Elizabeth: The Disinherited Daugheter

Elizabeth: The Disinherited
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ELIZABETH THE DISINHERITED DAUGHTER
BY E. BEN. EZ-ER

PREFACE
This booklet is little more than a compilation. The materials were
abundant for a much larger book. Elizabeth's divine experience was so
striking, so valuable to the cause of truth, that it has not been
essentially abridged. But the results in biography, though well known
to all who knew her, have been cut down to the smallest dimensions
that would allow that brilliant experience to shine out.
Elizabeth had a lifelong conviction that God required the publication of
His remarkable dealings with her, and in her approach to the river of
death solemnly enjoined it upon her youngest son and executor. His
own convictions also agree with the requirement. Here are obvious
reasons:
1. The early history of Methodism has suffered by the dropping out of
many striking illustrations of her power. By neglecting to record them
permanently while well authenticated, they are now beyond recovery.
As this providential work moves on gloriously, making world-wide
history, these few preserved incidents of her early triumph become
more and more valuable by the lapse of time.
2. Providentially this experience is too rare and too far back in
American Methodism to be lost out.
3. The controversy in which this experience was so strong a factor has
not become obsolete. The "horrible decrees" have indeed been very
generally driven from the pulpit, but not entirely. Our work as polemics
will not be finished until they leave the schools and the books, and

cease to be pillows for the multitudes who lull themselves to slumber
over the notion of "sovereign grace and waiting God's time," and cease
to goad despondent souls to despair, with the charge of being "from
eternity passed by" as unredeemed "reprobates."
E. ARNOLD.
Thousand Island Park, 1893.

CONTENTS
* * * * *

PART I.
* * * * *

CHAPTER I.
THAT STRANGE LETTER

CHAPTER II.
ELIZABETH'S ALIENATION FROM THE ANCESTRAL FAITH

CHAPTER III.
THAT ALARMING MESSAGE

CHAPTER IV.

ORDER OBEYED

CHAPTER V.
THE FIERY FURNACE

CHAPTER VI.
GREAT VICTORIES
* * * * *

PART II.--THE GREAT WOBK OF LIFE.
* * * * *

CHAPTER I.
ELIZABETH AS MISTRESS OF THE "COTTAGE CHAPEL".

CHAPTER II.
RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGES AND ENJOYMENTS

CHAPTER III.

ELIZABETH AS AN EVANGELISTIC LABORER

CHAPTER IV.
REMOVAL TO A WILDERNESS COUNTRY

CHAPTER V.
VOLNEY, OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK

CHAPTER VI.
HARDSHIPS OF THE NEW COLONY

CHAPTER VII.
THE QUARTERLY MEETINGS

CHAPTER VIII.
EXTENDS HER LABORS

CHAPTER IX.
AS A CAMP MEETING WORKER

CHAPTER X.
"THE CHAMBER ON THE WALL"

CHAPTER XI.
MRS. ELIZABETH ARNOLD AS A MOTHER

CHAPTER XII.
DOUBLE DILIGENCE
* * * * *

PART III.--RETIREMENT
* * * * *

CHAPTER I.
HOMES OP EARLY METHODISTS

CHAPTER II.
JOSHUA ARNOLD

CHAPTER III.
SEPARATION

CHAPTER IV.
CONCLUSION

ELIZABETH, THE DISINHERITED DAUGHTER.
* * * * *

PART I.
* * * * *

CHAPTER I.
THAT STRANGE LETTER.
It was in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The dwelling was a
plain frame structure, spacious, and of the style of that day (the second
story projecting a few inches beyond the first), and was kept painted as
white as snow. It stood in the south suburb of the then little city of
Middletown, Conn., between two hills on the right bank of the
Connecticut River, at the bend called "the Cove." The first break in