Susannah
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, 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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