ISBN: 9781458998781

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 illustra… Mehr…

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. 1862. Excerpt: ... But hearts there are that brightly burn, And light each kindling eye, And home to them my thoughts return, Swift as the sunbeams fly. To home, to home my spirit hastes; For why? my treasure''s there; ''Tis there her native joys she tastes, And breathes her native air. Oh, sweetest of all precious things, When this wide world we roam, When meets us on its balmy wings A messenger from home! From home, where hearts are warm and true, And love''s lamp brightly burns, And sparkles Hermon''s pearly dew On childhood''s crystal urns. Ob, sweet to mark the speaking lines Traced by a sister''s hand, And feel the love that firmly twines Around our household band! To one of her sisters:--London, 6th Month, 1841. I ay gtiu half an hour, and read over thy tenderly interesting and affecting sheet, and poured out my full heart; but what can I say? How I do long to be with you, and see, if it might be, once more, our beloved uncle! But perhaps before this the conflict may be over, the victory won, the everlasting city gained, none of whose inhabitants can say, I am sick. And if so, dare we murmur or wish to recall the loved one from that home? Oh for that childlike and humble submission which is befitting the children of a Father of mercies, and the followers of Him who can and will do all things well! After the Yearly Meeting, she thus writes in her Journal:--6th Mo. 12th, Many and great have been the favors dispensed within the last five weeks. The attendance of the Yearly Meeting has been the occasion of many and solemn warnings and advices, and, I trust, the reception of some real instruction. But, truly, I have found that in every situation, the great enemy can lay his snares; and if one more than another has taken with me, it has been to lead me to look outward for ... Eliza Allen Southall, Books, History, A Brief Memoir With Portions Of The Diary, Letters, And Other Remains Of Eliza Southall Books>History General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge Subjects: Christian biography Quakers Biography<

ISBN: 9781458998781

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 illustra… Mehr…

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. 1862. Excerpt: ... But hearts there are that brightly burn, And light each kindling eye, And home to them my thoughts return, Swift as the sunbeams fly. To home, to home my spirit hastes; For why? my treasure''s there; ''Tis there her native joys she tastes, And breathes her native air. Oh, sweetest of all precious things, When this wide world we roam, When meets us on its balmy wings A messenger from home! From home, where hearts are warm and true, And love''s lamp brightly burns, And sparkles Hermon''s pearly dew On childhood''s crystal urns. Ob, sweet to mark the speaking lines Traced by a sister''s hand, And feel the love that firmly twines Around our household band! To one of her sisters:--London, 6th Month, 1841. I ay gtiu half an hour, and read over thy tenderly interesting and affecting sheet, and poured out my full heart; but what can I say? How I do long to be with you, and see, if it might be, once more, our beloved uncle! But perhaps before this the conflict may be over, the victory won, the everlasting city gained, none of whose inhabitants can say, I am sick. And if so, dare we murmur or wish to recall the loved one from that home? Oh for that childlike and humble submission which is befitting the children of a Father of mercies, and the followers of Him who can and will do all things well! After the Yearly Meeting, she thus writes in her Journal:--6th Mo. 12th, Many and great have been the favors dispensed within the last five weeks. The attendance of the Yearly Meeting has been the occasion of many and solemn warnings and advices, and, I trust, the reception of some real instruction. But, truly, I have found that in every situation, the great enemy can lay his snares; and if one more than another has taken with me, it has been to lead me to look outward for ... Eliza Allen Southall, Books, History, A Brief Memoir With Portions Of The Diary, Letters, And Other Remains Of Eliza Southall Books>History, General Books LLC<