. The Utica Christian magazine . ink, were thelast she uttered relative to ber departure, were these— The pains,the groatis, the dying strife/* How long, Q Lord,4iow long? But 3 must stop; for I have already exceeded the bounds of a let-ter, though I have come far short of doing justice to the dying deport-ment of this dear friend. Oh, may my last end be like hers. I wouldnow proceed to discharge the duty, winch Harriets dying request im-posed on me, of administering consolation to you, and of beseechingthe dear children to make a right improvement of this afflicting dis-pensation ; but I hope
. The Utica Christian magazine . ink, were thelast she uttered relative to ber departure, were these— The pains,the groatis, the dying strife/* How long, Q Lord,4iow long? But 3 must stop; for I have already exceeded the bounds of a let-ter, though I have come far short of doing justice to the dying deport-ment of this dear friend. Oh, may my last end be like hers. I wouldnow proceed to discharge the duty, winch Harriets dying request im-posed on me, of administering consolation to you, and of beseechingthe dear children to make a right improvement of this afflicting dis-pensation ; but I hope the God of all consolation will himself wipeaway your tears* and fill your heart witn comfort, and that Harrietsdying entreaties, and tears, and sighs, may be carried by the Spirit oftruth to the hearts of the children, and of her other young friends,and may fasten conviction on their minds, and engage them to followher, so far as she followed Christ. With these hopes I must at pres-,ent bid them all an affectionate J> who was born at Cairo, in thestate of NeW-York, Feb. 21st, 1787. When she was about twoyears of age her mother made a publi« profession of religionand dedicated her to God in baptism. Her natural dispositionwas gay, her imagination lively and she usually had a greatflow of animal spirits. Like the rest of the degenerate chil-dren of Adam, she possessed a natural aptitude of heart tobrget God, her Creator, which united with the gaity of herlind, created in her an aversion to religious years of her childhood were spent without manifestingany seriousness or the least disposition to seek after God*When she began to mingle in young company her naturalvivacity seemed to increase, and she engaged with great ea-gerness in the follies to which persons of her age are usuallyaddicted
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