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Excerpt from An Account of the Experience of Hester Ann Rogers: And Her Funeral Sermon, by Rev. Dr. Coke, to Which Are Added Her Spiritual Letters
I have received manifest answers to prayer, when not more than four years old; and how my tender mind has been comforted. I was deeply affected, and had very serious thoughts of death for some time, and after seeing the corpse of a little brother of mine, who died of the small pox when I was five years old, I took great delight in the Bible, and could at this time read any part either of the Old or New Testament, always asking questions so as to obtain understanding of what I read. My parents required that I should give an account every sabbath evening of the sermons and les sons I heard at church, and say my catechism to them, which they explained to my under standing. They also required that I should learn the collect for the day, and repeat it with my other prayers every night and morning These collects I also often repeated in secret, and with great sincerity before the Lord. Ido not remember ever going to bed without having said my prayers, except once: I was then diverted by a girl who told me many childish stories, and so took up my attention, that I forgot to pray till I was in bed; and then being alone, I recollected what I had done, and con science greatly accused me; so that I began to tremble lest Satan should be permitted of God to take me away body and soul, which I felt I deserved! I soon after thought I saw him coming to the side of my bed; when I shrieked out in such a manner as brought my parents up stairs to see what was the matter.
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