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 MEMOIRS 
 
 OP 
 
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 DAUGHTER OF JOHN JACOB AsTOR ESQ. 
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 The only amaranthine flower on earth 
 Is virtue ; the only lasting treasure, truth. 
 
 NEW YORK : 
 JOHN S. TAYLOR, 
 
 Juvenile and Sunday School Bookseller, Corner of ParK 
 Row and Spruce Street. 
 
 1839. 
 

 
 
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 Entered according to Act'.of Congress, ?n the year 1839, 
 
 ' BY' JoAw'S. TAYLOR,*' 
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TRANSPLANTED FLOWERS. 
 
 There's many a flower, that proudly springs 
 
 Amid the gaudy world's parterre, 
 Still fann'd by Fashion's painted wings, 
 
 To Folly dear, 
 
 Whose flaunting netals woo the sun, 
 Fearless of Beauty's transient lot, 
 But wither ere the day is done, 
 
 Unwept, forgot. 
 
 Yet some there are, that bloom apart, 
 
 With meekly consecrated charm, 
 Whose gifts of fragrance cheer the heart, 
 
 Like healing balm. 
 
 O'er the blest spot, where once they grew, 
 
 The eye of Love, its tear doth shed, 
 And Pain and Penury bedew 
 
 Their funeral bed. 
 
 
 M1I1762 
 
Vlll TRANSPLANTED FLOWERS. 
 
 But 'neath an everlasting beam, 
 
 They smile where no dark cloud descends ; 
 Their's was that hallow'd incense-stream 
 
 Which heavenward tends. 
 
 Unfading, lo ! they live, they bloom, 
 
 Transplanted by His culturing hand 
 Who bids us seek, beyond the tomb, 
 
 A better land. 
 
 L. H. S. 
 
 

 
 MEMOIR 
 
 OP 
 
 MRS. RUMPFF. 
 
 

 
PREFACE. 
 
 IT is now almost a quarter of a century 
 since the present general peace which prevails 
 throughout Europe, and, we may add, the 
 rest of the world, commenced its reign. 
 This auspicious era dates from the memorable 
 and decisive battle of Waterloo. During this 
 period of peace, almost unparalleled, for its 
 length, in the history of modern times, the 
 wars which have occurred have been, with 
 few exceptions, short in duration ; and all 
 have been of very limited extent. 
 
Xll r PREFACE. 
 
 The blessed fruits of this protracted and 
 widely extended tranquillity in Europe have 
 been manifold. In almost every country on 
 that continent, very perceptible progress has 
 been made in extending the benefits of educa- 
 tion, in advancing the useful arts, in ameliora- 
 ting oppressive laws, in promoting morality, 
 and in elevating the masses of society. We 
 are far from saying that anything more than 
 a beginning has been made. But what we 
 do most confidently affirm is, that a begin 
 ning has been made. 
 
 Still more and better ; true religion, the 
 pure Christianity of the Bible, has certainly 
 begun to revive in almost every part of the 
 continent. Through the increased diffusion 
 of the sacred Scriptures, which has been 
 effected, to a greater or less extent, in almost 
 every country on the continent, a decided 
 
PREFACE. Xlll 
 
 impulse has been given to the cause of evan- 
 gelical piety. Here and there, the seeds of 
 divine truth, which have fallen from the hand 
 of the sower, are beginning to vegetate. 
 Some germs have even become visible. And 
 though a moral desolation, wide and deplora- 
 ble, still prevails, and affects the hearts of 
 those who love God and the souls of their fel- 
 low men, yet the few and scattered flowers 
 which now appear throughout its extent, are 
 fragrant and beautiful, and like the violets 
 and their companions of the opening spring, 
 are the precursors of the nearness and the 
 glory of the summer and of harvest. 
 
 In no country, however, on the continent, 
 has a more pleasing, or a more extensive re- 
 suscication of evangelical religion commenced 
 than in France. And yet France is one of 
 the last countries, perhaps, in which we 
 
 2 
 
XIV PREFACE. 
 
 should expect to see this happy regeneration 
 take place. For it was in France, that for 
 two hundred and fifty years, with few inter- 
 missions, exterminating persecutions raged ; 
 and so many Protestants suffered death for 
 Christ's sake, that it is matter of wonder that 
 any who bear that name should be found 
 there in this day. It was in France that, 
 within the last one hundred years, infidelity 
 became so universally diffused by the writings 
 of Voltaire, Diderot, D'Alembert and others, 
 and where the awful events of, what is, by 
 emphasis, called, the Revolution, occurred, 
 and which filled all the world with astonish- 
 ment. 
 
 This increase of true religion in France is 
 perceptible in the growing soundness of doc- 
 trine, zeal, and fidelity, among a very consider- 
 able number of that portion of the Protestant 
 
PREFACE. XV 
 
 clergy of the kingdom who preach in the 
 churches maintained by the State ; in the 
 daily augmenting number of chapels which 
 are springing up in different parts of the 
 country, by means of the efforts of the Evan- 
 gelical Society of France, and other similar 
 societies ; as well as in the multiplied exer- 
 tions of Bible and Tract, and other religious 
 Institutions which have been established 
 within the last twenty years. 
 
 And although the number of the truly pious 
 in France is still small, and the greater part 
 of them among the poor of this world, whom 
 God still chooses, as He has generally in 
 all ages done, to make them his people, 
 yet we can bear record, that their zeal is 
 most ardent, and their liberality in every good 
 work, not only great but even extraordinary. 
 They are to be found in small numbers, in 
 
XVI PREFACE. 
 
 insulated and still widely separated groups 
 throughout the kingdom. In no one city, 
 town, or village, is their number great, or 
 their force considerable. Even in Paris, and 
 in Lyons, and in Nismes, and in Toulouse, 
 and in Orleans, and in Rochelle, where there 
 is more evangelical religion, perhaps, than in 
 any other places in that country, the entire 
 number in each place, of those who are truly 
 interested in the kingdom of God hardly 
 exceeds a few hundreds, and by far the 
 greater part of them depend, under God, 
 upon their daily labour for their daily main- 
 tenance. 
 
 It is not inconsistent with the general rep- 
 resentation which has just been made, to 
 state that, though the mass of the truly pious 
 in France, at this time, are persons who 
 possess but little of this world's wealth or 
 
PREFACE. XVII 
 
 influence, God has, in mercy, raised up some 
 men in Paris, and in other places, of much 
 intelligence, sound judgment, devoted piety, 
 considerable influence, and a few of some 
 wealth, whose joy and whose honour it is to 
 consecrate their talents, their influence, and 
 their property to the service of God their Sa- 
 viour. Still more : He has raised up some 
 very pleasant, though small, circles of influ 
 ential ladies who hesitate not to employ their 
 influence, their time, and their means for the 
 promotion of the same blessed cause. It 
 was to be expected that, in a land distin- 
 guished, and even proverbial, for its chival- 
 rous deference to female influence, God, who 
 knows so well what instrumentalities to em- 
 ploy, in any and in all circumstances, and in 
 all countries, would not neglect to call into 
 requisition, for the advancement of his king- 
 
 2* 
 
XY111 PREFACE. 
 
 dom in that country, an element of power 
 from which so much was to be expected. 
 
 The largest of these circles of distinguished 
 and influential Christian females is that which 
 is to be found in the capital of the kingdom. 
 But it is with the deepest sorrow that we are 
 called upon to record, as the following pages 
 will show, that that lovely circle has been, 
 within the short space of a little more than 
 two years, most seriously diminished by the 
 inroads which death has made. Within that 
 period, Mrs. Rumpff, the Duchess de 
 Broglie, Mrs. Grandpierre, and Mrs. Frede- 
 rick Monod have been called away from 
 their labours on earth, and from their sorrow- 
 ing companions in the service of Christ, to 
 enter, we doubt not, into the employments 
 and enjoyments of heaven! How useful 
 their lives were, during the years which they 
 
PREFACE. XIX 
 
 spent in the service of God, after they had 
 known the power of the Gospel, it will 
 be the aim of this little work to demonstrate. 
 That the attempt may meet the approbation of 
 our blessed Lord and Saviour, and contribute 
 to the advancement of his glorious cause is the 
 
 sincere prayer of the 
 
 AUTHOR. 
 New-York, May, 1839. 
 
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 ' . , ) 
 
 MEMOIR. 
 
 MRS. RUMPFF was the youngest daugh- 
 ter of John Jacob Astor, Esq. of this city 
 a gentleman most extensively known not 
 only in America, but also in Europe, for the 
 boldness of enterprize, the soundness of judg- 
 ment, and the untiring perseverance with 
 which he, for a long period, pursued the fur 
 business ; for the very prominent part which 
 he took in the foundation and sustentation of 
 the American Fur Company, (which in fact 
 owes its existence to his efforts ;) and for the 
 distinguished affluence to which his industry, 
 his integrity, and his energy, under God's 
 blessing, have conducted him. 
 
MEMOIR OF 
 
 TKe subject of ihis memoir was born in 
 New- York, in the year 1801. Her childhood 
 and early youth were spent under the paren- 
 tal roof. She enjoyed the best instruction 
 which the female seminaries, of her native city, 
 at that day afforded. In addition to this, she 
 spent some time at school at Philadelphia, and 
 also at Middletown, in Connecticut. Her char 
 acter, during that interesting period of life, 
 was chiefly distinguished by a sweet, amiable, 
 retiring, benevolent disposition. Her under- 
 standing was good, her taste pure, and her 
 sensibility deep and delicate. Unaffected 
 simplicity, and modest reserve were very 
 strikingly displayed in her conversation and 
 and deportment. 
 
 She attended chiefly the services of the 
 Episcopal church, and was from her earliest 
 years, not without a sense of the importance 
 of religion, and sincere respect for those who 
 consistently professed it. But it is not in- 
 tended to express more, by what has just 
 been said, than that she was favorably dis- 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 23 
 
 posed towards religion, and at times felt the 
 importance of possessing it. At a later pe- . 
 riod, when she had known fully the nature 
 and power of religion, by a heart-felt experi- 
 ence of it, it was her own judgment that, at 
 the time to which reference is now made, she 
 was living, as all do until brought to the sav- 
 ing knowledge of Christ, " without God," and 
 without a well-founded " hope" of eternal 
 life. 
 
 In the year 1819, she accompanied her fa- 
 ther to Europe, and spent some months in Ger 
 many, France, &c., and passed a few weeks 
 at the charming Moravian village of Neuvied, 
 on the Rhine, where an uncle of hers, a bro 
 ther of her father, and a member of that ex- 
 cellent Society of Christians, resided. In the 
 year 1823 she again visited Europe, with 
 her father, and spent two years in France, 
 Switzerland, Germany, &c. It was during 
 this visit that she became acquainted with Mr. 
 Rumpff, who was then, and still is, the Minis- 
 ter Resident at the Court of the Tuileries, for 
 
* 
 
 24 MEMOIR OF 
 
 the Hanseatic Towns, or Free Cities, of Ger- 
 many. To this gentleman she was married 
 in 1825, at Paris, and it will not be affirming 
 too much to say that few marriages have ever 
 been more felicitous. The writer of this 
 memoir has had abundant evidence to satisfy 
 his mind, that she never ceased to admire, 
 and most devoutly and thankfully to acknow- 
 ledge, the kind providence of God which led 
 to their union a union of uninterrupted 
 happiness, until it was disolved by her 
 death, after thirteen years' duration. In Mr. 
 Rumpff she found a gentleman of the most 
 amiable dispositions, of the most polished and 
 agreeable manners, possessing an understand- 
 ing highly cultivated, and occupying an ele- 
 vated and most honourable position near to a 
 distinguished court, at which he is a favourite, 
 and in every sense qualified and disposed to 
 make her happy. 
 
 With her marriage commenced her perma- 
 ment residence in Europe ; which, with the 
 exception of two visits made to the United 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 25 
 
 States, was uninterrupted until her death* 
 The first of these visits occurred in 1 827-28, 
 when she accompanied her husband, who 
 came to this country for the purpose of mak- 
 ing a treaty of commerce between the Free 
 Cities of Germany and the United States, 
 and which he effected with Mr. Clay, who 
 was at that time Secretary of State. In the 
 summer of the year 1830, she visited this 
 country a second time, for the purpose of 
 seeing her sister, Mrs. Langdon, whose health 
 had become such as to occasion much con- 
 cern to her friends. After staying a few 
 weeks she returned to Europe, taking Mrs. 
 Langdon and her family with her. Whilst 
 they were on the voyage, the Revolution of 
 July occurred; and, upon their arrival at 
 Paris, they found the country still in a very 
 disturbed state, and that Mr. Rumpff, whose 
 official duties had not permitted him to ac- 
 company Mrs. Rumpff to America, had been 
 in no little danger, during some of the occur- 
 rences of the Three Days, and especially in 
 
 3 
 
26 MEMOIR OF 
 
 f. 
 
 some of those which took place a few days 
 after that memorable epoch. 
 
 With the exception of the time spent in 
 the two visits to her native country, mention- 
 ed in the preceding paragraph, Mrs. Rumpff 
 passed the portion of her life which succeed- 
 ed her marriage, in Europe. Her winters, 
 together with the latter part of autumn and 
 the early portion of spring, were spent in 
 Paris, where the official duties of her hus- 
 band required his presence during those por- 
 tions of the year. Whilst her summers, from 
 May until November, were passed in Switzer- 
 land, at the delightful country residence which 
 her father had given her, near to Genthod, a 
 small village on the northern shore of the lake 
 of Geneva, within the Canton of Geneva, and 
 only five or six miles from the celebrated 
 city which gives name to the Canton, and the 
 capital of which it is. 
 
 Dividing thus her time between the most 
 splendid, attractive and frequented city in the 
 world, and one of the most lovely spots, the 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 27 
 
 vale of Lake Leman,* the earth presents, she 
 passed year after year. She seemed literally 
 to possess all that this world could give to 
 render her happy. She was blessed with a 
 husband whose entire love she possessed, 
 and whose tastes were congenial with her 
 own. They had ample resources, from his 
 salary and the princely fortune of her father, 
 to meet every want. Whilst the elevated and 
 enviable position in society, which Mr. RumpfT 
 held, gave them every facility to enjoy the in- 
 tercourse, on the most advantageous terms, 
 not only of the most distinguished people of 
 the Capital and the kingdom of France, but 
 also that of the most illustrious strangers who, 
 from all parts, of Europe and indeed of the 
 whole world, visit Paris. If happiness could 
 be found from this world, Mrs. Rumpffseemed 
 really to have such a chance for obtaining it as 
 rarely falls to the lot of humanity. And yet 
 
 *The proper name of the lake which is commonly 
 called the lake of Geneva. 
 
28 MEMOIR OF 
 
 it was her testimony in after years, that with 
 all that heart could desire of what this world 
 can give, she often felt a void, the want of 
 something which this world cannot give to an 
 immortal mind. That void could be filled 
 with nothing but the love of an Infinite Being. 
 The sufficiency of this source of perfect hap- 
 piness she afterwards learned by the most 
 blessed experience. 
 
 For several years, however, after her mar- 
 riage she tried what happiness the splendid 
 scenes of the Palace of the Tuileries, the 
 music and amusements of the opera and thea- 
 tre, and the excitement and fascination of 
 Parisian Saloons could afford. During this 
 period, it is not known that her mind was 
 specially interested, at any time, in the subject 
 of religion. She attended the religious ser- 
 vices, with greater or less regularity, which 
 were then held, and which continue to be 
 held, in the chapel of the English Embassy. 
 Her respect for religion was marked and sin- 
 cere. She was charitable to the poor. And 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 29 
 
 in all her deportment there was much that was 
 in the highest degree interesting. But she 
 had not yet experienced that " grace of God 
 which bringeth salvation." And every thing 
 short of this ever fails of giving the happiness 
 which we so earnestly desire, and so fruitlessly 
 seek in the enjoyment of this world. 
 
 But at length the time arrived when it 
 pleased God to call her attention effectually 
 to the great subject of religion. The means 
 by which, under his blessing, and through 
 the agency of his Spirit, this was accomplish 
 ed, were very simple, and such perhaps, as 
 will seem to those who know nothing of the 
 various ways which God employs to call 
 mankind to the knowledge of himself, quite 
 improbable. And yet there was nothing in 
 them which ought to seem unreasonable. I 
 shall state the case just as it was received 
 from her own lips. 
 
 The reader will recollect that it has already 
 been stated, that Mrs. Langdon and her fami- 
 ly accompanied Mrs. Rumpff on her return 
 
 3* 
 
30 MEMOIR OP 
 
 to Europe in the summer of 1830. After 
 having staid some days at Havre and at Paris, 
 until the country had become somewhat re- 
 covered from the disorganized state into 
 which the Revolution, which had just occur- 
 red, had thrown it, they all went to Genthod 
 in Switzerland, where they spent, at the 
 house of Mr. RumpfF, the remaining part of 
 the summer and the Autumn. In the family 
 of Mrs. Langdon there lived at that period, 
 and still continues to live, a most faithful, 
 pious, and excellent woman in the capacity 
 of a nurse or governess, to whose care the 
 children of the family have been greatly en- 
 trusted, and whose singularly prudent, exem- 
 plary and eminently consistent deportment as 
 a Christian, has been of great advantage to 
 them. This woman accompanied Mrs. Lang- 
 don and her family to Europe, and remained 
 with them during their sojourn there of nearly 
 four years. For this woman Mrs. Riimpff, 
 in common with all the family connexion, 
 had the most sincere respect. Of this, as 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 31 
 
 well as of the natural benevolence of her 
 heart, no better proof could she have given 
 than that which the fact affords, that she of- 
 ten employed her leisure hours, which, as 
 she had several excellent servants to whom 
 her household was greatly entrusted, were 
 many, in reading to this woman in her room, 
 from the Sacred Scriptures, from volumes of 
 sermons, and other religious books, as well as 
 from the beautiful religious tracts which have 
 been so eminently useful in many countries 
 in these days. It was the reading of the 
 Scriptures and other religious works, in the 
 manner and circumstances just stated, ac- 
 companied by the simple and judicious re- 
 marks, which her humble and excellent 
 friend, who sat sewing beside her, occasion- 
 ally made, that, under God, was the means 
 of leading her own mind, in the most gradual 
 manner, to realize the transcendent import- 
 ance of religion as a personal concern. 
 
