Person:Elizabeth Bacon (5)

Elizabeth Test Elizabeth Test, of Salem, New Jersey, was born about the year 1708, of parents, not members of the religious Society of Friends. When younge in years, she came under the discipline of the Cross of Christ, and being instructed thereby in righteousness, she became convinced of the truth, and in early life was admitted into membership amongst us. Her circumspect life and exemplary conversation brought her into esteem, and she was placed in the Station of an overseer in the Church, in the duties of which she faithfully laboured for a while. Her Divine Master, however, called her to the performance of other services, and conferred a gift in the ministry upon her, which she exercised to the comfort and edification of the church. She was married to Francis Test to whom she was a faithful wife, regulating her family with frugality and discretion. She was exemplary in plainness, and concerned to bring up her children in the simplicity the Truth calls for; whilst she was a very loving and tender mother, her concern was that her children should know the restraints of a godly education. She was enabled to give them seasonable advice, and was at times concerned to gather them together, that in silence they might wait upon the Lord. She departed this life Second Mo. 11th, 1772, after a long and sharp spell of sickness, experiencing death to be to her a release from suffering and entrance into everlasting joy. She was aged about sixty-four years.