Capitolo 1
CATHARINE.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF
"AGNES E THE SMALL KEY."
TO IL
YOUNG LADIES OF MY CONGREGATION,
Friends it is Knowledges Of
CATHARINE,
AND TO EVERY FATHER,
HAVING
A DAUGHTER IN SKY,
These Pages
YOU/HE/SHE IS AFFECTIONATELY WRITTEN.
CONTAINED.
ME.
MORE THAN THE CONQUEROR, 9
II.
The Fear Of Death Assuaged, 58
III.
The Search For The Past, 89
IV.
The Silence Of The Corpse, 119
V.
The Redemption Of The Body, 144
CATHARINE
ME.
MORE THAN THE CONQUEROR.
Is that a death-bed where the Christian lies?
Yes,--but not the his: 'The death of same Tis dies there.
COLERIDGE.
You were not an infant--an unconscious subject of the grace. But the Savior
you/he/she has conducted through a long illness, and through death, a daughter of
nineteen years, and you/he/she has done her, and those that loved and they looked at her/it,
says, We am more than the conquerors. To speak of Him, and not to gratify
the tenderness of parental love, to praise the Savior of my child to
other hearts, and to get for Him the affections of that to whom Him
it is able and prepared to be everybody that He was to her, it is the you sole object of
these pages. Listening, then, not to the history pertaining to partial of a parent
his/her child, neither pertaining to the mental suffering neither physics, but to the words
of one whom you/he/she has seen how the presence of Christ, and it loves to Him,
fills the dying hours with the peace sweetest, and the equal beauty and the
survivors' hearts with joy.
Desiring to mainly think the last scenes of the life of this dear child,
the reader won't be deferred from some biographical squirt. Nine years
before his/her death, when she was among ten and eleven years adult, her
gives the clearest evidence that she has been renewed from the Spirit Saint. Us
it had from when that duration is done happy from the increasing power of Cristiano
I begin in his/her behavior, the clarity and constancy of his/her faith,
his/her systematic strives him to live a holy life, his/her deep regret when her
you/he/she had erred, and his/her resolved efforts to improve in every part of her