A Memoir of Mary Capper, Late of Birmingham, England ; a Minister of the Society of Friends
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Most of the inmates appear to prize their happy lot, and to live in peace and good will, assisting one another, as need requires, in sickness, &c. I called on two infirm, afilicted women, not members of our Society ; one of them had kept her bed for two years. This dear old disciple spoke, with tenderness of spirit, of mercies, in the midst of long continued helplessness and pain, and said she would not exchange her situation with the young, the healthy, and the thoughtless ; her firm belief wa...s, that 326 MEMOIR OF MARY CAPPER. [1826. when the right time came, her Lord would take her unto himself. Another poor woman appeared patient under much suffering, and expressed her desire to be resigned to her good Master's will, He being very merciful and comfort- ing her. This confirmed me in the belief that the God of consolation is with the poor, in their solitary dwellings. This charitable institution is a noble instance of liberality ; having been built and endowed by a townswoman, who had accumu- lated property by keeping an inn, and having often enter- tained Quakers at her house, she generously provided for some of the poor among them ; she likewise appointed mem- bers of our Society as Trustees.
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