Adelaide Murray: Or the Orphan's Refuge (Classic Reprint)

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They look for the approving smile of a parent, which gladdened their hearts - who felt a lively interest in all their joys - who sympa thised in all their sorrows - whose affection never changed. To one who, perhaps, can not look beyond this world Without alarm, this is indeed a situation which demands our sympathy. Such would have been the me] ancholy situation of Adelaide Murray, had she been ignorant of those consolations which religion imparts to the mind. Naturally pos sessed of feelings perhaps too sensitive - too keenly alive, she probably would have sunk under the early sorrows she experienced: but she had been taught to consider this life only as a state of preparation for that future existence which is eternal. She knew that affliction is no proof of the displeasure of God; because it is declared, that whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth. She desired to submit to the will of her heavenly Father, and to obey him in all things; looking for ward to that rest which remaineth to the people of God. Should any, placed in a.

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