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Title: Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour
A Token for Children

Author: John Wesley

Release Date: December 10, 2009 [EBook #30645]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Image: Sarah's Death Bed]
SARAH'S DEATH BED

STORIES

OF

BOYS AND GIRLS

WHO

LOVED THE SAVIOUR

A Token for Children

EXTRACTED FROM A LATE AUTHOR,
By John Wesley, A.M.

New York:
PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER,
SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 200 MULBERRY STREET.

CONTENTS
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LITTLE SARAH HOWLEY
A HAPPY BOY
HAPPY MARY
PRAYING CHARLIE
A POOR BUT HAPPY BOY
A BABE IN CHRIST
THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER
LITTLE JACOB'S FAITH
JACOB'S SISTER SUSANNAH
THE MERCHANT'S SON
PIOUS LITTLE PETER
THE DUTIFUL DAUGHTER

A TOKEN FOR CHILDREN.
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LITTLE SARAH HOWLEY.

MISS SARAH HOWLEY, when she was between eight and nine years old, was
carried by her friends to hear a sermon, where the minister preached
upon Matt. xi, 30, "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light;" in the
applying of which scripture the child was mightily awakened, and made
deeply sensible of the condition of her soul, and her need of Christ:
she wept bitterly to think what a case she was in; went home, retired
into a chamber, and upon her knees she wept and cried to the Lord as
well as she could, which might easily be perceived by her eyes and
countenance.

2. She was not contented with this, but got her little brother and
sister into a chamber with her, and told them their condition by nature,
and wept over them, and prayed with them.

3. After this, she heard another sermon upon Prov. xxix, 15 "He that,
being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed,
and that without remedy;" at which she was more affected than before,
and was so exceedingly solicitous about her soul, that she spent great
part of the night in weeping and praying, and could scarcely take any
rest, day nor night, for some time together; desiring with all her soul
to escape from ever