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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: February 22, 2006 [EBook #17826] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIR OF OLD ELIZABETH, A *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + + + +<p class="center"><img class="img1" src="images/image_01.jpg" alt="Cover" width="400" height="664" /></p> +<p> </p> +<h3>MEMOIR</h3> + +<h4>OF</h4> + +<h1>OLD ELIZABETH,</h1> + +<h3>A</h3> + +<h2>COLOURED WOMAN.</h2> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="hr1" style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there</span> +<span class="i0">is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."</span> +</div></div> + +<p class="sig"><span class="smcap">Gal.</span> iii. 25.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" style='width: 45%;' /> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<h3>PHILADELPHIA:<br /> + +COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.<br /> + +1863.</h3> + + + + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + + + +<h2>MEMOIR, &C.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>In the following Narrative of "<span class="smcap">Old Elizabeth</span>," which +was taken mainly from her own lips in her 97th year, her +simple language has been adhered to as strictly as was consistent +with perspicuity and propriety.</p></div> + + +<p>I was born in Maryland in the year 1766. My parents +were slaves. Both my father and mother were +religious people, and belonged to the Methodist Society. +It was my father's practice to read in the Bible +aloud to his children every sabbath morning. +At these seasons, when I was but five years old, I often +felt the overshadowing of the Lord's Spirit, without +at all understanding what it meant; and these +incomes and influences continued to attend me until +I was eleven years old, particularly when I was alone, +by which I was preserved from doing anything that +I thought was wrong.</p> + +<p>In the eleventh year of my age, my master sent +me to another farm, several miles from my parents, +brothers, and sisters, which was a great trouble to +me. At last I grew so lonely and sad I thought I +should die, if I did not see my mother. I asked the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +overseer if I might go, but being positively denied, +I concluded to go without his knowledge. When I +reached home my mother was away. I set off and +walked twenty miles before I found her. I staid +with her for several days, and we returned together. +Next day I was sent back to my new place, which +renewed my sorrow. At parting, my mother told +me that I had "nobody in the wide world to look to +but God." These words fell upon my heart with +ponderous weight, and seemed to add to my grief. +I went back repeating as I went, "none but God in +the wide world." On reaching the farm, I found +the overseer was displeased at me for going without +his liberty. He tied me with a rope, and +gave me some stripes of which I carried the marks +for weeks.</p> + +<p>After this time, finding as my mother said, I had +none in the world to look to but God, I betook myself +to prayer, and in every lonely place I found an +altar. I mourned sore like a dove and chattered forth +my sorrow, moaning in the corners of the field, and +under the fences.</p> + +<p>I continued in this state for about six months, feeling +as though my head were waters, and I could do +nothing but weep. I lost my appetite, and not being +able to take enough food to sustain nature, I became +so weak I had but little strength to work; still +I was required to do all my duty. One evening, af<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span>ter +the duties of the day were ended, I thought I +could not live over the night, so threw myself on a +bench, expecting to die, and without being prepared +to meet my Maker; and my spirit cried within me, +must I die in this state, and be banished from Thy +presence forever? I own I am a sinner in Thy sight, +and not fit to live where thou art. Still it was my +fervent desire that the Lord would pardon me. Just +at this season, I saw with my spiritual eye, an awful +gulf of misery. As I thought I was about to plunge +into it, I heard a voice saying, "rise up and pray," +which strengthened me. I fell on my knees and +prayed the best I could the Lord's prayer. Knowing +no more to say, I halted, but continued on my +knees. My spirit was then <i>taught</i> to pray, "Lord, +have mercy on me—Christ save me." Immediately +there appeared a director, clothed in white raiment. +I thought he took me by the hand and said, "come +with me." He led me down a long journey to a fiery +gulf, and left me standing upon the brink of this +awful pit. I began to scream for mercy, thinking I +was about to be plunged to the belly of hell, and believed +I should sink to endless ruin. Although I +prayed and wrestled with all my might, it seemed +in vain. Still, I felt all the while that I was sustained +by some invisible power. At this solemn moment, +I thought I saw a hand from which hung, as +it were, a silver hair, and a voice told me that all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +the hope I had of being saved was no more than a +hair; still, pray, and it will be sufficient. I then renewed +my struggle, crying for mercy and salvation, +until I found that every cry raised me higher and +higher, and my head was quite above the fiery pillars. +Then I thought I was permitted to look straight +forward, and saw the Saviour standing with His hand +stretched out to receive me. An indescribably glorious +light was <i>in</i> Him, and He said, "peace, peace, +come unto me." At this moment I felt that my sins +were forgiven me, and the time of my deliverance +was at hand. I sprang forward and fell at his feet, +giving Him all the thanks and highest praises, crying, +Thou hast redeemed me—Thou hast redeemed +me to thyself. I felt filled with light and love. At +this moment I thought my former guide took me +again by the hand and led me upward, till I came to +the celestial world and to heaven's door, which I saw +was open, and while I stood there, a