The record of a happy life Author:Hannah Whitall Smith 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 II. |HEN Frank was about five years old, a dea friend of his father's died, leaving a widow with four little children. We took one of them home w... more »ith us for a visit, to relieve the delicate mother for a time of some of her numerous cares, a little girl named Sally, of just about Frank's age. She proved to be a dear good little girl and nice company for Frank, and after her mother's death, which occurred within a year or two of her father's, we concluded to keep her altogether, and she grew up with our boy, a bright pleasant companion for him, adding very much to the pleasures of his life. At about the age of eight years, a very grave danger threatened Frank, and he was committed to the Lord in a most especial manner. A very wicked man, whom we had been obliged to thwart in some of his wicked purposes in reference to a child in the —— of which institution we were at the time managers, wrote us a most abusive threatening letter. In it he declared his intention of taking his revenge on us through our son, by leading him into wickedness and making him as bad as himself. As I read the letter, my heart sank within me. I thought of the thousand ways in which such a threat could b fuLfilled, and how powerless we were to prevent it. I was afraid to have my boy out of my sight for a moment, and felt as if we would have to move out of Philadelphia, away to the ends of the earth, anywhere to get out of the reach of this wicked man. But then I realized that even this might not be effectual ; and in my despair I fled to the Lord for nelp. At once there came to me, as a voice from neaven, that blessed promise — "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them;" with the assurance that so would the angels encamp around our boy and del...« less