Note 73 — COMMENCEMENT OF MINISTRY.
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Mr. Barnard says, "She was a lady of exactest breeding, of fine intellectual endowments, filled with Divine wisdom, renewed in the spirit of her mind, fired with the love of her Creator, a friend of all the world, mortified in soul and body and to everything that is earthly, and little lower than the angels." ("Historical Character of Lady Elizabeth Hastings," by Thomas Barnard, M.A., p. 95.) She died on December 22, 1739, in the fifty-seventh year of her age. ("Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon," vol. i., p. 249.)