From Harriet’s letter to the minister of Shortwood Baptist Church in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England in 1849:
“About the age of sixteen I was very much concerned about my never dying soul. I had many convictions of sin but stifled them and they where [sic ] has [sic ] the morning cloud and the early Dew. They soon passed away and I cared nothing for them and I turned to the world a little longer, till two years and six months ago[.] Then convictions returning again and made a lasting impression upon my mind. Has [sic ] I was about the busy cares of the world the thought came very powerfully [sic ] to my mind where would my soul be if it should be called out of time into eternity that night. At that time I deeply felt the need of a Saviour. This led me to kneel down before god and humbly ask him to forgive me for Christ’s sake. I trust and believe from that hour that he heard and answered my prayer and [made] me a new creature in Christ Jesus.”
Note: From “Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale” Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865
Albion M. Urdank , p 291
