Category: Biographies
MORE than a year has now passed since Mrs. MARGARET BRECKINRIDGE, the beloved subject of the following brief notices, was taken from us into the saints' everlasting rest. By that event, the little family of which she was the joy and crown, was dissolved. The surviving parent f...
THUS it has pleased our Heavenly Father to "take away from us the desire of our eyes, with a stroke." The first impression of such a loss is that of _amazement_--overwhelming an...
7. CHAPTER II.WHOEVER has been called, in the midst of life, to part with 'the wife of his youth'--if these pages should chance to meet his eye--will _know_ what the writer has felt. Such a b...
14. LETTER VI.DEAR CHILDREN:--That every human being is bound to cultivate, in the best manner, the intellectual powers which God has given him, I hope you will take for granted, anterior to...
15. LETTER VII.DEAR CHILDREN:--By the _heart_, I mean the moral feelings, dispositions, and affections. And by _cultivating_ the heart, I mean directing much attention to restraining, regulati...
6. CHAPTER I.A NARRATIVE of the life of our departed friends, bears some resemblance to the representation, on canvass, of their persons and features; it serves to restore and collect our sc...
16. LETTER VIII.DEAR CHILDREN:--I wish it were in my power to give you a perfect and vivid representation of the manners of your lamented Mother. There was in them a sweetness, a gracefulness,...
11. LETTER III.DEAR CHILDREN:--Salvation is a word often on your lips, and on the lips of many around you. The truly pious look forward to it with humble, joyful hope. And those who have no pi...
12. LETTER IV.DEAR CHILDREN:--If you were walking, in a dark night, along a road full of sloughs, and pits, and snares, and dangers of every kind, what would you do for safety? You would natu...
13. LETTER V.DEAR CHILDREN:--"Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgme...
10. LETTER II.DEAR CHILDREN:--On all important subjects there are certain great facts which must be regarded as fundamental; as lying at the foundation of all truth, and all duty. I feel that...
9. LETTER I.MY DEAR GRANDCHILDREN:--The decease of your beloved and lamented Mother, has placed both you and me in circumstances of great solemnity and responsibility. To be deprived of a m...
5. PART I.MORE than a year has now passed since Mrs. MARGARET BRECKINRIDGE, the beloved subject of the following brief notices, was taken from us into the saints' everlasting rest. By tha...
2. CHAPTER II.1. PART II. LETTERS TO HER SURVIVING CHILDREN.3. CHAPTER III.4. LETTER VIII.