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    from readhig much , she would converse on what she had read , arid delight herself in repeating hymns and passages of scripture ^ which she had committed to memory . When additional weafehess prevented her from kneeling at her mother ' s knee-to say her prayers ^ her distress was very great , and bursting into > tears , she exclairned , —< H \ lotherrI ~ canTiotp ^ her mother . " How ? I cannot kneel down . " " But without

    kneeling , my dear Agnes , you can lie and think your prayersi saying , them to yourself for God you know can see yqur . heaXt , ; and hear what you have not strength to say aloud as . you used to-do . You often lie and think of your father and mother ,-arid talk Id them in your mind , do not you , when they ' are out of the" rponi ?' - < 4 Y-es , my dear mother . " " Well then , my Agnes * do the same ; ndw in reference to your prayers . Think of God u ^^ near to-Jyou , Which : he iSj and then your heart can pray to him as well as ifVou could

    kneel down and say your prayers at my knee . " - * She was -lifted into her crib , which was at the side ^ ef hef parents' bed ^ and closing her eyes and clasping her h ^ ndsi on her breast ^ she remained in this attitude for a few minutes , then opening her eyes again , she exclaimed with ¦ strorig . emotion , " O yes > niother ; . I feel that I can pray ! " And she ever afterwards continuedtb , is silent postureoLprayer , . During . the , whole of he ^ affectionately attended by Dr . Agnevv , of t Ma . tiehes | ej ^ who was

    an intimate friend of the family 5 ancf ^ he marked with concern , the deep sorrow and continual fatigue andvan ' xiet ^ which , this dear child ' s illness occasioned to her parent ? . . One , dajreomingin ,, and seeing Mr . Clarke almost ' sinking / in mind apd body beneath his lovely burden , he said , " Mr / Cla ^ ke ^ if Gqd ^ oes not soon see good to take that child , death will take -yaij . '' Bvit that time was nearly arrived \ and in calmness a . ikj peace she yielded up her spirit into the hands of her great Creator ; having just completed her fifth year . ' ^ ^ . . ,-, \ .

    ' Deep and settled was the grief ^^ which Mr-Cl $ rk ^' _ experj& ' nced in the loss of this child ; anS it was-lbng-BeFpre-lte'r . ^ cOvered-his ordinary tone of mind and feeling ; throughout life be could He ^ Ver hear her name mentioned without considerable emotion . ; To a friend , in writing , he expressed himself-thus in reference to her : " Agnes was a most interesting and p minising child ; few'cbildreR of her years ever possessed a finer understanding ,. or , a more amiable _ pr _ aJ ^ tionai 6 j ^ npiitjpji ., ^ __ Sj ^ ^ a ^ ... l ^^ tp ^ j ^ iernbei : . ijei ? .

    Creator in the days of her youth ; she truty feared him , ; and dreaded nothing so much as that by whkh-he migh 4 : £ : be pifended , and bis good spirit grieved . Young as she' wa ^ - she ' evinced that she possessed a p iqus heart : she loved prayer , attended , pulilic worship with delight , and had such a firmness ancj ^ cor ) stqiinicy . of resolution , that nothing could make her ^ hang 6 apui ^ pose . whicH she had formed ^ when convinced that it wets right . Hivd . she lived , she would have made , urider proper cultivations an emment

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/19/