power surrounded +me which drew me in, and I saw millions +of glorified spirits in white robes. After I had this +view, I thought I heard a voice saying, "Art thou willing +to be saved?" I said, Yes Lord. Again I was +asked, "Art thou willing to be saved in my way?" +I stood speechless until he asked me again, "Art +thou willing to be saved in my way?" Then I heard +a whispering voice say, "If thou art not saved in the +Lord's way, thou canst not be saved at all;" at which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +I exclaimed, "Yes Lord, in thy own way." Immediately +a light fell upon my head, and I was filled +with light, and I was shown the world lying in wickedness, +and was told I must go there, and call the +people to repentance, for the day of the Lord was at +hand; and this message was as a heavy yoke upon +me, so that I wept bitterly at the thought of what I +should have to pass through. While I wept, I heard +a voice say, "weep not, some will laugh at thee, +some will scoff at thee, and the dogs will bark at +thee, but while thou doest my will, I will be with +thee to the ends of the earth."</p> + +<p>I was at this time not yet thirteen years old. The +next day, when I had come to myself, I felt like a +new creature in Christ, and all my desire was to see +the Saviour.</p> + +<p>I lived in a place where there was no preaching, +and no religious instruction; but every day I went out +amongst the hay-stacks, where the presence of the +Lord overshadowed me, and I was filled with sweetness +and joy, and was as a vessel filled with holy oil. +In this way I continued for about a year; many +times while my hands were at my work, my spirit +was carried away to spiritual things. One day as I +was going to my old place behind the hay-stacks to +pray, I was assailed with this language, "Are you +going there to weep and pray? what a fool! there +are older professors than you are, and they do not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +take that way to get to heaven; people whose sins +are forgiven ought to be joyful and lively, and not +be struggling and praying." With this I halted and +concluded I would not go, but do as other professors +did, and so went off to play; but at this moment +the light that was in me became darkened, and the +peace and joy that I once had, departed from me.</p> + +<p>About this time I was moved back to the farm +where my mother lived, and then sold to a stranger. +Here I had deep sorrows and plungings, not having +experienced a return of that sweet evidence and +light with which I had been favoured formerly; but +by watching unto prayer, and wrestling mightily +with the Lord, my peace gradually returned, and +with it a great exercise and weight upon my heart +for the salvation of my fellow-creatures; and I was +often carried to distant lands and shown places where +I should have to travel and deliver the Lord's message. +Years afterwards, I found myself visiting +those towns and countries that I had seen in the +light as I sat at home at my sewing,—places of +which I had never heard.</p> + +<p>Some years from this time I was sold to a Presbyterian +for a term of years, as he did not think it +right to hold slaves for life. Having served him +faithfully my time out, he gave me my liberty, +which was about the thirtieth year of my age.</p> + +<p>As I now lived in a neighborhood where I could<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +attend religious meetings, occasionally I felt moved +to speak a few words therein; but I shrank from it—so +great was the cross to my nature.</p> + +<p>I did not speak much till I had reached my forty-second +year, when it was revealed to me that the +message which had been given to me I had not yet +delivered, and the time had come. As I could read +but little, I questioned within myself how it would +be possible for me to deliver the message, when I +did not understand the Scriptures. Whereupon I +was moved to open a Bible that was near me, +which I did, and my eyes fell upon this passage, +"Gird up thy loins now like a man, and answer thou +me. Obey God rather than man," &c. Here I fell +into a great exercise of spirit, and was plunged very +low. I went from one religious professor to another, +enquiring of them what ailed me; but of all these I +could find none who could throw any light upon +such impressions. They all told me there was nothing +in Scripture that would sanction such exercises. +It was hard for men to travel, and what would women +do? These things greatly discouraged me, and +shut up my way, and caused me to resist the Spirit. +After going to all that were accounted pious, and receiving +no help, I returned to the Lord, feeling that +I was nothing, and knew nothing, and wrestled and +prayed to the Lord that He would fully reveal His +will, and make the way plain.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p> + +<p>Whilst I thus struggled, there seemed a light from +heaven to fall upon me, which banished all my desponding +fears, and I was enabled to form a new +resolution to go on to prison and to death, if it might +be my portion: and the Lord showed me that it was +His will I should be resigned to die any death that +might be my lot, in carrying his message, and be +entirely crucified to the world, and sacrifice <i>all</i> to +His glory that was then in my possession, which His +witnesses, the holy Apostles, had done before me. +It was then revealed to me that the Lord had given +me the evidence of a clean heart, in which I could +rejoice day and night, and I walked and talked +with God, and my soul was illuminated with heavenly +light, and I knew nothing but Jesus Christ, +and him crucified.