Scenes and Characters Illustrating Christian Truth: Gleams of truth, or, Scenes from real life, by J. TuckermanHenry Ware J. Munroe, 1835 |
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Page 88 - And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they that have cast into the treasury. For all they did cast in of their abundance. But she, of her want, did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Page 85 - She was ever most careful not to incur a debt, maintaining her sense of duty on this subject with an energy worthy of all praise. Had she been embarrassed by debt, she could have carried through few of her benevolent intentions. Her whole history presents a striking combination of simplicity with energy, sensibility with judgment, of forethought, calculation, and economy, with disinterestedness and self-sacrificing benevolence. To a pious reliance on Providence she...
Page 91 - Saviour to do to others as we would that others should do to us should induce Friends who held slaves " to set them at liberty, making a Christian provision for them...
Page 65 - ... in her hand. On noticing these parcels, she informed the visitor that they contained a little tea, sugar, and snuff, and that they were for a woman in the workhouse nearly a hundred years old. " She knew my parents," said Catherine ; " and I daresay assisted my mother when she needed ; so it is just a little acknowledgment. There are other old persons there to whom I would be glad to send something, if I had the means.
Page 64 - It happened that this poor blind woman had a son in the workhouse, who was a cripple, and nearly an idiot. The child was dear to his mother ; and when she took her tea, she gave him a part of it. This became one of his highest gratifications ; and after the death of his mother, he was greatly distressed by the loss of this indulgence. Catherine therefore promised him that while she lived she would bring him tea and sugar, as she had brought them to his mother ; and she kept her word.
Page 83 - I know not that she has ever thus lost any thing, while the gain has been of considerable importance to those who have made it. She has mixed but little with her neighbours, except for such offices of kindness as she could render to them ; and most unwillingly asks for any aid for her own personal friends.
Page 54 - ... go to service in a family. The lady of the house was a very good manager, and a good mistress ; knew what a servant's duty was, and took care that it was well done. In her family Catherine's habits of diligence, order, and fidelity were strengthened. Everything she saw there tended to advance her education. And is it not the true idea of education, that it comprehends all the daily and hourly influences, small as well as great, of the circumstances by which we are surrounded, and which are constantly...
Page 3 - I have strong doubt whether the trial of poverty be greater than that of abundance, or whether sickness be by any means so great a trial of virtue as health. To know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, is eternal life.
Page 58 - ... them by her own industry. She has been known to work in this factory till her fingers were blistered, and she could do no more ; she would then remain at home, and poultice them till they were sufficiently recovered to enable her to resume her work.
Page 59 - At length, however, it became necessary for her mother's own safety that she should be in the charge of those more competent to the task of restraining her, and she was removed to the workhouse. But the heart of the devoted daughter was still with her ; and from week to week Catherine strained every nerve, and straitened herself in every way, that she might regularly carry to her mother all the comforts she could procure. Nor were her trials those only of the early death of her husband, and the long...