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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Character of the Later John Mason Good
Memoirs of the Life Writings and Character of the Later John Mason Good Author:Olinthus Gregory General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Original Publisher: Fisher 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 f... more »rom more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " I receive her again from the hand of her Creator as one raised from the dead, and given to me a second time. ... I hope I shall never forget this great and signal interposition of the Divine favour, in the solemn vows I have voluntarily undertaken. How difficult is it to bring one's mind, in the prospect of so severe a loss, to repeat with seriousness and an unfeigned heart what we are every day saying, with too little attention and solemnity, ' Thy will be done !' I tried as earnestly as I was able, and I even now dare not trust myself to inquire whether I attained all the spirit of resignation which ought to have been manifested. He who knoweth how to pity our infirmities, has had mercy at least upon the effort, and has graciously accepted the imperfect attempt ; and has not overwhelmed me with a similar bereavement to the heavy affliction I suffered many years ago, and upon which I never, to this hour, dare suffer myself to think. Yet I know that even that was attended with benefit to myself, heavy -as it descended upon me." After his death, there was found on the opening page of his interleaved Pocket Bible, a most gratifying token, not merely of his affection for his daughters, (of which, indeed, they needed not this proof,) but of a devout and grateful permanent recognition of the mercy of God vouchsafed in their recovery. " My dear Margaret's dangerous sickness, from a bilious fever, commenced July 4th, 1818, and only began to decline about July 24th. " My dear Susanna's still more dangerous sickness, from an inflammation of the brain, commenced about the ensuing ...« less