The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

INFLUENCE. 71
their matin prayers are ended. At the vesper liour
this scene is repeated ; and thus, day by day, this
pious vvotiian strives to bring down holy influencea
upon her child's heart. Before her boy has well
passed his seventh year, however, she is called by
the angel of death to the spirit land, little dreaming
of the immense power and duration of her
influence
hereafter to be exercised over the world through
that
boy. Yet, in after years, her pure image haunted
his memory, rebuking his vices and beckoning
him to the ways of virtue and religion, until he
kneeled at the cross of Christ. He became an eloquent
and successful minister, an author and a
sacred poet.
Through his labors, Claudius Buchanan,
one of the apostles of missionary effort in India,
and the instrument of awakening the attention of
that great Burmese missionary, Judson, to the wants
of India, was converted. Through nwn, also, Scott,
the commentator, was led to Christ, and to the
consequent production of his valuable commentary.
Another of his converts was Wilberforce, the
champion of African freedom, and the author of that