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158 ELIZABETH, PKI1SCESS PAkATDSTE.
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this law of Iier being , wh . 0 Iieaps up Iier barren acquirements as a miser heaps up gold , without any purpose of use or fruit for others !
In nine cases out of ten that law will avenge itself . There will , there must come a tiniewhen her selfish pursuitsthrough that
, , fruit very selfishness of the tree , of shall knowled refuse ge to shall yield be her dust satisfaction and ashes — -when at her the lips very
when the mind will be prone to sink into melancholy , or rush into extravagance . And to this point we now arrive in the life of the
Princess Elizabeth . the of After her scene earlier the ; no lapse longer days of but many as the as years one ac 6 omp Anna of lislied Labadie Schurm scholar 's ann disci and re pies -appear skilful and s dupes artist upon .
This mana Frenchman , and ex-Jesuit , had in 1650 joined the reformed church , at Montaubon , and was elected its pastor . Here ,
howeverthe new convert speedily developed his wonderful faculty for setting , everybody by the ears ; quarrels soon and sprung afterwards up , in consequence moved from
of which he was driven from the place , town to town through Switzerland . At Geneva , a brother of Anna _Schiirinannwhom Descartes has somewhere noticed as " a ,
shallow-brained weak , -minded person , " met witli Labadie , and com-, p to letel have y carried been [ remarkable away by his wrote eloquence forthwith , for which to his the sister ex-Jesuit that seems here
• was " a true apostle , courageous , as Ambrose , golden-ton gued as Chrysostom , with the light and of love this of Augustine ; ic in unenli a word , htened a man
and raised godless up for generation the awakening . " Anna Schurin dry ann , letharg , who , like , the princess g , had of late exchanged her profane studies for theological , was
years _correspondence fully prepared to with share the her " Apostle brother , " ' s and enthusiasm procured . his She _aj ) pointment opened a
first at Middleburgh and then at Amsterdam . Here , while professing the Calvinistic faithLabadie developed his peculiar doctrines ,
proclaimed himself the , reformer of the age , and forerunner of the Millenniumand established his community , which had some features
in common with , the Agapemone of our days . The " Church , " men . and womenlived in the same house ; no member could call
, anything his own , but was expected to give -up all Ms worldly _rejDresentative goods to Christ of ; and putting steward them for into his Lab Master _adie' . s hands The Frenchman as the earthl and y
his followers were well received on their arrival at Amsterdam . Crowds flocked to hear the great preachermen wept and prayed
, aloud as he thundered out his denunciations against the spirit of the worldand not a few forsook their friends to join the community .
. Among Scliurman these , n at were their several head ; women but all of the birth male and disci fortune ples , of with Labadi Anna e ,
except his successor Peter Nyon , seem to have been of the lower ordersThe fame of the rising sect spread to Englandand
. , William . Penn , accompanied by other Mends , paid a visit to its
_^ chief _, respecting whom the keen-sighted Quaker ' s verdict was somo-
158 Elizabeth, Pki1scess Pakatdste.
158 ELIZABETH , PKI _1 _SCESS _PAkATDSTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/14/
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