VI MEMOTE OF 



ville, continued to retain that look of shaded happiness 

 as when the hope full of immortality shines out through 

 a great sorrow, till the day spring gradually returned, 

 and with it that voice of rejoicing which is heard in 

 the dwellings of the righteous * 



A fear is sometimes expressed lest the love of the 

 lower creatures should absorb that benevolence of which 

 the more legitimate objects are the indigent and suffer- 

 ing members of our own human family. Of this fear 

 Miss Wilson was a daily confutation. Her piety, com- 

 prehensive and practical, took in the entire range of being 

 as far as she was acquainted with it, and instead of 

 evaporating in sentiment, it sought out its objects very 

 diligently, and laboured to make them happy. At the 

 Disruption she became an ardent adherent of the Free 

 Church, and along with her uncle joined the congrega- 

 tion of her cousin — the Eev. John Sym, of Free Grey- 

 friars — and gave herself to all his plans of Territorial 

 improvement. Shortly before her death she had be- 

 come superintendent of a mothers' meeting, where her 

 readings and explanations of Scripture were greatly 

 prized, as well as her plain and friendly counsels, and 

 her earnest, affectionate prayers : as one of the poor 

 women expressed it, " Miss Wilson's prayers aye gaed 



* See Memoir.? of James Wilson, Esq., chap, vi. 



