THE late MRS. BROCAS, whose maiden name was ANTROBUS, was a native of Hodnet, a small town in Shropshire, and was born in the year 1750. In consequence of the early death of her mother, the weight of the domestic concerns of the family devolved upon h...
THE late MRS. BROCAS, whose maiden name was ANTROBUS, was a native of Hodnet, a small town in Shropshire, and was born in the year 1750. In consequence of the early death of her mother, the weight of the domestic concerns of the family devolved upon her; and in the management of them she had often to pass through some of the painful circumstances which are known only to those children whose parents are "living without GOD in the world." When enduring some of these trials, she often bathed her couch with tears, whilst she looked in vain for counsel to him who should have been "the guide of her youth," but whose instructions went little farther than warning her and her sisters to avoid, as the plague, those Ministers of CHRIST, who, at that time, were employed in sounding an alarm throughout the land; and whose character, in the estimation of thousands, was, that of being "blind guides," or "wolves in sheep's clothing.