<p>When missionary Samuel Newell asked for Harriet Atwood's hand in marriage, Harriet wrote, “Providence now gives me an opportunity to go myself to the heathen. Shall I refuse the offer? Shall I love the glittering toys of this dying world so well that I cannot relinquish them for God? Forbid it heaven! Yes, I will go. However weak and unqualified I am, there is an all-sufficient Savior ready to support me. In God alone is my hope. I will trust His promises and consider it one of the highest privileges that could be conferred upon me to be permitted to engage in His glorious service among the wretched inhabitants of India. . . . I go . . . to assist one of Christ's dear ministers in carrying the glad tidings of salvation to the perishing heathen of Asia.” Harriet left the shores of America with the certain expectation of death. Yet for Harriet, death was not loss, but gain. What makes death “gain” to a Christian teenager? The same thing that makes it gain to every believer—the full, unveiled presence of Christ. Harriet recognized death as the passageway to receiving the fullness of what she had longed for all her life—Christ. It was a price to pay that truly cost her nothing—it was gain! When Christ called, she was enabled to look death in the face with joy, and like a radiant bride, she hastened it, eager to be embraced by her Heavenly Bridegroom to “behold the light of His countenance.” Some of her dying words were: “Tell my dear brothers and sisters how much I love them. Tell them from the dying lips of their affectionate sister that the world is vain and worthless, and that there is nothing but religion worth living for. The eldest of them will be anxious to know my views of missions at this time. Tell them—assure them, that I approve on my dying bed the course I have taken. I have never repented leaving all for Christ.”</p>

Delighting in Her Heavenly Bridegroom: The Memoirs of Harriet Newell, Teenage Missionary Wife

Religion & Spirituality

Newell, Harriet

Christian Books & Bibles

Corner Pillar Press

Memoirs of Mrs. Harriet Newell. Also, a Sermon On Occasion of Her Death, by L. Woods

Woods, Leonard

History

Legare Street Press

The Journal and Writings of Miss Fanny Woodbury, Including Some Interesting Correspondence Between Her and the Late Mrs. Newell: To Which Are Added ... with a New and Interesting Memoir

Woodbury, Fanny

Nabu Press

A Sermon, Preached at Haverhill, Mass., in Remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell, Wife of the Rev. Samuel Newell, Missionary to India: Who Died at the ... Years. to Which Are Added Memoirs of Her Life

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Memoirs

Palala Press

<p>Harriet Atwood (1793-1812) was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She attended Bradford Academy when 13 years old. This memoir consists of her letters and diary entries which exudes an enthusiasm and a contagious devotion to Jesus. "Spare me, O my God, spare me yet a little longer, and by thy grace enable me to do some little work in thy vineyard." She married Samuel Newell and set sail Feb. 19, 1812, with Mr. Newell, and Mr. and Mrs. Judson. Harriet recorded many interesting details of her travels on the ship Caravan. After seeing nothing but sky and water for one hundred and fourteen days, they landed in Calcutta and then were summoned and ordered to leave India. Samuel and Harriet took a ship to Mauritius and "she became the joyful mother of a daughter, but four days after, in consequence of a severe storm of wind and rain, the child took cold, and died on the evening of the next day." "Harriet took cold, at the same time, being exposed to a violent storm of wind and rain. The cold settled on her lungs, and terminated in a consumption." Many editions of this memoir were published, and she became a celebrated role model for her exuberant dedication to the missionary cause.</p>

Memoirs of Mrs. Harriet Newell

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