Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-02-24

was piercing cold, we threw on our cloak;
TO take q survey of the city and the rude
and romantic scenery that surrounds II
The sun had descended behind tho wss-
tern highlands, and as its last rays ioated
on the keen and frigid atmosphere the full
grown moon begun to tinge the eastern
hills; and as her silvery rays reflected upon
the snow clad SUBMITS, and giided the ad-
jacent bay, whose waters we're bound m icy
chains scene was presented to our view,
which at once inspired as with wonder and
delight, and called forth our admiration Of
that Almighty being, who tempers the wind
to the shorn lamb, and who formed world
from Chaos. 1t was a scene which would
fill the painter with ecstaey, and tune the
Tyre of the poet to harmonious lays. NO
longer did the northern blasts whistle over
hill and through valley all was as silent
as the recesses of the sepulchre, seve only
when the merry jingling Of the bells and the
rude laughter of sportive lads, who froiisk-
cd upon the congealed waters, reverbera-
ted, and passing off in repeated echoings,
left the world to sadness and to me-"
Delighted in beholding a scene SO sub
lime, we wandered, we knew not, we care
ed not whether, and wrapt in fond cOntem.
plation, we needed not the chilling atmo-
sphere and gazed upon scene which
bespoke the existence of a God, and which
of itself was suffered to dsslpate tho
opinions of the sceptc whilst it unlolded the
works, the wisdom and the attributes Of all
al-wise creator Strolling around the
south eastern. extremity OF the city, or
rather around its suburbs, a little dwelling
arrested our attention and the domestic
comfort that seemed to be imprinted OH its
exterior, told that it was the abiding pace OF
domestic nd conjuga happ'ness--that its
inmates we're the partakers oi human telic-
ity ;---that they knew not aught ofthe sor-
rows ofsublunary wuylarines. Gazing in
tenty upon the peaceful mansion, the voice
Of one as if in prayer broke upon our ears,
and we listened in breathless silence to
catch the sounds as they ascended TO that
eternal throne Of mercy and of grace, to
which they were addressed-and they grew
more audible and distinct as the speaker
became animated with celestial fire, and
the spirit of inspiration "Father of mer-
cies, oh thou everlasting God preserve
her we beseech thee, spare her from the
grave, ana restore her to the embraces Of
him to whom the world we're nothing, if she
were absent. But if it is thy will that she
sojourn nolonger in this earthly tabernacle,
take her, everlasting God, to thy resting
place, to dwell among the pure and spotIess
spirits of celestial paradiss-and with her,
let thy servant, already grown grey with
years, and weakened by infrmities, de .cend
to the cold clod OF the valley. As we stood
listening, the door Of the cottage opened
and young man who came out for some
domestic purposes, invited US in. Being
a stranger and thus awkwardly situated, we
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youth, the night is very cold, you had better
walk in and warm yourself be not too
diffident, for there are only few Of the
neighbnrs within, who have called to as.
sociate with our family in the worship ofthe
Almighty, and to give TO my dear good
mother the consultations Of the gospel Of
the redeemer for she is very sick, and fast
approaching the mansions of the dead.
No longer capable of withstsnding the
invitation of the hospitabIe stranger, we
entered the dwelling, al the moment that "a
young girl broke forth in the following
strains, which we cannot refrain from cop
ying, as they were chaunted by one, the
loneliness of whose person can never be
forgotten, and who, whilst she sung tho
praises of Jehovah, felt and expressed that
she was standing in the presence OF that
God whom she worshipped In sincerity and
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