the Religious Tract Society of London, and had obtained a very wide
circulation. A parish in one of the interior towns of England had
forwarded to M. ---- twenty pounds sterling for the purchase of
Bibles, to be presented to the widow for gratuitous distribution; and
a family of Friends from Wales, having read the narrative, visited M.
---- at Paris, and proceeded thence to the Village in the Mountains,
where they tarried no less than three weeks, assuring M. ----, on their
return to Paris, that it had been the most interesting three weeks of
their lives.

As the proceeds of the twenty pounds, M. ---- forwarded to the widow
fifty Bibles and fifty Testaments, with a selection of several other
choice books and Tracts. These Bibles, Testaments, and Tracts, were
all actually disposed of in _eight days_, of which the widow gave
early information, accompanied by letters to M. ----, and to the
benevolent donors in England, expressing, in the most cordial manner,
her gratitude, and that of those who had thus been supplied with the
word of life. She gave a particular statement of the eagerness with
which they had been read; of their distribution in many Catholic
families, and the conversion of some to the truth as it is in Jesus.
She informed that many individuals and families were still unsupplied;
and for herself, and those around her, expressed her thanksgivings
to God for the wonders of his love in inspiring the hearts of his
children to unite their efforts in Bible and other benevolent
institutions, and to contribute of their substance to extend to the
destitute a knowledge of the Gospel.

The last letter which M. ---- received from the widow, before he left
the country, contained two hundred francs, which she and her children
had contributed as a donation, in acknowledgment of the Bibles and