 In the latter part of the autumn of 1830, 
 Mrs. Rumpff returned with her husband to 
 
32 MEMOIR OF 
 
 Paris, and there remained, as usual, during 
 the winter and succeeding spring. But 
 though separated from her humble and faith- 
 ful spiritual friend and teacher,* who re- 
 
 * As the readers of this little work may be desirous of 
 knowing something more of this excellent and pious wo- 
 man, I will briefly state that she is a native of the United 
 States, and was born, I believe, in the city of New York. 
 Her name is Phcabe Maybee. She has long been a 
 member of the Rev. Mr. Stilwell's church, a most wor- 
 thy Methodist minister who preaches in Christie street. 
 She accompanied Mrs. Langdon's family in their travels 
 and residence in Europe, during nearly four years, the 
 last winter of which, that of 1833 34, was spent at Pa- 
 ris, which enabled her once more to see much of Mrs. 
 Rumpff, whom she rejoiced then to find fully resolved to 
 follow Christ. She returned with them to this country, 
 and has continued to live with them ever since. She has 
 resided in Mr. Langdon's family more than twenty 
 years, and has been greatly esteemed by every member 
 of it. Indeed, she is looked upon in the light of a friend 
 and companion, rather than merely as a hired person. 
 Her consistent Christian conduct, and her judicious and 
 faithful counsels and religious instruction, enforced by 
 her never-failing kindliness of disposition, have been of 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 33 
 
 mained with Mrs. Langdon and her family, and 
 with them spent two or three years in Swit- 
 zerland, Germany, &c., and did not come to 
 Paris until the expiration of that period, yet 
 the good work which had been commenced 
 did not cease to make progress. A severe 
 attack of the cholera, too, in the year 1831, 
 was greatly sanctified to the increase of her 
 religious impressions. It was not, however, 
 until the year 1834, I believe, that she ven- 
 tured to make a public profession of religion, 
 by uniting herself to the French church which 
 worships in one of the chapels at Paris. For 
 a considerable time before that epoch arrived, 
 she had made, and greatly enjoyed, the ac 
 quaintance of several Christians in Paris who 
 proved to be, under God, very useful to her, 
 in promoting her growth in religious know- 
 
 great usefulness to the children, who have been the sub- 
 jects of her special care. To say more than this would 
 be out of place in this work ; and to say less would 
 have been unjust. 
 
34 MEMOIR OF 
 
 ledge, and who encouraged her in every step 
 of that divine life which she was striving to 
 pursue. Among these persons may be reck- 
 oned Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lutteroth, who 
 resided in the same house in which Mr. 
 Rumpff lived, and the Rev. Mark Wilks, who 
 has long been labouring at Paris for the best 
 interests of the French, as well as of the 
 English who sojourn from time to time in 
 that city. Of these persons she always spoke 
 with the greatest respect and affection. 
 Even before she made a public profession of 
 religion, she had become a member of 
 several Female Religious Associations, and 
 was thus brought into contact with the Duch- 
 ess de Broglie, Baroness Pelet, the Count- 
 ess St. Aulaire, Mrs. Grandpierre, Mrs. 
 Frederick Monod, &c. As the work of God 
 gradually advanced in her heart, she relin- 
 quished more and more every thing which 
 she learned from the word of God, or her own 
 experience, to be incongenial to true piety. 
 The theatres, the operas, the balls, in a word, 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 35 
 
 every worldly amusement inconsistent with a 
 strictly religious and spiritual life, were all 
 abandoned. But let me not be misunderstood. 
 Mrs. Rumpff did not become a recluse, or 
 disagreeable in any way in her manners, and 
 in her intercourse with society. No : on the 
 contrary, religion seemed, as it did in reality, 
 to develope and strengthen every lovely fea- 
 ture in her naturally amiable and benevolent 
 character. It elevated and ennobled every 
 sentiment. It added new charms to every 
 trait. Her benevolence, her disposition to 
 render every one a service who needed or de- 
 sired it, her remarkable sweetness of manners, 
 were all augmented and illustrated by the 
 holy religion which she embraced, experi- 
 enced, and openly professed. 
 
 From the commencement of her religious 
 profession until her death, Mrs. RumpfTs 
 course was a beautiful instance of consistency. 
 She was truly an ornament of the holy cause 
 which she espoused. She maintained, amid 
 the great temptations and allurements of Pa- 
 
36 MEMOIR OF 
 
 ris, her steadfast course toward that " city 
 which has foundations, whose builder and 
 maker is God." From this heavenly course, 
 neither the smiles nor the frowns of a 
 world that knows not God could cause her to 
 deviate. 
 
 It was a most cheering sight to contem- 
 plate this excellent woman, surrounded as she 
 was, in the elevated and honourable position 
 in society which she held, invariably exhibit* 
 ing a deportment which " becometh godli- 
 ness." In her manners, in her conversation, 
 in her dress, in her actions, whether she 
 mingled in the crowds which frequented the 
 splendid halls of the Palace, or appeared in 
 the saloons of the distinguished citizens of 
 Paris, there was ever that beautiful sense of 
 propriety which manifested itself in all that 
 she did. Her example was in all respects a 
 brilliant light, in the midst of a city of great 
 spiritual darkness. 
 
 Her manners were simple, as those of a 
 child. There was an air of self-diffidence in 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 37 
 
 all that she said and did, which, whilst it hin- 
 dered not her energy, nor impaired her com- 
 posure in action, gave to her, in all circum- 
 stances, somewhat the appearance of timidity. 
 This, united with her native, unaffected 
 modesty, rendered her extremely interesting 
 to all who knew her. No countenance could 
 be further removed from haughty, or proud, 
 or scornful looks, than was hers. Her ha- 
 bitual appearance was meekness, cheerful 
 ness, love. All who knew her were ever 
 ready to acknowledge her uncommon good- 
 ness. Elle est tres pieuse* was the remark 
 which, I know not how often, I have heard 
 made respecting her, by distinguished French 
 people of the world who were acquainted 
 with her. 
 
 From the high place which she occupied 
 in society, it resulted that she was often at 
 the Court. She was greatly respected, I 
 have every reason for believing, by the King 
 
 * She is very pious. 
 4 
 
38 MEMOIR OP 
 
 and Queen, and other members of the Royal 
 family. She was also well acquainted with 
 a great number of distinguished people of the 
 metropolis, as well as of other parts of France, 
 and with many distinguished strangers from 
 every part of the continent ; and all who 
 knew her were deeply impressed by her un- 
 common goodness. 
 
 She was neither ashamed nor afraid to be 
 called a Christian. There was, indeed, no 
 ostentation, no parade of religion with her. 
 Nor yet was there any shrinking to avow her 
 self a follower of Him who is still to very 
 many, the despised " Nazarene," nor any hesi 
 tation in attempting to defend His name and 
 His cause, whenever assailed within her hear- 
 ing. 
 
 Humility and meekness are as essential to 
 good manners and good breeding as they are 
 indispensable elements of Christian charac- 
 ter. In this respect, what a contrast did she, 
 in her exalted situation, and flattered by the 
 hopes of a princely inheritance, furnish in 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 39 
 
 her conduct and appearance, when compared 
 with those persons, and their number is not 
 small, whose pride, whose selfishness, whose 
 contempt for others, appear at every moment, 
 and render them, objects of hatred to their 
 fellow men. 
 
 There was nothing gloomy, either in her 
 religion, if I may so speak, or in her natural 
 temperament. She rightly thought that a 
 Christian, just in proportion to the closeness 
 of his walk with God, ought to be happy and 
 cheerful. Affected moroseness, and studied 
 severity of look and of manner, were what she 
 very properly considered to be wholly un- 
 worthy of any one who entertains a " hope 
 full of immortality." Accordingly she was 
 invariably cheerful, and highly enjoyed the 
 society of her friends, as well as the bounties 
 of God's providence. Indeed, she had natu- 
 rally an almost habitual playfulness of manner, 
 and a disposition to indulge in inoffensive wit, 
 which was extremely pleasant, and which 
 even after her conversion remained, and ren- 
 
40 MEMOIR OF 
 
 dered her a most agreeable companion. 
 And yet there was no unbecoming levity ; 
 there was no trifling conduct. Her conversa- 
 tion was always such as became a woman 
 "professing godliness." She was beloved 
 by every one. But no one had a doubt 
 about her being a truly pious person. She 
 belonged not to that class of professing Chris- 
 tians, which is, alas ! a very great one, whom 
 it is impossible to distinguish, either by their 
 habitual conversation or their conduct, from 
 those who make no pretensions to religion. 
 
 Mrs. Rumpff's piety was not only real ; it 
 was deep, it was mature, it was active. Re- 
 ligion was in her estimation emphatically the 
 " one thing needful." She daily applied her- 
 self, with diligence, to its maintenance in her 
 own heart, and she was also deeply and con- 
 stantly solicitous to see others embrace it. 
 She was not one of those who think that it is 
 an easy thing to be a Christian, or to live a 
 Christian life. Hers was a life of watchful- 
 ness, of self-distrust, of prayer. She read 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 41 
 
 the Scriptures not only daily, but much every 
 day. She read them in connexion with the ex- 
 cellent commentary of the Rev. Thomas Scott, 
 This was her chief book. And, by diligent 
 and constant study, she attained to a very clear 
 and extensive knowledge of the sacred oracles. 
 As has just been said, she was a woman of 
 much prayer. Here was the well-spring of 
 her spiritual strength. It was from prayer, 
 or rather in prayer, that she derived those sup- 
 plies of gracious aid which enabled her so 
 beautifully to adorn the profession of religion 
 which she had made, and that too when sur- 
 rounded, in the gay and ungodly city in which 
 she resided, by many things calculated to en- 
 snare the heart, and lead it away from God. 
 She lived by faith. She believed in God. 
 She received as realities the things which 
 God has spoken respecting the mysterious 
 future which lies before us. And believing 
 what He has revealed respecting the coming 
 judgment, and the awful retributions of eter- 
 nity, she lived daily with a wise reference to 
 
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42 MEMOIR OF 
 
 them. She rested, too, with a simple, hum- 
 ble, but firm faith, upon the invitations which 
 Christ addresses to all who feel their sin, and 
 their need of a Saviour, to come to him. She 
 believed these invitations to "be sincere, she 
 ventured her all upon them, and she was ena- 
 bled, generally, to do it without distressing 
 fear. If at any time doubts arose in her mind 
 respecting her hope of eternal life, she always 
 resorted, (where alone peace of mind, and as- 
 surance of God's favour are to be found) to 
 the throne of grace, by earnest, importunate 
 prayer. Thus she lived. And her progress 
 in religious knowledge, as well as in the ele- 
 vating and transforming influence of the Gos- 
 pel, was noticed by all her Christian friends. 
 It was often a subject of grateful remark 
 amongst them, that she was most manifestly 
 " growing in grace." Her religious course 
 was like the " path of the just, which shineth 
 more and more unto the perfect day." I 
 know not where I have ever seen a more per- 
 fect Christian. Her whole character was 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 43 
 
 beautifully symetrical. There was a sweet 
 and singular consistency in it. There was no 
 eccentricity about it. All was harmony. It 
 was this which gave to her religion such beauty 
 and power. This was seen, felt, and acknow- 
 ledged by all. Mrs. Rumpff's life, from her 
 conversion until her death, was one of sin- 
 gular beneficence. Even before she attained 
 to a full hope of the pardon of her sins, she 
 had begun to take a lively interest in every- 
 thing that was doing to advance the great in- 
 terests of true religion in France. She libe- 
 rally patronized the various benevolent Asso- 
 ciations whose object is to promote the 
 distribution of the Sacred Scriptures, the cir- 
 culation of religious Tracts, or by other means 
 to advance the kingdom of Christ in that im- 
 portant country. She afterwards became an 
 active member of several of the committees 
 of the Ladies' Associations in the city of Paris, 
 and continued such until her death. 
 
 There were few persons, if any, in France 
 during her day, who gave as much money as 
 
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 she did to the furtherance of every under- 
 taking, by which the interests of true religion 
 could be promoted. I have no certain means 
 of knowing how much she actually gave each 
 year, nor would it be necessary to state it, if 
 I did know. But this I do know, that the 
 amount was very large. Her name always 
 appeared amongst those of the highest con- 
 tributors, in every good cause. And in addi- 
 tion to this, she gave large sums to the pro- 
 motion of these same objects in such a man- 
 ner that no one, but the person through whom 
 they were given, knew the source from whence 
 they came. Of this fact, I have had most 
 convincing proof. She gave, unsolicited on 
 my part, at various times, several hundred 
 dollars, through my hands, to the promotion 
 of several very important religious objects. 
 The task, I need hardly add, was cheerfully 
 undertaken by me, and in every case, I can 
 truly say, her wishes were strictly complied 
 with. And yet no individual, during her life, 
 ever knew from whom the anonymous bene- 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 45 
 
 factions came which were made through my 
 intervention. 
 
 I should not have gone so fully into this 
 particular topic if the facts here stated did 
 not teach a beautiful lesson, and one so much 
 needed in these days of display, and, it is much 
 to be feared, of too much ostentatiousness 
 in giving, and in the mode of bequeathing. 
 In this way, large sums were bestowed by 
 her to aid every good undertaking. In addi 
 tion to the " pin-money" which her father 
 sent her annually, and which she once told me 
 she appropriated wholly to the promotion of 
 religious and charitable objects, she studied 
 economy in her dress, and in her style of liv 
 ing, as much as her very sound judgment 
 deemed proper for her in her public station, 
 in order to have the greater means for doing 
 good. In this she did not act fitfully, as too 
 many persons do, but systematically and con 
 stantly. She was a woman of uncommon 
 system, and strictly pursued order in every 
 thing. I need not add that her death is a 
 
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 most serious loss to all the benevolent and 
 religious societies with which she was con- 
 nected. 
 
 In addition to patronizing, and most liber- 
 ally aiding, the larger religious and benevo- 
 lent Societies and Associations, she was al- 
 ways ready to engage in every good work, 
 however humble its object, provided it met 
 the approbation of her judgment. For this 
 purpose she took an active part in the efforts 
 which the little circle of pious ladies in Paris 
 made every year, by a public fair, conducted 
 on the most strictly Christian principles, to 
 raise the means needed to maintain the schools, 
 for the education of poor children and adults, 
 in the Faubourg du Temple. At these schools, 
 nearly one thousand persons are receiving in- 
 struction under excellent teachers, who are 
 themselves decidedly religious, and who in- 
 culcate, in very simple and proper ways, the 
 elementary and fundamental truths of the Gos- 
 pel. There is not in all Paris a more beauti- 
 tiful and effective charity than this. There 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 47 
 
 o_ught to be a dozen such establishments in 
 that city, and there might be, if the means to 
 support them were in the possession of those 
 excellent persons who are engaged in this 
 beneficent work. This is the true panacea 
 for the violent disorders and commotions, to 
 which that great city is subject, from the tur- 
 bulent masses, of an ignorant and degraded 
 population, which are there to be found in the 
 lowest strata of society. 
 
 For the benefit of the children and young 
 persons belonging to American and English 
 families, residing or sojourning in Paris, she 
 established a library of Juvenile Literature, 
 which she ordered chiefly from the United 
 States, and which was wholly maintained at 
 her expense. This library comprised several 
 hundred volumes. Its catalogue was the pro- 
 duction of her own hands, and every thing 
 in relation to it was regulated by her almost 
 daily supervision. 
 
 In addition to this, she caused to be import- 
 ed from the United States several hundreds 
 
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 of volumes, published by the American Sun- 
 day School Union, and other Sunday school 
 Societies, which she formed into seven or 
 eight small libraries for Sunday schools esta- 
 blished, for the benefit of English children, 
 in Havre, in Nantes, in Brussells, in Naples, 
 in Florence, in St. Petersburg, &c. One of 
 these libraries, or rather the foundation of 
 one, was presented to the school under the 
 direction and instruction of the members of 
 the Wesleyan Chapel at Paris : for she was 
 neither actuated, nor restricted, in her chari- 
 ties, by a narrow sectarian spirit, but com- 
 prehended every good work, by whomsoever 
 undertaken. 
 
 .Nor were the sick and the poor forgotten 
 by her. No one could feel more sincerely 
 than she did for the destitute, and no one 
 could be more ready to contribute to the re- 
 lief of their wants. She gave largely of her 
 means to this class of mankind. Many calls 
 were made upon her purse by the indigent, 
 for she was exposed, from her situation in 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 49 
 
 society, to very many applications of this sort. 
 And, when she was satisfied that the appli- 
 cant really needed her aid, it was readily 
 rendered. Nor was she content merely to 
 give her money. Too many rich people arc 
 willing to make a compromise in this matter. 
 They give their money willingly, if they may 
 may be excused from making any personal 
 effort, to relieve or console the suffering. 
 No inducement can make them visit the 
 haunts of poverty, or the beds of the sick 
 and the dying. It was not so with Mrs. 
 Rumpff. Exalted as was her situation, and 
 numerous as were her faithful servants, 
 through whom she might have contributed to 
 the alleviation of the sorrows of the sick and 
 the disconsolate, she preferred, whenever 
 it was possible, to minister personally to 
 them. And she was often seen visiting the 
 abodes of poverty, and by the bed-side of the 
 sick and dying, like a ministering spirit, to 
 alleviate their distresses. 
 
