This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...school, KATE BECOVEBS. 199 and many happy, peaceful lessons she had learned in Bath. Lizzie, too, who-had been forgotten in the whirl of her recent gaieties, came in for a share of the rapid retrospect, and David's prayer went up to heaven: "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant, for I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...school, KATE BECOVEBS. 199 and many happy, peaceful lessons she had learned in Bath. Lizzie, too, who-had been forgotten in the whirl of her recent gaieties, came in for a share of the rapid retrospect, and David's prayer went up to heaven: "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant, for I do not forget Thy commandments." In after days Flora and her brothers often looked back to that time of sickness, for then it was that the great work amongst them was advanced most decidedly. To Flora it was a time of great importance and privilege, when she w: as brought into the valley of Achor--a valley to her, of self-reproach, fear, and anxiety, but where she really experienced some of her greatest joys; where the promise was fulfilled to her, that there the Lord will speak to the heart of His sorrowful child. The many prayers were heard, and most unexpectedly the invalid's life was lengthened, and by slow degrees, through the instrumentality of careful nursing, Kate was restored to her place in the family. When the excitement was over Mrs. Grey fell ill, and before Kate had left her room, Flora was called upon to divide her attention between the two sick-rooms. She had become so essential to her sister's comfort, that there was no rest for her; late at night and early in the morning was she in requisition, but nothing seemed to weary her. One bright abiding sense of the love and goodness of her heavenly Father ran through all, enabling her to bear the anxiety attendant on her mother's low nervous disorder, and the fretful exactions of her invalid sister; she had a word for 200 THE BE-USITED CIBCLE. her brothers, found time to cheer her father and to arrange the household matters, and many were the happy little lessons of...
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