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LIESE ; OR , THE PROGRESS OF WORSHIPr A TALE .
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{ Concluded from p . 161 . )
Tjhe emotion of universal benevolence having been once indulged , time only was necessary to establish the principle in the heart of Liese . Time was given before any adverse influence arose , and then the principle was so confirmed , that the adverse influence only added to its strength .
The next year of the life of Liese glided rapidly away , amidst her studies , ( diligent and profound for the age and for her circumstances ) , amidst her communion with Nature , her deeds of benevolence , and her exercises of piety . Each of her occupations assisted the rest , and more especially the two most important . Her petitions for others were only the more fervent , when she
prayed in their behalf for spiritual light as well as temporal blessings ; and the ardour of her intercessions sent her with increased eagerness to relieve the sorrows for whose removal she prayed . So evidently safe , as far as it went , was this state of mind , so palpably true were the workings of her affections in these cases , that she felt relieved of much anxiety about herself . She felt
she might trust herself , in a greater measure , to her own impulses , and relinquish some of the discipline , which , as she no longer needed it , could only impede her progress . She prayed more , and therefore used fewer forms of prayer ; she denied herself more , and therefore fasted less : she was happier than formerly ,
more useful , more beloved , and her devotions therefore had more of praise in them and less of penitence : there was full employment in the present for all her faculties of mind and soul , and she therefore looked back into the past but seldom , and contemplated the future more in the realities before her , than in the visions which floated afar .
Helena was in the place which she frequently occupied at the table of the Husens one day , upwards of a year from the time of Luther ' s visit , when a dispatch arrived which astonished and somewhat dismayed the whole party . The abbess of Liese ' s convent , of whom they had heard nothing for many months , but who had probably been better informed of their proceedings , now * admonished her dear daughters to repair to their mother in God ,
who yearned to embrace them once more , and to nourish them with the grace with which she had been gifted for their sakes ; and which had been so long kept from them by the troubles of the disorderly , that they must needs be pining for it . She could not , of course , enter the walls of Nuremberg , but would await them at Saalberg , whither they would be conducted in ' ¦ A ' V
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/36/
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