 As has already been said, Mrs. Rumpff 
 
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 accompanied her husband every summer to 
 Switzerland, at as early an epoch in the sea- 
 son as his official engagements would permit. 
 Thither she loved to hasten, in order to pass 
 the beautiful months of summer and autumn 
 in the peaceful solitude of the country, far 
 from the excitement, the noise, the turmoil 
 and the temptations of the metropolis of 
 France. In the stillness of that sweet retreat 
 she delighted to dwell. There, at a country- 
 seat of surpassing amenity, on the borders of 
 Lake Leman, with its beautiful expanse and 
 its gliding boats, just at the foot of her exten- 
 sive garden, amidst the delightfully cultivat- 
 ed country which borders that lake, she pass- 
 ed day after day, in the continually recurring 
 duties of life, and in the contemplation of na- 
 ture. In the distance, towards the south, the 
 Alps rear up their lofty heads, Mount Blanc 
 over-topping, with his hoary front, the sur- 
 rounding summits. On the north, the Jura- 
 range stretches its course, a vast and eternal 
 barrier between France and Switzerland. 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 51 
 
 Down at the outlet of the lake, the city of 
 Geneva, with its venerable spires is just visi- 
 ble across a promontory projecting from the 
 shore. Whilst to the east, or rather north-east, 
 the mountains which bound the lake at its 
 upper extremity, at a great distance, are dis- 
 tinctly seen. In this delightful abode, sur- 
 rounded by the grandeur and the beauty of 
 nature, she did not pass her time in luxurious 
 idleness. No ; her heart was ever planning, and 
 her hands ever executing, some labour of love. 
 Her agreeable and condescending manners 
 won the affections of the inhabitants of Gen- 
 thod, Versoix and Burcins, and other Swiss 
 villages in her immediate neighbourhood. 
 There was no effort which she could make, by 
 which the best interests of the inhabitants of 
 those villages could be promoted, which she 
 was riot ready to attempt. She encouraged 
 them to educate their children. In fact, she 
 and her husband established and maintained, 
 at their own expense, three schools, in three 
 of the villages, for small and poor children. 
 
52 MEMOIR OP 
 
 The teachers whom they employed were the 
 best that they could find, and were all hope- 
 fully pious. These teachers were eminently 
 useful in holding meetings for prayer, and for 
 reading the Scriptures among the villagers. 
 
 It may not be improper to relate here a 
 fact which shows how ingenious Mrs. Rumpff 
 was in divising plans for doing good, and 
 how persevering in carrying them into effect. 
 Finding that several poor families could not 
 enjoy the advantages which her schools af- 
 forded, on account of the long distance which 
 their little children had to go, she employed 
 daily a servant who went from village to vil- 
 lage in the morning, with a small wagon a 
 sort of infants' omnibus with a mule, and 
 gathering up the children carried them away to 
 the schools ; and, in the evening, going round 
 again, he carried them home to their parents. 
 Nor should it be omitted that she actually en- 
 tered into a school, established in her vicinity 
 by a lady of her acquaintance, and taught it 
 daily for weeks, in order to allow the teacher, 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 53 
 
 who was employed, a little season in which 
 to render himself more competent for his 
 work, by attending another school of a higher 
 order. So eager was she to do good, that 
 she cheerfully passed weeks in that school, 
 enduring, in her infirm state of health, the 
 labour, and heat, and noise, and surrounded 
 by children who were often disagreeable and 
 troublesome. But this was endured for the 
 sake of the object. No luxury was, in her 
 estimation, to be compared with that of do- 
 ing good. In her schools many children were 
 receiving the rudiments of a useful education, 
 and instruction in the Sacred Scriptures. And 
 in future years it will appear, I doubt not, 
 that her labour has not been in vain in the 
 Lord.* 
 
 * It gives me great pleasure to state that her venera- 
 ble father informed me, when speaking to him about 
 these schools, a few days since, that he is resolved to have 
 them sustained, and in fact he has given directions to 
 that effect. 
 
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64 MEMOIR OF 
 
 Another of her benevolent efforts, for the 
 promotion of religion among the people around 
 her in Switzerland, interested me much. It 
 was this : She assembled many of the wo- 
 men of the villages around her, at her own 
 house often I believe on the first Monday 
 of every month and spent hours, each time, 
 in giving them information respecting what is 
 doing by Christians in England and America, 
 and other countries, to make known the Gos- 
 pel to the heathen nations, and to bring about 
 the conversion of the world. To collect this 
 information, and write it in French, (the lan- 
 guage of these people,) and prepare it to be 
 read to them, cost not a little time and labour. 
 Few ministers of the gospel take equal pains 
 to prepare themselves for the monthly con- 
 cert of prayer for the conversion of the world 
 to God. But all this labour and care she 
 cheerfully undertook for the purpose of inter- 
 esting some humble, and most of them very 
 poor women, in the work of God. Some of 
 these women were pious, and the interest 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 55 
 
 which they, as well as the others, took in the 
 progress of Christ's kingdom, was, in her es- 
 timation, a sufficient reward for the toil which 
 the task demanded. 
 
 It was thus in good works, that her sum- 
 mers were delightfully spent in Switzerland, 
 enjoying the refined society of her affectionate 
 and excellent husband, and occasionally that 
 of friends of congenial spirit, who visited 
 them from Paris, or other parts of the conti- 
 nent. And not only had she the satisfaction 
 of knowing that her husband approved of her 
 benevolent plans and efforts, but that he also 
 became every year more and more enlisted in 
 the work of doing good himself. In the sum- 
 mer of 1836, he translated, whilst enjoying 
 the repose which his retirement to Switzer- 
 land afforded, the Life of Washington, pub- 
 lished by the American Sunday School Union, 
 into the German language. This work he 
 caused to be published at Hamburg, with an 
 appropriate Introduction, addressed to the 
 youth of his native city. A work more im? 
 
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 portant than that of holding up the life, the 
 virtues, the example, of that great and good 
 man to the youth of his native country, I 
 hesitate not to say, is seldom done by any 
 Ambassador, in. his season of vacation from 
 the perplexing duties and labours of his office. 
 In the summer of 1837, he translated into 
 German the work of Mr. Harris, of Eng- 
 land, on Covetousness, entitled Mammon : 
 a work which, notwithstanding some serious 
 errors and defects, is, nevertheless, calculated 
 to do much good, in arousing professing 
 Christians to consider, and forsake, the very 
 great sin of which it treats. 
 
 But whilst Mrs. Rumpffwas greatly occu- 
 pied in efforts to promote the salvation of 
 others, she did not neglect that of her own 
 family, including the entire circle of her rela- 
 tives. On this subject, the writer of this 
 work had peculiar advantages for knowing 
 her feelings and her efforts. He went to 
 Europe in the early spring of 1835, and spent 
 three years there, chiefly at Paris, where his 
 

 MRS. RUMPFF. 57 
 
 family was located, and which was his as 
 well as their home for that period. Owing 
 to the important mission on which he was 
 sent to that country, he soon had an 
 opportunity of making the acquaintance of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Rumpff. A most intimate 
 intercourse betwixt his family and theirs sub- 
 sisted, during the whole period which he 
 spent in that city, or rather in Europe. At 
 his house, during almost the whole of that 
 period, there was held every Saturday even- 
 ing, a meeting for reading the Scriptures and 
 prayer, for the benefit of such Americans 
 and English as might feel disposed to attend. 
 After an hour and a half had been spent 
 in reading and familiarly expounding, in 
 order, some portion of Scripture, and in 
 prayer, &c., the remainder of the evening 
 was spent as a religious soiree, a few simple 
 refreshments being served, and the company 
 staying as long as it suited them. 
 
 In this way Christians were brought toge- 
 ther, strengthened in the faith, and many 
 
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 young men were made to feel that there 
 were some who felt an interest in them, and 
 cared for them. At those meetings, during 
 less than three years, several hundred persons 
 attended. And very seldom was Mrs. Rumpff 
 absent from them, when she was at Paris. 
 Indeed, it is not remembered that this occur- 
 red more than two or three times, and then 
 owing to illness, or some other uncontrollable 
 cause. Besides this, occasions every week 
 occurred which brought him and his family 
 into contact with her. On very many occa- 
 sions she came or sent to consult him on 
 those subjects on which she supposed that 
 his position, or opportunities, enabled him to 
 give a correct opinion. 
 
 It was thus that he had abundant opportu- 
 nity of knowing her mind on almost every 
 subject. And he can truly testify to the 
 deep solicitude which she felt for the salva- 
 tion of her family, for her dearest friends, 
 and above all for her immediate relatives ; 
 and the very great prudence with which she 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 59 
 
 * 
 
 attempted to call their attention to the subject 
 of religion. Remembering well how gradu- 
 ally she had herself been brought to the 
 knowledge of the truth, and that it was by 
 receiving here a little, and there a little, of 
 impulse in the good work which went on in 
 her heart, rather than by any thing sudden 
 and violent, she seemed to leave no oppor- 
 tunity unemployed of saying something which 
 was calculated to produce some good impres- 
 sion. Of this, her correspondence with all 
 her friends abundantly shows. Every little 
 circumstance or event, which could do good in 
 creating or deepening serious impressions in 
 the minds of those who were dear to her, was 
 eagerly seized, and employed in the kindest 
 manner possible. Of this, perhaps, it would 
 not be invading the sacred privacy of family 
 feeling too much, to state an instance which 
 will fully illustrate what I mean. On one 
 occasion, a small parcel was sent from 
 Mrs. Baird to Mrs. Rumpff, enveloped in a 
 religious newspaper. It happened that that 
 
60 MEMOIR 
 
 paper contained a sermon, or an extract from 
 a sermon, preached in the city of New-York 
 some year or two before the time of sending 
 the parcel. Curiosity led her to cast her eye 
 over the paper, and particularly over the ser- 
 mon, or extract, in question. She was sur- 
 prised to meet in it the name of her father. 
 She read with eagerness what was said of 
 him. The preacher, desiring to make his 
 hearers comprehend what the Faith, which 
 God requires of us, is, employed the follow 
 ing illustration, in something like this Ian 
 guage : " Suppose," said he, " that Mr. 
 John Jacob Astor were to give a note, pro 
 mising to pay a certain sum of money to A. 
 B., or bearer. There is not a man in this 
 city who would hesitate to take that note, if 
 he were satisfied with the genuineness of the 
 signature. And why ? Because every one 
 knows that Mr. John Jacob Astor is a rich 
 man, and that he always fulfils his promises. 
 His ability and his integrity are undoubted. 
 Therefore a promissory note from him is 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 61 
 
 received with entire confidence, and is consid- 
 ered just as good as the money itself* This 
 is faith in the promise of Mr. Astor. Now 
 let us put the same confidence in the promi- 
 ses of One who is infinitely greater and more 
 perfect than any human being, and who cannot 
 lie. His word is truth itself, and all His pro- 
 mises are sure." This forcible and appropri- 
 ate illustration of the nature of Faith, Mrs. 
 Rumpffcut out of the paper, and enclosed it in 
 a letter to her father, not only that he might be 
 gratified by it, but also profited by the very 
 forcible manner in which the most important 
 exercise of the understanding and the heart, 
 which a sinner is called upon to perform, and 
 without whose performance salvation is im 
 possible, was exhibited. 
 
 I have related this fact for the purpose of 
 showing with what diligence she improved 
 every opportunity of doing good to her 
 friends, as well as the delicacy which she 
 displayed in the manner of doing it. Let no 
 one undervalue such attempts. It is not 
 
62 MEMOIR OF 
 
 possible to estimate the good which may re- 
 sult from such simple methods of making a 
 good impression on the minds of others. In- 
 deed, it is by little things, and by little causes, 
 that more good is done in the world than we 
 are commonly aware of. It is by " line upon 
 line, and precept upon precept, here a little, 
 and there a little," that men are usually 
 brought to the knowledge of salvation. Nor 
 should any one neglect, even the most simple 
 and the most humble means of interesting 
 others in the subject of religion, for he can- 
 not foresee what good may come of it. 
 
 Mrs. Rumpff felt a deep interest in her family 
 and friends. Her affection for them was ardent 
 For them she prayed much. Her correspon 
 dence with them displays a most touching 
 solicitude for their best, their highest happi- 
 ness. And yet that solicitude was manifested 
 in the most respectful manner. There was 
 no harshness, no denunciation. Hers was 
 the sweet language of love and persuasion. 
 She seemed to neglect no proper occasion of 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 63 
 
 saying some good thing to encourage them to 
 choose " that good part" which she had 
 chosen, and which could not be taken from 
 her. The beautiful description which the 
 poet gives of his Village Pastor, might be 
 well applied to her : 
 
 " And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, 
 To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, 
 She tried each art, reproved each dull delay, 
 Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way I" 
 
 Mrs. Rumpff had no children of her own. 
 She adopted, however, the only son of her 
 oldest sister, the late Mrs. Bristed, and 
 a daughter of her other sister, Mrs. Lang- 
 don. The former is a promising young 
 man, who is now prosecuting his studies in 
 Yale College, and gives very pleasing evi- 
 dence of piety. The latter is a fine little 
 girl, eleven years old, who has recently re- 
 turned from Europe to her father's house. 
 Both shared very largely in her love and in 
 her prayers. May those prayers be abun- 
 
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 dantly answered in their temporal and eternal 
 happiness !~~ She has set them a blessed ex- 
 ample ; may they be enabled to keep it ever 
 in view, or rather, that of the Saviour whom 
 she followed. 
 
 She was a woman of much prayer. She 
 seemed to have a habitual, a heart-felt con- 
 viction, that the blessing of God was essen- 
 tial to the success of any of her plans for 
 doing good. She did all, therefore, in a very 
 simple and humble reliance upon His bles- 
 sing. I had once a very pleasant proof of 
 this. She came to me on a certain occasion, 
 and stated that she was extremely desirous of 
 having an evangelical minister of the Gospel 
 appointed to a Church, in the vicinity of her 
 residence in Switzerland, which had become 
 vacant by the resignation of the former in- 
 cumbent. And she desired that the prayers 
 of a few Christians might be united with hers, 
 in behalf of this object. I asked her what was 
 the prospect in the case ? She replied, that 
 it was not favourable, that the authorities, 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 65 
 
 which had the power of appointing to that 
 vacancy, were known to be opposed to evan- 
 gelical religion, and that, to human view, 
 there was little to hope. " But," said she, 
 " a very good young man, every way suitable 
 for the place, has been recommended by us, 
 and we shall do all that we can to secure his 
 appointment. But after all, my hope is in 
 God. He can do great things, and things 
 which to us may seem very improbable." 
 Within two or three weeks she came, with 
 great joy, to tell us that the appointment had 
 actually been made ! " Now," said she, our 
 "villagers will hear Christ preached again." 
 In the early part of last summer she ac- 
 companied her husband, as she had formerly 
 done, to their quiet retreat in Switzerland. 
 Instead of passing the season at their country- 
 seat at Genthod, they passed it at St. Vin- 
 cent, another which Mr. Rumpff had recently 
 purchased, and which is distant some ten or 
 twelve miles from their former place of resi- 
 dence. The first two or three months passed 
 
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66 MEMOIR OF 
 
 pleasantly away, in the prosecution of her 
 various benevolent labours. 
 
 It was in the midst of these occupations, 
 at once so agreeable and so useful, when her 
 domestic happiness was 'most complete, and 
 when she was enjoying all that this world 
 could offer, and forming new plans of charity, 
 that this rare felicity was troubled by long, 
 severe, and mortal anguish.* 
 
 She seemed, from the commencement of 
 her sickness, to have a presentiment of her 
 approaching end. But this presentiment did 
 not proceed from the source from which it 
 often proceeds, in the case of those who per- 
 ceive that their life is in danger, viz. the fears 
 which they experience. Death, which for- 
 merly had been to her the " king of terrors," 
 no longer inspired dread ; and in the assur- 
 ance of her reconciliation with God, she 
 waited in peace the moment when He might 
 
 * The following account of her last sickness and death, 
 is taken chiefly from an article which appeared in the 
 Archives du Christianisme, a few weeks after her decease 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 67 
 
 see fit to call her to Himself. Nevertheless, 
 if death had lost for her its sting, her faith, 
 her patience, her love were tried as by fire. 
 The malady soon assumed an extraordinary 
 character, and its malignity manifested itself 
 by pains and sufferings of which no one can 
 form an idea. During the eight weeks that 
 her sufferings lasted, which often drew from 
 her heart-rending cries and groans, never, 
 thanks be to Him who had permitted the fur- 
 nace to become so heated, never, did a mur 
 muring word escape her lips. Once, after 
 having asked the physician if he had still any 
 hope of a cure, and having received an 
 affirmative answer, she said : " Oh ! it is im- 
 possible ; it cannot last long ; I suffer too 
 much ; but no, it is not too much, since God 
 does not think it to be too much. But it is 
 very sad ! Oh God, have pity upon me, ac- 
 cording to the greatness of thy mercy !" 
 
 Her terrible sufferings having caused her 
 to speak with impatience to one of her nurses, 
 she was greatly afflicted by it, and although 
 
68 MEMOIR OF 
 
 she soon afterwards asked her forgiveness, 
 she requested a pious woman, who was pre 
 sent, to pray that God would forgive this fault, 
 and as soon as the prayer was ended she sent 
 to ask anew the nurse to forgive her. The 
 latter was astonished to find so much delicacy 
 of conscience and humility in a sick person 
 who suffered so greatly. 
 
 In her calm moments, or rather when her 
 sufferings were less violent, she expressed 
 herself with much clearness upon her condi- 
 tion and what she experienced. " I see," 
 said she, " without concern, the approach of 
 death : and yet who could have more to re- 
 gret than I ? I have all that I could desire, 
 so happy am I with a husband such as mine 
 is. Oh that my God could give him strength 
 to bear this stroke, and to follow me ! I have 
 all that one could desire here below, and yet 
 you see that I quit this earth without regret." 
 Some days before her death, she addressed 
 some exhortations to one of her domestics, 
 and among other things said : " Oh, seek the 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 69 
 
 Lord Jesus whilst you are in health, and have 
 strength. For if God should take away your 
 health, and you should be laid on a bed of 
 suffering, as you see me, you could not al- 
 ways think and pray." At another time, ad- 
 dressing herself to the person who watched 
 by her side ; " Tell me," said she, " as a 
 Christian, what you think of my state, and 
 if rny sickness be unto death ?" " Madam," 
 replied the latter, " If I must judge according 
 to human view, I believe you are nearer to 
 your end than towards restoration to health 
 But God is all-powerful : He can make alive, 
 and He can kill." "Yes," replied the pa- 
 tient, " but I do not fear death. I shall be 
 happier with God. May the Lord render me 
 entirely submissive to His will !" 
 
