EMILIA GEDDIE was a young girl of remarkable gifts and piety, who lived during the period of the persecution in Scotland, commonly known as the “killing time.” She was born in the year 1665, and died in 1681, at the early age of 16 years. Her father was Mr. John Geddie, the proprietor of a small estate called Hilltown, in Fife, and the collector of the Crown rents in that county. Her mother was Ann Wallace, “daughter of Mr. William Wallace, teacher in Ayr, sister to the Provost of Glasgow, and cousin to Lord Burghly.” Two sons, Michael and John, died in childhood, while Emilia was the only daughter. Both parents and daughter were partakers of like precious faith. We purpose reprinting here the account of Emilia Geddie from the edition published many years ago, with an introduction by the Rev. Andrew A. Bonar (afterwards Dr. Bonar), of Glasgow. This edition was based on several old editions, especially one prepared by the eminent Mr. James Hog, of Carnock, in 1762. Mr. Hog was personally acquainted with “the young gentlewoman,” and the concluding sentences of his preface are—”I have been divers times in company with her amongst other godly persons, and have heard her speak humbly and modestly, but with a prodigious reach about the nearest and most weighty concerns of salvation. I also had my little share in societies of more aged, judicious and established Christians, where she made a considerable part, and have therein joined with her in prayer. There I have heard weighty and difficult questions and cases proposed, to which in concurrence with the rest she gave her clear and pointed answers, so clear to the respective purposes, and so well instructed from the Word, as if she had been an aged and experienced divine. All this passed some three or four years before her death.” It appears from the narrative that the Spirit of God was working in her from infancy.