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The Annual Monitor for , Or, Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland (Volume 36) - Softcover
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. 1877. Excerpt: ... a too philosophical faith which they feared was the result of deep study and reading, had given place to a simple and confiding trust in Jesus Christ as his only hope of glory:--"6, York Terrace, Sidmouth, May 1st, 1876. "Dear Isaac Sharp, "It was a real disappointment not to see you here as papa had prophesied, but I thoroughly accept the will for the deed, and thank you very much for the next best thing after a good talk--such a kind well-wishing letter as the one I hope not long to call your last. I do hope the good Brixhamers whose smoke we know so well, got all the benefit and pleasure from your visit that I had hoped to do, and then I'll try not to be jealous. "You ask after my mind and feelings in regard to this long absence of health. My friends say that I take things very easily. True, pain and weakness are no cross to me, I rather seem to despise the one, and sort of enjoy the other. But dependence and helplessness of any sort have been dreadful things to get over. It was for long hard--very hard, willingly to acknowledge dependence upon God, and to add, 'in whose Brizham is on the opposite side of the Bay to Torquay. hand is the breath of all mankind.' The giving up of independence was always to me the great giving up or requirement of Christianity; and then when I found I was not sufficient to cut out a way through life, and had to give up my freewill to God, who had really held the reins all the time,--after thai it did seem hard, as though it was not enough but I must go a step further and give up all going and coming except as it pleased doctors and relations, and half the kind-hearted people on the Skerne and Tees. I went to Malta at these good people's wish, not knowing much more than Abraham, and came back as soon as they told me to. Bu...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1154373266
- ISBN 13 9781154373264
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages36
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