 She conversed also, in these moments of 
 calm, with her husband, with that spirit of 
 order which was so remarkable with her, on 
 the arrangements to be made for her funeral, 
 requesting that she might be buried with the 
 greatest possible simplicity, She spoke also 
 
70 MEMOIR OF 
 
 of the continuance of her schools after her 
 death. In a word, she occupied herself with 
 all the objects dear to her heart, and requested 
 the prayers of pious persons who were around 
 her. Alas, these moments of calm were very 
 rare. During the latter part of her sufferings, 
 she was often in a state of delirium. But 
 even then, the celestial tendency of her soul 
 still manifested itself. In that state, she sang 
 sometimes entire hymns, with a loud voice, 
 and with a most touching expression. She 
 sang thus the hymn which commences with 
 these words : Du rocker de Jacob Tceuvre est 
 parfaite* and the 65th hymn in the Chants 
 chretiens, which ends thus : 
 
 Qu'il est bon de t'avoir, Jesus ! pour sacrifice, 
 Pour bouclier, pour roi, pour eoleil, pour justice ! 
 Qu'elle est douce la paix dont tu remplis le coeur ! 
 Mon ame, egaie toi ! Jesus est ton Sauveur !t 
 
 * The first lines of a beautiful French hymn, The work 
 of the Rock of Jacob is perfect, &c. 
 
 t The Chants chretiens (or Christian Songs) is a beau. 
 tiful collection of French hymns used in some of the 
 French Chapels in Paris. The verse quoted above is, in 
 
MRS. RUMPFF, 71 
 
 The last day of her life, the 25th of Octo- 
 ber (1838,) she appeared exhausted, and inca- 
 pable of any effort. Nevertheless her dying 
 room was never empty. All the day, her ser- 
 vants crowded around her, and many hearts 
 were lifted up in prayer, that God, if such was 
 his will, would permit her to speak once 
 more, and to bear testimony to his grace 
 The agony commenced at mid-day ; the 
 struggle was long and terrible. Her forehead 
 and hands, now becoming cold, testified that 
 death had already commenced taking posses- 
 sion of that feeble body. Her mouth seemed 
 as if it could not articulate one word more. 
 Her husband and her attendants were bathed 
 in tears ; they did not hope more to hear that 
 voice which they had so much loved. What 
 then was their emotion, when a few moments 
 before her death, they heard her distinctly ask 
 
 English prose : How good it is to have Thee, Jesus, for 
 sacrifice, for Buckler, for King, for Sun, for righteous- 
 ness ! How sweet is the peace with which thou fittest the 
 heart ! My soul, rejoice ! Jesus is thy Saviour ! 
 
72 MEMOIR OP 
 
 who were around her, for her sight was gone. 
 Then, as the domestics were named in order, 
 she addressed to each some affectionate and 
 pressing exhortations, suited to their disposi- 
 tions. But it was no longer the voice of a 
 feeble woman. It was a voice which spoke 
 under the powerful influence of God's Spirit ! 
 The first servant who presented himself was 
 the oldest ; to him she was much attached. 
 " I thank you," said she to him, calling him 
 by his name, " for all that you have done for 
 us. Promise me that you will not leave your 
 master." Then, placing her cold hand upon 
 her heart, she added ; " Love God with all your 
 heart, with all your soul, and with your every 
 thought. Live for the Lord ; seek the Sa- 
 viour in the Bible, and you will find Him. 
 Happy will you be when you can say in your 
 last hour, as I do, I go to my Saviour. Love 
 that Saviour ; attach yourself to Him ; seek 
 Him whilst He may be found. Read your 
 Bible every day." To another she said : " I 
 would hope much of you ; but perhaps I have 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 73 
 
 counted too much upon your good disposi* 
 tions." * " Ah ! madam, replied he, " perhaps 
 I have not wandered as far as you think, and 
 henceforth I will follow your counsels." She 
 added, " But on the spot, delay not, for death 
 comes as a thief in the night." To a third 
 she said : " I have already spoken to you," 
 recalling to his mind, in that solemn moment, 
 the conversation which she had had with him, 
 some days before. Then addressing herself 
 to some pious women who surrounded her, 
 she added : " As to you, you have chosen the 
 good part, the one thing needful ; pray for 
 me." Her husband then approaching her 
 said : " And do you say nothing to me, Eliza ?" 
 " Oh, as for you," she replied, " you are not 
 ignorant ; I speak to those who do not know." 
 It was now become very difficult to catch 
 each word which fell from her dying lips ; 
 but she was heard distinctly to articulate : " I 
 die happy, I die in Christ ; I have been a 
 stranger on the earth, but I return to my true 
 country." She could not continue to speak, 
 
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74 MEMOIR OP 
 
 although she made painful efforts to do so. 
 At length, with an accent the most touching 
 and plaintive, she said : " I am so fatigued." 
 
 Her husband, kissing her forehead, then 
 covered with the perspiration of death, said 
 to her : " dear Eliza, it will not be long until 
 I shall join you ; I will try to walk in your 
 footsteps." She responded, " Amen ! Amen !" 
 An expression of joy appeared to diffuse itself 
 over her countenance ; and then she added 
 " Now Lord, give deliverance. Amen !" 
 
 These were her last words. She felt that 
 her mission on earth was ended. But how 
 beautiful had been that mission ! No one 
 had a doubt respecting the good which she 
 had done, nor respecting the discernment 
 wilh which it had been done. Her disinter- 
 estedness was rare. She had been placed in 
 an elevated position. But she had in view, 
 for years, only the advancement of the reign 
 of God on the earth. Her memory is blessed 
 in all the places where her life was passed, 
 for it left precious memorials. The impres- 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 75 
 
 sion which her death made every where in 
 the country around, and especially in the vi- 
 cinity of St. Vincent, cannot be described. 
 Rich and poor hastened from all parts to be 
 present at the funeral, and bedewed with their 
 tears the ground which covers her mortal re- 
 mains. 
 
 The decided appreciation of her character 
 and piety, by those among whom she had so- 
 journed but a few years, and their prompt, 
 and almost universal attendance at her fune- 
 ral, were at once honourable to them, and 
 demonstrative of her great excellence. 
 
 At the mournful ceremony of her inter- 
 ment, the Rev. Mr. Martignier, the suffragan 
 at Gilly, in the Canton of Vaud, pronounced 
 a discourse, from which have been derived 
 many of the details which relate to her death. 
 From it are also borrowed the words which 
 follow. 
 
 " We are certain that we conform with 
 her feelings in endeavouring less to recall to 
 mind that which might contribute to her 
 
76 MEMOIR OF 
 
 glory, than that which may serve to glorify 
 Him whom she had chosen for her Master, 
 and whose power manifested itself in her 
 weakness. 
 
 " That which she loved in this world was 
 the country, where she found herself in the 
 presence of the majestic works of God, 
 and, above all, the domestic life in the bosom 
 of her family. There, she divided her cares 
 between the husband whom she loved, and 
 the education of a niece whom she brought up 
 as her daughter, and whom she endeavoured 
 to lead to the Saviour. Although one might 
 remark in her a mind serious, occupied with 
 the great interests of eternity, yet she was 
 always serene, and often indulging in her nat- 
 ural gaiety of disposition. Her conversation 
 was animated ; and when she spoke of the 
 things relating to salvation, it was with an ad- 
 mirable simplicity of heart and of mind. It 
 was out of the abundance of the heart that 
 her mouth spoke. Every where she mado 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 77 
 
 the influence of a Christian spirit to be per- 
 ceived and felt. 
 
 " The preaching which she loved was that 
 in which the Gospel was presented entire ; 
 in which the misery of man, and salvation by 
 faith constitute the corner-stone of the edi- 
 fice. She did not demand of a, preacher 
 either pomp of style, or oratorical movements, 
 but a profound knowledge of the Scriptures, 
 a development, both natural and felt, of the 
 truths of salvation.' 
 
 We have now arrived at the close of the 
 narrative of the useful life and happy death 
 of this excellent woman. I need scarcely 
 add one word to the unvarnished and faithful 
 statement of facts which is here given 
 These facts constitute a better eulogy than 
 any thing which I can say. And yet, per- 
 haps, a few brief reflections might be sug- 
 gested, not enlarged upon, which are worthy 
 
 of our consideration. 
 
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78 MEMOIR OP 
 
 1. This Narrative most impressively re- 
 minds US of the VANITY OF THE WORLD, CIS 
 
 shown in its insufficiency to make us happy, 
 and the uncertainty of its continuance. 
 
 The experience of the wisest and best of 
 men, in all ages, has led invariably to this 
 conclusion, that the enjoyments of this world 
 are vain and unsatisfying. The subject of 
 this Memoir often admitted, as she reviewed 
 the past, that she never, during the years 
 which she spent in all the gaiety and splen- 
 dour of the world, possessed that true happi- 
 ness which the heart demands, and without 
 which it cannot be satisfied. And few per- 
 sons were more favourably situated than she 
 was, for enjoying this world. She had every 
 thing that heart could desire, so far as it re- 
 lates to the things of this world, a husband 
 whom she loved, and who adored her ; riches ; 
 high rank in life ; the best of servants ; and a 
 large number of friends. And yet all this 
 could not fill the heart. And why ? Because 
 the heart of man was made for God. No- 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 79 
 
 thing but the infinite God can fill its vast de- 
 sires. And as to the uncertainty of this 
 world, what an illustration we have of it in 
 her case ! At the age of thirty-seven, amidst 
 all the advantages of her position, and even 
 engaged as she was in doing so much good, 
 she is cut off in the rnidst of her days, and 
 of her usefulness ! Verily this world passeth 
 away like a shadow ! 
 
 2. This Narrative teaches us the transcend- 
 ent excellence of true religion. 
 
 In our fallen, ruined estate, we need an 
 atonement for our sins, and the renovation of 
 our depraved nature. The Gospel reveals 
 the method by which both may be attained 
 " Repentance towards God, and faith towards 
 the Lord Jesus Christ," constitute the simple 
 and indispensable terms of salvation. And 
 he who has attained to the reconciliation with 
 God which the Gospel offers to mankind, 
 has found that which fills the soul with peace. 
 But religion not only gives peace to the 
 troubled breast, it transforms, and purifies, and 
 
80 MEMOIR OF 
 
 adorns the whole character, correcting evil 
 dispositions, and rendering that which was 
 lovely in nature, still more lovely, and thus not 
 only secures to us eternal life, but also fits us 
 to be more agreeable, and happy, and useful 
 in this world. So true is it, that " godliness 
 is profitable unto all things, having the promise 
 of the life that now is, and of that which is 
 to come." 
 
 "I envy," says Sir Humphry Davy, "no 
 quality of the mind or intellect in others ; be 
 it genius, wit, or fancy. But if I could be 
 allowed to choose what would be most de- 
 lightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I 
 should prefer a firm religious belief to any 
 other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline 
 of goodness, creates new hopes when all 
 earthly ones vanish, and throws over the 
 decay, the destruction of existence here, the 
 most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life 
 even in death, and from decay* and destruction 
 calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an in- 
 strument of torture and shame the ladder of 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 81 
 
 ascent to Paradise ; and, far above all com- 
 binations of earthly hopes, calls up the most 
 delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the 
 gardens of the blest, the security of everlast- 
 ing joys, where the sensualist and the scep- 
 tic view only gloom, decay, annihilation and 
 despair." 
 
 3. This Narrative exhibits a beautiful and 
 impressive example to those who are distin- 
 guished for their riches, or their elevated 
 station in society. 
 
 The subject of this memoir was the daugh 
 ter of one of the most opulent men, as is 
 commonly believed, that our country has ever 
 numbered among its inhabitants ; and, by her 
 marriage, she was brought into a most ele- 
 vated and distinguished position, at the most 
 splendid Court in the world. And yet she did 
 not think it beneath her to be a professor of 
 the religion of the meek and crucified Sa- 
 viour. On the contrary, she considered it to 
 be her highest honour. Nor did she think it 
 a degredation to be found actively engaged in 
 
82 MEMOIR OF 
 
 promoting his kingdom. She hesitated not 
 to do any thing that she could for the best 
 interests, for time and for eternity, of man- 
 kind. She gave liberally of her money to 
 every good undertaking. She accomplished 
 a vast amount of good, in the few years which 
 it was the will of her Heavenly Father that 
 she should remain on the earth, after she had 
 obtained religion. She was a benefactor to 
 the poor around her. Let our rich people 
 imitate her benevolence, and win for them- 
 selves, as she did, " the blessing of many 
 ready to perish." It is a privilege to possess 
 wealth, if there belongs to its possessor a 
 heart to employ it liberally, for the promotion 
 of the happiness of his fellow-men. And how 
 rich is the reward which such a man gains, 
 even in the love and the respect of all who 
 know him ! The rich sometimes think that 
 they are hated by the poor. If it be so, it is 
 their own fault. For nothing can be more 
 certain than that, if the rich manifest in their 
 conduct, benevolence of spirit, sincere respect 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 83 
 
 for their fellow-men, of every condition, cour- 
 t( ousness of manners, freedom from pride and 
 superciliousness, and readiness to take the 
 lead in all works of charity, it is not possible 
 for them not to be esteemed by every one. 
 But if their conduct be the reverse of all this, 
 and they and their families treat with scorn 
 the labouring classes, it is unavoidable that 
 they should be hated. In no country is a 
 rich man long unpopular who is benevolent, 
 kind, and unassuming. Of this truth our own 
 country has furnished not a few striking in- 
 stances, in such men as the late General Van 
 Rennselaer, Divie Bethune, Robert Ralston, 
 and many others, to say nothing of those who 
 still live. What a blessing to a neighbour- 
 hood, and even to a country, may wealthy 
 men be, if they have a heart rightly to em- 
 ploy the advantages which God has given 
 them! And how 'can greater happiness be 
 found on earth, than in the exercise of a 
 God-like benevolence? They who do so, 
 and * are rich in good works," being 
 
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 " ready to distribute, and willing to commu- 
 nicate, lay up for themselves a good foun- 
 dation against the time to come, that they may 
 lay hold on eternal life." They who do 
 so, are, however, not " high-minded," nor do 
 they " trust in uncertain riches, but in the liv- 
 ing God, who giveth us richly all things to 
 enjoy." And here, it may not be improper 
 to call the reader's attention back to what 
 was, perhaps, the most striking, as it certainly 
 was the most beautiful trait in the character 
 of the subject of this memoir, her great be- 
 nevolence of heart. How beautifully this was 
 displayed in the fact which led to the com- 
 mencement of her religious impressions, 
 which went on increasing and deepening, 
 until they issued in her conversion. What 
 could better illustrate this than her going 
 up, in her times of leisure, to the room oc- 
 cupied by a hired woman, living in her 
 house, and there sitting down and reading by 
 the hour the Sacred Scriptures, and other 
 good books, for the gratification of that hired 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 85 
 
 person ? And this she did before she her- 
 self had known what religion is, by experi- 
 encing its blessedness. How few rich peo- 
 ple, how few people in any circumstances, 
 manifest such regard for the persons whom 
 they employ ! And, after she had become a 
 Christian, no one could be more kind and 
 faithful to domestics than she was to hers. 
 And what was the consequence ? She seldom 
 failed to have good ones. She took the 
 deepest interest in all their welfare. She 
 thought it to be of the utmost importance to 
 have servants who feared God. Such do- 
 mestics are a real blessing to the families in 
 which they live, and ought to be esteemed as 
 such. And those people who are them 
 selves not pious ought, by all means, to have 
 truly pious domestics, for the sake of the 
 happy influence which they might exert upon 
 their children. 
 
 4. And finally. This Narrative teaches us 
 the great importance of making preparation 
 
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86 MEMOIR OF 
 
 for death in the season of health, and of 
 being habitually ready to die. 
 
 The subject of this memoir rejoiced on her 
 dying bed, that she had not postponed, till the 
 time of her last sickness, the work of prepar- 
 ing for death. No : this great work had been 
 attended to years before, or rather it was the 
 business of the last several years of her life 
 to become prepared for that solemn event. 
 
 And did the possession of true religion 
 prevent her from enjoying this world ? It 
 certainly did lead her to " use this world so 
 as not to abuse it ;" but it did not render her 
 less happy. On the contrary, she enjoyed a 
 most delightful serenity of mind, and pos- 
 sessed uniformly a cheerful spirit, and was a 
 most agreeable companion. Still she looked 
 forward, with hope, to the glorious scenes of a 
 heavenly state, and lived in expectation of that 
 day which would give her a sweet release 
 from this world, where our happiness is at 
 best imperfect, and an entrance into that 
 
MRS. RUMPFF. 87 
 
 place "where there is fullness of joy, and 
 pleasures for evermore." 
 
 And when death came she was not unpre- 
 pared for it. She had none of that heart- 
 rending fear, and even horror, which so often 
 haunt the dying-couch of very many who are 
 called to die, and who know that they are un- 
 prepared for it. Her end was peace. It is 
 true, that for a few weeks her body endured 
 very great pain. But her mind, when reason 
 held its recovered sway, was always staid on 
 God. Not a doubt respecting her salvation 
 was permitted to trouble her ; and, at the ap- 
 pointed moment, she sweetly entered into the 
 joy of her Lord ! 
 
 But to attain to an end like peaceful, let 
 all who read this book strive most earnestly 
 to enter into the kingdom of God, whilst op- 
 portunity and health last. Let us all beware, 
 lest the "cares of this world," the snares which 
 riches bring with them, or other hindrances 
 to a religious life, prevent us from seeking 
 first the " kingdom of God." It is a great 
 
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 MEMOIR OF 
 
 thing to be a Christian ! How few, compara 
 tively, seem truly to realize either the impor 
 tance or the difficulty of being such ! 
 
MEMOIR 
 
 OP THE 
 
 DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 THE death of this distinguished woman oc- 
 curred about a month before that of Mrs. 
 RumpfF. They had been intimate friends, and 
 both most actively engaged in promoting the 
 kingdom of God in France. There is, there- 
 fore, a propriety in uniting their memoirs, 
 and of presenting both, unseparated, as it 
 were, in death, as they had been associated, 
 in all good works, in life. 
 
