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Title: Catharine

Author: Nehemiah Adams

Release Date: March 28, 2005 [EBook #15485]

Language: English

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CATHARINE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"AGNES AND THE LITTLE KEY."

[Transcriber's Note: Nehemiah Adams]

THIRD THOUSAND.

BOSTON:
J.E. TILTON AND COMPANY.
LONDON. KNIGHT AND SON.
1859.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by J.E. TILTON
and Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Comm. of the District of
Massachusetts.

PRINTED BY
GEORGE O. RAND & AVERY.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

TO THE
YOUNG LADIES OF MY CONGREGATION,
FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES Of
CATHARINE,
AND TO EVERY FATHER,
HAVING
A DAUGHTER IN HEAVEN,
These Pages
ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS.

I.

MORE THAN CONQUEROR, 9

II.

THE FEAR OF DEATH ALLEVIATED, 58

III.

THE SEARCH FOR THE DEPARTED, 89

IV.

THE SILENCE OF THE DEAD, 119

V.

THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY, 144

CATHARINE

I.

MORE THAN CONQUEROR.

Is that a death-bed where the Christian lies?
Yes,--but not his: 'Tis death itself there dies.

COLERIDGE.

She was not an infant--an unconscious subject of grace. But the Saviour
has led through a long sickness, and through death, a daughter of
nineteen years, and has made her, and those who loved and watched her,
say, We are more than conquerors. To speak of Him, and not to gratify
the fondness of parental love, to commend the Saviour of my child to
other hearts, and to obtain for Him the affections of those to whom He
is able and willing to be all which He was to her, is the sole object of
these pages. Listen, then, not to a parent's partial tale concerning
his child, nor concerning mental nor bodily suffering, but to the words
of one who has seen how the presence of Christ, and love to Him, can
fill the dying hours with the sweetest peace, and even beauty, and t