Though Nature’s strength decay,And earth and hell withstand—To Canaan’s land I’ll urge my way,At HIS Divine command.
Though Nature’s strength decay,And earth and hell withstand—To Canaan’s land I’ll urge my way,At HIS Divine command.
Though Nature’s strength decay,And earth and hell withstand—To Canaan’s land I’ll urge my way,At HIS Divine command.
Though Nature’s strength decay,
And earth and hell withstand—
To Canaan’s land I’ll urge my way,
At HIS Divine command.
But here I feel constrained to give over, as from the smallness of this pamphlet I cannot go through with the whole of my journal, as it would probably make a volume of two hundred pages; which, if the Lord be willing, may at some future day be published. But for the satisfaction of such as may follow after me, when I am no more, I have recorded how the Lord called me to his work, and how he has kept me from falling from grace, as I feared I should. In all things he has proved himself a God of truth to me; and in his service I am now as much determined to spend and be spent, as at the very first. My ardour for the progress of his cause abates not a whit, so far as I am able to judge, though I am now something more than fifty years of age.
As to the nature of uncommon impressions, which the reader cannot but have noticed, and possibly sneered at in the course of these pages, they may be accounted for in this way: It is known that the blind have the sense of hearing in a manner much more acute than those who can see: also their sense of feeling is exceedingly fine, and is found to detect any roughness on the smoothest surface, where those who can see find none. So it may be with such as I am, who has never had more than three months schooling; and wishing to know much of the way and law of God, have therefore watched the more closely, the operations of the Spirit, and have in consequence been led thereby. But let it be remarked that I have never found that Spirit lead me contrary to the Scriptures of truth, as I understand them. “For as many as are led by theSpiritof God are the sons of God.”—Rom. viii. 14.
I have now only to say, May the blessing of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, accompany the reading of this poor effort to speak well of his name, wherever it may be read. AMEN.
P.S. Please to pardon errors, and excuse all imperfections, as I have been deprived of the advantages of education (which I hope all will appreciate) as I am measurably a self-taught person. I hope thecontents of this work may be instrumental in leaving a lasting impression upon the minds of the impenitent; may it prove to be encouraging to the justified soul, and a comfort to the sanctified.
Though much opposed, it is certainly essential in life, as Mr. Wesley wisely observes. Thus ends the Narrative ofJarena Lee, the first female preacher of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Bethel at Philadelphia, Penn., United States of America.
FINIS.