</p> + +<p>One day, after these things, while I was at my +work, the Spirit directed me to go to a poor widow, +and ask her if I might have a meeting at her house, +which was situated in one of the lowest and worst +streets in Baltimore. With great joy she gave notice, +and at the time appointed I appeared there +among a few coloured sisters. When they had all +prayed, they called upon me to close the meeting, +and I felt an impression that I must say a few words; +and while I was speaking, the house seemed filled +with light; and when I was about to close the meeting, +and was kneeling, a man came in and stood till<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +I arose. It proved to be a watchman. The sisters +became so frightened, they all went away except the +one who lived in the house, and an old woman; +they both appeared to be much frightened, fearing +they should receive some personal injury, or be put +out of the house. A feeling of weakness came over +me for a short time, but I soon grew warm and +courageous in the Spirit. The man then said to me, +"I was sent here to break up your meeting. Complaint +has been made to me that the people round +here cannot sleep for the racket." I replied, "a +good racket is better than a bad racket. How do +they rest when the ungodly are dancing and fiddling +till midnight? Why are not they molested by the +watchmen? and why should we be for praising God, +our Maker? Are we worthy of greater punishment +for praying to Him? and are we to be prohibited +from doing so, that sinners may remain slumbering +in their sins?" While speaking these few words I +grew warm with <i>heavenly</i> zeal, and laid my hand upon +him and addressed him with gospel truth, "how +do sinners sleep in hell, after slumbering in their +sins here, and crying, 'let me rest, let me rest,' while +sporting on the very brink of hell? Is the cause of +God to be destroyed for this purpose?" Speaking +several words more to this amount, he turned pale +and trembled, and begged my pardon, acknowledging +that it was not his wish to interrupt us, and that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +he would never disturb a religious assembly again. +He then took leave of me in a comely manner and +wished us success. After he was gone, I turned to +the old sisters who by this time were quite cheered +up. You see, said I, if the sisters had not fled, what +a victory we might have had on the Lord's side; for +the man seemed ready to give up under conviction. +If it had not been for their cowardice, we might +have all bowed in prayer, and a shout of victory had +been heard amongst us.</p> + +<p>Our meeting gave great offence, and we were forbid +holding any more assemblies. Even the elders +of our meeting joined with the wicked people, and +said such meetings must be stopped, and that woman +quieted. But I was not afraid of any of them, and +continued to go, and burnt with a zeal not my own. +The old sisters were zealous sometimes, and at other +times would sink under the cross. Thus they grew +cold, at which I was much grieved. I proposed to +them to ask the elders to send a brother, which was +concluded upon.</p> + +<p>We went on for several years, and the Lord was +with us with great power it proved, to the conversion +of many souls, and we continued to grow +stronger.</p> + +<p>I felt at times that I must exercise in the ministry, +but when I rose upon my feet I felt ashamed, and so +I went under a cloud for some time, and endeav<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>oured +to keep silence; but I could not quench the +Spirit. I was rejected by the elders and rulers, as +Christ was rejected by the Jews before me, and +while others were excused in crimes of the darkest +dye, I was hunted down in every place where I appointed +a meeting. Wading through many sorrows, +I thought at times I might as well be banished from +this life, as to feel the Almighty drawing me one +way, and man another; so that I was tempted to +cast myself into the dock. But contemplating the +length of eternity, and how long my sufferings would +be in that unchangeable world, compared with this, +if I endured a little longer, the Lord was pleased to +deliver me from this gloomy, melancholy state in +his own time; though while this temptation lasted +I roved up and down, and talked and prayed.</p> + +<p>I often felt that I was unfit to assemble with the +congregation with whom I had gathered, and had +sometimes been made to rejoice in the Lord. I felt +that I was despised on account of this gracious +calling, and was looked upon as a speckled bird by +the ministers to whom I looked for instruction, and +to whom I resorted every opportunity for the same; +but when I would converse with them, some would +cry out, "You are an enthusiast;" and others said, +"the Discipline did not allow of any such division of +the work;" until I began to think I surely must be +wrong. Under this reflection, I had another gloomy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +cloud to struggle through; but after awhile I felt +much moved upon by the Spirit of the Lord, and +meeting with an aged sister, I found upon conversing +with her that she could sympathize with me in +this spiritual work. She was the first one I had met +with, who could fully understand my exercises. She +offered to open her house for a meeting, and run the +risk of all the church would do to her for it. Many +were afraid to open their houses in this way, lest +they should be turned out of the church.</p> + +<p>I persevered, notwithstanding the opposition of +those who were looked upon as higher and wiser. +The meeting was appointed, and but few came. I +felt much backwardness, and as though I could not +pray, but a pressure upon me to arise and express +myself by way of exhortation. After hesitating for +some time whether I would take up the cross or no, +I arose, and after expressing a few words, the Spirit +came upon me with life, and a victory was gained +over the power of darkness, and we could rejoice together +in His love.</p> + +<p>As for myself, I was so full I hardly knew whether +I was in the body, or out of the body—so great was +my joy for the victory on the Lord's side. But the +persecution against me increased, and a complaint +was carried forward, as was done formerly against +Daniel, the servant of God, and the elders came out<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +with indignation for my holding meetings contrary +to discipline—being a woman.