Lady Huntington and Her Friends Volume 285, (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. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. THE BREACH. The first day of the year 1770 Lady Huntington set apart for fasting and prayer, and for a renewed dedication of herself to God. "I am just returned from the Look," she says in the evening, "where I heard a profitable sermon from dear Mr. Romaine on that awful passage, ' This year thou shalt die.' If the Lord shall see fit to remove me hence the year just begun, may my worthless soul be numbered with the redeemed before his throne. Of late I have enjoyed much intimate fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the Holy Ghost has frequently witnessed with my spirit that I am his child. This has caused me to rejoice with unspeakable joy." Such are the delights which are the privilege of the Christian. How do they cheer and soothe the soul chafed by the disappointments and cares that must needs beset us in our earthly pilgrimage. In proportion as our sphere is wide, so do cares multiply, and we live to see the fairest mornings clouded and our dearest hopes withered in the bud; drought blights our labors, and barrenness eats up our Edens. It was in such a season of suspended fruitfulness that this pious woman had written Berridge;' and to her letter, under the date of January 9, he thus replies: "You complain that every new work after a season becomes a lifeless work. And was it not in the beginning as it is now? Do not the Acts and epistles show that the primitive churches much resembled our own? In their infancy we find them of one heart and soul, having all things common; but presently read of partial distribution in their church stock, then of eager and lasting contentions about circumcision, coupling Moses with Jesus, and setting a servant on a level with his Master. And gentile churches are much on a level...