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The Publications of the American Tract Society
The Publications of the American Tract Society Author:American Tract Society 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: -. me. I feel assured, that a mansion is graciously prepared for me, and I am waiting till Jesus shall see fit to call me to himself. My sight is now very dim... more », and therefore 1 cannot read so much as I once did ; but when I shut my eyes, I have the verses all before me, and I think I eee the very places where I have been used to read them ; and, as this is the case, I am sometimes quite glad when my pains will not let me sleep : for, during the dark hours of the night, I am enabled, by the help of God's Holy Spirit, to call to mind so many sweet chapters, that I am almost sorry when the morning returns. O, it is delightful to hold communion with my God: and, when I pray to my heavenly Father, I feel certain that he hears me, and that he will give me all he knows to be good for me.—This is quite enough for me, Vrho deserve nothing at his hands.' These simple, yet evident proofs of genuine piety made us anxious to learn by what means she had attained to so great a knowledge and love of the Bible ; and how it was that she felt the Saviour to be so precious to her. We therefore inquired how she had gained her present religious views and feelings, and begged her then to tell us a little of her history and experience, which she did as follows : ' My husband died in early life, and left me with a large family to bring up. 1 laboured to IV. the utmost to maintain them, and was in the constant habit of taking them to church ; but a,t that time I had no serious thoughts about religion. My children, one after another, re- '""-- frt)a me to a distance, to be placed outin the world. I have since lost them all, except my daughter, whom you have Been, with whom I have lived many years. About thirty years ago,' she added, ' l became so bad with the rheumatism, as not to ...« less