Rebecca
Cist (1787-1825)
|
|
 |
on the 10th instant, when she complained of feeling sick. The attending physician declared her sickness to be a case of remittent fever; which however at first seemed to yield to the medicines applied; and the prospect of her recovery appeared to be near at hand, when, on a sudden, on the 19th instant, she was seized by a general debility, which brought her whole system very low, and all endeavors of the physician to raise it again, did fail. This great debility was so rapidly increasing , that already on the 20th in the 12th hour of the night her redeemed spirit took its flight to the arms of her Saviour God. On this same day about noon, she expressed much satisfaction at seeing an old acquaintance and friend paying her a visit. Whilst he was speaking to her in reference
|