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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Catharine, by Nehemiah Adams This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Catharine Author: Nehemiah Adams Release Date: March 28, 2005 [EBook #15485] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATHARINE *** Produced by Robert Shimmin, Karina Aleksandrova and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. 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
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