A Memoir of Mrs Margaret Wilson Author:John Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. DEATH 07 HER FATHER -- SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION -- LITTERS ADMINISTERING CHRISTIAN COMFORT -- BENEVOLBNT ENGAGEMENTS IN GREENOCK -- ESTIMATE OF WORLDLY ENJOYMENTS -- A PARENT'S FORM CONTEMPLATED -- DEPARTURE FROM OREENOCK -- RESIDENCE IN INVERNESS-SHIRE. We have mentioned the progress which Margaret Bayne had made in literary studies, and the effects which, in consequence of the manner in which they had been pursued, they produced, for a short time, on her moral feelings. We have now to view her as learning in a new school, that of salutary, because sanctified, affliction. Under the severe trials which we are about to notice, she could experimentally appropriate to herself the language of the poet: Talk of retirement ? Academic shades, The student's chamber, and the midnight lamp, The storied hall, where learning holds her seat 1 There is a place which teaches better far, Where some have learn'd who never learn'd before; And all, who in that solemn sanctuary Read, and read rightly the deep hook unveil'd, Bear wisdom high and sanctified away : It is, The Silent Chamber Of The Dead ! There have I now been taught how painfully ! But grant me, gracious Spirit, by whose aid Alone all teaching blesses, that the shaft, Shot through the heart, may bring diviner health! Edmestone. " I now come," says Miss , to whose notes we have been already much indebted, " to that affecting period when her dear father's services in the lower sanctuary being concluded, his Divine Master suddenly issued the invitation, 'Come up hither.' The last Sabbath of his life, he assisted at the dispensation of...« less