Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women

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: LADY HENRIETTA HOPE. Lady Henrietta Hope, to whom reference has been made in the preceding memoir, was the eldest daughter of John, Earl of Hopetoun. Possessed of a strong and clear understanding, which was much improved by reading, conversation, and deep thought, she gave early presages of proving highly...
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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: LADY HENRIETTA HOPE. Lady Henrietta Hope, to whom reference has been made in the preceding memoir, was the eldest daughter of John, Earl of Hopetoun. Possessed of a strong and clear understanding, which was much improved by reading, conversation, and deep thought, she gave early presages of proving highly useful and ornamental to society. The high expectations formed by her friends were not disappointed. She possessed the nicest moral sense, a heart for friendship, a keen sensibility to human suffering, with an unceasing desire to relieve, or at least alleviate in every possible way, the distresses of her fellow-creatures. She was universally beloved by those among whom she resided. Yet, though favoured with a mind thus enriched with every moral virtue, united to the most amiable dispositions and engaging manners, it was not till her twenty-fifth year that Lady Henrietta Hope began to entertain serious views respecting the great realities of eternity. In August 1771, while crossing from Dover to Calais, she was overtaken by a storm, which, under Divine influence, produced such reasonings in her mind, and such impressions on her heart, as led her henceforth to devote herself entirely to the service of Christ. On her return home, in the following year, she sought the acquaintance of Lady Glenorchy, and became her intimate and inseparable friend. Her own words in reference to this memorable period, are, O to grace how great a debtor Called at first out of nothing; and, after twenty-five years' obstinacy and rebellion, awakened from a state of sin, misery, and death, and brought to the light of the gloriousGospel, to the knowledge of Jesus Christ revealed therein, and (though by slow degrees, through various mazes, manifold temptations, and sundry trials, may I not, in all humil...