CONTENTS. REFLECTIONS ON THE SEVEN DAYS OF THE WEEK. The Omnipresence of God, and the Practical Inferences from it.... The Improvement of Time and Self. TUESDAY. The Duty of constant Employment.. WEDNESDAY. On the humble and religious Enjoy- PAGE 103 111 117 123 ... XIX. On our Passage through Life; a Reverie..... XX. On our Capacity for Pleasure........ the ill health of the daughter, made the necessity of exertion painful and distressing, and rendered them but little able to struggle with the world. For to increase their sorrows upon this melancholy occasion, even the fear of comparative poverty was not wanting. The Archbishop's will was not found till three months after his decease, and they had the prospect of quitting the large establishment and the affluence of Lambeth Palace, for a precarious state of dependence on a relation, or the occupation of a house to themselves on the smallest scale. Yet still the balm of religious conversation was theirs; and in patient submission to the will of God, they found both relief and reward. The language of Miss Talbot to her friend was this; "In so great a calamity it will somewhat comfort you to hear that my mother and I are well; composed and resigned." And again a few days after, "Circumstances of the greatest distress have been mixed with our heavy affliction, and I more than ever see cause for thankfulness to an over-ruling Providence. God be thanked, our minds are supported in comfort, and our healths wonderfully preserved." But this circumstance, which caused them so much uneasiness at the time, was productive of the great advantage of enabling them to know their real *See Correspondence, 4to. vol. ii. p. 57. |