This text is part of:
[292]
woman to the last.
During her long illness, she received innumerable marks of respect and affection from friends and neighbors; for she was beloved by all who knew her. A short time before her death, she offered the following prayer for the dear ones she was so soon to leave; ‘O Lord, permit me to ask thy blessing for this family.
Thy favor is better than all the world can give.
For want of keeping close to thy counsel, my soul has often been pierced with sorrow.
Pity my weakness.
Look thou from heaven, and forgive.
Enable me, I beseech thee, to renew my covenant, and so to live under the influence of thy Holy Spirit, as to keep it. Preserve me in the hour of temptation.
Thou alone knowest how prone I am to err on the right side and on the left.
Bless the children!
O Lord, visit and re-visit their tender minds.
Lead them in the paths of uprightness, for thy name's sake.
I ask not riches nor honor for them; but an inheritance in thy ever-blessed truth.’
She left nine children, the youngest but six years old, to mourn the loss of a most tender careful and self-sacrificing mother.
While her bereaved husband was still under the shadow of this great grief, he was called to part with his son Isaac, who in little more than a year, followed his mother, at the early age of fifteen.
He was a sedate gentle lad, and had always been a very pleasant child to his parents.
His father cherished
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
Tufts University provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.