at  the  same  time  permits  its  occurrence,  limiting  and
determining  the  precise  channel  to  which  it  shall  be
confined,  the  precise  end  to  which  it  shall  be  directed,
and  overruling  its  consequences  for  good.     "But  as


In  1845  she  was  married  to  Eev.  George  L.  Pren-
tiss, who  was  just  entering  upon  his  ministerial
life.  After  five  years  in  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  and  a
few  months  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  her  home  was  per-


for  you,  ye  thought  evil  against  rae,  but  God  meant    manently  in  New  York  city,  where  her  husband  has


it  unto  good,  to  bring  to  pass  as  it  is  this  day,  to  save
much  people  alive "  (Gen.  1,  2(J).  We  all  allow
omnipotence  to  be  an  attribute  of  Deity,  and  that  by
this  attribute  He  could  have  prevented  sia  from
entering  into  the  world,  had  He  chosen  it;  yet  we
see  He  did  not.  Now  He  is  no  more  the  author  of
sin  in  one  ease  than  in  the  other.  Two  propositions
are  stated  in  the  Scriptures  :  that  God  has  pre-
ordained all  things  which  come  to  pass,  and  that  He
is  not  the  author  of  sin.     These  we  may  not  be  able


been  successively  p;istor  of  the  Mercer  Street  Church
and  the  Church  of  the  Co\enant,  and  Professor  in  the
Union  Theologic;il  Seminary.
In  the  second  year  of  her  life  in  New  York,  she
lost  within  a  few  weeks'  time,  two  lovely  children.
The  traces  of  this  keen  sorrow  were  never  effaced.
In  her  desolatid  misery  she  wrote  "Little  Susy's
Six  Birthdays, "  the  first  of  a  series  of  books  for  little
children  which  still  hold  their  supremacy  in  thou-
sands of  homes.     These  little  books  were  followed.
