Sublime

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,

The Touching Account of Abigail Hutchinson’s Devotion

Mrs. Thorpe was a widow, and not a very rich one; she was a good-humoured, well-meaning woman, and a very indulgent mother. Her eldest daughter had great personal beauty, and the younger ones, by pretending to be as handsome as their sister, imitating her air, and dressing in the same style, did very well.

we would set ourselves up to live life with abandon and leave a testimony like Abigail Hutchinson, who pursued and tasted the riches of true Christianity and whose memory calls others to do the same.

Cowper.”

A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the r