</p> + +<p>Thus we see when the heart is not inspired, and the +inward eye enlightened by the Spirit, we are incapable +of discerning the mystery of God in these things. +Individuals creep into the church that are unregenerate, +and after they have been there awhile, they +fancy that they have got the grace of God, while +they are destitute of it. They may have a degree of +light in their heads, but evil in their hearts; which +makes them think they are qualified to be judges of +the ministry, and their conceit makes them very busy +in matters of religion, judging of the revelations +that are given to others, while they have received +none themselves. Being thus mistaken, they are +calculated to make a great deal of confusion in the +church, and clog the true ministry.</p> + +<p>These are they who eat their own bread, and +wear their own apparel, having the form of godliness, +but are destitute of the power.</p> + +<p>Again I felt encouraged to attend another and another +appointment. At one of these meetings, some +of the class-leaders were present, who were constrained +to cry out, "Surely the Lord has <i>revealed</i> +these things to her" and asked one another if they +ever heard the like? I look upon man as a very +selfish being, when placed in a religious office, to +presume to resist the work of the Almighty; be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span>cause +He does not work by man's authority. I did +not faint under discouragement, but pressed on.</p> + +<p>Under the contemplation of these things, I slept +but little, being much engaged in receiving the revelations +of the Divine will concerning this work, +and the mysterious call thereto.</p> + +<p>I felt very unworthy and small, notwithstanding the +Lord had shown himself with great power, insomuch +that conjecturers and critics were constrained +to join in praise to his great name; for truly, we +had times of refreshing from the presence of the +Lord. At one of the meetings, a vast number of the +white inhabitants of the place, and many coloured +people, attended—many no doubt from curiosity +to hear what the old coloured woman had to say. +One, a great scripturian, fixed himself behind the +door with pen and ink, in order to take down the +discourse in short-hand; but the Almighty Being +anointed me with such a portion of his Spirit, that he +cast away his paper and pen, and heard the discourse +with patience, and was much affected, for the Lord +wrought powerfully on his heart. After meeting, +he came forward and offered me his hand with solemnity +on his countenance, and handed me something +to pay for my conveyance home.</p> + +<p>I returned, much strengthened by the Lord's +power, to go on to the fulfilment of His work, although +I was again pressed by the authorities of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +the church to which I belonged, for imprudency; +and so much condemned, that I was sorely tempted +by the enemy to turn aside into the wilderness. I +was so embarrassed and encompassed, I wondered +within myself whether all that were called to be +mouth piece for the Lord, suffered such deep wadings +as I experienced.</p> + +<p>I now found I had to travel still more extensively +in the work of the ministry, and I applied to the +Lord for direction. I was often <i>invited</i> to go hither +and thither, but felt that I must wait for the dictates +of His Spirit.</p> + +<p>At a meeting which I held in Maryland, I was led +to speak from the passage, "Woe to the rebellious +city," &c. After the meeting, the people came where +I was, to take me before the squire; but the Lord +delivered me from their hands.</p> + +<p>I also held meetings in Virginia. The people +there would not believe that a coloured woman could +preach. And moreover, as she had no learning, they +strove to imprison me because I spoke against slavery: +and being brought up, they asked by what +authority I spake? and if I had been ordained? I +answered, not by the commission of men's hands: +if the Lord had ordained me, I needed nothing better.</p> + +<p>As I travelled along through the land, I was led +at different times to converse with white men who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +were by profession ministers of the gospel. Many +of them, up and down, confessed they did not believe +in revelation, which gave me to see that men +were sent forth as ministers without Christ's authority. +In a conversation with one of these, he said, +"You think you have these things by revelation, +but there has been no such thing as revelation since +Christ's ascension." I asked him where the apostle +John got his revelation while he was in the Isle of +Patmos. With this, he rose up and left me, and I +said in my spirit, get thee behind me Satan.</p> + +<p>I visited many remote places, where there were +no meeting houses, and held many glorious meetings, +for the Lord poured out his Spirit in sweet +effusions. I also travelled in Canada, and visited +several settlements of coloured people, and felt an +open door amongst them.</p> + +<p>I may here remark, that while journeying through +the different states of the Union, I met with many +of the Quaker Friends, and visited them in their +families. I received much kindness and sympathy, +and no opposition from them, in the prosecution of +my labours.</p> + +<p>On one occasion, in a thinly settled part of the +country, seeing a Friend's meeting house open, I +went in; at the same time a Friend and his little +daughter followed me. We three composed the +meeting. As we sat there in silence, I felt a re<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>markable +overshadowing of the Divine presence, as +much so as I ever experienced any where. Toward +the close, a few words seemed to be given me, which +I expressed, and left the place greatly refreshed in +Spirit. From thence I went to Michigan, where I +found a wide field of labour amongst my own colour. +Here I remained four years. I established a +school for coloured orphans, having always felt the +great importance of the religious and moral <i>agri</i>culture +of children, and the great need of it, especially +amongst the coloured people. Having white +teachers, I met with much encouragement.