The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-07-14
VOLUME III-NUMBER Is.

daughter, when the reproof is needed
So saying she imprinted kiss of flial
affection upon that mothers CHI eek, and
left the room.
Evening came, and Mary accompanied
her mother to the females payer meet
ing, weekly assembly of pious ones
for religious conference and social prayer
. such an assembly as should be gathered
once week, at least, wherever the
Church of Christ is established. Many
pious female has had her faith strength
ened, and her love to God and souls in
creased as she has bowed in the females
prayer-meeting, or raised her voice
therein testifying to the goodness food
Christianity alone, truly exalts the fem
inine character and therefore no woman
who would become "an ornament to her
SEX" should neglect habitually, except
from dire necessity, the place where her
sister immortals meet to pray.
The meeting was held in the lecture
room of the church edifce in which
Mary and her parents were accustomed
to worship, and as Mary entered its
familiar precincts on the evening of
which we speak, her spirit was unusually
solemnized and prepared for communion
with the God she early professcd to love.
Her thoughts had wandered far from the
subject of her afternoons conversation,
and with no little surprise were they
again turned to that point, when she
beheld among the assembled worshipers,
Lucy Granger. Lucy did not wear the
appearance of casual visitor, one who
would visit the holy place Of prayer from
curiosity or any unworthy motive, and
ere the evening closed, Mary had
abundant evidence from Lucy's own
lips that she was professed follower of
Christ. In the humility of spirit mani
tested in her prayer, Lucy certainly did
not seem to be the purse-proud one
which Mary had imagined she might be-
in Mary's heart began to shoot
forth the sweet plant of Christian affec-
ton, and she felt, as she returned home
ward, that she only needed to have the
evidence of Lucy's piety, which a true
life would afford, in order that the plant
should bring forth its blossoms and fruit
Lucy Granger we'll knew that " faith
without works is dead" She did not
hold the mistaken idea, too often, alas
the bane of church, that it was enough
to confess Christ once before the world
by public profession of faith in Him,
as in Baptism or the Lords Supper, but
that having put on the armor OF Christ,
she must never lay it aside, even for
moment, and must, everywhere and at
all times, strive to confess Christ, in
action and in conversation.
No one could be long acquainted with
Lucy Granger and not discover that the
ruling motive of her life was desire to
10 the will of her Heavenly Master. No
person needed to inquire if Lucy Gran
gers name was on the class books, in
order to know that she professed faith
IN Jesus.
AS an evidence of the above, we need
only relate conversation between Mary
Ross and her excellent mother, few
months after Lucy's arrival among them.
{ Mother" said Mary, " l am sorry to
near that Col. Granger has lost most of
ais property"
81 regret it too," replied her moth
Dr. 4; but why do you regret that Lucy
Granger is now to be more on a level
With others in this village' 1t was not
ong since that you supposed that she
would be very disagreeable, because she
vas rich ; why regret that her circum-
stances should change 7"
"Oh, MOTHER" replied Mary, with a {
peculiar smile, "you know that my
opinion Of Lucy is very different, now
hat l have seen her daily life. l very {
said then that because she was
ich, she must be disagreeable, but |
lave learned this lesson, that soul
leeply imbued with Christian principles
years not the shackles of pride and
although its outward cir :
'umstances may be such in this life as
o bind many fetters upon spirit not
made free in Jesus" /,