 The Duchess de Broglie belonged to an il- 
 lustrious family. She was a daughter of the 
 celebrated Madame de Stael, and, consequent- 
 ly a grand-daughter of M. Necker, the distin- 
 
92 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 guished Minister of Finance to Louis the XVI, 
 and to whose work, (Administration des Fi- 
 nances,) on the deplorable state of the treasury, 
 and the wasted resources of the kingdom, as 
 well as to his Report on the necessity of con- 
 voking the States General, it was owing, that 
 the crisis of the Revolution of 1789 was pre- 
 cipitated. As the reader may feel an interest in 
 knowing something respecting these person 
 ages, who have occupied so distinguished a 
 place on the page of the Modern History of 
 France, I propose to give some notices ol 
 them, as well as of some other members of 
 the family of the subject of this memoir. 
 
 M. Necker was born at Geneva, in Switz- 
 erland, in the year 1734, of protestant pa- 
 rents. His father was a Professor of Law 
 in the university of that city. In early life M. 
 Necker went to Paris, where he was brought 
 up in the banking-house of his uncle, M. Ver- 
 net. He soon rose to great affluence, and, 
 eventually, attracted the notice of Louis the 
 XVI., by some of his writings on financial 
 
DUCHESS DE BRO6LIE. 93 
 
 operations. About the year 1775 or 76, he 
 was called to take part in the ministry, and a 
 few years afterwards, he was made Controller- 
 General. In his political career, he passed 
 through many vicissitudes. In 1781, here- 
 tired, in dissatisfaction, to Switzerland, where 
 he purchased the barony of Coppet, on the 
 northern shore of the Lake of Geneva, about 
 six miles from the city of that name, where 
 he lived quietly, for several years, occupied 
 with his domestic affairs, and in writing his 
 work, entitled Administration des Finances. 
 In 1 788, the dilapidated state of the treasury, 
 occasioned by the prodigality of Calonne and 
 other preceding ministers, forced the king to 
 recall Necker to his Council. In the year 
 following, the king banished him from France, 
 allowing him only twenty-four hours in which 
 to take his departure. He was soon after 
 recalled, and continued in office as Minister 
 of Finance until September 1790, when, 
 finding himself unpopular with the demo- 
 cratic or popular party, which had gained 
 
94 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 the ascendency, on account of his conserva- 
 tive views, (or aristocratic, as they were 
 by many called,) he resigned his post, and 
 withdrew to Coppet, where chiefly he lived 
 the remainder of his days, occupied with his 
 pen. He died in 1804, at Geneva. During 
 this period of retirement, he wrote five or six 
 different works, which were considerably 
 read in their time. Of these, his History of 
 his Own Administration, his Reflections 
 addressed to the King, his treatise on Execu- 
 tive Power, and his French Revolution, are 
 well known. But his two works entitled, 
 Importance of Religious Opinions, and 
 Course of Religious Morals, are not so well 
 known. And yet they are remarkable pro- 
 ductions for that period, and show that M. 
 Necker was one of the few great Frenchmen 
 of that day, whose regard for religion was not 
 swept away by the floods of infidelity, which 
 then, and for years afterwards, raged over 
 France. 
 
 In the year 1765, M. Necker married a 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 95 
 
 Mademoiselle Curchod, daughter of a Pro- 
 testant clergyman, in the Canton of Berne. 
 This excellent lady died in 1794. She was 
 a woman of great merit. She wrote a num- 
 ber of works, which were a good deal read 
 in their day. Her time and means were 
 greatly devoted to philanthropic efforts, and 
 throughout life she maintained a character 
 distinguished by great goodness. 
 
 The only child of M. and Madame Necker 
 was a daughter, who was born in 1766, and 
 at the age of twenty married to the Swedish 
 Ambassador, resident near the Court of the 
 Tuileries, Baron de Stael-Holstein. Made- 
 moiselle Necker shared, from her childhood, 
 that unbounded love of her parents, which an 
 only daughter, of the most brilliant talents, 
 ever enjoys from affectionate parents of cul- 
 tivated minds. Her father, in particular, 
 whose disposition she seems to have inher- 
 ited, was extravagantly fond of her. She 
 shared his society, in all his leisure moments, 
 and her studies were greatly directed by his 
 
96 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 judgment and taste. Her education, of course, 
 rather partook of a masculine character than 
 of that feminine mould which more befits her 
 sex. As she was born in Paris, and grew up 
 whilst her father was rising into the posses- 
 sion of great power and influence, or when 
 he had reached the zenith of that influence, 
 her mind and character received their pecu 
 liar type from the mind and character of the 
 distinguished men, such as Thomas, Raynal, 
 Marmontel, &c. who frequented her father's 
 house, and who were favourites with her pa- 
 rents. In this way, she not only attained 
 those extraordinary conversational powers, 
 which made her, as she has been called, 
 " the greatest converser in Europe," in her 
 day, but also that love of free institutions, 
 which she ever afterwards retained, and which 
 made her so obnoxious to the dislike of 
 Buonaparte. At an early age, I believe be- 
 fore she attained the age of twenty, she be- 
 gan to be an authoress. Her first published 
 writings were two or three tragedies and com- 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 97 
 
 edies, and Letters on the Works and Char- 
 acter of J. J. Rousseau, which attracted con- 
 siderable notice. The Revolution of 1789 
 occurred three years after her marriage. Her 
 liberal principles caused her to espouse the 
 cause of the people. During Robespierre's 
 ascendency she exerted herself, however, 
 even at the hazard of her life, to save the 
 victims of the popular rage, and published a 
 powerful Defence of the Queen, who had 
 shown much dislike of her. At length she 
 was compelled to leave Paris, and with great 
 difficulty escaped the fury of the people, and 
 reached her father's house at Coppet. In 
 1795, when Sweden had acknowledged the 
 Revolution, her husband returned to his post 
 as Ambassador at Paris. She accompanied 
 him, and soon began to make her influence 
 felt in politics, through Barras and Talleyrand, 
 who were her friends, and the latter of whom 
 owed his elevation to the office of Minister 
 of Foreign Affairs to her exertions. She re- 
 mained in Paris until 1798, when she ac- 
 
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98 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 companied her husband on a journey, made 
 for his declining health, towards her father's 
 residence in Switzerland ; but he did not live 
 until the journey was completed. She after- 
 wards returned to Paris, and for three or four 
 years, her saloons were the centres of attrac- 
 tion to the literary and political world of that 
 great metropolis. At length, Napoleon, who 
 had long dreaded her influence, and who had 
 become offended at a work of her father, en- 
 titled his Last Views of Politics and Finance 
 published in 1802, in which the venerable 
 author predicted the assumption of regal au 
 thority by Buonaparte, who was then Consul, 
 ordered her to quit Paris. She left the city, 
 at his order, and returned no more openly 
 (and, but once privately, it is believed) until 
 her great enemy was driven into exile in 
 1814. 
 
 In the meanwhile, living in exile, she 
 travelled in Italy, where she wrote her 
 Corinna or Italy t and in Germany, on whose 
 Manners, Literature and Philosophy she 
 
DUCHESS I)E BROGLIE. 99 
 
 wrote a work, which, with that on Italy, have 
 perhaps been the most read of all her writ- 
 ings. In 1 8 1 2, to avoid the wide-spread march 
 of Buonaparte's armies, she fled before him 
 to Moscow in Russia, and afterwards to St. 
 Petersburg. She then returned by way of 
 Stockholm and Copenhagen, and visiting 
 England, remained there until the downfall 
 of Napoleon, when she returned to Paris, 
 with the Allies. At Buonaparte's return from 
 Elba she betook herself to Switzerland. It 
 is said, but there is good reason to doubt the 
 truth of the story, that Napoleon invited her, 
 during his reign of one hundred days, to 
 return to Paris, and assist in the preparation 
 of a new constitution, but that she refused, 
 adding, " He has dispensed with the consti- 
 tution and me for twelve years, and now he 
 loves neither of us." After the battle of 
 Waterloo, and the consequent complete down 
 fall of Napoleon, she returned to Paris where, 
 with the exception of a temporary absence, 
 she passed the remained of her days, in the 
 
100 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 society of her children, and of her husband 
 (a Monsieur de Rocca a young man, whom 
 she had privately married a few years before,) 
 employing her lime in writing. She died in 
 1817. 
 
 Madame de Stael has been considered the 
 most distinguished female writer of her age. 
 Her works have been printed in 17 volumes 
 in octavo, as well as in various other forms. 
 And notwithstanding that there is much in 
 the productions of her pen that is very erro- 
 neous, much that is contrary to good taste, 
 and clothed in an inflated style ; yet her writ- 
 ings have long been read, and will continue 
 to be read, for the original thought, the great 
 acuteness, the brilliant wit, the philosophical 
 investigation of literary and political subjects 
 which they display. 
 
 By her first marriage, Madame de Stael 
 had two children, a son, Augustus de Stael, 
 who inherited the title of his father, (but is 
 more commonly known by the title of the 
 younger Baron de Stael, or Baron Augustus 
 
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 DUCHESS DE BROGLIE 101 
 
 de Stael,) and the subject of this memoir, 
 Mademoiselle de Stael, afterwards the Duch- 
 ess de Broglie. By her second marriage, 
 she had a son who is still a young man, and 
 who is more commonly called the Marquis de 
 Rocca. 
 
 It has been commonly supposed, that 
 Madame de Stael adopted the opinions of the 
 infidel philosophers of the eighteenth cen 
 tury. Some of the French have even ac 
 cused her of having been an atheist. It will 
 appear hereafter, that neither of these two 
 charges respecting her religious views was 
 correct, according to the opinion of her 
 daughter, as expressed to the writer of this 
 memoir. It is certain, however, that if her 
 writings show that she possessed some re- 
 spect for Christianity, she did not compre- 
 hend its fundamental doctrines. Her life 
 was a worldly one ; her most intimate friends 
 were chiefly distinguished authors and politi- 
 cians, who were destitute of piety; her 
 whole intellectual and moral powers seem to 
 
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102 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 have been exclusively devoted to the things 
 of the world. That she was far, very far 
 from being a Christian, in the true sense of 
 the word, may be affirmed, without the 
 slightest ground for being charged with rash- 
 ness, or un charitableness of judgment. That 
 she found happiness in her career of worldli- 
 ness and of sin, cannot be supposed for a mo- 
 ment. Sir James Mackintosh, one of the 
 most accomplished men, and elegant writers 
 of modern times, and who was intimately 
 acquainted with her, has well observed of her : 
 " Placed in many respects in the highest 
 situation to which humanity can aspire ; pos- 
 sessed, unquestionably, of the highest powers 
 of reasoning, emancipated in a singular de- 
 gree from prejudices, and entering with the 
 keenest relish into all the feelings that seemed 
 to suffice for the happiness and the occupa- 
 tions of philosophers, patriots and lovers, she 
 has still testified that, without religion there 
 is nothing stable, sublime, or satisfactory; 
 and that it alone completes and consummates 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 103 
 
 all to which reason and affection can aspire." 
 What a remarkable confession from one 
 whom the greatest military ruler that the 
 world ever saw, both feared and courted, 
 and then banished from France, and who had 
 tried what happiness the applause and the 
 flattery of the brilliant and rare constellation 
 of minds, which in the day of her greatest 
 glory surrounded her, could yield. She, too, 
 found, as all do who make the experiment, 
 that there is nothing beneath its great Crea- 
 tor, that can satisfy the desires of an immortal 
 mind. 
 
 As has already been stated, Madame de 
 Stael had two children, a son and a daughter, 
 by her marriage with Baron de Stael-Hol- 
 stein. They were both born in Paris, if I 
 have been correctly informed. But they 
 spent their youth, and the latter, even her 
 childhood, almost exclusively at Coppet in 
 Switzerland. I am not certain whether they 
 remained all the time, from 1795 until 1802, 
 at Coppet, or whether they did not spend a 
 
104 MEMOIR OP THE 
 
 portion of that period with their mother, at 
 Paris. I think, however, that they spent 
 even that period at Coppet. From 1802 
 until 1814, they remained wholly at that 
 place and Geneva, during a part of which 
 time their mother was with them ; but during 
 the chief part of it, she was away, in Italy, 
 Germany, Russia, England &c., for it was 
 the period of her banishment from France. 
 
 Madame de Stae'l spared neither money 
 nor pains in the education of her children. 
 Whatever may have been her own indiffer- 
 ence towards the subject of religion, as a 
 personal affair, she desired most sincerely to 
 have her children grow up under a good 
 moral influence. She employed the best of 
 teachers for them, in all branches of a useful 
 and accomplished education. And they grew 
 up giving the most convincing proofs that her 
 care was not in vain. 
 
 At the age of about twenty-one or two, 
 Mademoiselle de Stael, as the subject of this 
 memoir was called, came to Paris, when her 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 105 
 
 mother introduced her to the gay world. I 
 think that it was not long before the death of 
 her mother that she married the Duke de 
 Broglie. She was a highly accomplished 
 woman, had much reputation for wit, pos- 
 sessed great beauty, and was of an illustrious 
 family. It is not wonderful that she had 
 suitors. She had but little fortune, however, 
 as her mother bequeathed all her most valua 
 ble possessions to her son Augustus. 
 
 Her marriage with the Duke de Broglie 
 was every way happy. It was a marriage 
 of affection on both sides. Her husband 
 was a man of vast hereditary wealth. And 
 although he was a Roman Catholic, yet he 
 never interfered with the religious opinions 
 and preferences of his wife. On the con- 
 trary, he often accompanied her to the Pro- 
 testant churches, and listened with attention 
 to the truths which he there heard. 
 
 The Duke de Broglie is at the present time 
 somewhat less than fifty-five years old. He 
 is descended from a line of very distinguished 
 
106 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 men, and few of the noble families of France 
 are more respected. His family originally 
 came from Piedmont, and their name was for- 
 merly written Broglio. His grandfather, and 
 great grandfather were both Marshals of 
 France, and distinguished in arms, especially 
 the former. His father, espoused the popular 
 side in the revolution of 1789. But he gave 
 offence to the prevailing faction in 1794, and 
 was soon summoned to appear before the 
 revolutionary tribunal, and received its con- 
 demnation, and was put to death by the guillo- 
 tine in June of that year. His son, the present 
 Duke de Broglie, received an excellent edu- 
 cation. For a considerable time, he devoted 
 himself to study and to literary pursuits. 
 But, afterwards, entering into political life, he 
 rose to distinction, and held several important 
 posts under Napoleon. In 1814, upon the 
 first abdication of Buonaparte, he took his 
 seat in the chamber of Peers, where he 
 soon gave splendid proofs of his intimate 
 knowledge of the state of things in the king- 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 107 
 
 dom, and of the legislation which was then 
 needed. He was prominent in the work of 
 settling the government after the revolution 
 of July 1830. And under the present mon- 
 arch of France, whom he assisted to place 
 over the people, he has been repeatedly 
 Prime Minister, or President of the Council. 
 He has great influence because of his reputa- 
 tion as an honest man. He is not distin- 
 guished as an orator, yet few men command 
 more attention in the chamber of Peers, 
 when he speaks, because it is firmly believed 
 that he honestly speaks just what he believes 
 to be true. His private character has been 
 above reproach. He has been an excellent 
 husband and father. He is much respected 
 by the King, and whether in office, of which 
 he seems to have but little desire, being a 
 man of domestic dispositions, and in no way 
 needing its emoluments, or out of it, he will 
 have great influence on the affairs of the 
 kingdom. 
 
 It is unnecessary to remark that the exalted 
 
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 rank, and official elevation of her husband, 
 together with the reputation of her own illus- 
 trious family, must have given the Duchess 
 de Broglie such an influence as few ladies in 
 any country can hope to possess. Besides 
 this, she had a mind of the first order, her 
 knowledge was most extensive, and her man- 
 ners were most accomplished and agreeable. 
 She was intimately acquainted with the King 
 and Queen ; and the circle of her friends was 
 immense. During several months of the 
 winter and spring, she and her husband re- 
 ceived, once a week the company of the most 
 distinguished Frenchmen, who were in the 
 Capital at that season, and of distinguished 
 strangers, from various countries, who might 
 be visiting it. At these soirees might be seen 
 peers, deputies, ministers of state, ambas- 
 sadors, diplomatists, learned men, and for 
 eigners of merit, in great numbers. All, of 
 course, made the acquaintance of the Duchess, 
 whose vast information, and extraordinary 
 powers of conversation, united to most affec- 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 109 
 
 tionate and agreeable manners, rendered her 
 extremely respected) and even beloved, by all 
 who made her acquaintance. In this way, 
 her acquaintance with the influential men of 
 the nation, as well as with many of those in 
 other countries, could not fail to become very 
 great. Indeed, I suppose that there were 
 very few men in the kingdom, of much in- 
 fluence, with whom she had not some ac- 
 quaintance personally. 
 
 Now, when we take into consideration that 
 she was not only a Protestant, but a truly 
 religious woman, and deeply interested in 
 every thing that had even the most indirect 
 bearing on the advancement of the kingdom 
 of Christ in France, we cannot fail to appre- 
 ciate the vast importance which attached to 
 the life and efforts of this distinguished wo- 
 man. It was the influence which she could 
 exert on those in power, and on those who 
 control the opinion of the nation, that was so 
 important in her case. She could not give 
 very much money to the promotion of reli 
 
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110 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 gion. She often regretted, she more than 
 once expressed such regret to the writer of 
 this memoir, that she could not give as much 
 as many might expect of her. She had little 
 property, or patrimonial inheritance, of which 
 she had the control. And she felt it to be a 
 delicate thing, and doubtless feared that it 
 might be injurious to him, to importune her 
 husband, who was a Roman Catholic, to give 
 her considerable sums of money to build up, 
 what is usually considered an antagonist 
 faith. She unquestionably acted with great 
 prudence. She gave as much to the various 
 religious Associations as her peculiar circum 
 stances allowed. Her name was always 
 among those of the most liberal contributors 
 to every good work. But the greatest talent 
 which God had committed to her to employ 
 for his glory, was, without doubt, the vast in- 
 fluence which she had with distinguished men 
 in and about the Government, or scattered 
 throughout the kingdom, and which might 
 be employed in the most direct and important 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. Ill 
 
 manner for the promotion of the extension of 
 the Redeemer's reign in France. And that 
 she nobly employed this talent is most cer 
 tain. She informed herself respecting every 
 thing that was doing, in all parts of the king 
 dom, for the advancement of religion. She 
 informed herself respecting the difficulties of 
 every kind, whether arising from the influence 
 of Roman Catholic priests, or from infidel and 
 arrogant magistrates, which the colporters, 
 the evangelists and ministers, and the other 
 labourers of the Protestant Societies had to 
 encounter. And whenever her intervention 
 could be shown to be needed, or to be useful, 
 she never hesitated a moment to do all that 
 was in her power with the proper authorities, 
 to have those difficulties adjusted. Her ac- 
 tive mind was ever on the alert, to ascertain 
 what could be done for the best interests of 
 mankind. It was not only the subject of reli- 
 gion that occupied her mind ; every scheme 
 of benevolence by which human misery could 
 be alleviated, claimed, as she conceived, and 
 
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 received her approbation and support. For 
 instance, she was for years, most intensely 
 interested in the plans which philanthropists 
 in France were attempting to carry into 
 operation, for the diminution of the horrors of 
 slavery in the French Islands ; and still more, 
 for the removal of slavery itself from those 
 portions of the French possessions. Nor 
 were her labours, and those of her distin- 
 guished husband, in vain. A decided impres- 
 sion has been made on the public mind in 
 France, and the day cannot be very far dis- 
 tant when the abolition of slavery, either 
 gradual or immediate, will take place, in the 
 French Islands. 
 
