...ia my feelings as a most kind and timely preparation for-what, but a few weeks before, would havt1 overwhelmed me with consternation and distress. As...with great composure, and my spirits 'did not at all rink till after I returned home. Since then, I tare had many desponding hours, from the fear oi death....

...the effect was so powerful that I was almost dissolved by it. I was unspeakably happy ; I believed that had I died that moment I should have been safe....consternation and distress. As it was, I heard it with great domposufe ; and my spirits did not at all sink till after I returned home. Since then I have had many...

...effect in a great degree remained. A fortnight afterwards, I told Isaac what had taken place, and lie urged me to be proposed immediately to the church....desponding hours, from the fear of death. The happiness I eujoyed for a short time has given place to a hope, which, though faint, secures me from distress.'...

...says, ' that I was almost dissolved by it.' She considered the change in her feelings thus produced, ' as a ' most kind and timely preparation for what, but a few weeks ' before, would have overwhelmed' her ' with consternation ' and distress,' — alluding to the first communication made to her by the...

...says,' that I was almost dissolved by it.' She considered the change in her feelings thus produced, ' as a ' most kind and timely preparation for what, but -a few weeks ' before, would have overwhelmed' her ' with consternation ' and distress,'—alluding to the first communication made to her by the...

...should have been safe. Though the strength of the emotion soon abated, the effect in a great degtee remained. A fortnight afterwards, I told Isaac what...many desponding hours, from the fear of death. The happilness I enjoyed for a short time, has lgiven place to a hope which, though 'faint, secures me...