Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter: By E. Ben Ez-erArnold, Ebenezer
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Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter: By E. Ben Ez-er
Arnold, Ebenezer
Arnold, Elizabeth Ward, 1778-1865; Methodist women -- United States -- Biography
Her two brothers and three sisters all credited their religious experience
to God's blessing upon Elizabeth's prayers, counsels, and life; but only
one of them ever undertook to restore what the father had taken from
Elizabeth's right and given to her, and she did not do it until she was
about to die without issue. With one voice they freely condemned her
disinheritance and the persecutions she had had to suffer. But when, their
souls being "ill at ease" under the remembrance of her wrongs, they spoke
to her on the subject (for she would not introduce it), they would simply
repeat, "Father so willed it, and you know, dear sister, that no one could
ever turn him."
All became church members, and so lived and died, but all in Calvinian
communions; while all of Elizabeth's children became Methodists, and two of
her sons, as we have seen, itinerant ministers. She and her pious husband,
as before stated, were industrious, economical, and liberal, and Agar's
prayer, "Give me neither poverty nor riches," was their prayer, and with
its answer they walked happily and usefully through life, "serving their
generation by the will of God," and passing in peace to their reward.
THE END.
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