A Memoir of Charlotte Elizabeth [Pseud.]; Embracing the Period from the Close of the Personal Recollections to Her Death (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: 1837, she again visited the land endeared to her by many precious ties ?the land of her spiritual birth, and where now rested the remains of that brother whom she had so tenderly loved, ?and, in her "Letter from Ireland," she has left behind her a graphic account of this visit. In this year she heard of the death of Captain Phelan, and in February 1841, she became the wife of Mr. Tonna, her surviving widower. In taking this step, unexpected as it was to her friends, she only sought counsel of the Lord; nor did He withhold His guidance and blessing; andwhile the enjoyment of domestic happiness and peace did not induce any relaxation in her desire to work in the Lord's vineyard, He was graciously pleased to open to her new and extended spheres of usefulness. Although the third person is used to avoid the unpleasant egotism of the first, the writer has no wish to conceal liin identity. In the summer of 1841, she undertook, at the request of the Committee of the Protestant Association, the editorship of the " Protestant Magazine," their official organ, though for obvious reasons her name was not announced; although she continued, as heretofore, to write papers in it under her usual signature. The leading paper, called " The Watchman," was always from her own pen; and while the workings of Popery in its own undisguised formwere narrowly watched, and exposed, its more subtle manifestations under the form of Tractarianism and Highchurch- manship, were no less vigorously assailed. Strong and urgent were the remonstrances she received from anonymous correspondents, to desist from this latter course, and more than once the " reverend editor" was cautioned not to admit into " his" pages, the productions of that dangerous writer. Charlotte Elizabeth. At about this time Judah's Lion ...