Walks of Usefulness, Or, Reminiscences of Mrs. Margaret Prior (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Death of Mr. Prior.--Bereavement deeply felt.--Change ot circumstances.--Origin of the question, " Can not something be done to stay the tide of vice in our city?"--Believing prayer.--Knowledge of the condition and wants of the young.--Beginning and end of the career of vice.--Organization of the A. F. M. R. Society.--Becomes one of its board of managers.--Motive.--Sympathy for the wretched.--interest in relation to the half orphan asylum.--Employed by the A. F. M. R. Society as a city missionary. "Life is a state of trial, not reward, Though rough the passage, olissful is the port." September 14th, 1829, Mrs. Prior was again called to drink deep of the cup of sorrow. Her kind husband who had been so long her counsellor and best earthly stay, was summoned to the spirit-land. God had changed his countenance, and he was laid away in the narrow-house appointed for all the living. Her home and her heart were made desolate, and for a time she felt crushed beneath a weight of grief; nevertheless she was enabled to rejoice in God, and bow with sweet submission to his will. She had many times looked into the grave and seen it close over the cherished objects of her tenderest affection--and this heavy blow seemed to open afresh the wounds that time had but partly healed--and though a murmuring wr rd or thought found no place, yet her remaining ties to earth were so few and the attractions toward heaven so strong, that for several months it seemed to require special grace to lead her to enter her accustomed walks of usefulness with wonted cheerfulness and zeal Her pleasant residence on Bowery hill was ex changed for another less retired, and though she never wanted for the comforts that pecuniary means afford, yet she felt more like a pilgrim and strang...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Death of Mr. Prior.--Bereavement deeply felt.--Change ot circumstances.--Origin of the question, " Can not something be done to stay the tide of vice in our city?"--Believing prayer.--Knowledge of the condition and wants of the young.--Beginning and end of the career of vice.--Organization of the A. F. M. R. Society.--Becomes one of its board of managers.--Motive.--Sympathy for the wretched.--interest in relation to the half orphan asylum.--Employed by the A. F. M. R. Society as a city missionary. "Life is a state of trial, not reward, Though rough the passage, olissful is the port." September 14th, 1829, Mrs. Prior was again called to drink deep of the cup of sorrow. Her kind husband who had been so long her counsellor and best earthly stay, was summoned to the spirit-land. God had changed his countenance, and he was laid away in the narrow-house appointed for all the living. Her home and her heart were made desolate, and for a time she felt crushed beneath a weight of grief; nevertheless she was enabled to rejoice in God, and bow with sweet submission to his will. She had many times looked into the grave and seen it close over the cherished objects of her tenderest affection--and this heavy blow seemed to open afresh the wounds that time had but partly healed--and though a murmuring wr rd or thought found no place, yet her remaining ties to earth were so few and the attractions toward heaven so strong, that for several months it seemed to require special grace to lead her to enter her accustomed walks of usefulness with wonted cheerfulness and zeal Her pleasant residence on Bowery hill was ex changed for another less retired, and though she never wanted for the comforts that pecuniary means afford, yet she felt more like a pilgrim and strang...

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

70

ISBN-13

978-1-151-27491-5

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9781151274915

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1-151-27491-7



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