For the last two weeks of her life she was constant in her endeavours to benefit all with whom she had any influence, both by her own conversation and letters. She manifested the deepest interest in the future welfare of her companions, as was exhibited on many occasions. Used to go into the woods near the school-house,* every noon, with one or two of her companions, where they prayed and read together and until the weather was too cold, they stayed until six at night, employed in the same way. A woman peeks around the side of the bushes at the child, raising one hand as though faintly surprised. They had no assurance from her own lips, themselves but she told one of her companions that on a particular day, some weeks before she was taken ill, she had received comfort (implying distress under previous convictions of sin ) that the whole day she had been trembling all over but when uttering these words, (in praying after school,) O Lord, create within me a clean heart, a voice seemed to whisper, A clean heart I will put within you and made her perfectly tranquil." SheĪ small child kneels in front of some bushes, praying. On the commencement of a revival of religion, when she was about ten years old, she was peculiarly serious and attentive at all the meetings at which she could be present Īnd her father was so strongly persuaded that she had in truth become a real Christian, that he often inquired of her mother whether it was not so. She constantly attended the Sabbath School, after it was established there, and her teachers thought that she made great proficiency. Her parents are ignorant of any religious impressions having been made on her mind in the beginning of life, although she was unusually sedate, and always peculiarly fond of reading her Bible. THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY 150 Nassau-street, New-York. She is illuminated by the light coming through a window in the wall in front of her. In a bedroom, a small girl kneels on the floor and prays. MIRIAM WARNER, Who died at Northampton, Mass. An illustration of an angel among the clouds is centered between the title and the imprint. What appears to be a small waterfall forms the border at the bottom of the plate. XXVIII.The front cover is decorated with an illustrative border, designed to resemble trees with birds sitting among the branches. In the case of unambiguous end-of-line hyphens which divide a word between two pages, the hyphen has been removed and the trailing part of the word has been joined to the last line of the preceding Unambiguous end-of-line hyphens have been removed. They are being made publicly accessible as an educational resource. The works have been encoded in Tei.2 conformant markup. The copies consulted in the creation of the electronic editionsĪre owned by the Michigan State University Libraries and theĬlarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University. Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America." American Tract Society 18-? This work is part of the collection "Shaping the Memoir of Miriam Warner, Who Died at Northampton, Mass. URL: The text this electronic edition is based on was publishedīefore 1923 and is therefore in the public domain according to State University Libraries, Digital Sources Center. Michigan State University Libraries, Digital Sources Creation of machine-readable version: Keisha Ries. Conversion to TEI.2 conformant markup: Ruth Ann Jones, Michigan State University Seadle, Michigan State University Libraries, Digital SourcesĬenter. National Digital Library Competition.Michael
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