Excerpt from Memoir of Rachel Hicks Birth and Parentage - Early Religious Experience - Hospitality of her Father's House - Exercises of her Mind concerning Divine Requisitions - Her Marriage - First Appearance in the Ministry. 8th mo. 7th, 1857. I Have long felt that the work given me to do will not be finished unless I leave some account of my life and my various religious exercises in the course of it. In times past I have been fearful that a wish to transmit my name to a future generation had some share in the feeling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.