24 LITTLE ANX. [24 Thus prepared by understanding and grace, when she did approach the ordinance, it was in the spirit of meekness and fear, of love and obedience. Nor did she go in vain; for it was then and there she could say that the Lord met with, and blessed her soul to suchextent, as to make her exceedingly long for the return of another opportunity of commemorating his dying love. By this time she was becoming so weak in body, that she justly apprehended she should never be able to walk to church on another communion Sabbath; she, therefore, urged her mother to a promise of having her carried thither, should she, at the return of that season, be living. It pleased the Lord to continue her here until that time, and after it. But, as it was midwinter, and she was now quite unable to walk to church, and also in the habit of going into a warm bath every morning, her mother advanced many arguments and objections to dissuade her from thinking of quitting the house. Ann’s mind, however, rose above all fear. Her desires were fervent and unshaken; and when the last difficulty the parent could present was brought forward, namely, that, perhaps, it might be a wet and stormy day, Ann sighed, and said, “ Well, the Lord knows my desire, and I will trust him to send me a fine day, if he sees fit I should partake of the Lord’s Supper.” The long looked-for, and much-desired morning, at length arrived. The sky was clear of storms; and, as the sun arose on the earth, it threw its cheering beams across little Ann’s bed-chamber, as a token for good, that her expectations and hopes would not be cast down; so that, when her parent entered her room, she smiled, and said, “ See, mother, the Lord has sent me a fine morning.” So animated were her spirits with the prospect before her, that she rose a considerable while before her usual time, and at the proper hour was carried to church, and borne in her mother’s arms to the table, where her youthful and devout soul once more “ fed
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