Today’s post from A Life Hid with Christ in God is an excerpt from a letter written by Susan to her friend in July, 1841. They were discussing how hard it is, yet how eternally important it is to share the gospel with others. “Why are our earnest prayers not more earnest, our most faithful…
Today’s post from A Life Hid with Christ in God is actually an excerpt of a letter written to Susan from her pastor. Susan had encouraged her friend to write to Pastor Clark because she had “found his letters very profitable.” Pastor Clark returned a letter to her friend, then to Susan: “My dear friend……
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote to her cousin in 1839. “Should I never again be permitted to address you upon this subject, remember, my dear cousin, that I have faithfully warned you of your danger, and told you of the way of escape. But…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote to her friend, Miss E.N. on January 31, 1836. “Dear E., we are commanded to rejoice in the Lord always, and why do we not? Is it because we are so sinful that we ought not to be happy?…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote in her diary in 1836. Such truth is necessary to remember and cling to at heavy times like this. “Yesterday I was much depressed by hearing someinstances of the depravity of human nature, and feltthankful that there is a…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote in her diary on January 8th, 1836. “I hope my hard heart has received a new impulse. I have sometimes been very cold lately–have done those things which I ought not to have done, and left undone those things…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote in her diary on Sunday, April 6th, 1834. “The greatest deficiency of my soul is lack of love to Jesus, and of simple faith in His goodness…” (page 80)
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote to her sister in 1833. “…if you would be a happy Christian, if you would enjoy that ‘peace that passeth understanding,’ you must never rest satisfied until ‘every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.’ This…
As I was annotating the memoir of Susan Allibone, I came across a line from a hymn that Susan quoted in a letter to her friend. I was marking the references to verses and poems she often included in her letters, so I typed that unfamiliar line into Google and went down a lovely rabbit…
In Susan Allibone’s memoir, she often asks friends to pray for her. I was quite struck with how different her prayer requests are from my own. If someone asks me how they can pray for me, I usually ask for prayer about problems or difficulties I’m facing. Susan very rarely (maybe never?) asked for things…