The Means of Recovering Spiritual Comfort

Mrs. Honeywood, who under a deep and sad desertion, refused and put off all comfort, seeming to despair utterly of the grace and mercy of God . A minister being one day with her, and reasoning against her desperate conclusions, she took a glass from the table and said , Sir, I am as sure to be damned as this glass is to be broken; and there with she threw it forcibly to the ground: but, to the astonishment of both, the glass remained whole and sound . The minister, taking it up, rebuked her presumption, and showed her what a wonder Providence had wrought for her satisfaction ; and it greatly altered the temper of her mind