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264 THE CHURCH OF THE WOMAN.
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About Sidered Themselves Half A Century ...
ver presentiments H sify ing e died ; w her ha oes ving and great a presentiment add aunt ressing was them a of love his as -sick h own ymns death reli to gionist God her . _,
er u , ; Providence fa all ther her was progeni a great and tors Joanna dreamer were , summed in of dreams temporal and in sense hers beholder elf , waiters all of the visions upon - ; . par
ticular charac ; teristics of her family . up Ottery Her St father Mary was and a she small herself farmer becam in e the a domesti neighbourhood c servant to of
for a fam which ily in . in Exeter after , . days In earl she y often life sh reproved e was a grea herself t lov althoug er of dress h it ,
she appeared constan even tl t wore hen in and the ¦ in symbolic which she garmen appears t of , in t Sharpe e which _n s
famous engraving y of , her . t Her ed her service t in Exeter trik ended her with and a
during trial , in w which hich h er reli prosecu gious pretens ions er were firs s t publicl ing y , discussedAbout this time she had a sweetheart named _ISToah
with whom . the course of true love ran as ruffled as ever ; but , shortl Church y after of E the land trial the at Rev Exeter . Messrs , three . Bruce clergymen Foley of and the
Webstermet with others , in that city , and beca , me belie , vers in her claims , , to special revelation . t
1792 Joanna when ' s firs she t was grea about t visita forty tion , -two as she called of it , ook althoug place h her in
, years age , , tha reli t gious date pre Her tension second s had great bec visitation ome know commenced n several years on the 12 fore th
of September Previousl . , 1813 to , this when she had had removed advanced from to he Devonshire r sixty-third to
year London . under the y patronage of Mrs . Jane Townley , a lady of Some property idea , of , and the effects of ny her hundred visitations believers in her her own mission mind * upon
to may u Since me b , lik , ' e she th that ered writes in fr ' om 92 , , this I r have ex powerfu press fresh io l n things visitation s respec revealed ting of the that to Lord me of every 1813 came .
sit day iven up . to in I am me my as bed aw soon aked till as the every I awake day morning br . eaks When , and between the have day 3 communications or breaks 4 o ' clock I rise ; I
feeling g enter and go the a down heavenl room into I the joy feel dining as which thoug -room I h cannot I were by describe myself surrounded : the and moment by which angels , ha _& I ,
taken from me y my natural appetite * * * , yet I feel no want of food . " notorietculmi
residing nated During . The at her Bodrain Rev residence . J , . Cornwal Pomeroy in London l , , had a Church charged , Joanna of Eng her ' s land with clergyman imposture y - . _^ and such
trial She declare could d be her effected determination by the law to - be courts tried of , the as country no , a
264 The Church Of The Woman.
264 THE CHURCH OF THE WOMAN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/48/
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