A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…

10. She was very conscientious in keeping the Sabbath, spending the whole time either in reading or praying, or learning her Catechism, or teaching her Brethren and Sisters. One time when she was left at home upon the Lords day, she got some other little children, together with her brothers and sisters, and instead of playing (as other naughty children use to do) she told them, that that was the Lords day, and that they ought to remember that day to keep it holy; and then she told them how it was to be spent in religious exercises all the day long, except so much as was to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy; then she prayed with them her self, and among other things begged, that the Lord would give grace and wisdom to them little Children, that they might know how to serve him as ⟨p. 32⟩one of the little ones in the company with her, told afterwards.

11. She was a Child of a strange tenderness and Compassion to all, full of Bowels and Pity: whom she could not help, she would be ready to weep over; especially if she saw her Mother at any time troubled, she would quickly make her sorrows her own, and weep for her and with her.

12. When her Mother had been somewhat solicitous about any worldly thing, she would, if she could possible, put her off from her care one way or other. One time she told her, O Mother, grace is better than that (meaning something her Mother wanted) I had rather have grace and the love of Christ, than any thing in the world.