</p> + +<p>My eighty-seventh year had now arrived, when +suffering from disease, and feeling released from +travelling further in my good Master's cause, I came +on to Philadelphia, where I have remained until +this time, which brings me to my ninety-seventh +year. When I went forth, it was without purse or +scrip,—and I have come through great tribulation +and temptation—not by any might of my own, for I +feel that I am but as dust and ashes before my almighty +Helper, who has, according to His promise, +been with me and sustained me through all, and +gives me now firm faith that he will be with me to +the end, and, in his own good time, receive me into +His everlasting rest.</p> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured +Woman, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIR OF OLD ELIZABETH, A *** + +***** This file should be named 17826-h.htm or 17826-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/2/17826/ + +Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: February 22, 2006 [EBook #17826] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIR OF OLD ELIZABETH, A *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + MEMOIR + + OF + + OLD ELIZABETH, + + A + + COLOURED WOMAN. + + * * * * * + + "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there + is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." + + GAL. iii. 25. + + * * * * * + + + PHILADELPHIA: + + COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET. + + 1863. + + + + +MEMOIR, &C. + + In the following Narrative of "Old Elizabeth," which + was taken mainly from her own lips in her 97th year, her + simple language has been adhered to as strictly as was + consistent with perspicuity and propriety. + + +I was born in Maryland in the year 1766. My parents were slaves. Both +my father and mother were religious people, and belonged to the +Methodist Society. It was my father's practice to read in the Bible +aloud to his children every sabbath morning. At these seasons, when I +was but five years old, I often felt the overshadowing of the Lord's +Spirit, without at all understanding what it meant; and these incomes +and influences continued to attend me until I was eleven years old, +particularly when I was alone, by which I was preserved from doing +anything that I thought was wrong. + +In the eleventh year of my age, my master sent me to another farm, +several miles from my parents, brothers, and sisters, which was a +great trouble to me. At last I grew so lonely and sad I thought I +should die, if I did not see my mother. I asked the overseer if I +might go, but being positively denied, I concluded to go without his +knowledge. When I reached home my mother was away. I set off and +walked twenty miles before I found her. I staid with her for several +days, and we returned together. Next day I was sent back to my new +place, which renewed my sorrow. At parting, my mother told me that I +had "nobody in the wide world to look to but God." These words fell +upon my heart with ponderous weight, and seemed to add to my grief. I +went back repeating as I went, "none but God in the wide world." On +reaching the farm, I found the overseer was displeased at me for going +without his liberty. He tied me with a rope, and gave me some stripes +of which I carried the marks for weeks. + +After this time, finding as my mother said, I had none in the world to +look to but God, I betook myself to prayer, and in every lonely place +I found an altar. I mourned sore like a dove and chattered forth my +sorrow, moaning in the corners of the field, and under the fences. + +I continued in this state for about six months, feeling as though my +head were waters, and I could do nothing but weep. I lost my appetite, +and not being able to take enough food to sustain nature, I became so +weak I had but little strength to work; still I was required to do all +my duty. One evening, after the duties of the day were ended, I +thought I could not live over the night, so threw myself on a bench, +expecting to die, and without being prepared to meet my Maker; and my +spirit cried within me, must I die in this state, and be banished from +Thy presence forever? I own I am a sinner in Thy sight, and not fit to +live where thou art. Still it was my fervent desire that the Lord +would pardon me. Just at this season, I saw with my spiritual eye, an +awful gulf of misery. As I thought I was about to plunge into it, I +heard a voice saying, "rise up and pray," which strengthened me. I +fell on my knees and prayed the best I could the Lord's prayer. +Knowing no more to say, I halted, but continued on my knees. My spirit +was then _taught_ to pray, "Lord, have mercy on me--Christ save me." +Immediately there appeared a director, clothed in white raiment. I +thought he took me by the hand and said, "come with me." He led me +down a long journey to a fiery gulf, and left me standing upon the +brink of this awful pit. I began to scream for mercy, thinking I was +about to be plunged to the belly of hell, and believed I should sink +to endless ruin. Although I prayed and wrestled with all my might, it +seemed in vain. Still, I felt all the while that I was sustained by +some invisible power. At this solemn moment, I thought I saw a hand +from which hung, as it were, a silver hair, and a voice told me that +all the hope I had of being saved was no more than a hair; still, +pray, and it will be sufficient. I then renewed my struggle, crying +for mercy and salvation, until I found that every cry raised me higher +and higher, and my head was quite above the fiery pillars. Then I +thought I was permitted to look straight forward, and saw the Saviour +standing with His hand stretched out to receive me. An indescribably +glorious light was _in_ Him, and He said, "peace, peace, come unto +me." At this moment I felt that my sins were forgiven me, and the time +of my deliverance was at hand. I sprang forward and fell at his feet, +giving Him all the thanks and highest praises, crying, Thou hast +redeemed me--Thou hast redeemed me to thyself. I felt filled with +light and love. At this moment I thought my former guide took me again +by the hand and led me upward, till I came to the celestial world and +to heaven's door, which I saw was open, and