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MISS BOSANQUET. 33
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Considerable Interest Having Been Expres...
This is one of tlie many indications , scattered through the memoir , that Miss Bosanquet possessed remarkable power of personal
fascination . She certainly was not a beautiful woman—her portrait marks the reverse—but something tender and genial must have beamed in
her countenance , which won men , women , and children alike . On she went , farming , teaching , preaching , praying , and , when
she got into trouble , falling back on the memory of Mr . Fletcher , whom she had not seen for fifteen years , and who seems , in their
mutual youth , to have been deterred by her superior wealth from offering marriage . How deeply this celebrated man had impressed
her imagination may be seen by an extract from her diary in 1773 : —
" Nov . 6 th , Monday . — -I have received some upbraiding letters , asking me if I yet believed I should see those the words midst fulfilled of , ' trials I -will it restore is sometimes to you the
ears the locusts have eaten' ? In my pre-O sented pportunities to my mind of this , Perhaps kind occur shine the frequentl Lord will y mind d ; raw but me no out with sooner of thi all do this voice I hear by marriage the offer will , .
but a clear light seems to on my , as s , ' You eminent times neither broug be iety holier ht and before nor the happ me remembrance , ier and with the this same of some man conviction . little ' But acts I does find of friendshi not Mr . intervene Fletcher p in our . some first His
even acquaintance And yet that p I we fear , shall , look lest see to it me should each sometimes , other be a trick on like this of a Satan pointin side eternity to g hurt of the my . finger Lord mind , of . let the Providence I me know not not ht be .
and drawn never into to a do snare the ! least Well thing , thi towards s I resolve a renewal on , to of strive our correspondence against thoug . _JSTo , , live I will and fix die my to eye God on alone ' the . hundred ' forty and four thousand : ' praying only to
But "In the month of August 1777 going into a friend ' s housewho was just
, , , Madeley come from , is dy the ing Conference ? Indeed , , he I know said , not ' Do but you he is know dead . that If lie Mr hold . Fletcher out a little , of for he will die bthe
longer , he is to go abroad ; but it is a pity , y way , being in calmness the last For stage of a days consumption I bore his . ' burden I heard before the account the Lord with and , the con utmost stantly
. some , ance offered wrote him , word up to — the ' Mr will . Fletcher of God . is A very few bad days ; sp after its , blood another profusel of my y , acquaint and per- - that will raise him
up spires ; but profusel for my y every part , I ni believe ght . S he ome is a have dying great man him hope , as sure to the as r > rayer he Lord is now these a words living
passed raise one . * him my As I mind was . ' , I one ' said The day ' prayer Lord in prayer I of dare faith , offering not shal ask l save it ; I up the leave sick it , to and th the y , sacred Lord will shall :
up , , thy will be done !' him " The and following bring him thoug in hts safety occurred back to to my Eng mind land , — and If he the should Lord propose should raise such
fearing a step up , could , a deception I doubt , I cried its being to the of Lord God to , after keep such me to , in an ask his answer narrow the to way prayer , whatever si ? Yet if
mig it I mi really ht ght be suffer were broug , of ht and him back felt . an to 1 . unaccountable That England Mr . . Fletcher 3 . That liberty mi he ght would be raised wri following te up to . me 2 . That on gns the , he been asunderwithout
so subject much , before as a message he saw me passing , though on we any had of subject his so . many 4 . hts Th years at and he would , for in that
letter . tell It me came , — to It had mind been further the object thatshould thoug this occur in prayers the end of some the years 1781 . it would my be a still greater , confirmation , as Providence seemed to
point year me to , that season as a time of hope . " ,
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Miss Bosanquet. 33
MISS BOSANQUET . 33
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/33/
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