American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-10-22
TOL. Ill.
DYING FROM HOME.

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The following is an extract from Memoirs, lust
published, OF the Rev. MIR. Thatcher, distinguish
ed Clergyman Of Boston, who died few years since
on the continent OF Europe, whittier he had repair
ed Tor the benefit of his health.
at is sad thing to think that we must die away
from our home.-Tell not the invalid who is yearn-
ing alter ms distant country, that the atmosphere
around MIN is soft, and the gales filled with
bam and the flowers are springing from the green
earth; he knows that the soltest air to his heart
would BE- the air which hangs over his native land
that more gratefully than all the gales of the south
would breathe the low whispers OF anxious affections
that the very icices clingng to his own caves, and
The snow beating against his own windows, would
be lar more pleasing TO his eyes, than the bloom and
lverdure which only more forcioy remind him how
tar he is from that one spot which is dearer 10 him
than the world beside. He may indeed find estima-
bic friends, who will do all in their power to pro.
mote his comfort and assusge his pains but they
Cannot supply the place OF the long known and The
long loved; they cannot read, in book the
mute language of his face they have not learned
to communicate, without hesitation, all his wishes
impressions, aud thoughts to them He feels that
he Is a stranger, and more desoIae feeling than
that could not visit his SOUL How much is express
ed by that form of oriental benediction--may yow
de among your kindred."
n Soou man VIII seek to have his thoughts and
actions one-to own heart 50 pure, as that he may
be able to DEFY the keenest nqulson Of The human
race. we may succeed in conceaing our thoughts
from the word-but there is an Eye which CONSTANT
y iastens It's opseI vaons to which The darkness
and the light are both alike, and which can pierce
the thickest veil with which we cover our hearts.
We may deceive our fellow men, but God we can
not deceive.
In order to regulate our thoughts there must be
a steady add systematic employment OF our time: a
vigorous exercise of our faculties 10 some useful oc-
cupaton. great part oil the WI Indebtedness OF hui
man Lille, we all know. proceeds from the want Of
something 10 do But this is the wo, ST effect of
idle0ess. 1t is imp ,ssibe we should long be unem-
poyed and keep our innocence, The mind, at least
In It's waking hours, can never Cease to think and
II 1t be not thinking OF something useful and good,
It VIII iniallby soon be occupied with what is LernI
cIous and sinful. The demons of temptation always
hover round vacant, lisess, and unoccupied mind,
and mark il for their prey.
1t is the duty of every to propose to himself
some high and useful object to live for some end
that is worthy OF the pursuit OF an immortal being.
We may always find employment in The cultivation
and enlargement OF our moral aud intellectual pow
ers-in The duties OF our caillng-n the care of
those entrusted to us-aDd in seeking that our fel.
low men may be made good and wise--a. all events,
let us never permit ourselves to be idle while there
is any thing that is not criminal to be DONE