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34 MISS BOSANQUET.
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Considerable Interest Having Been Expres...
Tlie rest of the story , coincidences and all , must likewise be told in her own words : —
fourteenth " The 7 , th year of June in Yorkshire , 1781 , as . I On before that observe day I d , took was a the particular day that view began of my my whole situation , and saw difficulties as mountains rise all around me . Faith _,
season was hard was put come to it ; . yet The the promise waters were seemed deeper to than stand ever sure . , I and thoug I ht thoug also ht , how the shall shall I be now thy hold defence fast and that thou word shalt so h powerfull lenty y g of iven silver to me ? , The Almighty
, ave p' 8 th " At I received length a the letter cloud from arose Mr as . Fletcher a man ' s in hand which . ' The he told very me next That day , he June had the for
twent , y-five years found a regard for me , which , was still as sincere , as ever ; and returned though it from might abroad appear , and odd more he should so without write seeing on such me a first subj , he ect could when onl but y just say
that Providence his . mind . was so strongly drawn to do it , he believed it to be the order of uniting " In — reading 1 . The this season letter it I came was in mu . ch 2 . struck His writing . So on many the circumstances subject before we all
had met , , after an absence of fifteen years ; and without his having the most That distant for susp twenty icion -five of my years mind he being had had inclined the thoug towards ht . it . All 3 , these His mentioning particulars ,
and answered safe return to the , mark so plainly s which pointed I had out laid the down hand . His of Providence unexpected , th recovery at all ground also , ' fear of reasoning possessed against my mind it , seemed lest I should removed take . any Yet step , on out the oth of er the hand order , a of strange God :
should nor was not Satan have wanting strength to to repre stan s d ent in . great trials before me , which he told me I cam " e We to corresponded Cross Halland with abode openness there and a month freedom preaching till August in the different 1 st , when laces he
with much power ; and , having opened our hearts , to each otherboth on p temporals and spirituals , we believed it to be the order of Gfod we , should become one Ci , when he should make our way plain .
where He I then lived returned ; for we to could his parish not think , a hun of d taking red and the twelve step miles till my from affairs the p were lace more bis hand clearly who settled ' does . what So we he took will with our leave his own of . each ' other , committing all into
opened " In either about for five disposing weeks he of retu the rned farm ; , but or of still the all fami seemed ly . Conversing shut up ; one no way day with Mrs . Clapham , of Leeds , she said , ' What do you stick at ? The Lord has
the you done step do so much not in faith believe to , c your onvince , and way obey you would that his be order this made is ? to p I lai be veri n your directl ly believe deliverance y . ' " if you , how would is it take that
So , after a few more pros and cons , Miss Bosanquet married the good man whom she had loved , and who had loved her , from her *
youth , upwards ; and " on Monday the 12 th of November , 1781 , in Batley Church , we covenanted in the name of the Fatherand of the
Son , and of the Holy Ghost , to ' bear each other ' s burdens , / and to become one for ever . "
For three years and a half we now read in her diary the most joyful utterances of married happiness . John William do
la Flechere , whose foreign birth was almost obliterated from memory by his long and arduous services in the English ministry
was a native of Nyon , in Switzerland . His father was of good family , and had been an officer in the French army . His son . also in earl
youth adopted the profession of arms ; but coming to England on y / a
34 Miss Bosanquet.
34 MISS BOSANQUET .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/34/
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