SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON, THE SERVANT OF GOD. " Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord ; rejoicing in hope ; patient in tribulation ; continuing instant in prayer; distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality." -Sr. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. LADY SELINA SHIRLEY, born August 24, 1707, during the days of " Good Queen Anne," was the second of the three daughters of Washington, second Earl of Ferrars, and of Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Levinge, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. Of her childhood and early life we have few re- cords. The first serious impression which she received was in her ninth year, when a childish friend of about her own age dying, Lady Selina attended the funeral. The sight of the corpse, the strange aspect of death, so new and inexplicable to her startled vision, struck her innocent imagination so forcibly, that, with a passionate outburst of tears, she cried earnestly to God on the spot that "when- ever He should be pleased to take her away, He J
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