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A Beloved Mother: Life of Hannah S. Allen, by Her Daughter [j.b.].
A Beloved Mother Life of Hannah S Allen by Her Daughter - j.b. Author:John Bate 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: CHAPTER III. Hannah's journal from the year 1836—Sudden death of little R. Corder—Hannah's deafness—Seeking for light—Her twenty- third birthday—Finds the evi... more »l in her heart by nature—A day of visitation—Sermons of J. T. Shewell—Offers of marriage—A baby's death—Fear of death—The coming of Spring—Lines upon the wood anemone—Discussion with the Vicar upon the ordinances—Searching after truth— Hannah's mind becomes clear and established—Accident when returning from Ipswich—The cholera in Rushmere— The Christian's warfare—An important letter. FOR some years Hannah kept a journal, in which she at first wrote daily, afterwards less frequently. In later years what was entered in the manuscript books was more a chronicle of daily events. The early volumes contain much that is most precious to her daughters, to whom they were left. In the fly-leaf of the first volume she wrote, in 1876 :— To my dear girls, that they may see the way in which the Lord has led me. She had taken them from the box in which they had lain for more than forty years, and after reading them herself with interest after this lapse of time, they were once more replaced, and after- wards came into the possession of those to whom they were left by her wish. At the time we commence to quote from her own pen Hannah was twenty-two years of age. Her brother Allen and his wife were now living at Yoxford, and his two boys, Robert and Allen, were often welcome little visitors at Rushmere, and are frequently mentioned by their loving auntie. Henry had gone to sea with Captain Deane on a whaling voyage, George was living in Ipswich, Sheppard at Reading, so that Hannah and Jane, with the youngest brother Frederic, comprised the present household, under Aunt Nancy's care; James Ran- some, the loving father and ...« less