bulletSusannah David (1775-1843)

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In early life she had the happiness not only to hear of the love of a Saviour, but also to experience His love in her hear; and when in later years she found that the small degree of pleasure which this world affords was always intermixed with abundance of trouble and distress, she perceived that all true pleasure and delight proceeds only from the love of a Saviour, and a childlike confidence in His ways.  In her manifold trouble she could always confidently pray for divine support, and she never prayed in vain.  Among her papers are a number of Scripture texts and verses; which in peculiar trials she found comforting, and which she often read and repeated; she therefore possessed a particular gift of applying such texts to others who were in similar trouble.  The evening before her departure, having been already confined to her bed for several weeks, she said: "Oh yes, said she, He has helped me through all my many troubles, and He will not forsake me now;" and a favorite expression of hers was,
"He who has helped me hitherto,

Will help me all my journey through."

In her last sickness, when she expected that she could not long survive, she requested that the Hymn No. 21 in the Hymnbook might be read to her: "In thing image, Lord, though mad'st me, gav'st me being out of love; etc.: and when the whole hymn was finished, she desired the 6th Verse to be repeated, saying, it was so comforting to her:

 

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