Transplanted Flowers; With an Appendix (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... who was employed, a little season in which to render himself more competent for his work, by attending another school of a higher order. So eager was she to do good, that she cheerfully passed weeks in that school, enduring, in her infirm state of health, the labour, and heat, and noise, and surrounded by children who were often disagreeable and troublesome. But this was endured for the sake of the object. No luxury was, in her estimation, to be compared with that of doing good. In her schools many.children were receiving the rudiments of a useful education, and instruction in the Sacred Scriptures. And in future years it will appear, I doubt not, that her labour has not been in vain in the Lord. It gives me great pleasure to state that her venerable father informed me, when speaking to him about these schools, a few days since, that he is resolved to have them sustained, and in fact he has given directions to that effect. Another of her benevolent efforts, for the promotion of religion among the people around her in Switzerland, interested me much. It was this: She assembled many of the women of the villages around her, at her own house often--I believe on the first Monday of every month--and spent hours, each time, in giving them information respecting what is doing by Christians in England and America, and other countries, to make known the Gospel to the heathen nations, and to bring about the conversion of the world. To collect this information, and write it in French, (the language of these people, ) and prepare it to be read to them, cost not a little time and labour. Few ministers of the gospel take equal pains to prepare themselves for the monthly concert of prayer for the conversion of the world to God. But all this labour and...