Memoir of Priscilla Gurney (Extracts from Her Journal and Letters) Ed. by S. Corder (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. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... MEMOIE OF PRISCILLA GURNEY. CHAPTER I. 1809-1817. YOUTHFUL DAYS OF PRISCILLA GURNEY--DEATH OF A SISTER-IN-LAW--OF HER FATHER--CORRESPONDENCE--ILLNESS OF A BROTHER--WINTER AT CLIFTON--SPEAKS AS A MINISTER AMONGST FRIENDS--DEATH OF HENRY GURNEY--OF HER BROTHER JOHN GURNEY--"JOURNEY TO NICE WITH INVALIDS RESIDENCE AT NICE. From a variety of circumstances, the large family of Gurney of Earlham has become generally known, as consisting of persons who, from conspicuous piety and benevolence, have been interesting to the christian world. Placed in a prominent position through the advantages attendant on wealth, talent, and education, they exercised no common degree of influence on the extensive circle in which they moved; and, from the example of their father, John Gurney, who evinced through life much nobility of mind and a generous nature, they imbibed, from their earliest years, a disinterestedness of character, which, as it became directed by the sanctifying influence of religious principle, induced these young persons largely to diffuse around them the channels of blessing which were so richly placed under their control. Two of their number--the late Elizabeth Fry and her brother Joseph John Gurney--were conspicuously devoted to the cause of christian philanthropy, and their memory is cherished with reverential esteem and love by many, among the varied classes of society, who witnessed their untiring efforts to promote the glory of God, and the well-being of His rational creation. In the published memoirs of these two excellent persons, sketches of the domestic circle at Earlham have been so fully drawn, and so extensively read with lively interest, that any minute recapitulation of them will not be requisite in introducing to the notice of the...