International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
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page 74 of 118 (62%)
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spiritual minded friends to-morrow, at four o'clock, at dinner--'"
"_Temps militaire--they won't fail you, my old girl._" "'I shall then have reached an age to which few arrive--look to the psalm--namely, to eighty--'" "_She's eighty-three_--" "'I have, under the mercy of Providence, and the ministry of a chosen vessel, the Reverend Carter Kettlewell, and also a worshiping Christian learned in the law, namely, Mr. Selby Sly, put my earthly house in order. Would that spiritual preparation could he as easily accomplished; but yet I feel well convinced that mine is a state of grace, and Mr. Kettlewell gives me a comfortable assurance that in me the old man if crucified--'" "_Did you ever listen to such rascally cant?_" "'I have given instructions to Mr. Sly to make my will, and Mr. Kettlewell has kindly consented to be the trustee and executor--" "_Now comes the villainy, no doubt_" "'I have devised--may the offering be graciously received!--all that I shall die possessed of to make an addition to support those devoted soldiers--not, dear nephew, soldiers in your carnal meaning of the word--but the ministers of the gospel, who labor in New Zealand. These inestimable men, whose courage is almost supernatural, and who--'" |
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