while I stood there, a +power surrounded me which drew me in, and I saw millions of glorified +spirits in white robes. After I had this view, I thought I heard a +voice saying, "Art thou willing to be saved?" I said, Yes Lord. Again +I was asked, "Art thou willing to be saved in my way?" I stood +speechless until he asked me again, "Art thou willing to be saved in +my way?" Then I heard a whispering voice say, "If thou art not saved +in the Lord's way, thou canst not be saved at all;" at which I +exclaimed, "Yes Lord, in thy own way." Immediately a light fell upon +my head, and I was filled with light, and I was shown the world lying +in wickedness, and was told I must go there, and call the people to +repentance, for the day of the Lord was at hand; and this message was +as a heavy yoke upon me, so that I wept bitterly at the thought of +what I should have to pass through. While I wept, I heard a voice say, +"weep not, some will laugh at thee, some will scoff at thee, and the +dogs will bark at thee, but while thou doest my will, I will be with +thee to the ends of the earth." + +I was at this time not yet thirteen years old. The next day, when I +had come to myself, I felt like a new creature in Christ, and all my +desire was to see the Saviour. + +I lived in a place where there was no preaching, and no religious +instruction; but every day I went out amongst the hay-stacks, where +the presence of the Lord overshadowed me, and I was filled with +sweetness and joy, and was as a vessel filled with holy oil. In this +way I continued for about a year; many times while my hands were at my +work, my spirit was carried away to spiritual things. One day as I was +going to my old place behind the hay-stacks to pray, I was assailed +with this language, "Are you going there to weep and pray? what a +fool! there are older professors than you are, and they do not take +that way to get to heaven; people whose sins are forgiven ought to be +joyful and lively, and not be struggling and praying." With this I +halted and concluded I would not go, but do as other professors did, +and so went off to play; but at this moment the light that was in me +became darkened, and the peace and joy that I once had, departed from +me. + +About this time I was moved back to the farm where my mother lived, +and then sold to a stranger. Here I had deep sorrows and plungings, +not having experienced a return of that sweet evidence and light with +which I had been favoured formerly; but by watching unto prayer, and +wrestling mightily with the Lord, my peace gradually returned, and +with it a great exercise and weight upon my heart for the salvation of +my fellow-creatures; and I was often carried to distant lands and +shown places where I should have to travel and deliver the Lord's +message. Years afterwards, I found myself visiting those towns and +countries that I had seen in the light as I sat at home at my +sewing,--places of which I had never heard. + +Some years from this time I was sold to a Presbyterian for a term of +years, as he did not think it right to hold slaves for life. Having +served him faithfully my time out, he gave me my liberty, which was +about the thirtieth year of my age. + +As I now lived in a neighborhood where I could attend religious +meetings, occasionally I felt moved to speak a few words therein; but +I shrank from it--so great was the cross to my nature. + +I did not speak much till I had reached my forty-second year, when it +was revealed to me that the message which had been given to me I had +not yet delivered, and the time had come. As I could read but little, +I questioned within myself how it would be possible for me to deliver +the message, when I did not understand the Scriptures. Whereupon I was +moved to open a Bible that was near me, which I did, and my eyes fell +upon this passage, "Gird up thy loins now like a man, and answer thou +me. Obey God rather than man," &c. Here I fell into a great exercise +of spirit, and was plunged very low. I went from one religious +professor to another, enquiring of them what ailed me; but of all +these I could find none who could throw any light upon such +impressions. They all told me there was nothing in Scripture that +would sanction such exercises. It was hard for men to travel, and what +would women do? These things greatly discouraged me, and shut up my +way, and caused me to resist the Spirit. After going to all that were +accounted pious, and receiving no help, I returned to the Lord, +feeling that I was nothing, and knew nothing, and wrestled and prayed +to the Lord that He would fully reveal His will, and make the way +plain. + +Whilst I thus struggled, there seemed a light from heaven to fall upon +me, which banished all my desponding fears, and I was enabled to form +a new resolution to go on to prison and to death, if it might be my +portion: and the Lord showed me that it was His will I should be +resigned to die any death that might be my lot, in carrying his +message, and be entirely crucified to the world, and sacrifice _all_ +to His glory that was then in my possession, which His witnesses, the +holy Apostles, had done before me. It was then revealed to me that the +Lord had given me the evidence of a clean heart, in which I could +rejoice day and night, and I walked and talked with God, and my soul +was illuminated with heavenly light, and I knew nothing but Jesus +Christ, and him crucified. + +One day, after these things, while I was at my work, the Spirit +directed me to go to a poor widow, and ask her if I might have a +meeting at her house, which was situated in one of the lowest and +worst streets in Baltimore. With great joy she gave notice, and at the +time appointed I appeared there among a few coloured sisters. When +they had all prayed, they called upon me to close the meeting, and I +felt an impression that I must say a few words; and while I was +speaking, the house seemed filled with light; and when I was about to +close the meeting, and was kneeling, a man came in and stood till I +arose. It proved to be a watchman. The sisters became so frightened, +they all went away except the one who lived in the house, and an old +woman; they both appeared to be much frightened, fearing they should +receive some personal injury, or be put out of the house. A feeling of +weakness came over me for a short time, but I soon grew warm and +courageous in the Spirit. The man then said to me, "I was sent here to +break up your meeting. Complaint has been made to me that the people +round here cannot sleep for the racket." I replied, "a good racket is +better than a bad racket. How do they rest when the ungodly are +dancing and fiddling till midnight? Why are not they molested by the +watchmen? and why should we be for praising God, our Maker? Are we +worthy of greater punishment for praying to Him? and are we to be +prohibited from doing so, that sinners may remain slumbering in their +sins?" While speaking these few words I grew warm with _heavenly_ +zeal, and laid my hand upon him and addressed him with gospel truth, +"how do sinners sleep in hell, after slumbering in their sins here, +and crying, 'let me rest, let me rest,' while sporting on the very +brink of hell? Is the cause of God to be destroyed for this purpose?" +Speaking several words more to this amount, he turned pale and +trembled, and begged my pardon, acknowledging that it was not his wish +to interrupt us, and that he would never disturb a religious assembly +again. He then took leave of me in a comely manner and wished us +success. After he was gone, I turned to the old sisters who by this +time were quite cheered up. You see, said I, if the sisters had not +fled, what a victory we might have had on the Lord's side; for the man +seemed ready to give up under conviction. If it had not been for their +cowardice, we might have all bowed in prayer, and a shout of victory +had been heard amongst us. + +Our meeting gave great offence, and we were forbid holding any more +assemblies. Even the elders of our meeting joined with the wicked +people, and said such meetings must be stopped, and that woman +quieted. But I was not afraid of any of them, and continued to go, and +burnt with a zeal not my own. The old sisters were zealous sometimes, +and at other times would sink under the cross. Thus they grew cold, at +which I was much grieved. I proposed to them to ask the elders to send +a brother, which was concluded upon. + +We went on for several years, and the Lord was with us with great +power it proved, to the conversion of many souls, and we continued to +grow stronger. + +I felt at times that I must exercise in the ministry, but when I rose +upon my feet I felt ashamed, and so I went under a cloud for some +time, and endeavoured to keep silence; but I could not quench the +Spirit. I was rejected by the elders and rulers, as Christ was +rejected by the Jews before me, and while others were excused in +crimes of the darkest dye, I was hunted down in every place where I +appointed a meeting. Wading through many sorrows, I thought at times I +might as well be banished from this life, as to feel the Almighty +drawing me one way, and man another; so that I was tempted to cast +myself into the dock. But contemplating the length of eternity, and +how long my sufferings would be in that unchangeable world, compared +with this, if I endured a little longer, the Lord was pleased to +deliver me from this gloomy, melancholy state in his own time; though +while this temptation lasted I roved up and down, and talked and +prayed. + +I often felt that I was unfit to assemble with the congregation with +whom I had gathered, and had sometimes been made to rejoice in the +Lord. I felt that I was despised on account of this gracious calling, +and was looked upon as a speckled bird by the ministers to whom I +looked for instruction, and to whom I resorted every opportunity for +the same; but when I would converse with them, some would cry out, +"You are an enthusiast;" and others said, "the Discipline did not +allow of any such division of the work;" until I began to think I +surely must be wrong. Under this reflection, I had another gloomy +cloud to struggle through; but after awhile I felt much moved upon by +the Spirit of the Lord, and meeting with an aged sister, I found upon +conversing with her that she could sympathize with me in this +spiritual work. She was the first one I had met with, who could fully +understand my exercises. She offered to open her house for a meeting, +and run the risk of all the church would do to her for it. Many were +afraid to open their houses in this way, lest they should be turned +out of the church. + +I persevered, notwithstanding the opposition of those who were looked +upon as higher and wiser. The meeting was appointed, and but few came. +I felt much backwardness, and as though I could not pray, but a +pressure upon me to arise and express myself by way of exhortation. +After hesitating for some time whether I would take up the cross or +no, I arose, and after expressing a few words, the Spirit came upon me +with life, and a victory was gained over the power of darkness, and we +could rejoice together in His love. + +As for myself, I was so full I hardly knew whether I was in the body, +or out of the body--so great was my joy for the victory on the Lord's +side. But the persecution against me increased, and a complaint was +carried forward, as was done formerly against Daniel, the servant of +God, and the elders came out with indignation for my holding meetings +contrary to discipline--being a woman. + +Thus we see when the heart is not inspired, and the inward eye +enlightened by the Spirit, we are incapable of discerning the mystery +of God in these things. Individuals creep into the church that are +unregenerate, and after they have been there awhile, they fancy that +they have got the grace of God, while they are destitute of it. They +may have a degree of light in their heads, but evil in their hearts; +which makes them think they are qualified to be judges of the +ministry, and their conceit makes them very busy in matters of +religion, judging of the revelations that are given to others, while +they have received none themselves. Being thus mistaken, they are +calculated to make a great deal of confusion in the church, and clog +the true