The Mothers' Friend, Ed. by Ann Jane (Paperback)

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: the monuments which another year shall raise bear the records of time well spent, of virtuous actions and of noble deeds. Let it be a living monument, on which our virtues, like the glittering stars of heaven, shall glow, a beaming light, when e shall be no more, to guide succeeding ages on the way of life ! FOUR SISTERS IN HEAVEN. Our friends will no doubt remember reading Louis Cavenal's history, lately published in our pages, and they will readily believe that the Christian mother who took so much interest in the poor orphan and so much pains to teach him the way to heaven, would seek to bring up her own children in the fear of the Lord, and pray for them fervently and without ceasing. Four of her beloved ones have been taken from her, and the following memoirs willshowhow Mrs. D 's supplications were answered and her endeavours blessed, and how she herself was supported nmder the heavy strokes. Elizabeth?the first who passed from earth?the gentle, amiable little Elizabeth, until she was six years old enjoyed the most perfect health. She was remarkably full of gaiety and life, and at the same time so gentle and good that all loved her. She was intelligent, too; when three years old her parents began to teach her her letters, and she was so fond of her lessons that she was the first to remind her mother if she forgot them; and at four years and a half she read with ease, and begged that ehe might be allowed to read in her turn at family worship. She was fond of reading tales, but nothing pleased her so much as the Word of God, and she would often learn five or six verses at a time without moving from her seat. She had such desire for instruction that she would often sit near her elder sisters when they were having a lesson that seemed above her capacity, and she w...