American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-05-28

slSbation OF christian VINO mas made his peace
with God and his Saviour, there was blended in his
white and sunken counenance, an expression of ha.
bual reverence for the minister Of his faith---and
saw that he could not have died in peace without
that comforter to pray by his death bed.
! A few words sufficed to tell who was the strang
ier-and the dying man, blessing me by name, held
out his cold, shrivelled hand. in token of recogni-
ton. took my seat at small distance from the
bed side and left closer station for those who were
more dear. The pastor sat down near his head
and by the bed leaning on il with gentle hands, stood
that matron, his daughter-in law i; figure that
would have graced and sainted higher dwelling
and whose native beauty now more touching in
Its grief. But religion upheld her whom nature was
bowling down not now for the FIRST time, were the
lessons taught by her father to be put in practice
for / saw that she was clothed in deep mourning -
and she behaved like the daughter of man whose
lite had not only been irreproachable, but lofty, with
fear and hope fighting desperately but silently I'M
the core OF her pure and pious heart
While we thus remained in silence, the beautiful
boy, who, at the risk Of his life, brought the minis
ter of religion to the bed side of his beloved grand
father, softly and cautiously opened the door, and
with the hoarfrost yet unmelted on his bright glis-
tering ringlets, walked up to the pillow evidently
no stranger there. He no longer sobbed he no
longer weeped for hope had risen strongly within
his innocent heart, from the consciousness OF love
Holy Man IN whose prayers he trusted in the
nercession of some superior and heavenly nature
There he stood, still as an image in his grandfather's
eyes, that, in their dmness, fell upon him with de
light. Yet, happy as was the trusting child, his
heart was devoured by fear-and he looked as one
word might stir up the food of tears that had sub
sided in his heart. AS he crossed the dreary and
dismal moors, he had thought of corpse, shroud
and grave; he had been in terror lest death should
abgence he man with tyh Crav
hairs he had so often played but now he lin
alive, and felt thadeatn wasnot able 10 him away
from the clasps and links and letters of his grand
child's embracing love.
Il IF the storm do aba,e, said the sick man. after
pause, lit will be hard for my friends to carry me
over the drifts to the kirk yard This sudden APP
proach to the grave struck as with bar of ice the
heart OF the loving boy and with long deep sigh
he fell down with his face like ashes on the bed
while the old mans palsied right hand had just
stength to lay itself upon his head. Blessed be
thou, my little Jamie, for his own names sake
who died for on the tree The mother, without
terror, but with averted face, lifted up her loving
hearted boy, now in dead fantng fit, and carried
him into an adjoining room, where he soon revived
but that child and that old man were not to be Sc
parated; in vain was he asked to go to his brothers
and slsers pale, breathless and shvering, he took
his place as before, with eyes fixed his grand
, fathers face, but neither weeping uttering
: word Terror had frozen up the blood Of his heart
but hiswere now the only dry eyes in the room &
the pastor himself wept, albeit the grief of four
Y score is seldom vented in tears.
l., Sod has been gracious to me sinner said the
:, dying man. During thirty years that have been
j an elder in your kirk, never have missed sitting
r there on Sabbath. When the mother my children
r was taken from met was OH Tuesday she died
: and on Saturday she was buried. We stood together
when my Alice was let down into the narrow house
= made for all living. On the Sabbath | Joined il
i the public worship of God-she commanded me t.
e do SO the night before she went away. could no
= join in the psalm that Sabbath, for her voice wa
not in the throng. Her grave was covered up, ant
grass and flowers grew there, so was my heart; bu
e Thou, whom, through the blood of Christ, hope
1t to see this night in paradise, knowesi, that from
that hour to this day never have forgotten Thee
The old man ceased speaking-and his grand
child, now able to bear the scene, for strong pas
:. sions in its support, gded softly to little
y table, and bringing cup in which cordial hat
If been mixed, held il in hi: small soft hands to his
i grandfather's lips. He drank, and then said Com,
y close TO NE, jamie and kiss me for fly own ane
" thy fathers sske;' and as the child fondy pressed
d his rosy lips on those of his grandfather, so white
and withered, the tears fell over all the old man
is face and then tricked down on the golden heaC
e of the child at last sobbng in his bosom.
Jamie, thy own father has forgotten thee in tn,
e infancy and me in my old age but Jamie, forge
not thy father nor thy mother, for that thou knowes
n and feeest is the commandment of Cod
n The brokenhearted boy could give no reply
it He had gradually stolen closer and closer unto thu
e old loving man, and now was lying, worn out witt
sorrow, drenched and dissolved in tears in his grand
e fathers bosom. His mother had sunk down on he
: knees and hid her face with her hands. 90 if m,
= husband knew but of this-he would never, neve
: desert his dying father" and now knew that the
e elder praying on his death bed for disobedlen
= and wicked son.
AT this affecting time the minister took the family