Life of Madame Catharine Adorna Author:Thomas Cogswell Upham 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: CHAPTER VI. Coniteratlon. Disclmrge of domestio duties. I'.ijrrt upon her hadlxind Death of lior luuband. Her laburx with the sick. The subject of her cons... more »ecration to God we shall pursue hereafter, in some further particulars. We proceed to say, in the present chapter, that she gave herself to him in particular, to be employed by him as an instrument in his hands for the good of her fellow beings. She felt that as a consecrated Christian, she must live to do good, and not merely to enjoy herself. In the spirit of self-sacrifice she determined, that with divine assistance, there should eminate continually from her heart and her life that divine spirit of forbearance and those testimonies of active kindness, which should show conclusively that she was wholly the Lord's, and that her life was not at variance with her professions. 2. In carrying out these holy determinations, she did not fail to perceive that the spirit of Christianity, as it is brought into exercise, will endeavor to accommodate itself to the sxisting facts and conditions of God's providence, whatever they may be. And accordingly she felt, that, during the life of her husband, true religion, while it enabled her to do much abroad, required her to discharge affectionately and faithfully every domestic duty. We have already had occasion to say, that she was united in marriage to a person of high rank, but whose temper and habits were so entirely un- suited to her own, as to render her situation exceedingly trying, and to deprive her of all happiness in that relation, excopt what she experienced in suffering and doing the will of God. She ac cepted this crown of thorns as a legacy from her Savior's hand. And in the spirit of that higher Christianity, which can distinguish between cause and effect, and can detec...« less