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Title: A Christian philanthropist of Dublin : a memoir of Richard Allen
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Wigham, Hannah Maria Peile, 1826-1907.
Subjects: Wigham, Hannah Maria Peile, 1826-1907.
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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themselves there for a season. Yea, herethey heard continually the singing of birds, andsaw every day the flowers appear in the earth, andheard the voice of the turtle in the land. In thiscountry the sun shineth night and day; whereforethis was beyond the valley of the shadow of death,and also out of the reach of Giant Despair, neithercould they from this place so much as see DoubtingCastle. That this was true of Richard Allen a fewnotes taken at this time by his wife will testify. ^^Jidy 26th, 1885.—My dear one had a comfortablenights rest, and as our faithful Ann was tidying the roomhe said, We are all a days march nearer home, nearerour heavenly home. I trust all are journeying there, Annand all of us. After breakfast his three sisters came into family worship and we read i John v., when heremarked on the fulness of the promises, quoting thetext, He that hath the Son /lath life. When Dr.McDowell came, whose visits and conversation he muchenjoyed, he asked him if he knew the hymn,
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PARTING INTERVIEW. 241 ** A days march nearer home,and then repeated nearly the whole of * Sing them over again to me,Wonderful words of life. He greatly admired a beautiful basket of grapes sent by Mrs. Bevvley, of Willow Park, with ferns tastefully trailing over the handle. ^Jtdy 2Zth.—As we were having breakfast together, he, propped up with pillows in bed, clasped his hands,and said, I can now say with more fulness than everChrist is all and in all; and later on, * I am glad I wasgiven a few words for my Saviour when in health.Afterwards, as we were bringing in flowers and arranginghis sick room, he said, I do love to have my roompretty. To his niece Edith, who called during the day,he said, Thou seest a sick man, but I say God blessthee. The more thou knows of thy Saviours love in thyheart, the happier thou wilt be, and then repeated withgreat emphasis, The happier thou wilt be.^ Some of thescenes in the sick room at this time will remain as picturesin our minds while memory la

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