{"id":68,"date":"2025-10-21T13:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/?post_type=chapter&p=68"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:30:23","slug":"chapter-4-10-the-subject-of-my-call-to-preach-renewed","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/chapter\/chapter-4-10-the-subject-of-my-call-to-preach-renewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4.10 \u2013 The Subject of My Call to Preach Renewed"},"content":{"raw":"Returned back to Middletown. The next day the preacher of the circuit conveyed me to his place of appointment at Elkton. We had a wonderful outpouring of the spirit. At Frenchtown I spoke at 11 o\u2019clock, where I realized my nothingness, but, God\u2019s name be praised, he helped me in the duty. Went again to Middletown, and from there to Canton\u2019s Bridge, and talked to the people as best I could. Seven miles from this place I found, by the direction of a kind Providence, my own sister, who had been separated from me some thirty-three years. We were young when last we met, with less of the cares of life than now. Each heart then was buoyant with mildly hopes and pleasures\u2014and little did we expect at parting that thirty-three years would pass over us, with its changes and vicissitudes, ere we should see each other\u2019s face. Both were much altered in appearance, but we knew each other, and talked over the dealings of the Lord with us, retracing our wanderings in the world and \u201cthe days when life was young.\u201d\r\n
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\u201cOur days of childhood quickly pass,<\/div>\r\n
And soon our happiest years are run\u2014<\/div>\r\n
As the pure dew that gems the grass<\/div>\r\n
Is dried beneath the summer sun.<\/div>\r\n
There\u2019s such deceit\u2014such guile in men,<\/div>\r\n
Who would not be a child again?\u201d<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nDuring this visit I had three meetings in different directions in gentlemen\u2019s houses, and a prayer meeting at my brother\u2019s, who did not enjoy religion. My good old friend Mr. Lorton happened to be there, who told the people that he had been to my house\u2014that he knew Mr. Lee (my husband) intimately, and that he had often preached for him while pastor of the Church at Snow Hill, N. J.\r\n\r\nI next attended and preached several times at a camp meeting, which continued five days. We had pentecostal showers\u2014sinners were pricked to the heart, and cried mightily to God for succor from impending judgment, and I verily believe the Lord was well pleased at our weak endeavors to serve him in the tented grove. The elder in charge, on the last day of the camp, appointed a meeting for me in a dwelling house. Spoke from Acts ii, 41. The truth fastened in the hearts of two young women, who, after I was seated, came and fell down at my side, and cried for God to have mercy on them\u2014we prayed and wrestled with the Lord, and both were made happy in believing, and are alive in the faith of the gospel. The next morning a brother preacher took me to St. Georgetown. From there I took stage to Wilmington, and called on my friend Captain Rial, in whose family I spent two days and nights. Went to Philadelphia to attend a camp-meeting. Returned again to W\u2e3a, where I was taken sick with typhus fever, and was in the doctor\u2019s hands for some days\u2014but the Lord rebuked the disease, gave me my usual health again, and I returned back to Philadelphia.\r\n\r\nThe Bishop gave me an invitation to speak in Bethel Church; but here my heart fluttered with fear at the commencement, in a manner known but to those who feel their unworthiness in addressing new and large assemblies. My text was in Isaiah x. 10, 11. Previous to dismission, the Bishop gave me another appointment in Wesley Church for first day morning, where I labored to encourage believers, from Ephesians ii, 19. The comforter was with us\u2014we were sprinkled as with clear water from above\u2014the hands of those that were hanging down were lifted up, and we truly had a refreshing season. Glory to God for the manifestation of His Spirit. \u201cNow therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.\u201d\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"

Returned back to Middletown. The next day the preacher of the circuit conveyed me to his place of appointment at Elkton. We had a wonderful outpouring of the spirit. At Frenchtown I spoke at 11 o\u2019clock, where I realized my nothingness, but, God\u2019s name be praised, he helped me in the duty. Went again to Middletown, and from there to Canton\u2019s Bridge, and talked to the people as best I could. Seven miles from this place I found, by the direction of a kind Providence, my own sister, who had been separated from me some thirty-three years. We were young when last we met, with less of the cares of life than now. Each heart then was buoyant with mildly hopes and pleasures\u2014and little did we expect at parting that thirty-three years would pass over us, with its changes and vicissitudes, ere we should see each other\u2019s face. Both were much altered in appearance, but we knew each other, and talked over the dealings of the Lord with us, retracing our wanderings in the world and \u201cthe days when life was young.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur days of childhood quickly pass,<\/div>\n
And soon our happiest years are run\u2014<\/div>\n
As the pure dew that gems the grass<\/div>\n
Is dried beneath the summer sun.<\/div>\n
There\u2019s such deceit\u2014such guile in men,<\/div>\n
Who would not be a child again?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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During this visit I had three meetings in different directions in gentlemen\u2019s houses, and a prayer meeting at my brother\u2019s, who did not enjoy religion. My good old friend Mr. Lorton happened to be there, who told the people that he had been to my house\u2014that he knew Mr. Lee (my husband) intimately, and that he had often preached for him while pastor of the Church at Snow Hill, N. J.<\/p>\n

I next attended and preached several times at a camp meeting, which continued five days. We had pentecostal showers\u2014sinners were pricked to the heart, and cried mightily to God for succor from impending judgment, and I verily believe the Lord was well pleased at our weak endeavors to serve him in the tented grove. The elder in charge, on the last day of the camp, appointed a meeting for me in a dwelling house. Spoke from Acts ii, 41. The truth fastened in the hearts of two young women, who, after I was seated, came and fell down at my side, and cried for God to have mercy on them\u2014we prayed and wrestled with the Lord, and both were made happy in believing, and are alive in the faith of the gospel. The next morning a brother preacher took me to St. Georgetown. From there I took stage to Wilmington, and called on my friend Captain Rial, in whose family I spent two days and nights. Went to Philadelphia to attend a camp-meeting. Returned again to W\u2e3a, where I was taken sick with typhus fever, and was in the doctor\u2019s hands for some days\u2014but the Lord rebuked the disease, gave me my usual health again, and I returned back to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The Bishop gave me an invitation to speak in Bethel Church; but here my heart fluttered with fear at the commencement, in a manner known but to those who feel their unworthiness in addressing new and large assemblies. My text was in Isaiah x. 10, 11. Previous to dismission, the Bishop gave me another appointment in Wesley Church for first day morning, where I labored to encourage believers, from Ephesians ii, 19. The comforter was with us\u2014we were sprinkled as with clear water from above\u2014the hands of those that were hanging down were lifted up, and we truly had a refreshing season. Glory to God for the manifestation of His Spirit. \u201cNow therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"menu_order":18,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-68","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":20,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/20"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}