Believing God's providence extends to every event and every circumstance of the life of every human being, and subscribing to the doctrine of Dr. Leechman’s Sermon on Prayer, which she highly valued. She assumed that “it is as absurd to expect we shall arrive at virtue and happiness without prayer, as it would be for the husbandman to hope he shall have his usual crop, though he bestow none of his usual labour and industry.” She practically conformed to the apostolic precept "pray without ceasing," and daily prayed for her family, friends, neighbours, as well as strangers.
As we can see clearly, Martha was not only familiar with European enlightened thinkers, but pious to the doctrines of Christianity. She assimilated enlightened ideas from European Enlightenment thinkers and applied them for her children’s education. Moreover, as a Christian, she cultivated her children a pious hearts with variously religious classics. Taking herself as an example, Martha told us that Christianity was compatible with enlightened thinking.
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