A Brief Memoir of Elizabeth Fry Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: B R I F F M >: M O I U O F24 B R i F. F M : M o i u o F first emotion was textit{surprise; the second, textit{awe; the third, textit{pious fervour. As soon as vre were re-adjusted at the table, ... more »I thought it might be serviceable to offer a remark that proved the co-incidence of my heart with the devotional exercise in which we had been engaged; this had the desired effect: Mr. Owen and others suggested accordant sentiments, and we seemed generally to feel like the disciples, whose hearts burned within them as they walked to Emmaus." After being again settled at home, Elizabeth Fry enters in her journal the fervent petitions of her soul, as follows : " May the state of my heart be such, that I may with truth say, Here am I, Lord ! do with me what thou wilt, only make me what them wouldst have me to be." " Grant me, 0 Lord ! wisdom and strength to proclaim Thy power and Thy praise; that, if made use of at all, others, as well as myself, may be drawn nearer to Thee, and wholly give Thee praise; never taking, or giving, that glory to the creature, which belongs alone to the Creator." In allusion to some extended religious engagements, she says, in a letter to a friend, " Having been made instrumental to warn and encourage others, may I not become a cast-away myself—Is it not enough to feel a Power, better than ourselves, influencing and strengthening us to do the work that, we humbly trust, is the Lord's ? for what honour, favour, or blessing, so great as being engaged in the service of Him whom we love, in whatever way it be, whether performing one duty or another, and having a little evidence granted us that we are doing Hiswill, or endeavouring to do it ? I peculiarly feel, in ministerial duties, that I have no part, because the whole appears a gift,—the willing heart, the power, and every thing attending it;...« less