 She took also a very deep interest in every 
 thing relating to the amelioration of the con- 
 dition of those who are in the prisons in 
 France. I shall not soon forget the manifes- 
 tations of the interest which she took, in the 
 winter of 1837-38, in the visit of Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Fry to Paris, to inspect some of the 
 prisons. It was just such a work as was 
 
DUCHESS BE BROGLIE. 113 
 
 calculated to move her benevolent heart. 
 The abolishing of Lotteries, and the closing 
 of the Gaming Houses, two years ago, were 
 also measures which gave her the greatest 
 delight. 
 
 The account which she once gave me of 
 her religious history is a most interesting 
 one, and illustrates in a very striking man- 
 ner the importance of early and judicious re- 
 ligious instruction. " My mother," said she 
 to me, " was not an infidel, as many have 
 believed, and as some have asserted, much 
 less was she an atheist. She believed in the 
 Sacred Scriptures as being a Revelation from 
 God. From, our earliest years she taught 
 my brother Augustus and myself to pray. 
 One of the earliest recollections which I have 
 is that of repeating on my knees, at her side, 
 Our Father.* At a very early period, we 
 
 * The striking fact has often been published, 1 believe, 
 of Madame de Stacl's having f-aid that she needed no 
 other evidence of the truth of Christianity than what 
 the Lord's prayer furnishes. 
 
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114 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 were placed under the religious instruction 
 of the late excellent Mr. Cellerier, Sen., one 
 of the pastors of Geneva, of the last gener- 
 ation, a most pious and devoted old gentle- 
 man, who, for many years came to the Cha- 
 teau, at Coppet, two or three times a week, 
 to give us instruction in the Bible. We 
 passed almost the whole of our youth under 
 his pious and excellent supervision, during 
 much of which period, our mother was away 
 from Switzerland, on her journeys in Italy, 
 Germany, &c. It was owing to his faithful 
 instructions that impressions, of a saving 
 character, as we hoped, were made upon our 
 minds. In my brother's case, these impres- 
 sions developed themselves more decidedly 
 at a later period. As to myself, I cannot re- 
 collect the time when I did not love God. 
 From my earliest years, I took delight in 
 reading the Scriptures, and in committing 
 myself to the Saviour." She then added, 
 '* It sometimes gives me much anxiety when 
 I think that I cannot recollect the time of my 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 115 
 
 conversion, nor any previous distressing feel- 
 ing respecting sin. I often fear that I have 
 never known what it is to have found the 
 change of heart spoken of in the Bible, be- 
 cause I cannot recollect when it occurred." 
 I told her that it was of but little conse- 
 quence, provided she now, and habitually, 
 possessed the evidence which the Scriptures 
 require of having " passed from death unto 
 life." On that point her mind had no dis- 
 tressing fears, I believe. She gave good 
 evidence of being a sincere Christian, in the 
 whole course of her life, even from the days 
 of her youth. Those who knew her best had 
 great confidence in her piety, and it will ap- 
 pear, in another part of this sketch, that she 
 died giving the most unequivocal evidence of 
 being prepared for that solemn event. 
 
 It is probable that the work of divine 
 grace, in her heart, was rather gradual than 
 otherwise. The death of her mother is said 
 to have had a very salutary effect upon her 
 mind, in deeping the religious feeling which 
 
116 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 she had, and augmenting her diligent atten- 
 tion to her own salvation. It is certain that 
 the older she became, the more mature did 
 her religious character become. Increase of 
 years seemed to bring with them an increase 
 in the interest which she felt in the kingdom 
 of God. From the time of her marriage she 
 may be considered as at the head of the little 
 company of evangelical Christians in Paris. 
 She was consulted on almost every good un- 
 dertaking, and no one could take a more 
 lively interest in the Bible cause, or in that 
 relating to missions, domestic and foreign. 
 And as her husband rose from one post of 
 honour to another, her field of duty and of 
 labour became greater, and her efforts to cul- 
 tivate it proportionably increased. 
 
 From the time of her marriage until her 
 death, she lived as the Christian head of a 
 family should. She devoted herself to the 
 religious instruction of her children most as- 
 siduously. Although she saw much com- 
 pany, as has already been remarked, yet no 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 117 
 
 circumstances made her intermit the duties 
 which she owed to her family. She super- 
 intended personally the affairs of her house- 
 hold, and especially the education of her 
 children, who were six or seven in number, 
 several of whom are still small. The eldest, 
 a daughter, was married about two years 
 ago. A few years since, the Duchess lost a 
 most lovely daughter, her second, at the age 
 of about fifteen years. This child had, for 
 years, lived much of her time with her aunt, 
 the widow of Baron Augustus de Stae'l, at 
 Coppet. She gave very decided evidence of 
 being a Christian, and made a sweet confes- 
 sion of confidence in the Saviour in her last 
 moments. Her death was much sanctified 
 to her mother, as well as to her aunt, who 
 felt almost, a mother's love towards her, and 
 who had indeed taken her to fill the place of 
 her own child, whom God had called to Him- 
 self. 
 
 The Duchess de Broglie, from the moment 
 when she had a family of her own, erected 
 
118 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 the domestic altar. Daily she collected her 
 children and her servants, and read the Scrip- 
 tures to them, and prayed with them. Her 
 husband was seldom absent from these sweet 
 ministrations. Even distinguished strangers, 
 when staying at her house, were always in- 
 vited, to unite with the household on these 
 occasions. At first, and perhaps for a few 
 years, she used written forms of prayer. 
 She even composed a considerable collection 
 of prayers, which have been pronounced, by 
 those who have read them/ to be very beau 
 tiful. She was not ashamed to avow that she 
 feared God. Standing in the very highest 
 rank of the nobility of the nation, she hesi- 
 tated not to profess herself an humble fol- 
 lower of the Larnb, and taught her house- 
 hold to pay the homage of their united devo- 
 tions before the throne of the Eternal. Earth 
 can present few spectacles more noble. 
 
 She had strong faith in the efficacy of 
 prayer. Of this I had some very striking 
 proofs. When I called upon her a day or 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 119 
 
 two after Fieschi had made his attempt on 
 the King's life, on the 28th of July 1835, her 
 feelings almost overcame her for a moment. 
 The first words which she uttered were, 
 " Oh, there must have been much praying 
 on the part of some of God's people, or it 
 would have been far worse with us than it 
 was." And after speaking much on the sub 
 ject, in a most truly Christian spirit, she 
 begged me to call upon as many of the Eng- 
 lish and Americans in Paris, who were pious, 
 as I could, and request them to unite their 
 thanksgivings to God for the preserva 
 tion of the King's life. She also requested 
 that we would not forget in our prayers, in 
 the little circle of Christians who met at my 
 house every Saturday evening and of which 
 some notice has been taken in another place 
 nor in those of the more public service on 
 the Sabbath, to supplicate the God of na- 
 tions to bless France, to preserve the people 
 from all excesses, and to render successful 
 the efforts of the government to maintain 
 
120 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 public order and tranquillity. It is, probably, 
 unknown to the most of those who may read 
 this book, that the Duke de Broglie, at that 
 time President of the Council of the King, 
 accompanied his Majesty, with many other 
 gentlemen of distinction, on the occasion just 
 referred to, and very narrowly escaped death. 
 A musket ball passed through the front part of 
 his coat, and cutting slightly the skin on the 
 collar-bone, passed along to the upper part of 
 the sleeve on the other side, and there lodg- 
 ed, having spent its force. 
 
 Who can tell how much the prayers of 
 even one such woman as the Duchess de 
 Broglie may avail on such an occasion ? Her 
 husband, during the nine or ten years that he 
 has been, from time to time, in the highest offi- 
 ces of Government, has often been made to feel 
 that nothing but the hand of God could extri- 
 cate from the accumulating difficulties which, 
 at times, rose up, and threatened the most seri- 
 ous consequences. And what did he do in 
 such circumstances ? I fear almost that I 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE* 121 
 
 invade the sacred precincts of his family- 
 affairs too greatly. But the. fact is too ho- 
 norable to him, and too noble an example to 
 men in office, who feel themselves similarly 
 situated, to be concealed. He has often gone 
 to his wife he has done the same thing to 
 his excellent sister-in-law, the present Bar- 
 roness de Stae'l, a most pious and lovely wo- 
 man of whom I shall speak more presently 
 and requested her to retire to her closet, and 
 kneel down with him, and beseech God to 
 interpose ! Would to God that every man in 
 authority felt a similar sense of dependence 
 on Him who is Lord over all, and who 
 11 rules in the armies of heaven, and does his 
 pleasure among the inhabitants of the earth." 
 Nor was the confidence which her husband 
 reposed in her excellent judgment small. It 
 is said, and I have no doubt with truth, that 
 he was in the habit of consulting her on al- 
 most every important step which he took, 
 when he occupied any important post 
 in the government. The documents which 
 
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122 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 he prepared for submission to the government, 
 it is said, were commonly first read to her, for 
 the sake of having her very judicious opinions 
 respecting them. For she was a woman of 
 a very sound and clear judgment, and her 
 mind was well informed on almost all sub- 
 jects. 
 
 The Duchess de Broglie was a most beau- 
 tiful writer. Her letters, and even the most 
 casual notes which she wrote, display ex 
 quisite taste. She might have won great dis- 
 tinction as an authoress, if she had been an 
 ambitious woman. But she preferred the 
 performance of her duties as a wife and a 
 mother to all literary fame. Perhaps, also, 
 she had seen so much of the insufficiency of 
 this species of worldly renown, to render its 
 votaries happy, that she had no desire to 
 seek it. Be that as it may, she wrote but 
 two books, both of them translations from 
 English into French. They were the two 
 works of Mr. Thomas Erskine of Scotland, 
 entitled " Internal Evidences of Christianity," 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 123 
 
 and " An Essay on Faith." To the latter 
 work she wrote an Introduction, in which she 
 discusses, in the most able manner, several 
 important points in Revealed Religion. This 
 Introduction is pronounced by the venerable 
 Professor Staper, to be one of the most re- 
 markable productions of modern times one 
 which causes all the Friends of religion in 
 France to regret, that the gifted and noble 
 authoress did not oftener employ her pen 
 in the cause of Truth. 
 
 Perhaps it may be interesting to know 
 what was the opinion of the Duchess respect- 
 ing the religious character of her mother. I 
 shall state all that came within my own know- 
 ledge, so far as I can do it with propriety. In 
 the many interviews which I had with her 
 from time to time, during the three years 
 which I spent, with my family, in Paris, I 
 adverted occasionally to her mother, her writ- 
 ings &c. One day I ventured to ask her, 
 whether she thought that her mother had 
 ever turned her attention seriously to the 
 
124 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 subject of religion ? And what opinion she 
 had on that deeply interesting point ? She re* 
 plied, with deep emotion, that her mother, in 
 the latter part of her life especially, was in 
 the practice of reading the Bible, and that 
 she had sometimes found her engaged in 
 prayer in her room. " But," said she, " one 
 does not know ; one tries to hope for the best 
 in such cases." It was easy to perceive that 
 her heart often reverted, with intense feeling, 
 to that overwhelming topic- More than once, 
 when speaking of her mother, her eyes be- 
 came filled with tears. For she could not 
 have been unacquainted with her whole cha- 
 racter. How painful it must have been to 
 her mind, to reflect that her mother, with all 
 the literary fame which she acquired, lived 
 "without God" and, it is to be feared, died 
 without giving much evidence of a well- 
 founded hope in the mercy of God through 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 Her brother, Baron Augustus de Stae'l, 
 was an excellent man, 1 have already stated 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 125 
 
 that he and his sister were brought up in 
 Switzerland, spending their time at Coppet, 
 or at .Geneva, chiefly, however, at the former 
 place. He was about twenty-four years old 
 when his mother returned to Paris, in 1814, 
 after her long exile from it was ended. After 
 the marriage of his sister, he spent much of 
 his time at Paris, especially the early parts 
 of the winters. He often visited Italy, and 
 frequently travelled in Germany. He also 
 visited England, where he spent some time. 
 His Letters on England, a work which he 
 published not long after his return from that 
 country, are distinguished not less by its cor- 
 rectness of information, than by the excellent 
 spirit in which it is written.* His summers 
 were spent chiefly at his patrimonial estate 
 at Coppet. How he employed himself when 
 there we may learn from the following ex- 
 tract from the " Tour" of the Rev. Daniel 
 
 * He also wrote another work, on the character &c 
 of his grandfather Necker. 
 
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126 MEMOIR OP THE 
 
 Wilson, (now Bishop of Calcutta) "on the 
 continent," a book of much interest, and con- 
 taining much information respecting the state 
 of things at the time when it was written. 
 
 " About six miles before we came to Ge- 
 neva," says Mr. Wilson, " we passed through 
 the beautiful village of Coppet, celebrated as 
 the residence of M. Necker, and of his still 
 more distinguished daughter, Madame de 
 Stae'l. The Baron, with his noble and amiable 
 sister, are blessings to the neighbourhood. 
 Their benevolence and piety are such, that 
 they acquaint themselves with the circum- 
 stances of all the poor families around them, 
 and administer relief to their bodies and 
 minds. It is quite delightful to think that 
 the descendants of one of the greatest states- 
 men of France, and of perhaps the most 
 brilliant writer of her age, should be devoting 
 all their talents to the diffusion of the truest 
 philosophy, the illumination and moral eleva- 
 tion of their fellow-creatures, by the know- 
 ledge of the Holy Scriptures, and of the 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 127 
 
 blessings of real Christianity, as purchased 
 by our Lord and Saviour." 
 
 It is not known when it was that Baron 
 Augustus de Stael became truly pious. The 
 work seems to have been very gradual in his 
 case. Probably it was not until as late as 
 1822, that he ventured to consider himself a 
 child of God. Although it is certain that he 
 gave good evidence of piety long before that 
 date. I well remember hearing the late ex 
 cellent and eloquent Mr. Summerfield, say 
 that the young Baron de Stael was converted 
 whilst he was in England, and I think that 
 he stated that it occurred whilst he was a 
 member of the University of Oxford. But T 
 am inclined to think that this was a mistake. 
 But it matters little where it took place. 
 What is enough is that we know the fact that 
 he became a most devoted and zealous Chris- 
 tian, and one of eminent usefulness. In his 
 day it was not as it is now. Then, there 
 were very few men, either at Paris or at 
 Geneva, among the ranks of influence, who 
 
128 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 were truly pious. Indeed there were so few, 
 that, in forming the Protestant Bible Society, 
 in 1819 I think it was, it was not possible to 
 find men enough, of the proper spiritual 
 qualifications, to appoint on its committee. 
 Men had to be chosen, the greater part of 
 whom manifested but little interest in real, 
 spiritual religion. Now, thanks be to God, 
 there is to be found a considerable band at 
 Paris, and a larger one at Geneva, of intelli- 
 gent and influential men of piety, who are at 
 the head of every good undertaking. 
 
 Baron Augustus de Stael, at the period of his 
 death, which occurred in November 1827, at 
 Coppet, was only in his thirty-seventh year. 
 He had been married but a few months. He 
 enjoyed good health, and far more happiness 
 than ordinarily falls to the lot of humanity. 
 He was occupied with plans of usefulness, 
 not only in relation to his own estate, but also 
 to the country of his illustrious ancestors. 
 He was devoted to all the institutions of bene- 
 volence and piety which had been formed, the 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 129 
 
 last few years preceding his death, in France 
 and Switzerland : and may be said to have 
 been identified with their prosperity. What 
 a noble sphere of usefulness, exertion and 
 responsibility ! It will give some idea of the 
 magnitude of his engagements, and of his ex- 
 ertions to promote the glory of God and the 
 best interest of his fellow men, to state that, 
 at the time of his death, he was the Secretary 
 of the Protestant Bible Society of Paris ; an 
 active member of the Paris Missionary So- 
 ciety ; of the committee of the Religious 
 Tract Society ; of the Paris School Society 
 for Mutual Instruction ; a member of the 
 council of the Helvetic Benevolent Society; 
 the President, and first Secretary of the So- 
 ciety for Christian Morals ; a member of the 
 Consistory of the Reformed Church of Paris ; 
 and one of the editors of the Archives du 
 Chrislianisme, to say nothing of numerous 
 other works of benevolence and piety, in 
 which he took an active part. In its day, 
 the Greek cause in France and Switzerland 
 
130 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 was greatly indebted to his zealous efforts. 
 But no cause enlisted his feelings more 
 deeply than that of the suppression of the 
 slave-trade, and the mitigation and final re- 
 moval of slavery so far as it concerns the 
 French possessions. For this purpose he visit- 
 ed, in 1825, the city of Nantes, and the other 
 seaports, which were supposed to be still con- 
 cerned in the slave-trade. The account which 
 he gave, in the public meeting of the Society 
 for the Promotion of Christian Morals, in the 
 April following, of what he learned on that 
 tour, and, above all, the presentation which he 
 made of " bars" and "chains" and other instru- 
 ments of this infernal traffic, which he had 
 collected, accompanied by his explanations, 
 made an impression on the assembly which 
 has not yet been forgotten. 
 
