The Pastor's Daughter; A Memoir of Susan Amelia W-., Who Died Jan.20,1843, Aged 19 Years A Memoir of Susan Amelia W- Who Died Jan. 20, 1843 Aged 19 Years

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: your surrender of yourself to God, would be a source of the greatest joy to your father and your mother ? You love them? you love them tenderly; and will you still occasion them a suffering which no enemy could inflict, or deny them ajoy which you could impart ? Let a father who has felt all that he has attempted to portray, be a suppliant to you on behalf of your beloved parents. Oh, cheer and bless them by seeking and serving their God! Let a father who has proved the efficacy of prayer on behalf of his own children, unite with your parents in prayer to God for you: " The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace." Num. 6: 24r?26. Susan!: s Conversion to God. Conversion to God is a change, not of the opinions or the habits only, but of the heart of the convert: it is the work of theHoly Spirit. " He gives them," says Mr. Jay, " a heart of flesh. It was a heart of stone before: take a stone, feel it, how cold! strike it, it resists the blow. Lay upon it a burden, it feels no pressure. Apply a seal to it, it receives no impression. What a mercy is it to have this curse removed, and to have a ' heart of flesh!' Bring it to sin, it feels. A tender conscience, like the eye, is offended with a mote. A dead corpse is unaffected with the deepest wound; the point of a needle makes the living body to writhe." "Ye must be born again. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 3: 5, 7. Susan was now in the fifteenth year of her age; and speaking of her feelings at this time, in a letter afterwards addressed to her father, she said, "My dear father, I hope this letter will afford you no small degree of pleasure...