ministry. + +These are they who eat their own bread, and wear their own apparel, +having the form of godliness, but are destitute of the power. + +Again I felt encouraged to attend another and another appointment. At +one of these meetings, some of the class-leaders were present, who +were constrained to cry out, "Surely the Lord has _revealed_ these +things to her" and asked one another if they ever heard the like? I +look upon man as a very selfish being, when placed in a religious +office, to presume to resist the work of the Almighty; because He +does not work by man's authority. I did not faint under +discouragement, but pressed on. + +Under the contemplation of these things, I slept but little, being +much engaged in receiving the revelations of the Divine will +concerning this work, and the mysterious call thereto. + +I felt very unworthy and small, notwithstanding the Lord had shown +himself with great power, insomuch that conjecturers and critics were +constrained to join in praise to his great name; for truly, we had +times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. At one of the +meetings, a vast number of the white inhabitants of the place, and +many coloured people, attended--many no doubt from curiosity to hear +what the old coloured woman had to say. One, a great scripturian, +fixed himself behind the door with pen and ink, in order to take down +the discourse in short-hand; but the Almighty Being anointed me with +such a portion of his Spirit, that he cast away his paper and pen, and +heard the discourse with patience, and was much affected, for the Lord +wrought powerfully on his heart. After meeting, he came forward and +offered me his hand with solemnity on his countenance, and handed me +something to pay for my conveyance home. + +I returned, much strengthened by the Lord's power, to go on to the +fulfilment of His work, although I was again pressed by the +authorities of the church to which I belonged, for imprudency; and so +much condemned, that I was sorely tempted by the enemy to turn aside +into the wilderness. I was so embarrassed and encompassed, I wondered +within myself whether all that were called to be mouth piece for the +Lord, suffered such deep wadings as I experienced. + +I now found I had to travel still more extensively in the work of the +ministry, and I applied to the Lord for direction. I was often +_invited_ to go hither and thither, but felt that I must wait for the +dictates of His Spirit. + +At a meeting which I held in Maryland, I was led to speak from the +passage, "Woe to the rebellious city," &c. After the meeting, the +people came where I was, to take me before the squire; but the Lord +delivered me from their hands. + +I also held meetings in Virginia. The people there would not believe +that a coloured woman could preach. And moreover, as she had no +learning, they strove to imprison me because I spoke against slavery: +and being brought up, they asked by what authority I spake? and if I +had been ordained? I answered, not by the commission of men's hands: +if the Lord had ordained me, I needed nothing better. + +As I travelled along through the land, I was led at different times to +converse with white men who were by profession ministers of the +gospel. Many of them, up and down, confessed they did not believe in +revelation, which gave me to see that men were sent forth as ministers +without Christ's authority. In a conversation with one of these, he +said, "You think you have these things by revelation, but there has +been no such thing as revelation since Christ's ascension." I asked +him where the apostle John got his revelation while he was in the Isle +of Patmos. With this, he rose up and left me, and I said in my spirit, +get thee behind me Satan. + +I visited many remote places, where there were no meeting houses, and +held many glorious meetings, for the Lord poured out his Spirit in +sweet effusions. I also travelled in Canada, and visited several +settlements of coloured people, and felt an open door amongst them. + +I may here remark, that while journeying through the different states +of the Union, I met with many of the Quaker Friends, and visited them +in their families. I received much kindness and sympathy, and no +opposition from them, in the prosecution of my labours. + +On one occasion, in a thinly settled part of the country, seeing a +Friend's meeting house open, I went in; at the same time a Friend and +his little daughter followed me. We three composed the meeting. As we +sat there in silence, I felt a remarkable overshadowing of the Divine +presence, as much so as I ever experienced any where. Toward the +close, a few words seemed to be given me, which I expressed, and left +the place greatly refreshed in Spirit. From thence I went to Michigan, +where I found a wide field of labour amongst my own colour. Here I +remained four years. I established a school for coloured orphans, +having always felt the great importance of the religious and moral +_agri_culture of children, and the great need of it, especially +amongst the coloured people. Having white teachers, I met with much +encouragement. + +My eighty-seventh year had now arrived, when suffering from disease, +and feeling released from travelling further in my good Master's +cause, I came on to Philadelphia, where I have remained until this +time, which brings me to my ninety-seventh year. When I went forth, it +was without purse or scrip,--and I have come through great tribulation +and temptation--not by any might of my own, for I feel that I am but +as dust and ashes before my almighty Helper, who has, according to His +promise, been with me and sustained me through all, and gives me now +firm faith that he will be with me to the end, and, in his own good +time, receive me into His everlasting rest. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured +Woman, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIR OF OLD ELIZABETH, A *** + +***** This file should be named 17826.txt or 17826.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/8/2/17826/ + +Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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