 But in the midst of his usefulness, death 
 came. He had just returned from a visit to 
 Nice, in Italy, where he had been with his 
 lovely bride. He was carried off by a brain- 
 fever, after a few days' illness. The evening 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 131 
 
 before he died, at the accustomed hour of the 
 devotions of the family, in a moment of com- 
 parative alleviation of his sufferings, he re- 
 quested that the domestics might be assem- 
 bled around his bed, and then his lips, soon 
 to be sealed in death, offered for them, and 
 for himself, the most fervent and humble sup- 
 plications, to the Friend of sinners and the 
 Saviour of the lost. In the morning he was 
 no more ! Thus ended the valuable life of 
 this young man, whose piety and philantho- 
 phy have given new splendour to a name 
 whose lustre it was difficult to increase, by 
 the exercise of a charity ever fearless and un- 
 compromising, but always Christian. His 
 wife was a daughter of Professor Vernet. 
 She still lives his widow, devoted to the ser- 
 vice of that God whom he served. She re- 
 sides most of her time at the ancestral chateau 
 at Coppet, where she is greatly beloved, and 
 where lies the chief field of her labours of 
 charity. 
 
 But to revert to the subject of this memoir. 
 
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 The Duchess de Broglie, pursuing a career 
 of the same active benevolence that so distin* 
 guished her excellent brother, whom she sur- 
 vived almost eleven years, had at length filled 
 the measure of the days which her Heavenly 
 Father had assigned to her existence on earth, 
 She had but just reached what may be called 
 mature age ; her health was generally vigor- 
 ous ; her usefulness had never been greater ; 
 nor had her co-operation ever been more im- 
 portant to every good work in France. All 
 were hoping that she might be long spared to 
 assist in the work of God by her counsels, 
 her prayers, and her influence. But such 
 was not God's will. She spent the last sum- 
 mer chiefly at her country-residence at Broglie. 
 She made, however, a visit to Paris to attend 
 the distribution of prizes, among the students 
 of the colleges. Her son, a very promising 
 youth, had obtained several of these prizes, 
 to the great satisfaction of his parents. Upon 
 her return to Broglie, she was seized of the 
 same malady which had carried off her brother, 
 
DUCHESS BE BROGLIE. 133 
 
 Baron de Stael. In vain were all the aids 
 of human skill, and all the tenderest affection 
 employed to prolong her valuable life. After 
 a few days of great suffering she died. Dur- 
 ing the intervals of calm, which she at times 
 enjoyed, and in which reason was restored, 
 she discoursed in the most satisfactory man- 
 ner respecting the prospect of death. A 
 brief extract of a letter from an excellent 
 friend, written the week after the death of the 
 Duchess, will give an account of the closing 
 scene. " Our friend, M. Grandpierre, was 
 at Broglie, on a visit of several weeks, when 
 the Duchess was taken ill. He has given us 
 some very touching details of the sentiments 
 which she expressed. Her malady was a 
 nervous cerebral fever, which deprived her 
 of reason during the last days of her life. 
 But she prayed, even in the delirium occa 
 sioned by the fever, and the name of Jesus 
 Christ was the last word which she spoke. 
 You will comprehend, without difficulty, how 
 great is our sorrow. After the various afflic- 
 
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134 MEMOIR OP THE 
 
 tions which we have of late suffered, this is 
 an augmentation very severe." 
 
 "The loss of the Duchess de Broglie," 
 says the Rev. Mr. Felice, in a letter to the 
 Editors of one of our most valuable Religious 
 Journals, " is deeply felt, not only by Chris- 
 tians, but also by eminent political and lite- 
 rary men in France. One of our most cele- 
 brated writers, M. Villemain, has written an 
 interesting Essay upon her intellectual and 
 moral qualities. He testifies to her noble 
 character, her superior mind, her charity, and 
 even her piety. The memory of this noble 
 lady will not perish. Less illustrious than her 
 mother, she has left a purer name, more en- 
 dearing recollections. Who would not pre- 
 fer the esteem and affection felt for the 
 Duchess de Broglie to the celebrity of Madame 
 de Stael ?" 
 
 I conclude this notice of the Duchess de 
 Broglie by giving the beautiful article on her 
 death which appeared in the Archives du 
 Christianisme, immediately after the occur- 
 
DUCHESS BE BROGLIE. 135 
 
 rence of the mournful event to which it 
 refers. 
 
 " The ways of the Eternal are not our ways, 
 nor his thoughts our thoughts ! Here is one 
 of those words of truth which God has spoken, 
 which the Christian, the most confirmed, has 
 need to repeat when he sees disappear from 
 this world, in a manner sudden and unex- 
 pected, those who are still young, whose pro- 
 longed sojourn on earth would seem to be so 
 useful, and so precious for their families, for 
 their friends, for the church, for the poor, for 
 that society entire, of which they were both 
 the edification and the ornament. Endowed 
 with all that which inspires love, as well as 
 that which excites admiration, and conse- 
 crating all that she had received to the glory 
 of Him who had been pleased to load her 
 with his gifts, it seemed to us that the Duch- 
 ess de Broglie would be permitted to make 
 * the light of her good works shine' a long 
 time in the midst of us. And yet He who 
 knows all things, and who can do all things, 
 
136 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 has judged it good to call this dear Christian 
 to her true country. And there remains to 
 those who loved her, and who mourn her loss, 
 no other consolation than to say : God has 
 willed it ! That which is for us an irreparable 
 loss, and the subject of profound sorrow, is 
 for her, for whom we mourn, a precious gain, 
 the entrance into joy both perfect and eter- 
 nal. Let us weep with those whose hearts are 
 rent, let us pray for that desolated family, for 
 God alone can heal such wounds, He alone can 
 sound their depth. But let us rejoice, also, 
 with her who is now in full possession of that 
 treasure which she esteemed above all others, 
 of that communion with God, which was her 
 greatest happiness on this earth, and which 
 will be her blessedness for ever in heaven. 
 
 " The Duchess de Broglie was taken away 
 from this world, on the 22d. of September, 
 (1838,) by a sickness to which she yielded 
 at the end of fifteen days. She was one of 
 those persons, rarely to be met with, in 
 whom one does not know which to admire 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 137 
 
 most, the variety of gifts and graces which 
 they have received, or the profound humility 
 which fixes their view habitually, not upon 
 what they possess, in view of men, but what 
 they want in the view of God. Her elevated 
 position in the world, her fortune, her influ- 
 ence, her distinguished understanding, the 
 charm of her manners, all these advantages, 
 which readily become snares to souls less 
 simple, less upright, were to this truly Chris 
 tian woman only talents, which had been en 
 trusted to her by the Father of the human 
 family, and which it often afflicted her to 
 think that she did not employ with sufficient 
 zeal and fidelity. It is sweet to think of all 
 the good which this excellent woman has 
 done, without knowing it, without believing 
 it, by the example of her piety, of her sim- 
 plicity, of her charity, of the integrity of heart 
 with which she sought to spread the know- 
 ledge and the love of the Saviour, who had 
 become her life and her only hope. With 
 what zeal she gave the Holy Scriptures, in 
 
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138 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 which she had sought and found that Sa- 
 viour, to the poor whom she aided, and, what 
 is far more difficult, to the rich, who received 
 them with respect from her hand ! What in- 
 terest she felt in the labours of the Bible So- 
 cieties, and of the Societies for Missions 
 among the heathen ! One of the last of her 
 gratifications was the visit of Mrs. Fry to 
 Paris. The calm activity, the zeal and sere- 
 nity of that remarkable Christian reanimated 
 and rejoiced her soul, and, accompanying 
 her in her visits to the prisons, she discover- 
 ed a new means of doing good. She has 
 been taken away by the same malady which 
 carried off her brother, Baron de Stae'l, whom 
 she has rejoined, never to separate from him, 
 in the bosom of that Saviour whom he also 
 loved, and faithfully served here below." 
 
 A few brief remarks will bring to a close 
 all that we purpose to say in reference to 
 the Duchess de Broglie. 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 139 
 
 1 . No one can fail to have been impressed, 
 whilst reading the preceding memoir, with 
 the goodness of God in raising up such a 
 woman as the Duchess de Broglie, and spar- 
 ing her to labour more than twenty years, for 
 the promotion of his cause in France. The 
 amount of good which she accomplished, in 
 her high station, and by her commanding in 
 fluence, can only be comprehended by Him 
 who knows all things. Her example, her 
 elevated position, her distinguished name, her 
 fine intellect, and her various acquirements 
 gave great respectability to the cause of 
 Evangelical Religion, and made even those 
 who were most opposed to it feel its influ- 
 ence, when they came into her presence. The 
 importance of this can only be estimated by 
 those who have seen the deep degradation 
 into which true religion had been reduced in 
 France, by the prevalence of infidelity, which, 
 for half a century and more, had dissemin- 
 ated its poisonous influence through the 
 masses of society. But at the present time, 
 
140 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 a decided change is going on, amongst the 
 most elevated classes at least. Through the 
 influence of the example of a few distinguish- 
 ed Christians, together with the conviction 
 which the horrible effects of infidelity have 
 forced upon the more thinking portion of the 
 people, that Religion is indispensable to the 
 happiness of nations and the stability of good 
 governments, a rejection of Christianity is 
 far less common among the highest classes 
 in France than it was some years since. 
 Infidelity in France is at this time much 
 more prevalent among the lower than the 
 higher classes. The same thing is true also 
 in our land, as well as some other countries. 
 And probably, if the whole truth could be 
 known, it would be found that the same 
 causes have produced these results in all cases. 
 2. The loss which the cause of religion 
 and virtue sustains in the death of such per- 
 sons as Mrs. Rumpff and the Duchess de 
 Broglie, would seem to us irreparable, if we 
 did not know that even their death may be 
 
DUCHESS DE BROGUE. 141 
 
 made, and, indeed, is almost certain to be 
 made, the means of promoting what their 
 lives were consecrated to accomplish. This 
 is one of the operations of Him, who alone 
 can bring good out of what is in itself an evil. 
 "He is infinite in wisdom," and his works 
 are wonderful. And, however sad the hearts 
 of God's people in France, amid all their fee- 
 bleness and their discouragements, may have 
 been rendered by the afflictive dispensation 
 which has removed these two influential la 
 dies, at a time when, to human view, they 
 were more than ever needed, yet they will 
 doubtless see before long, that this was a 
 most direct way of advancing that very 
 cause which has seemed to suffer so much by 
 their removal. Should it please God to 
 bring, through these dispensations, the hus- 
 bands of both of these excellent women to the 
 knowledge of Himself, and give them the 
 same ardent zeal which they felt, it is clear 
 that the cause might gain rather than lose. 
 And of this, there is much reason to entertain 
 
142 MEMOIR OF THE 
 
 hope. The letters of one of them indicate a 
 decided change in his feelings, and a deter 
 mination to walk in the footsteps of his now 
 sainted wife. The other has himself com- 
 menced ministering at the domestic altar, in 
 the place which his wife lately occupied, and 
 uses, I am assured, the same sweet prayers 
 which she composed, and for a long time used 
 in the devotions of the family. 
 
 Still more, since it has become known in this 
 country, what a loss the Religious Institutions 
 in France have sustained by the death of our 
 own excellent and lovely country woman, pious 
 ladies in a number of churches in New- York, 
 Philadelphia, Boston, Newark, Hartford, and 
 other places, have resolved to see that loss 
 made up. And already they have raised a 
 very handsome amount to aid the Societies 
 which she loved to aid, so that thus no good 
 work which she patronized may fail, or even 
 suffer, by her death. In this way, whilst 
 many hearts are becoming enlisted to give, 
 many more prayers will be secured to call 
 
DUCHESS DB BROGLIE. 143 
 
 down the blessings of God upon that im- 
 portant country, and upon all its best inter- 
 ests. 
 
 3. The example of these excellent ladies 
 should teach all 'who contemplate it, that 
 there is but one way of access for all sinners 
 to the favour of God. These distinguished 
 persons felt that they were, in the sight of 
 God, only poor sinners. Neither their 
 wealth, nor their high station, nor their 
 great influence in society, was of any avail 
 in the matter of their justification before God. 
 And whilst wealth, elevated station, talents, 
 distinguished birth, are all advantages which 
 may be so employed as greatly to advance 
 the glory of God, in the promotion of his king- 
 dom on the earth ; and whilst it is a high 
 privilege for those who possess them to con- 
 secrate them to the service of God, yet the 
 first and most acceptable offering, and for 
 which nothing else may be substituted, is the 
 Heart. 
 
144 MEMOIR OF THE DUCHESS DE BROGLIE. 
 
 " Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion, 
 Odours of Edom, and offerings divine ? 
 
 Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, 
 Myrrh from the forest, or gold from the mine ? 
 
 " Vainly we offer each ample oblation : 
 Vainly with gifts would his favour secure ; 
 
 Richer by far is the heart's adoration ; 
 
 Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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In the Preface of this Volume, the names 
 of Mrs. Grandpierre and Mrs. Frederick 
 Monod were mentioned, as having been mem- 
 bers of the little circle of excellent ladies in 
 Paris, and also as having been called away 
 by death, within the last two or three years. 
 A very brief notice of them may not be im- 
 proper in a volume which contains memoirs 
 of two of their very intimate and greatly 
 esteemed friends. 
 
MRS. GRANDPIERRE. 
 
 MRS. GRANDPIERRE was the first of the 
 four ladies named in this work, that was 
 called away by the Master. She was the 
 wife of the Rev. J. J. Grandpierre, one 
 of the most distinguished preachers in 
 France. He was a native of the Canton of 
 Neufchatel, in Switzerland, and was pastor of 
 the French Church in Basle, for some years. 
 For several years past, he has been at the 
 head of the Missionary Institute or Seminary 
 established at Paris, for the preparation of 
 missionaries for the work among the heathen. 
 
 This Seminary belongs to the Society for 
 
148 MEMOIR OF 
 
 Evangelical Missions among the Heathen, 
 and is under the direction wholly of its Com- 
 mittee. The origin of that Society is inter- 
 esting to us as Americans. It occurred, 
 under the blessing of God, in this way. 
 The Rev. Mr. King (now the Rev. Dr. King) 
 who is at present in Athens, in Greece, was 
 prosecuting the study of the Oriental lan- 
 guages at Paris, with the view of becoming a 
 Professor in the College at Amherst, Massa- 
 chusetts, when the Rev. Mr. Fisk, who was 
 labouring in Palestine as a missionary, wrote 
 to him, to inform him that Mr. Parsons, his 
 colleague, had died, and that he was left 
 alone in the field, and begged him (Mr. King) 
 to come and help him for three years. Mr. 
 King showed the letter to the Duchess de 
 Broglie, Madame Pelet, Baron de Stael, Mr. 
 Wilder, and some others, who all told him, 
 that if he would agree to go, they would 
 form a Society for his support. He agreed 
 to do so. The consequence was, that an As- 
 sociation was formed, which has since ex 
 
MRS. GRANDPIERRE. 149 
 
 panded into the Society for the Promotion of 
 Evangelical Missions in countries which are 
 Pagan, which is one of the most important, 
 and probably the most dear to the hearts of 
 the truly pious Protestants in France, of all 
 the Religious and Benevolent Societies which 
 exist in that country. After Mr. King had 
 completed the three years, which he agreed 
 to spend in the service of the French Society, 
 he returned to America, by way of France 
 and England, and afterwards went back to 
 Greece, in the service of a Female Mission- 
 ary Society in the city of New- York, but has 
 been, for several years past, in the employ- 
 ment of the American Board of Commission 
 ers for Foreign Missions. He was the first 
 missionary employed by the French Mission- 
 ary Society. Encouraged by the favour 
 with which their efforts were viewed by their 
 brethren in France and Switzerland, the Com- 
 mittee of that Society established a school at 
 Paris, for the education of suitable men, 
 
 whom God might call to his service in the 
 
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150 MEMOIR OF 
 
 foreign field. The Rev. Mr. Galland, now a 
 Professor in the new Theological School in 
 Geneva, was the first Director or Head of the 
 Mission School at Paris. He was succeeded 
 by the Rev. Mr. Grandpierre, who is not 
 only the Head of that School, and gives, as 
 such, almost the whole instruction in Latin, 
 Greek, Hebrew, Mathematics, Theology, &c. 
 &c., but is also the Corresponding Secretary 
 of the Society, and the Editor of its Monthly 
 Journal. Besides all this, he preaches much 
 in the Chapel in the Rue Taitbout. He is a 
 man of great eloquence and uncommon piety 
 He has published four volumes of most ex- 
 cellent sermons, which, I am happy to say 
 have had an extensive circulation in France. 
 
 His wife, the subject of this notice, was an 
 excellent woman, possessing the most amiable 
 dispositions, and sincere piety, and much 
 zeal. She was cut off at the early age of 
 perhaps less than thirty-two or three, in the 
 autumn of 1836. She suffered long from a 
 complication of maladies, greatly affecting the 
 
MRS. GRANDPIERRE. 151 
 
 nerves, and aggravated by the birth of a 
 child, which lived but a little time. And soon 
 the mother followed it, as well as another 
 lovely little one, of some four or five years 
 old. Her death, which was so afflictive to 
 her friends, and, above all, to her husband, 
 was gain to her ; for she was well prepared 
 for it. To the young men who belonged to 
 the Institution, and who all resided in Mr. 
 Grandpierre's family, her death was a great 
 loss ; for she was a mother to them, their 
 counsellor, their friend. And in her final 
 sickness, her prayers often ascended, not 
 only for those who were the members of it, 
 but also for all who had gone forth from it, 
 and who are now labouring in South Africa. 
 Perhaps, some may wonder that thirteen 
 pious young ministers should go forth from 
 France, and others prepare to follow them, to 
 carry the Gospel to the heathen. They may be 
 ready to find fault with this. But such should 
 remember that " they who water shall them- 
 selves be watered," and that the reflex influ- 
 
152 MEMOIR OF MRS. GRANDPIERRE. 
 
 ence of these missionary efforts upon France 
 may be one of the most certain means of 
 reviving evangelical piety in that country. It 
 is unquestionably so. And what can be a 
 better indication in relation to the religion 
 which is increasing in France, than that it is 
 the religion of missions, that is, that it breathes 
 the spirit of missions? And no other sort, 
 we may rest assured, is worth much in these 
 days, when there can be no excuse for not 
 attempting to carry the Gospel to those who 
 have never heard it. 
 
