The Pilot's Daughter: an account of Elizabeth CullinghamCunningham, Francis
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The Pilot's Daughter: an account of Elizabeth Cullingham
Cunningham, Francis
Christian life; Cullingham, Elizabeth, 1812-1840
conversation. She died at the age of 35 years, leaving five children
behind her.
The Journal of E. C. goes on. ‘Thursday Evening, March 5. Mr. Hogarth
preached from 2 Cor. v. He described the body as a tent, which must soon
be dissolved, and the miseries of the wicked, who have no hope beyond
this life. None said Mr. H., but the followers of Christ can take up the
language of the text. Enable me, O Lord, thine unworthy servant,
experimentally to feel that I, even I, have a building of God, an house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. March 8. Mr. C. spoke of a
dear Christian friend, S. J. who was called to put off her earthly
tabernacle last Sabbath. We feel assured she had a building of God, an
house prepared for her disembodied Spirit—to her, said Mr. C. may the
text be applied. “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into
the Joy of thy Lord.” Give me grace, O Lord, to improve the talent
committed to me, that when thou callest me to give up my account, I may
be ready as thy servant was.’ Susan Jones, the person here alluded to,
was an individual of great interest. She illustrated a valuable little
tract, entitled the “_Single talent well employed_.” She was one of
three sisters, who lived together in Lowestoft. She had resided with a
family in Scotland, whose testimony to her worth, as well as that of the
heads of the family in which she died, I shall venture to insert. She
was one of the brightest ornaments of our little Christian Society, and
much beloved by all who knew her. I will copy the account of her
inscribed in the memoranda of a friend.
‘This morning’s post brought me the tidings of dear Susan Jones’
death, or rather of her being on the point of death, and a request
that I would inform her sisters of it. Another valued member of our
Society, a true sister in the Lord—one much beloved by us and by many
here is now departed! The letter was from Mr. S. a Clergyman, with
whom she had been staying at Woodbridge about three months, in order
to nurse Mrs. S. in her confinement.’
The following is an extract of his letter.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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