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Brief notices concerning the life and
happy departure from this world into eternity
of the Sgle Sr Marianne Spence who fell asleep
in Jesus, on Monday morning. June the 15th, 1866:
at Fulneck.
Our late Sister was born on October the 10t 1844 at the Mission
Station of Bethabara in the Island of Jamaica where her parents
laboured in the Lord's Vineyard as esteemed and useful ser-
vants of the Brethrens Church. From her very birth and more
especially on the day of her baptism on November the 24t she
was by them dedicated unto the Shepherd and Bishop of our
souls as His redeemed property, with the servant prayer that
He himself would lend and keep her as one of his sheep.-
This prayer was answered: for the Lord our Saviour was ever
mindul of her and through the days of her childhood & youth
and to the very end of her sojourn here below manifestly led
her with his rod and staff.-- The blessed name of Jesus she
learnt to know and to love from her earliest years. -- Brought up
as a little child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord
under the parental roof she early learnt to love the house, and
the word of the Lord, and to pray. -- She was naturally not of a
robust constitution, a weakness in her chest was perceptible
even in her youngest years tho' as far as I can hear, she never
materially offered from this cause at that time.-- In the
year 1851, her late father brought her and her older sister here
to Fulneck for education. She remained for 8 years a pupil
of the ladies Boarding School here, and throughout the whole
period, approved herself a well conducted, obedient, & attentive
scholar, who by her gentless, and amiable, peaceful disposition
gained the love alike of her superiors and companions.-- Her
natural abilities although not of a very sriking and superior
character, were such as to render her aided by her diligence
and perseverance a very efficient seliglar?.-- Her health was
upon the whole, pretty good during this period, although she
never was very strong, and her raped growth and tall slender figure
often made her an object of noticeto those who knew her age.
This was particularly the case when she was received into
the girls choir in the year 1857.-- She was of a very placid
disposition and did not freely speak about herself and her
spiritual life, but it was very evident that she grew in grace
as well as in stature, and with the lessons of secular wisdom
deligently learnt the lessons of heavenly wisdom that made
her wise unto salvation those to whom her spiritual culture
was more especially entrusted, often observed with much plea
sure her serious deportment and manifest relish for eternal
truths and heavenly pleasures. She ever meekly & thankfully
received the spiritual advice of her labouress, towards whom