MRS. MONOD. 
 
 THIS excellent lady was the second of the 
 circle of which I have spoken, who was 
 called away by death. She died within less 
 than a year after Mrs. Grandpierre, and about 
 a year before the Duchess de Broglie and 
 Mrs. Rumpff. She was the wife of Mr. Fre- 
 derick Monod, who is one of the Pastors of 
 the Reformed Church at Paris, and editor of 
 the Archives du Christianisme. 
 
 Mr. Monod belongs to a family which is 
 greatly respected by the Protestants in 
 France ; and he himself is much beloved by 
 all the evangelical Christians in that king- 
 
154 MEMOIR OP 
 
 dom. His father, the late Mr. Monod, Sen., 
 was, for many years, one of the Pastors of 
 the Reformed Church in Paris, and in the 
 latter part of his life, his son was one of his 
 colleagues. In the earlier years of his minis- 
 try, this venerable old man who died in the 
 spring of 1836 was pastor of a small French 
 Protestant Church at Copenhagen, in Den- 
 mark. This was during the days of the 
 First Revolution, when the churches were 
 shut up in France, the Sabbath abolished, 
 and the ministers of the Gospel, of all com- 
 munions, either slain or banished. Whilst 
 Mr. Monod, Sen., was living at Copenhagen, 
 the present monarch of France, then Duke of 
 Orleans, visited that city, in his exile, about 
 the years 1795 and '96, and enjoyed, for 
 some time, the hospitalities of his house. 
 And to his honor it should be said, that he 
 has ever since manifested the most lively in- 
 terest in the family, and has long since requit- 
 ed the kindness which he received at Co- 
 penhagen. When he ascended the throne of 
 
MRS. MONOD. 155 
 
 France in 1830, he found his ancient friend 
 and benefactor one of the Pastors, as has 
 already been said, of the Protestant Reformed 
 Church at Paris. And no minister of the 
 Gospel was ever more welcome at the Palace 
 of the Tuileries than this venerable man. 
 And upon his death, in 1836, the king sent 
 for his son Frederick, and sympathized with 
 him in the most affecting mariner, on that 
 mournful occasion. When the Protestant 
 ministers in the city pay their annual visit of 
 congratulation, in a body, to the king, which 
 occurs at the commencement of the year, 
 it is Frederick Monod who is now most com- 
 monly selected to discharge the important 
 duty, which his father had for years execut- 
 ed, of making the address on the occasion. 
 The fidelity, the propriety, and the touching 
 Christian simplicity with which he executes 
 the task, is such as to affect deeply the heart 
 of the Sovereign. May that Sovereign long 
 have such servants of God to address him, 
 and to pray for him, and for his family ! 
 
156 MEMOIR OF 
 
 Mr. Frederick Monod is the eldest, I be- 
 lieve, of seven or eight brothers, and three 
 sisters, all of whom, or nearly all, give 
 evidence of piety, They owe much to his 
 influence and example. Four of the sons of 
 this family are in the ministry. They are, 
 Frederick, William, Adolphus, and Horace. 
 Frederick is at Paris, as has already been 
 stated ; William was formerly settled at St. 
 Quentin, but is now, and has been for the 
 last few years, in bad health. Adolphus, 
 who is one of the most eloquent of the Pro- 
 testant preachers in France, is now a Pro- 
 fessor in the Theological School, of the Re- 
 formed Church, at Montauban ; and Horace, 
 a very promising young man, has just enter- 
 ed the ministry, and is not yet settled, I be- 
 lieve. 
 
 Mrs. Monod, the subject of this notice, 
 was born in Copenhagen, of a French family, 
 which has since removed to Paris, where 
 they now reside. She was a most lovely wo- 
 man, and was cut off, like Mrs. Grandpierre, 
 
MRS. MONOD. 157 
 
 and the other ladies mentioned in this vo- 
 lume, in the flower of her age, and in the 
 midst of her usefulness. She had not pro- 
 bably, reached the age of thirty-five. She 
 was eminently beloved by the poor, indeed 
 by all classes in the churches in which her 
 husband preaches. She took a lively interest 
 in the education of the orphans and poor chil- 
 dren of the Protestant Communion in Paris. 
 And she was abundant and untiring in all 
 good works. She was followed to the grave 
 by a large number of the most distinguished 
 Protestants of the city, who met to sympa- 
 thize with the bereaved husband, and with 
 his motherless children. Before the proces- 
 sion left the house, which had been the 
 earthly dwelling-place of the deceased, for a 
 number of years, Mr. Monod read, standing 
 at the head of the coffin, the xxiii Psalm. 
 Never shall I forget the new light and force, 
 which the mournful circumstances of the oc- 
 casion seemed to give to the noble expression 
 
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158 MEMOIR OP 
 
 of confidence in God, which that exquisite 
 portion of the Sacred Scriptures contains. 
 
 The procession moved through the streets 
 of Paris, and at length arrived at Pere-la- 
 Chaise. It was a most beautiful Sabbath 
 morning in October. There, at the grave, 
 the Rev. Mr. Juillerat-Chasseur, one of Mr. 
 Monod's colleagues, made a most appropri 
 ate address and prayer. As the scene was 
 closing, Mr. Monod advanced near to the 
 vault in which the body of his wife was de- 
 posited, his little son leaning on his arm, and 
 there delivered the most thrilling address that 
 I have ever heard. He spoke of the support, 
 the consolation, the assistance which he had 
 received from his dear wife, during the four- 
 teen or fifteen years which had passed since 
 their marriage ; of her unwearied efforts to do 
 good ; of the loss which he arid his children 
 had experienced in her death, but all in 
 sweet submission to the will of his and her 
 Heavenly Father. There was that victory 
 which faith gives in every gloomy hour ! At 
 
MRS. MONOD. 159 
 
 the close, after a solemn pause, he said, con- 
 templating the vault where the remains of 
 his wife lay : " Ma chere femme ! vous etes 
 Id ! Mais, non votre corps est Id : votre 
 time est en liaut"* With this he raised his 
 eyes to heaven, and after a moment of si- 
 lent prayer, the ceremony terminated, and the 
 assembly dissolved, to return to their homes, 
 with renewed impressions, I dare say, of the 
 importance of the consolations which religion 
 alone can give, in such affecting circum 
 stances. 
 
 * My dear wife ! You are there ! But no : your body 
 ig there ; your soul is on high. 
 
NOTE. 
 
 IN the memoir of Mrs. Rumpff it was stated, 
 that, from her childhood, she had always mani- 
 fested the most amiable dispositions, and very 
 great respect for Religion. She was from very 
 early years fond of reading a large Bible which 
 belonged to her mother. This Bible was greatly 
 prized by her mother, on account of the size of 
 the type. During the last two years of her life, 
 that book, and Doddridge's Rise and Progress 
 were the books which her mother daily read. 
 And upon her death, an event which may be 
 mentioned as one of the means which, with 
 God's blessing, greatly contributed to the pro- 
 motion of those religious impressions of the 
 daughter, which finally brought her to the know- 
 ledge of the Saviour, the old Bible was sent to 
 Mrs. RumpfF at Paris, at her request, and was 
 highly valued by her, not only for her mother's 
 sake, but because it was the book which she had 
 so much loved in her childhood. 
 
MEMOIR 
 
 OP 
 MRS. SARAH LOUISA TAYLOR. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY JOHN S. TAYLOR, 
 
 BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL, 
 Corner of Park Row and Spruce streets, New Yorkf 
 
 BOSTON, WEEKS, JORDON & Co. ; 
 PHILADELPHIA, JOSEPH WHETHAM. 
 
 NOTICES. 
 
 From the Christian Mirror. 
 
 MEMOIRS OP MRS SARAH Louis TAYLOR ; or an Illustration of 
 the work of the Holy Spirit in awakening, renewing, and 
 sanctifying the heart. BY LOT JONES, A. M., New York : 
 John S. Taylor, 1838, pp. 324. 
 
 Memoirs of individuals have become so common, that not a 
 few may be ready to ask, Why publish another ? And we might 
 ask, in turn, why not published another ? After all the objec- 
 tions that can bo urged, it is a kind of reading which interests, 
 and will continue to interest the mass of society. Nothing 
 scarcely arrests attention, like personal history the workings 
 of individual minds, or has more influence in forming character. 
 And why should we not as readily welcome a new book in this 
 department of literature, as a new edition of an old one ? Every 
 person whose history is worth reading, has some individuality 
 of character, which distinguishes him from others ; or some 
 peculiar relations or circumstances in his existence; which 
 call for modifications of inward exercises or external conduct, 
 more or less peculiar : and it is interesting to see how perfect 
 
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ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 a regulator religious principle is how admirably it will ad. 
 just the feelings and the conduct to the demands of the case, 
 whatever be the peculiarity of natural temperament, or of the 
 personal relations. 
 
 We have no fears that the above question will be asked by 
 any one, after reading this little volume. If he does not feel 
 ' reproved, corrected, or instructed in righteousness,' it will be 
 because he has made pre-eminent attainments in scriptural 
 knowledge and holy, useful living ; or else because his con. 
 science has lost its susceptibillity. In Mrs. Taylor religion ap. 
 pears with dignity as well as grace, in power as well as beauty. 
 Hers was the faith which " works by love, purifies the heart, 
 and overcomes the world." Its fruits were choice and abun- 
 dant. Nor were her virtues cancelled, or their influence 
 more than destroyed by gross defects and blemishes. She 
 had uncommon symmetry and harmony of character. With 
 a uniform and controlling desire to do good, she never lacked 
 the means and opportunity ; and did much, in the best and 
 highest sense of the expression. She won not a few to right- 
 eousness. Her religion was a religion of diligence and energy, 
 rendering her " steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in 
 the work of the Lord ;" and her labor was " not in vain." 
 
 We see in Mrs. T. the same religion, in its essential ele 
 ments, and in its more important developements, which glow- 
 ed in and beamed forth from the " great cloud of witnesses :" 
 the same faith, the same humility, the same dependence on 
 atoning blood, the same susceptibility to the constraining in- 
 fluence of Christ's love : " We thus judge, that, if Christ died 
 for all, then all were dead ; and that he died for all, that they 
 who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto 
 him who died for them." We see deep religious experience, but 
 no extravagance strong feelings, but no fanaticism absorb, 
 ing devotion, but no cant firmness of principle, but no party 
 bigotry. We have here, not only holiness in its principle, but 
 the beauty of holiness adorning and perfecting the character. 
 
 Mr. Jones was greatly favoured in the subject of his narra- 
 tive ; and he has wrought up his materials with great skill and 
 judgement. Nothing has been inserted, which would have 
 been better omitted ; and nothing appears to be wanting, which 
 was necessary to a just appreciation of her character. 
 
 We unhesitatingly commend this Memoir to all females, in 
 all ranks of society. The most refined and best educated will 
 rise from its perusal, improved in literary taste, intellectual ex- 
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 pansion, and correct thinking ; and the less favored will learn 
 from it what it is in their power to become by diligence, by 
 prayer, by studying the Scriptures, by a whole-hearted devoted, 
 ness to the duties which they owe to God and their fellow men. 
 
 From the Boston Recorder. 
 
 It is not possible to do justice to this captivating and instruc- 
 tive volume, within the compass of the few lines to which our 
 notice must be confined. And perhaps it is best to desist al- 
 together from an attempt to convey a correct impression of it 
 to our readers ; for it must be confessed that our own emotions 
 on the perusal of it are too strong to permit the exercise of the 
 most cool and deliberate judgement as to its intrinsic merits. 
 To follow a lovely youth through the scenes of childhood and 
 ripening years ; to mark the various traits of intellectual and 
 moral character, as they are developed in all the relations of the 
 child, the sister, the friend, the wife, the mother, the teacher, 
 and the disciple of Jesus : and then to group the whole, and 
 contemplate the triumphs of faith over natural affection, and 
 the heart's corruptions, and the power of death itself ; cannot 
 fail to excite very strong emotion in any bosom not petrified, 
 even though the execution of the work were marked with many 
 imperfections. But Mr. Jones has not failed in the fulfilment 
 of the task he has assumed. The simplicity and clearness of 
 his delineations ; the richness and fulness of evangelical sen. 
 timent diffused through the whole, and arising naturally from 
 his subject, the dignified tenderness of his style, and the accu- 
 rate discrimination made between spurious and genuine reli, 
 gion in his incidental remarks, show him to be a workman that 
 needeth not to be ashamed, and leave an impress on the volume, 
 that will render it very precious to every evangelical reader. 
 Any Christian who desires above all things to grow in grace ; 
 to learn the nature of the Christian conflict, and to use success- 
 fully the weapons that shall give him the victory over his 
 spiritual enemies ; or, in one word, to learn " the mind of the 
 Spirit" on these points, will do well to study this volume. 
 
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 From the Episcopal Sunday School Visitor. 
 
 We commence our brief notice of this excellent book, with 
 an appropriate extract from its pages : "You ask my opinion 
 of religious biography, and of the emulation it excites. It 
 certainly has a powerful effect. I think the perusal of well- 
 written narrative, and especially memoirs of females, has a 
 happy influence, and is calculated to inspire with confidence 
 on the one hand, humility on the other." P. 157. With 
 this opinion we perfectly agree. We think that well written 
 narrative, or biography, is well calculated to profit the reader, 
 who reads it in order to profit. The trials and misfortunes, 
 the failures and short comings of others, may all serve, as 
 beacons, to save us from the shipwreck of our faith ; whilst the 
 providential mercies and blessings which have been the com- 
 fort and support of others, may encourage us to put our trust 
 in the LORD. In too many instances, however, the fond par- 
 tiality of friendship, gives an eulogy instead of a simple rela- 
 tain of facts, and thus diminishes the power with which the 
 simple truth might (and with which it generally does) affect 
 the mind. 
 
 Sometimes the usefulness of religious biography is lessened 
 by a redundancy of ornament in the style : by too many digres- 
 sions, which are continually breaking into the interest which 
 the reader feels in the narrative, and driving away the profit- 
 able reflections which it suggests to the mind. 
 
 It is very seldom that we meet with a book so entirely free 
 from blemishes of this kind, as the one before us. It is the 
 simple portrait of an amiable, enlightened, and devotedly pious 
 Christian, drawn by a most judicicous and faithful hand. 
 
 The young Christian who is just commencing his course, 
 and whose temptations and trials are sometimes leading him 
 to despondency, will read this book with thankfulness ; and 
 those who are yet strangers to vital religion may be induced, 
 from this lonely instance of its powerful effects in sustaining 
 the soul, under the heaviest afflictions of life, and in the hour 
 of sickness and death, to seek, for themselves, an interest in 
 the LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 Mrs. Taylor evidently possessed a fine and cultivated mind. 
 Of this the beautiful fragments of poetry, which are given in 
 the course of the book, and the extracts from her correspon- 
 dence, are an evidence. Had those talents been cultivated, 
 for the world and its approbation, she might, perhaps, have 
 attained all that this world can give, fame applause and 
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 celebrity. But what would they avail her now? She has 
 chosen the better part, which cannot be taken from her. 
 
 It would be injustica to the publishers not to notice the beau- 
 tiful manner in which the work has been executed. The pa- 
 per and type are excellent, and the engravings good : but still 
 the matter of the book is its main recommendation. 
 
 From the Episcopal Recorder. 
 
 This is a new work just issued from the press, and well wor- 
 thy the attention of Christians. It describes, mainly from 
 her own writings, the character of a Christian, whose expe- 
 rience of the power of sin and of the power of grace, was 
 deeper than is usual, and whose example of usefulness to 
 others gives beautiful evidence of the reality of her own prin- 
 ciples of character. We have been much interested in look- 
 ing over this volume, and rejoice to recommend it to our 
 readers. They will find it an uncommonly interesting and in- 
 structive biography, worthy of its excellent author, and adapt- 
 ed to be eminently useful to themselves. 
 
 From the Christian Intelligencer. 
 
 This a wll written biography of an amiable and devoted 
 Christian, who pleasantly and beautifully exhibited the Chris- 
 tian character in the different relations of life and in her early 
 death. The reader will be pleased with the spirit and senti- 
 ments of her correspondence introduced and scattered through- 
 out the volume. It is calculated to be useful and edifying, 
 and we freely commend it to our readers. It is published in 
 a beautiful style. 
 
 From the Christian Watchman. 
 
 The interesting subject of this memoir was born at East 
 Haddam, Conn., January 18, 1809, and died August 2, 1836. 
 Books of this description are sure to obtain readers, and there- 
 fore we sincerely wish they always combined as much solid 
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 salVation," no one can doubt ; and yet she was, for many years, 
 the subject of its anguish and mental agony, before she re- 
 ceived the " spirit of adoption," or had the " witness in her- 
 self" of which the apostle speaks. Subsequently, her enlight- 
 ened piety, her growth in grace, and her experience of the 
 fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of peace, made her a 
 " burning and shining light." In these days of degeneracy, 
 her memoir is a most timely publication, showing, as it does, 
 an eminent example of Christian experience and practice, un- 
 sophisticated by any of the dogmas of scholastic divinity. 
 
 Mrs. Taylor was an humble, sincere, fervent, and consis- 
 tent Christian, in sickness and in health, living and dying, 
 exemplifying the truth, power, and precioUsness of our holy 
 religion. Intellectually, she was a woman of high order; 
 and her early and devoted piety, her patience and resignation 
 in affliction, her victory over death, all demonstrate that she 
 was a witness of the washing of regeneration and the renewal 
 of the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Would that our young ladies would read her memoir ; im- 
 bibe her spirit ; share her enjoyments, and participate in her 
 blessedness here and hereafter. 
 
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