Excerpt from Memorials of a Quiet Life, Vol. 1 of 2 Oh, that my past life, which has been so wonderfully blest by God, might be made useful for His service and lead others to more entire trust in Him. And in this feeling, when she was passing away from me, she permitted me, if I thought it could be made useful for others, to uplift the veil of\ her home life, and allow others to look in upon her private thoughts and meditations, and so endeavour to make them in some degree sharers in the blessing her dear life has been to me. My mother's existence was so bound up with that of the immediate circle of her beloved ones, especially with that of her husband; her sister, her brother-in-law Julius, and her two sisters-in-law, Lucy and Esther Hare, that the story of her life becomes of necessity that of their lives also, and this I have tried to tell in no words of my own, but in such selections from their common letters and journals as may give the truest picture of what they were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.