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<persname>you and your family</persname>."---- knowing herself once from medi-
tation, she asked what day it was, & being bold it was 
the <date>sabbath day</date>, she explained with <trait>amimation</trait>: "Oh!
it is a blessed thing to die on the <date>sabbath</date>, and no enter
into an eternal<date> sabbath</date>."----   Shortly after it was 
proposed to sing with her; she said: oh! you! do"----
and being asked to choose a verse, she gave out:
"O then the sole defence and aid and but owing to the
indistinctness of her voice only a few words were gath-
ered and being it could not be found at the hine. The foll-
owing was then selected: <persname>Jesus</persname> at my dispolution and     "
when she said, "yes that will do." It was then hardly
sang and partly sang out, but she maintained a hea--
venly composure, and often begged those around her 
not to weep for her, for she was <trait>happy.</trait> Once or twice 
she said, "perhaps the <persname>Doctor</persname> is mistaken. I am 
too strong to die, I do not feel as if I were dying."
But about two hours and a half before her departure 
she said placidly: "Now I feel a change, it will not
be long now."      and then she betook herself again to
comfort those around her, & especially her <trait>sorrowing</trait>
<persname>partner</persname>. To him she said, with tender affection:
"the lord will support you & supply all your wants,
I know he will, for I have prayed for you"---  He replies
"yes my dear I know he will, but it is hard to part
with you so soon."----"O! yes,"she answered, it is hard