American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-08-06

Lewis, nthe chiel play, Just like his grandfather
The music ceased, and lIamish Fraser, on COM
ing back into the Sheang said, 81 see two men
on horseback coning up the glen-one IS on a
white no Sc "Aye-blessed be God, that is the
good prlest--now will | die in peace. My last
earthly thoughts are gone by-he will show me the
Salvation of Christine road that leedeth to Eter
nal Life My dear son-good Mr. Gordon-l ielt
happy in your prayers and exhortations But the
minister of my holy religion is at hand-and 1t is
pleasant TO die in the faith of ones foreiathers-
When he comes--you will leave US by ourselves
even my little Flora will go with you into the
air for little. The rain is it not over and gone!
And hear no wind-caly the voice OF streams"
The sound Of horses feet was now OH the turf
before the door of the SheaIlng-and Mr. Macdon.
aid came in with friend The dying man looked
towards his priest with a happy countenance, and
BE ssed him in the name of Cod Chrlst-and
Iof his blessed mother the indebted Virgin. He
then uttered few indistnct words addressed to the
person who accompanied him--& there was silence
in the Sheang
81 was from home when the messenger came to
my house--but he found me at the house OF Mr..
Christie, the Clergyman of the English Church at
Fort William and he would not suffer me to come
up the glen aone--so you see him slong with me,
Lewis" The dying man said, "thiq is indeed
Christian Charity. Here, N lonely Shealing, by
ituC UCdt0 DEu OI poor Oiu uldll1
ministers of God-each Of different persuasion
Ia Catholicism Episcnra!-and Presby,er III
of you have been kind to me for several years-and
You a'e all anxious for the salvation OF my
soul God has indeed been mercitul TO me sin
ner."
The Catholic priest wac himself an old man
although thirty yea younger Than poor Lewis
Cameron--and he was The faithful Shepherd of a
small flock. He was re,eted by all who knew HIM
for the apostolical lerycur o BIZ faith The simp!ic-
ny Of his manners, and the bamelrs,ness OF his lie
humble man among the humole. and roor in
spirit IN the nuts Of the po2r. i}nt he had one
character in the Highland slens, where lie was
known only as the teacher and comforter OF the
souls oil his lll;e iloCk another in tie wlds world,
where his name not undlsingushed among
those men gifted with talent and rich in eruditon
&c had passed his youth IN foreign couhtries--hut
had ,etnrned to the neigh5ourhond of his birth Ar
as his life was drawing towards close, and Tor
several years had resided in that wild region, estee
ming his lot although humble, yet high, If through
him lew sinners made repentsnt, and resig
nation brought By his voice 10 the dying bed.
With this good man had come to the lonely ShcaI-
ing. MIR Christie the Episcopalian clergy man, who
had received his education IN an English University,
and brought to the discharge OF his duties in this
Wild region mind cultivated by classical learning
and rich in tie literature and philosophy OF Greece
and Rome. Towards him, very young person, the
htarl Of the old priest had warmed on their very frs,
meeting, and they really loved each other quite like
father and son, The character Of Mr. Gordon, al
though unlike theirs in almost all respects, was yet
not uncongenIa His strong native sense. his gen
crous feelings, his arden; zeal, were all esteemed by
them as they deserved and while he willingly bow
led 10 their supreme talents and acquiremenfs, d,
maintained an equality With them both, iii that dsv0-
ton TO his sacred duties, and Christian care OF the
aouls o. his flock, without which minister can ne
Their be respectable nor happy. In knowl dye o.
the Character, customs, modes of thinning and feel
ing and the manners Of the people, he was greatly
superior 10 both lis friends and his advice, although
always given with dlIidcnce, and never but when
asked, was most useful to Them in the spiritual suld
ance OF their or flock.
This tieudly and truly Christian intercourse hav-
ing substed Tor several years between these three
ministers Of egion, tire blessed effects Of il were
'lslc' end were deeply and widely felt in the hearts
lo' the inhabitants OF this district All causes OF
e lousy dislike. and dsun0n seemed TO vanish into
arr between people OF th.se different petsuasiOns
when thew saw the true regard which they whom
lthey most honoured and reyered thug cherished for
o"e another; and when the ordinary uIthinking
preludlces we're laid aside from winch springs so
much enlightenment OF the very blond, an appeal
was then made and seldom IN vain to deeper feel
jlngs in The heart and nob!er principles in the IN
Idersandlng, which otherwise would have remained
imperative Thus the dwellgrs in The glens and on
he mountains, without ceaslng to love and delight
in their own mode Of worship, and without losing
single haowed association that chung TO the person
ut the ministe! of Cod TO the walls OF the house in
watch he was worshipped, to the words in which the
creature humby addressed the Creator, or to the
ground IN which they were all finally to be laid at
rest yet all lived and died in mutual federation and
peace For could there be a more affecting exam
pie OF this than what was now seen even in the low
and lonely Shcaling Of poor Lewis Cameron His
breath had but few gasps more to make--but his
Sheallng was blessed by the presence of those men
whose religion, different it was in many outward
things, and often made to be so fatally different in