Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter

The Disinherited Daugheter, by E. Ben Ez-er

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Title: Elizabeth: The Disinherited Daugheter
Author: E. Ben Ez-er
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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
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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
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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
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PART III.--RETIREMENT
* * * * *
CHAPTER I.
HOMES OP EARLY METHODISTS
CHAPTER II.
JOSHUA ARNOLD
CHAPTER III.
SEPARATION
CHAPTER IV.
CONCLUSION

ELIZABETH, THE DISINHERITED DAUGHTER.
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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 the happy family circle was made by the departure of a daughter to another State to engage in teaching. Few letters were written in those days, and the postal service was a slow and small concern. But this absent school-teacher had written with much care and vivacity to the dear circle at home as regularly as the months came around. But now, for long, anxious weeks, no tidings from the absent one had reached that saddened home at the Cove. "Why don't we get a letter from Betsey?" was often asked by the fond parents, the loving sisters, and thoughtful little brothers; but no satisfactory answer could