The Pilot's Daughter: an account of Elizabeth CullinghamCunningham, Francis
Religion
The Pilot's Daughter: an account of Elizabeth Cullingham
Cunningham, Francis
Christian life; Cullingham, Elizabeth, 1812-1840
the Church, of which she was a consistent, faithful, zealous member. In
attendance on its services she had been brought to the knowledge of
salvation, and she continued to walk in the truest submission, and the
most lively attachment to its ministry. In another point she has left us
an example. She was ever particularly alive to watch for the souls of
others, to lead them forward, and to draw them to seek God. There are
many now living who could bear witness to the earnestness, with which she
sought to warn the unconverted, to reclaim the wanderer, to recover the
backslider.
Her kindness to her poor neighbours was remarkable. Her medical man
informed me, that he scarcely ever went into her house, without her first
asking him about some one who wanted relief, which relief she was always
eager to give according to her means, and many were the portions which
her provision-shop supplied. Few ministers have had a more valuable
‘helper,’ in all respects. I must add a short account of her, given to
me in writing by one in her own house, who, at the time when she, Mrs. S.
was opposed to spiritual religion, had chosen another fold than the
Church of England in which to seek the way of salvation. This testimony
is therefore not given in ignorance of her real character, or in undue
partiality to her principles.
After speaking of the striking circumstances of her conversion, the paper
goes on to say, ‘The words of the Apostle were fulfilled in her. “If any
man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things are passed away,
behold, all things are become new.” Yes, I know the truth of this, for I
have seen it in her who is departed. Indeed she has proved to all around
her, that she was a faithful follower of the Lord Jesus Christ; not one
who said, “Lord, Lord,” but in works denied him.
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