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c , Liese . I drew that little lattice very distinctly , partly for your sake , and partly for my owDj—in memory of that evening when first we handled and spoke of this book £ and she held up her Bible . ' And here / continued Liese , * winds the way down the stee p which we descended trembling , and not knowing—ah ! how little guessing , what was before us V
She was silent . When Helena observed her fast-falling tears , she added , — * Surely , Liese , though you have no domestic ties like Catherine and me , you have no wish to be dwelling on that steep again ?' 6 forbid V cried Liese ; and a bright light burst through
her tears . c I was only thinking how little we knew of true worship when we feared lest prayer should fail because that convent bell was hushed ; when you and I drew the line between Satan ' s prey and the redeemed ; when we hated thousands whom we had not seen , and loved but a very few , and strove to love those few less that we might love God more . * 4 And now , Liese ' But Liese was silent . The contrast was not to be drawn in words . It could be fully owned only to Him who ordained and blessed it ; and even thus , fully aware as she was of her privileges , and conscious of the depth of her present peaee , she was far from looking upon herself as society would have looked upon her , had it known all . In a short Jime she became , though unseen and little heard of , one of the most powerful agents of the Reformation . Correspondence , conducted by her , circulated through all the provinces of the empire , and supplied fuel to the wrath of Henry of England , and topics of invective to the cardinal his minister . Versions of the Scripture , transcribed by her , carried the knowledge of the Gospel into a thousand homes . Hymns , composed by her , exalted the devotion of a thousand churches ; while , retired from observation , she knitted the hearts of others to her own far more closely than if she had loved none beyond ; arid worshipped God far more devoutly than when the service of the head and hands was Wanting . Her worship had been an effort ; it was now spontaneous . It had been periodical ; it was now perpetual . Its song had died away in a solitary cell ; it was now vibrated through the atmosphere of the globe . It had been the servile whisper of a
shackled slave ; it was now swelling into the melodies of a spirit , ever singing while roving through the universe .
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Liese ; or the Progress of Worship . 333
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/45/
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