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which she had long waited, took place in
Bristol on the 13^th. Nov^r. 1820 - a few weeks
after the date of her M. S. - and the
following year she became a communi-
cant.Her attachment to the congregation
in this city, where she had received
so many tokens of the Lord's favour -
and enjoyed so many blessings -
continued to the day of her death.
And though for the last years of her
life circumstances led her to take
up her residence in Bath, her name
was at her request continued in the
catalogue of the Bristol Congⁿ. As
often as she could, she joined her
Sisters there in the celebration of their
choir festival, and on other solemn occasions.
The following lines found among
her papers written at the time of her
reception into the Congⁿ., express her feelings
and sentiments relative to this event,
"Since thou hast granted all my soul's
desire,
The object of my morn and midnight