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Newspaper
Methodist Magazine
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 01, 1809
Page
16
On the following Sunday her remains were carried to our Chapel where Mr Pritchard preached an affecting and useful discourse to a numerous weeping assembly. The preacher quoted the line Be ye also ready, urging youth to prepare, as printed in the issue’s elegy on Miss Stevens on page 365.
Brief obituary noting the life of Sarah Pearce and recounting her death. The record highlights family ties, burial details, and public notices from the local church and cemetery listings.
An 1809 draft memoir letters tell how Sarah Pearce born 1766 in Midsummer Norton Somerset rose from servant girl to Methodist believer. It recalls her reading Watts hymns, attendance at prayer meetings, joining the Methodist Society, and a religious awakening after a 1783 meteor. Her life ends in holy confidence and adoption as a child of God. The text notes a lost London magazine publication and requests early inclusion in a Miscellany.
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