Memoir of Mrs. Mary Lundie Duncan : being recollections of a daughter

Mary Grey Lundie Duncan

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i • I seminary,!Itheological Princeton, N. J.^ J -^ ^ *PUBLISHER.From the^ ' BR 1725 .D86 D86 1848 Duncan, Mary Grey Lundie. Memoir of Mrs. Mary Lundie Duncan 1 MEMOIR MARY LUNDIE DUNCANMRS OF DAUGHTER.RECOLLECTIONS A BY HER MOTHER. though our lone spirits mourntears for thee—No sweet flowers wilt ne'er return.Thnt thou with sprinii's hearth anil home are hliuhied,No tears for thee—tlioufrli sadness cloud-i the scenes ihy love has lighted.Though while with us, thy soul, opprest.tin tears—for, for refuge in thy Saviour's breast.Oft longed for thou hast found thy home above.No tears— thou'rt sheltered in the arms of love.No tears- J C. L. YORK:NEW 58 CANAL STREET,ROBERT CARTER, I84y. CONTENTS PAQK BTANZAB WTIITTEN ON READING THE MEMOIR OF MRS. MART ^ LtJNDIE DUNCAN 8 CHAPTER I. ' DAYS OF CHILDHOOD 9 CHAPTER II. I SCHOOL DAYS .33 CHAPTER III. HER FIRST AFFLICTION . 47 | I CHAPTER IV. j '6TUDIE9 OCCUPATIONS INAND EDINBURGH . . 63 CHAPTER V. CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY ... . . 87 i CHAPTER VI. . 118 j CHAPTER VII. ! ! VENERAULE CHRISTIAN—VISITS TO THE REV. !POOR— JOHN BROWN PATTERSON 13$ I ^ r one of whom as yet have been called to ! ... », ' -: ter from her bringingfather describes her .n h^jr L.: brother and sister to the breakfast table, wreathed round and raund with flowers of her weaving, and called by her " ivygods," in honour of the jubilee of the expected MARy LUNDIE DUNCAN, 15 return of their mother, after a brief absence, i.

