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The Life And Testimony Of Hannah Mills
My dear daughter, the late Mrs. Isaac Mills, was born January 25th, 1842, and died May 14th, 1867, in her 26th year. At the time of her birth, I was in great temporal straits; so that with family cares and preaching cares I was overwhelmed. My soul chose strangling and death rather than life. My soul being full of heaviness, I cried, “O Lord, be pleased to let me die. I wish to die." While I was in this state of mind, it was said by a relative, "This child ought to be named Hannah." It was mentioned to my wife, and she agreed to it. Having a concordance, I soon found the name with its meaning: "Gracious, merciful, or taking rest." At this my…
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The Life And Ministry Of Cornelius Cowley
He grew up strong in mind and body, until about ten years of age, when he had a very severe attack of rheumatic gout in his feet, which very much reduced him, and from which he suffered more or less throughout his life. After this, he had a very narrow escape from the bursting of a gun, which he let off loaded with gravel stones, when sent by a farmer to drive the birds from a field newly-sown with corn. When between the age of thirteen and fourteen he was apprenticed to the boot and shoe business for seven years. He was very quick in learning his trade; but at the age of seventeen, feeling himself grown up quite a man, he did not like…
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The Life And Testimony Of Mary Ann Topp
The Lord was pleased to convince her of her lost estate many years ago, and laid the weight and power of eternal things upon her conscience in the days of her youth; and though she tried to banish all thoughts of God and eternity, by getting into company with her young acquaintances and going to many places of amusement, still the solemn realities of an eternal state would follow her; so that she often retired in secret and bent her knees before the Lord and wept over her sins. She also began to feel a great desire to read her Bible, and the Lord often shined upon it, so that she felt it dearer unto her than thousands of gold and silver. There were no…
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The Life And Testimony Of Anne Topp
My dear Friend, As the Lord has taken away from me my very dear wife and companion in this lower world, and as the blessed Lord has, in infinite mercy, appeared for her precious soul during her long illness and in her dying moments, and sealed its blessed effects upon my heart, I have felt a longing, day after day, to drop my mortal body, to depart from this world of sorrow, to dwell with Christ, which is far better. But the Lord hath spoken these words to my heart: "Thou shalt not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord;" "Do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that it may give light to all…
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The Life And Testimony Of Mary Jane Topp
My dear Friend,—I am thankful to find by your letters that any part of my dear mother's last days on earth has been blessed to your soul; and as you seem desirous that I should be enabled still to send forth the marvellous dealings of the Lord with his tried and afflicted family, I feel a desire in my heart that a few lines should be written on my dear sister's last days on earth, that it may be a warning to some of the Lord's weaklings, and a comfort to others that are full of doubts and fears how it will be with them in their last moments. Though I feel utterly unworthy, and would be the last, to write or speak in his…
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The Life And Testimony Of Elizabeth Topp
For many years past it was the desire of deceased that her experience should be written for the glory of God and for the comfort of his tried and afflicted family, she often repeating these words, "For why should the wonders of the Lord be lost, and forgotten in unthankfulness?” I have often, by her bedside, heard her speak of the path that she had travelled for fifty years in this vale of tears, and many times found her words very weighty and powerful, so that I have often felt my soul drawn heavenwards, and the blessed things of eternity have sweetly employed my mind for days afterwards.
