A Memorial of
Sarah S. Mugford,
Of Salem, Massachusetts
by S.M. Worcester, D.D.
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by S.M. Worcester, D.D.
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This is a truly inspirational story. The woman suffered many years with back problems, compounded by the medical treatments of the day. Throughout all of her trials she remains steadfast in her belief of God and Jesus Christ, her Savior. The book was published in 1862 for the Author, by Crocker and Brewster, Boston. The book measures 4 inches by 6 ¼ inches and contains 108 pages. The brown cloth cover has a decorative embossed and textured finish. The title is in gilt on the spine. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. This is a former library copy for the East Baldwin Library and contains several “rubber stamp” markings. The front end pages and the inside back cover have various inscriptions. One of them notes 1st Edition. The back free end page is missing, other than that there are no signs of rips. For the most part, there are no signs of foxing. The exception is the pages near the frontispiece are very lightly foxed as is customary in a book of this age. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this old book is near very good.
Note: The table of contents is quite extensive. I will list only the first topic of each chapter. I would be glad to answer specific questions upon request.
Contents:
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“It is now almost two o’clock, and think not, dear M., that I have been kept awake writing this letter. I have felt no desire to sleep. A little after ten, Mrs. P. was so very kind as to bring me a beautiful flower, the night blooming Cereus. I was delighted to think I had got the beautiful flower to watch all night. Would you not like to watch it with me? The first moment I saw it, I wished you could see it; and if it had not been too late, I should have sent for Mr. W. and Mrs. A., and the children, to come and see it. But I had to enjoy it all alone. About one o’clock, when it was in all its splendor, I did awake Mary P. out of a good sound sleep, to get up and see it; and I got her to take it into mother’s room for her to see.”
”It is the most singular and interesting flower I ever saw. This is the second one I have watched all night. When Mrs. P. brought it at ten o’clock, it was not entirely bloomed out. From that time until one, it very gradually spread out its beautiful straw-colored, and its pure white petals; and then I could look down into the calyx, or cup of the flower, where I could see placed, in such beautiful order, its rich and delicate straw-colored stamens. But I cannot tell you how magnificent it looked. Have you ever seen one? If you have, you will know why I cannot describe it. How sad it seems, that anything so beautiful should die so soon! Before daylight, it will look like an ugly wilted stalk. Even now the outside straw-colored petals have changed to a dark brownish shade; and as they draw up towards the white ones, such a dark shade is cast over them, that I am reminded of an eclipse of the sun.
”What a lesson one may learn from this flower! And how few behold its beauty, or smell its rich fragrance! O Mary, you would not value a night’s watching, if you could enjoy what I have with this flower. The fragrance and beauty of it are almost gone, but not the lesson I have received. I have often heard people say, that they look from nature up to nature’s God. And they think oftentimes, that in so doing they worship him as they ought. But can they feel his presence, unless they feel and believe that nature’s God is their Redeemer? And unless we feel, that he is our Redeemer, and that his blood has been shed for us-how can we feel that he is more to us, than he is to this little flower?”
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