear to the Irish heart the glad tidings of redeeming love? No! to use Mr. G.'s own words, that pious minister to whose exertions under the divine blessing we are indebted for such great, such animating success; "I feel assured we shall not want money, the work is the Lord's and so is the silver and the gold." Should any of the readers of the Females' Advocate wish for further information on this subject, a little work entitled "Tales of Erin, by the author of Futurity," may afford it. The profits accruing from this little work (now preparing for publication) will be devoted towards the erection of that church, in which we trust many of the poor long-neglected children of Erin may become children of God and heirs of eternal life. E. C. Review Bepartment. Spiritual Pleadings and Expostulations with God in prayer, interspersed with Helps to Meditation, and Hints for Faith, Comfort, and Holiness. By Thomas Harrison, D. D., a new edition; carefully revised and corrected, by the Rev. Peter Hall, M.A. London, Davis and Porter, 1838. 12mo. pp. xvi. 267. THE author of the volume here announced was Chaplain to Henry Cromwell, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, during the protectorate of his father Oliver in England. The editor was one of the earliest friends. of the Female Mission; of whose official services though now deprived, we know we may still rely with confidence on his attachment and support.. The former portion of the work was originally delivered in the shape of a sermon on Job xxiii. 3, 4. The subsequent part consists of "Heads of argument," suggesting a succession of topics deduced from scripture, and adapted to various cases of affliction, chiefly, but not solely, spiritual. At the end are subjoined "Complaints concerning many things that are amiss |