Gathered flowers from a Bible class Author:Octavius Winslow Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: afforded her much consolation. She has much regretted that she was now obliged to give up seeing her dear companions; but added, she still could and did pray for... more » them. A prayer-meeting, held in her room by some of her young friends, had been a season of much refreshing to her spirits, though she had been unable to speak. She enjoyed much comfort from knowing the Lord was her righteousness. A visit from Miss H., the teacher of the day-school, had afforded her much delight. " Monday, 1th.—Accompanied Mrs B., andfound Elizabeth iu much agony of body; still, amidst her acute pain, her mind was in perfect peace. She said God was very good; that, in the prospect of immediate death in the morning, she had been enabled to commit all the dear companions of the Bible class to the Lord. ' I have made,' she remarked, ' a large request, but not too hard for Him to grant—that not one may be wanting at the day of our Lord's appearing.' She then referred again to the sweet seasons she had enjoyed with them—thanked me for the instructions the Lord had enabled me to give to her, and added, she believed the happy Sabbath evenings she had then enjoyed were foretastes of the Sabbath which would never end, when we should meet with the innumerable multitude of the glorified saints in the presence of Jesus,—completely like Him, free from sin. In revising this little volume for a fourth, edition, the author cannot pass over this endeared initial without breaking tho impressive stillness in which it stands—solitary and solemn. "The memory of the just is blessed." It is fragrant and sanctifying. We love to think of them as they once were—the holy and the lovely of earth; we delight to imagine what they now are—the bright and the blissful of heaven. Since the paragraph was penned which thus records th...« less