oned as a heretic and burned. See Soames, Ilist. of the Reformation, iv, 47, 70.
Palmer, Mrs. Phcjebe, one of the most noted American women of our day, is celebrated not only for many philanthropic labors, but for an unusually pious life. She was born near the opening of this century. Inheriting Methodism as a birthright, she was early converted to God. There was nothing, however, re- markable in the character of her piety in those days. She was indeed very reticent of profession, and timid of all public effort. Through the influence, however, of her sister, Jlrs. Lankford, she was led to see the priv- ilege of the believer to enter into the fulness of Gospel rest, by faith in Christ as an uttermost Saviour. She was then happily married to Dr. Walter Palmer, of New York, himself an earnest Methodist. Manj' who favor- ed the sanctification doctrine as Mrs. Palmer accepted it were accustomed to meet frequently in their homes interchangeably. Mrs. Palmer also opened her par- lors, and soon her home became the famous centre of spiritual life and power, extending its influence not only over this vast country, but all over the globe. In 1800, or thereabout. Dr. Palmer, who then had a lucra- tive practice, was obliged to give it up in order to assist his wife in her revival labors, which they performed wherever they were persuaded God called them to work. From that time they were very little in New York, spending sometimes months together in extended trav- els for revival services all through the countrj-, East and West, and the British provinces, besides three contin- uous years in Great Britain. Meantime the weekly meeting at their home in New York went on, unin- terrupted by Mrs. and Dr. Palmer's absence, with un- abated interest and power, attracting ministers and peo- ple of all denominations, and from every quarter of the Christian world. No meeting anywhere has had so cos- mopolitan and literally unsectarian a complexion, not- withstanding the peculiarly Methodistic idea on which it was based, as this Palmer-meeting for the promotion of holiness. It was not even discontinued by her decease in November, 1875. Very beautifullj' and fittingly did that saint, who had ministered to so many thousands in her life, and whose life had been one of the sweetest bene- dictions of heaven on earth for nearly half a century, raise her feeble hands in their last pious act, and open her lips, for the last time, to say to those around her, and to all who love her memorj', " The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen !" She published. The Way to Holiness (N. Y. 1854, 12rao) : — Faith and its Effects (1856, 12mo) -.—Devotion to God (new ed. 1857) : — The Useful Disciple : — Pioneer Ej-perience, and many other works of like tendency. They were nearly all republished in England, and had as wide a circulation there as in the United States. " The secret of this good woman's power, the point of analysis," says Dr. Bottoms (in Zion's Herald, November, 1875), " is easily reached. There was about her but little of personal attractive- ness. Simple in manner, and plain in person and dress, even to severity ; hesitant in speech, and almost desti- tute of emotion in her addresses and in all her exercises, except of the most subdued character ; confining herself almost absolutely to the conscience and judgment of her hearers, her presentation of truth was of the barest logic. Accepting the Word of God as the end of all contro- versy, a simple statement of a Scripture declaration was all sufficient. God said it, and it must be so. And yet it was not what she said that had its powerful charm and its resistless force on those who heard her; it was that wonderful embodiment of entire consecration, that personification of the truth which she illustrated in her life and person, that affected others. ' She believed, and . therefore spoke.' Her favorite passages were, ' I be- seech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice,' etc. ; and ' I can do all things through Christ strengthening me.' These grand principles of Christian faith became the warp and woof of her very being. ' For her to live was Christ.'
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' This one thing I do,' was her perpetual motor — a life of intense industry in a life of all-absorbing love — one idea— the grandest secret of success known to intelli- gent minds."' (J. H. \V.)
Palmer, Samuel, an English divine, flourished in the second half of the 17th century, tirst at London as minister at the Weigh-house, and later, from 17G7, at Hackney, lie died near the opening of this century. He published, The XoncoiiJ'urmists' Memorial, being an Account of the Lives, Sufferings, and Pi-inted Works of the Two Thousand Ministers ejected A ug. 24, IGGG [ 1GG2] ; originally icritten by E. Calamy, T).D., abridged, correct- ed, and methodized, with many additional A necdotes and several new Lives (2d ed. Lond. 1802, 3 vols. 8vo). This edition contains many important additions and correc- tions. The first was published in 177-i: — The Protes- tant Dissenter's Catechism, containing, I, A brief His- tory of the Nonconformists ; II, The Reasons of the Dis- sent from the National Church (8th ed. Lond. 1782, 12mo): — Sermon on 2 Tim. i, 12, The Dying Believer's Confidence and Joy in Christ [Funeral] ; to which is added an Oration, by Samuel Morton Savage, D.D. (ibid. 1778, 8vo). See Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. vol. ii, s. v.; AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, vol. ii, s. V.