Similarly, a year after Charles’s death, she wrote: “Dear fellow-Christian, do not faint or fear when the blessed Husbandman cuts, and grafts, and wounds thee!” She encouraged her readers to not be as much concerned about the pain the grafting causes but more that fruit should come through suffering. She was convinced that God does not forget His people but “watches with loving scrutiny every indication of developing fruit-buds” and that “great will be His joy, when, in full strength and beauty, thou shalt glorify Him by thy abundant fruitfulness.”44 She declared, “Yet how good God has been to
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