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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FRIENDS' M1SCELL.ANY. No. 2.] NINTH MONTH, 1832. . Vol. III. LYDIA NICHOLS. Lydia Nichols, the author of the following Remarks and Reflections, was the daughter of Samuel and Ruth Nichols of Wilmington in the State of Delaware. She was endowed with superior natural talents; and, being of a sweet and lively disposition, she had a high relish for those pleasures which crowd around the youthful mind and court its acceptance. Within the bounds of what is generally deemed innocent enjoyment, she indulged herself in them: but through inward attention to the divine Monitor, she found the result of such indulgences did not yield her that solid peace which her mind thirsted after, ?and which, she was now convinced by experience, could alone satisfy her immortal spirit. Thus instructed, and bending in submission to the gentle intimations of divine Truth, she was led earnestly to seek a better inheritance;?in the pursuit of which, she was willing to sacrifice her inclination for dress, and other trifling and vain gratifications. And we have satisfactory evidence, that in faithfulness to manifested duty in these respects, she experienced the hundred-fold of peace in this life, and we doubt not has inherited life everlasting. Vol.. III.?5 During the latter part of her life, her conduct and conversation were exemplary, and marked with religious propriety. She was diligent in the attendance of all our religious meetings: and in those for the discipline of the church, she became very useful. It was in this period, the following effusions of her dedicated mind were occasionally penned. About the twenty-ninth year of her age, she was seized with a violent inflammatory fever, which soon put a period to her valuable life. She died in the 7th month, 1816, deeply regretted by all w...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217937627 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217937624 |
| Weight | 0.76 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 230 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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