A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 161 pages of information about A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains,.

A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 161 pages of information about A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains,.
I in my self-confidence.  He saw how I should have to come back utterly destitute, and again and again has had mercy.  Oh that I might no more ask for a portion to carry away, but seek to dwell among the servants and the children of His house, to be fed hourly by Him, learning in what sense He does say to those who are willing to have nothing of their own, “All that I have is thine.”
12th Mo. 6th.  Nice journey to Falmouth.  Here we have been since Second-day learning our own manifold deficiencies; but this, under a genial atmosphere, is, to me, never disheartening,—­always an exciting, encouraging lesson. ——­’s kind words on intellectual presence of mind, and his animating example of it, have determined me to make a vigorous effort over my own sloth and inanity.  I believe the first thing is to be always conscious of what I am thinking of, and never to let my mind run at loose ends in senseless reveries.
12th Mo. 25th.  Seventh-day.  I trust, now we are all together for the winter, there will be an effort on my part to help to keep up a higher tone of feeling, aim, and conversation:  not mere gossip, but really to speak to each other for some good purpose, is what I do wish.  What an engine, for good or evil, we neglect and almost despise! and if it is not employed properly, when at home, how can it be naturally and intelligently exercised when abroad?
Fourth-day, 31st.  Called on a poor sick man,—­he quietly waiting, I hope, for a participation in perfect peace, and penetrated with the sense that man can do nothing of himself.  Surely this must be a step towards knowing what God can do.  I hope he will be able to see and say something more yet; but I would not ask him for any sort of confession.  It is a fearful thing to interfere with one who seems evidently in hands Divine.
Thus ended 1845.  Oh that it had been better used, more valued, more improved in naturals, intellectuals, and spirituals!  Oh that I had cultivated kindness and dutiful affection in the meekness of wisdom; and as an impetus seems to have been lately received to industry in study, etc., oh, may God give me grace to spend another year, so far as I live through it, in industrious Christianity too!
1st Mo. 7th, 1846.  I should gratefully acknowledge the loving-kindness and tender mercy which, after all my wanderings, has again been shown:  “I will prepare their heart, I will cause their ear to hear,” was sweet to me this morning.  Though sometimes lamenting that I hear so little of the voice of pardon and peace, I have felt this morning that I have ever heard as much as was safe for me in the degree of preparation yet known.
1st Mo. 19th.  Some earnest desires last evening, this morning, and in the night, to be set right in spirit.  Struck with the text, “His countenance doth behold the upright,”—­not
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