Dr. .Iidiu Jlilchcdl Mason, who occasionally delivered a discourse in New Rochello, she embraced, with a responsive spirit, the formulated statement of pure protestantism, 'justification by faith alone,' so eloquently put forth by him as ' the true spirit union with Christ, embracing within it character and condition.' Thenceforward her favorite characterization of Chrisliauity was ' the religion of the New Testament,' emphiisizing thus, as she thought, by this short phrase, the two distinguishing qualities of the primitive church teachings, simplicity and catholicity. i

"It is a curiously suggestive study, this tracing of mental histories. From the t»uie starting-points of intellectual, emotive, or spiritual development, even of congenial minds, how strangely far apart the issues ! Some time before her departure for Italy, the elder cousin visited her younger, sisterly cousin at Pelh am ; at the moment of taking leave, bidding her good-bye while presenting her an article of skilfully wrought needle-work as a love token, she kissed her and said, ' I hope we w ill meet in heaven.' They never met on earth again. Both lived, however, to an advanced age. The elder, having wept for the last time over the grave of her husband in Italy,-- the Knglish burial-ground at Pisa, -- and having returned to New York, welcomed ere long, the comimrative seclusion of a conventual life in Maryland ; the younger, having been joined in marriage, by Rev. Theodosius Bartow, rector of New Rochelle, at her father's house in Pelham, to Captain James Hague, commander of a ship iu the Kast India trade, lived happily, the life of her family circle, until nearly ' fourecore years ' of age ; and then, after fourteen yeans of widowhood, died at the house of her only daughter, Mrs. Dr. Alexander \V. Rogers, Patterson, New Jei-sey, amid the benedictions of her children, who, in accordance with the old scripture's voicing of filial love, 'rise up ami call her blesseil.'