THE SERVANT 'OF GOD. determined purpose of living for Him who had died for her. Such was now her longing for spiritual advice, that when her table would be graced with the presence of many noble persons and prelates, she would . start the subject of religion, inquiring of different bishops the meaning of various passages of Scripture ; when, if the topic would be waived, or vaguely answered, her anxiety would almost amount to distress. She began to give a zealous support to the work of God, and making an open confession of " the faith once delivered to the saints," considered that she was bound to relinquish worldly pleasures. To the noble circle in which she moved, such con- duct seemed unaccountable ; her fashionable friends were indignant at her entire renunciation of what they termed innocent enjoyments, and intimated that they feared she was " turned Methodist ;" but " she had set her face as a flint, and refused to be ashamed of Christ and His Cross ;" therefore ridicule and remonstrance fell alike unheeded on her ears. Im- patient, at length, of her obstinate persistence, and of her rigorous adherence to the text -" Be not conformed to the world,"-several good-natured friends strongly advised Lord Huntingdon to inter- pose his authority. He did not participate in his wife's stricter views, but he loved her sincerely, and the only attempt which he made to bring her back to her former opinions and practices was to request that she would oblige him by conversing with 11
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