The Annual Monitor - 1856 Author:William Alexander 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: HENRIETTA WHATLEY, Whose death was noticed in tfye "Annual Monitor for 1853. " I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in path... more »s that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do onto them, and not forsake them."— Isa. xlii, 10. Fbom early life to a good old age this promise was remarkably fulfilled in the experience of Henrietta Whatley. She had no birthright in our religious Society, and the history of her early life, the circumstances of her convincement, and her subsequent career, as narrated by herself, possess points of peculiar interest and instruction, not unsuitable, it is thought, to be preserved among the biographical records of the Annual Monitor. The seriously thoughtful reader, to whom it has been given to see that the Gospel of Christ,applied under the power of the Holy Spirit, is the only effectual remedy for the evils which afflict mankind, may find the glimpse, thus afforded, into the yet imchristianized state of society, in professedly Christian countries, not unprofitably suggestive of individual duty in upholding that standard of Christian1 principle and practice which requires us to be " holy in all manner of conversation"—aloof from the world and its spirit. The youthful mind also, in view of the " simple truth and matter-of-fact," here so simply told,—sympathizing with the "poor, silent, weeping girl,"— may, perhaps, be the more attracted to Him who is here so clearly seen to be a God hearing and answering prayer—able to preserve—willing to bless. Prompted, as it would seem, by the warm solicitude of a Christian parent, Henrietta Whatley thus commences a review of her past days: " The mercies of God are over all His works, and His omnipotence is...« less