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what raited an * obsthurte youngs womaE > <> Trin i lining * f ill i mlm prij a ' cfc » h of chat / the usual conootniiant of atcnp of thatJatVermffB wafc * uperinduced . And here I discovered oae fect ^ inmaely ^ tbrt eid maiden ladies entertain a notion that their own underttfctuL
ings- are in a state of rapid progression , while the u&derstamdiag * of their juvenile relatives remain in statu quo . At least * such was the relative estimate obviously made of our respective under * standings by ray aunt . She interrogated me respecting my re * ligion , —hoped I went regularly to church , and deprecated any heterodoxy in my creed . She also evinced much chagrin at my
admitting that I sometimes dropped asleep without having pre * viously dropped on my knees . ' She would not go to sleep without saying her prayers for the world ! ' Saying of prayers i She was quite incensed when I told her that her parrot could pray as well as those who merely said their prayers . She recited numerous conclusive evidences of the efficacy of prayer— -quoted 4
Huntingdon ' s Bank of Faith 1 for my edification—and 1 was obliged to succumb , ' for lack of argument / to the doctrine that if I prayed in faith my health would certainly be restored . I expressed my doubt , and inquired whether she had ever prayed in faith for the removal of her asthma . But she scouted tnj
scepticism by quoting the mountain-moving power of faith ; and when I intimated my inability to muster up the necessary quantum of it , she closed the argument by rather a louder ipse diait than was usual with her—that / could believe if I liked . On which she was seized with her cough , and I assured her that I
should like for both her and myself to be relieved of our coughs . On recovering , she commenced an eulogy on the Bible , scolded ma for not making it my study day and night , and was about to enumerate all the remarkable dispensations of Providence ( which she regarded as so many caprices of the Almighty ) on behalf of the Psalmist David . ' And yet / said I , interrupting the narrative , ' David is not ascended into the heavens . '
Whereupon I was denounced an infidel , although I showed her the very words in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles . I repented of my journey to Buckinghamshire era the hour of retiring to bed arrived . At length I waft shown to the comfortable little chamber prepared for me to sleep in . The moon shed the magic of its light on thei close-grown beechl treea which crowned the summit of a verdant hill , thte slept
of which tvas spread before the window of my chamber > and reached to a height at least five times the altitude of my auo&V residence : every shrub and object on the declivity being Ludts ^ tinctly visible , and casting their long shadows down intcf tneVftk ^ furnished ample materials for the imagination to work up < my to render that romantic which was indeed beautiful * I lay 1 musing of ) the atene till welcome sleep closed my eyelids . The lmfttoinal tion tl ** p 8 not . DreaitM are ** aupe < Uy iha wort fotafrikAWanot
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 811, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/55/
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