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The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1

CHAPTER I
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The pews are of black oak, with high divisions; and the names of those to whom they belong are painted in white letters on the doors.

There are neither brasses, nor altar-tombs, nor monuments, but there is a mural tablet on the right-hand side of the communion-table, bearing the following inscription:-- HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF MARIA BRONTE, WIFE OF THE REV.

P.BRONTE, A.B., MINISTER OF HAWORTH.
HER SOUL DEPARTED TO THE SAVIOUR, SEPT.

15TH, 1821, IN THE 39TH YEAR OF HER AGE.
"Be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh." MATTHEW xxiv.

44.
ALSO HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF MARIA BRONTE, DAUGHTER OF THE AFORESAID; SHE DIED ON THE 6TH OF MAY, 1825, IN THE 12TH YEAR OF HER AGE; AND OF ELIZABETH BRONTE, HER SISTER, WHO DIED JUNE 15TH, 1825, IN THE 11TH YEAR OF HER AGE.
"Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."-- MATTHEW xviii.


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