Persis, by C B Tayler

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: CHAPTER III. PERSIS. ERSIS CLARETON was a rare example of early piety. So warm and animated were her religious feelings in every period of life, that they might perhaps have been regarded as enthusiastic had they not been under the control of true delicacy and sound discretion. Her countenance was one ?you...
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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: CHAPTER III. PERSIS. ERSIS CLARETON was a rare example of early piety. So warm and animated were her religious feelings in every period of life, that they might perhaps have been regarded as enthusiastic had they not been under the control of true delicacy and sound discretion. Her countenance was one ?you may remember, my reader, in the course of your past life to have seen once or twice, and scarcely more than once or twice, such a countenance?one that you have never forgotten. I do not speak of mere beauty of features and of complexion; but of that peculiar loveliness of expression which is the combined result of intelligence, cheerfulness, and benevolence; calm, modest, full of sweetness, and, above all, soexpressive of ingenuousness and truth, that you have felt not only that you would take that countenance on trust without a single misgiving, but that you could not be mistaken in the impression it conveyed of goodness and truthfulness. Fanciful as the following description may seem, it is the portrait given by one,1 whose lot was afterwards closely allied'with the original. She was at the time about thirteen years of age, and it is copied from his own words. It would have described Persis at the same age. They say there is a young lady in who is loved of that great Being who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her, and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight; and that she hardly cares for anything, except to meditate on Him? that she expects after a while to be received up where He is, to be raised up out of the world, and caught up into Heaven; being assured that He loves her too well to let her remain at a distance from Him always. There ahe is to dwell with Him; ...