The Annual Monitor (1858), p. 166, reported the following about Mary Stanley:
"She was endeared to a large circle of friends by a life of unostentatious piety and usefulness, a character marked with candor and uprightness, a disposition miable and forbearing, a judgment sound and discriminating, wont to be expressed with meekness and submission, yet without fear of man, evincing that she sought secretly to feel the Divine approval. She was faithful to administer needed reproof or encouragement, or to observe silence, as the way of duty was made known to her. In the latter part of her life, it was her lot to experience severe bodily and family afflictions. An injury, occasioned by a fall, confined her to bed for a time, while her husband lay nearly helpless from paralysis. Her situation was thus rendered peculiarly trying, being obliged to resign to others the care and attentions she had been wont to extend to him; yet this affecting circumstance, together with extreme physical suffering, was borne with becoming patience. From this illness she so far recovered as to be able to walk, with the aid of crutches, during most of the last five years of her life; and she was diligent, when not unusually feeble, in the attendance of meetings, until within two weeks of her decease."
Sources: EAQG 4:764, 766 |
