…she could talk of spiritual things as well as show off the cottage industries that she managed. “A sweeter couple I have not yet seen,” Whitefield wrote of Sarah and Jonathan. “Mrs. Edwards,” he added, “is adorned with a meek and quiet spirit; she talked solidly of the things of God, and seemed to be such a helpmeet for her husband, that she caused me to renew those prayers, which for some months, I have put up to God, that He would be pleased to send me a daughter of Abraham to be my wife.” - George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, 208.
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