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seminary,!Itheological
Princeton, N. J.^ J
-^ ^
*PUBLISHER.From the^
'
BR 1725 .D86 D86 1848
Duncan, Mary Grey Lundie.
Memoir of Mrs. Mary Lundie
Duncan1
MEMOIR
MARY LUNDIE DUNCANMRS
OF DAUGHTER.RECOLLECTIONS A
BY HER MOTHER.
though our lone spirits mourntears for thee—No
sweet flowers wilt ne'er return.Thnt thou with sprinii's
hearth anil home are hliuhied,No tears for thee—tlioufrli
sadness cloud-i the scenes ihy love has lighted.Though
while with us, thy soul, opprest.tin tears—for,
for refuge in thy Saviour's breast.Oft longed
for thou hast found thy home above.No tears—
thou'rt sheltered in the arms of love.No tears-
J C. L.
YORK:NEW
58 CANAL STREET,ROBERT CARTER,
I84y.CONTENTS
PAQK
BTANZAB WTIITTEN ON READING THE MEMOIR OF MRS. MART
^
LtJNDIE DUNCAN 8
CHAPTER I.
'
DAYS OF CHILDHOOD 9
CHAPTER II.
I
SCHOOL DAYS .33
CHAPTER III.
HER FIRST AFFLICTION . 47
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CHAPTER IV.
j
'6TUDIE9 OCCUPATIONS INAND EDINBURGH . . 63
CHAPTER V.
CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY ... . . 87
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CHAPTER VI. . 118
j
CHAPTER VII. !
!
VENERAULE CHRISTIAN—VISITS TO THE REV. !POOR— JOHN
BROWN PATTERSON 13$ I
<CHAPTER VIII.
OI8APPOINTMENT, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH IT WAS BORNE 151
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JCHAPTER IX.
SORROW TURNED INTO THANKFULNESS . . 170 ]
CHAPTER X.
IA NEW HOME . 187
CHAPTER XI.
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PAROCHIAL SOLICITUDE MATERNAL EMOTIONS . . . 199IT coNinxTK^.
CHAPTER XII. PAGE.
CBOWTH IN LOVE ........ 224
CHAPTER XIII.
THE MUSE RECALLED A SON GIVEN TWO BROTHERS WITH-
DRAWN 243
CHAPTER XIV.
POETIC EFFUSIONS—SYMPATHY WITH AFFLICTION MATERNAL
LOVE AND ANXIETIES—INFANTINE RYHMES . 257
CHAPTER XV.
rmiTDAL REFRESHMENT—DILIGENCE IN STUDY LAST SAB-
BATH IN god's house SICKNESS SUFFERING RE-
LIEF FROM IT FOR EVER 270
APPENDIX. . . 287
NO. I. THE RETURN OF ISRAEL . 287. . .
II. THE FLY 288
III. A PRAYER 289
IV. A MORNING PRAYER .... . 290
V. AN EVENING 290
VI. PREPARING FOR SUNDAY ..... 291
VII. SATURDAY NIGHT 291
Vlll. THE SABBATH-BF.LL 292
IX. GOING TO CHURCH 293
I. THE GREEN PASTURES...... 293
XI. THE lamb's LULLABY 294
XII.—THE BEE AND THE FLOWERB .... 296
XIII. THE WET SPARROW . . .
. . . 297
XIV.—MY LITTLE BROTHER 298
XV. THE HEATH ....... 298
XVI. THE SHADOWS . 299
XVII. ISAIAH, CHAP. 1-5 .:.XII. VER. . . 300
XVIII.—THE ISLES OF THE GENTILES . . 301
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XIX. ON HEARING A CONCERT OF MUSIC . . . 302
XX. A WISH 303
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XXI. FORGET" ME NOT." 304
XXII. ADDRESS TO SCOTLAND ..... 305
XXill. HOME.... .... 306
XXIV.—LETTER TO HER PASTOR IN EDINBURGH . • 307 FRO.M HER FRIEND IN AMERICA, REV. DR. C. 308
XXV.—SKETCH OF HER CORRESPON-CHARACTER BY HER
DENT IN LONDON 308PREFACE.
little Work treats of the initiatory steps ofan imThis
mortal being—steps, feeble and insignificant if viewed
alone, but assuming value and importance when con-
terminating in an eternal destiny. By suchsidered as
steps is each human course commenced—and such is the
solemn result involved in its mortal termination. The
benefit derived from Christian biography, is its ex-chief
hibiting 10 the eye, the image of Christ in the character
servant ; the manner in which that blessed imageof his
to be formed—and the various means and in-first began
cidents which contributed to its advancement towards
perfection.
is the only sure token of healthy spiritual life.Growth
The soul has its winter and its spring times, its seasons
seeming check and deadncss, and its seasons of shoot-of
the earthly toward the heavenly charac-ing upward from
ter. A faithful writer remarks, that ''the soul may sup-
itself acquainted with its corruption in its length and
Eose
perhaps, it has only moistened lipsreadth, while, its at
the bitter cup, and may subsequently be constrained to
much more of it." And thus it is that the Christiandrink
same path more than once.must travel the Soul search-
ings must be renewed—repentings require to be repented
to the Mighty Deliverer, who has performedof Love
may at first be ardent and grate-the wonderful rescue,
ful—afterwards, it will become humble and intelligent,
increasing perception, that not only the first de-with the
from death to life, butciding movement each particular
step of the journey through the wilderness, must be
upheld by Him who bestows the tem])er ofguided and
and who keepsstrangers and pilgrims, his people by his
own power, through faith unto salvation.
experienced reader may find both pleasure andThe
the variousimprovemenL in tracing seasons of spiritua
1*PREFACE.vi
growtli in llie sultjcct of this memoir. Should the exam-
awaken anyj)le of lier early pioty careless spirits to in-
quire vvliy they have not yet set out to seek the Lord, or
Bhoiild her evident adviuicement in the divine life, and
trri'atly brifrhlenin^ ij:race.=!. as she drewlier near to its
consummation,most unh)oked-lbr be tlie means ofstirring
up any to examine whetiier their souls arc slumber:ng in
tiie frosts of winter, or siiootintr vipward in the breath
ihf' writer will iiaveol' pprinL"", a blessed return tor the
trial eiidurcd in laying: more wide a wound which only
reunion ran finally close ; and, in unlocking those foun-
tains of tears, which, iiowevcr, have flowed, during the
thankfulconijiilation. more in submission and gratitude,
than in selfish mournin<T. It becomes her to own, with
humble prai.^^e, the refreshment that her own soul has re-
means researches i'.montrceived, by of those remains, a
small portion of which is here tremblingly presented.
To the chosen frii'tids of the dear departed one. the book
will be welcome, for the love and whomof herself ofHim
she sought and followed, while amongst them. To
gtrantrers. may the Holy F'pirit make it welcome as a
meesenger of Peace.