Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-09-22

4 man of God, for heaven was his on earth,
A friend OF man, for all the world he loved,
a hero, for he smifd at death,
And died 20 1--we forever. Larson.
We naturally seem TO think that the
scenes of past days were more inter
esting than those ofthe present. Ma
ny reasons might be assigned for This;
aud among others we might say, that
our memories only retain the leading
features OF past occurrences, and
where these wefe pleasing partially
al least forgetting all ,hatwasimperfec,
and calculated To- destroy our enjoy
rnent, to dwell on events with interest
aud delight Besides this, past scenes,
and especially those Of childhood
make a much deeper impression on
our minds, and are attended with
souch less anxiety than those of our
after years Hence / love dearly to
recall TO mind, and TO dwell on the
scenes Of my childhood and youth.
Among those whose persons l low
ed and whose company ! sought, was
abe Rev. Mr.. His preaching l
was taugh,, from my very infancy, to
regard with affecti0Date attachment;
and [ can well recollcct the feelings OF
my heart when on entering the courts
ofthe Lords house, on the Sabbath, |
have seen stranger in the pulpit. 'To
the affectionate counsels of my late
venerable friend, 1 owe, under God,
my preservation from many dangers
to which | was exposed, and the en-
joymentof many sources Of happiness
ofthe eXistance Of which l had prob
ably remained in ignorance.
Bat alasl as the youth rises TO matu,
rity, the hoary headed servant OF
Christ, who set his feet in the way OF
peace descends to the grave. Thus
was it with my venerable friend; he
has long since left world of sorrows
and entered those celestial regions,
where the visits of grief are unknown.
Where many of his children in the
faith had gone before him, and where
many more of them are still travelling
Oh! There is something calculated to
give US comfort under cur present tri-
ais, and to smooth our dying pillow at
the last, to think of meeting in heaven
with those whom we loved and hon.
CURED on earth. often dwell on the
thought with pleasure bordering upon
rapture, that III that happy state shall
meet with soHe one who / trust, by
my feeble instrumentality, were con
Quoted there; and thatL shall see and
enjoy the company Of those holy men.
by whose valuable labours ! kaye
profted, and with whom
sd spend long eternity
In pleasure and in praise
As ] had occasion a year or two age
to travel through the town where the
snouldering ashes OF my friend repose
till the morning of the resurrection,
resolved, possible, to visit his grave;
and finding that the stage which wac
TO convey me to the place OF my desti-
nation, would not start for two hours
aftermy arrival, L walked with feel
ings of melancholy pleasure towards
the spot consecraIed by the bodies OF
many of those whom God regards as
his Jewels, over whose remains the Sa
viour watched with peculiar care, and
where a thousand little klllocks re
mind the pas senger ofhis mortality. ]
looked at many tomb stones, and read
their various expressed mementoes on
the shorincss and uncertainty of life,
and thought of that after-state to which
both my reader and myself are rapid
" Fastening. and 10 which We shall
be soon found happy or miserable fol
ever
While Tics strol'iog about, a!mosr
forgetting in the rnaltilude OF NY X
tiee0ons the precise object ] came to
seek, ny eye caught the stone, OIL