Memoir of the Life, Travels, and Religious Experience of Martha Routh

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the kind; and, after carefully endeavouring to put all things in order, relative to the children and family affairs, and my dear sister being Billing, as she always was, to give me up to the pointings of duty, we took a solemn and heart tendering leave of each other. We had many long days' journeys, and I...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the kind; and, after carefully endeavouring to put all things in order, relative to the children and family affairs, and my dear sister being Billing, as she always was, to give me up to the pointings of duty, we took a solemn and heart tendering leave of each other. We had many long days' journeys, and I often felt much fatigued; my bodily frame not being yet strong, and my appetite poor, that I could not take much food: but the season of the year being favourable, through Divine favour, we got as speedily along, as most who had travelled the like journey. We had much cause gratefully and humbly to acknowledge, that mercy and kindness had been with us, who went to the battle, and with those who staid by the stuff; for on my safe return, I found my family well, to our mutual rejoicing: as did my worthy companion her kind husband. On the 7th of the 8th month, 1766, Martha Winter was married, at Nottingham, to Richard Routh of Manchester; and removed to his residence in that town. Her Journal proceeds in the next Section. S lt4t1+ - O' fjf- . Several visits after her Marriage?Travels with Rebecca Wright?and at different times with several other friends? visits Worcestershire?Ireland?Dunkirk, 8fc. My bodily health, for two or three years after our marriage, was not very strong, and my exercises were many; yet I went several short journeys, besides attending our monthly and quarterly meetings, and several times the yearly meeting in London; going on horseback with my husband and divers other friends, which was the general mode of travelling at that time. I attended the yearly meeting for the Principality of Wales several times, once in company with my dear and valued friend Frances Dodshon; and on our return we visited the meetings and families of friends in Shr...