And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED FOR JOHN MIDWINTER. J. C. Totten, Printer, 9 Bowery. gift Tappan Pres. An 4-29-1932 RECOMMENDATIONS. Mr. Midwinter, Sir-I have perused the memoir of Mrs. Joanna Turner, which you are about to re-publish, and have found in it both pleasure and profit. Her eventful life is interesting and instructive : while it keeps the best feelings of the heart fully and delightfully exercised, it exemplifies in no ordinary degree the power and profit of practical godliness. Mrs. Turner was an extraordinary woman, richly endowed by divine grace. Engaged in the service of God from early life, in a sphere of action where no common person could have done any thing, she succeeded in doing every thing. The opposition and obstacles, which met her daily, seem only to have ministered to the ardour and energy of her mind, and the healthful exercise of her faith in God her Saviour, so as to have rendered her ascendancy over them all the more conspicuous. She was poor, yet she supported the poor; kept up the stated preaching of the gospel, and built two churches at her own expense, and withal became rich! She sustained great distress of body, not with patience merely, but with fortitude, and peace, and joy. She lived happy and died triumphant. Her example may be very useful to the Christian public, and encouraging to those who would commit themselves to God in well doing. I hope your labour in making this little book more generally known may be fully remunerated. I am, sir, with great respect, Your friend and servant, THOMAS MC AULEY, New-York, February 28th, 1827. I most heartily unite in the above recommendation of the memoir of Mrs. Turner, and in the hope that it may be re-printed and extensively circulated. WILLIAM MC MURRAY. New-York, March 3d, 1827. I concur in the above recommendations. JAMES MILNOR. I give my name cheerfully with the above recommendations. H. J. FELTUS. I unite most cordially in the above recommenda tions. HENRY CHASE. New-York, March 5, 1827. I cordially agree with the above recommendations. New-York, March 7th, 1827. I have read the memoir of Mrs. Turner with great pleasure, and do most cordially unite in the above recommendations. CHARLES G. SOMMERS. Having perused the memoir of the life and death of Mrs. Turner, I do most cheerfully recommend the work, as calculated to promote the cause of true religion. A. MACLAY PREFACE. THE Life of Mrs. Turner was never before published. It was drawn out by a female friend after her death, and a few copies printed and circulated among her particular friends and acquaintances. Many to whom it has been lent, and by whom it has been read, have thought it desirable that it should have a more extensive circulation. It certainly affords a striking proof how much may be done for the cause of Christ by a zealous individual, and that with very slender means. Mrs. Turner during the earlier part of her religious profession, possessed little else but her fervent piety and a steady zeal for the propagation of the Gospel, having only the small income of £30 a year; yet she was the happy and highly honoured means of introducing the Gospel into several towns and villages in the county of Wilts. Pious individuals, placed in a humble and contracted sphere, are apt to say, "What can I do?" Read the life of Mrs. Turner, contemplate her conduct, and "Go thou and do likewise." Her Diary which relates to the secret workings of her heart, exhibits the power, efficacy, and benefit of true religion-"the religion of the heart." By it, her thoughts, her affections, her temper and conduct were regulated. |