Litchfield enquirer., 1832-08-09

strong aspiration Of faith, shall bear Us to
their blessed land. Come death TO this
bOdy-this burdened, tempted, frail, fail
ing dying body and to the soul, come
freedom, light, and joy unceasing come
the immortal life |" He that liveth" saith
the Conqueror over death and the grave,
I" he that Eveth and believeth in me shall
never die r'-Dr. Claiming. asaa 1
How few there are, as has been remark
ed by forcible, impressive writer, who
read the ordinary list Of deaths, who know
any thing of the depth ofhunan feeling, or
the intensity Of human suffering, which is
recorded in the simple and brief notices
which we read will, so much carclessness.
and SO coldly in the newspapers. Finding
no familiar name to arrest attention, or a
waken sympathy, we think no more Of the
matter; for what caro- we for the long mid
night vigils of watchful, -al1ectionate friend.
ship-the- weary, aching head---.he. afilict-
ed; Responding heart-we do not feel the
pain the languishing sufferer has experience
ed, and we know nothing Of the agony
Which exhausted his ltamo and wore out
his weary nature :--nor care we for The
spirit which has fed its frail tenement, and
uttered its last, final gasping farewell. We
know nothing ofthe heart breaking anguish
which is felt, or the hot, burning tears
which gush out in the agony of severed
friendship, from bosoms swollen and burst
ing with an excess Of passionate grieL We
know nothing of the bitterness Of parting
Iof the strength Of affections which nave
been torn asunder-of the hopelessness of
tho first food Of iears-of the depth of pro-
tractcd sufcring-or Of the intensity Of the
Affections which real friends have been
called to suffer and endure. ft
1t is a melancholy, though instructive
consideration, that the tendency of every
thing is 10 decay: that the happiest pros
poets and brightest visions of future bliss,
are but delusive fancies, which become ex-
linguisI,ed when they shine out most vivid
Iy, and give the strongest evidence ofper-
manent duration. "EIopcs which were an
gels in their BIRTH" become from their in
timacy and close connexion with human
frailty and decay, but things Of earth; and
thus ID is, that those dear objects upon
which we have lavished most fattering
hopes Of future happiness. and bliss, are re-
moved from us before we are conscious OF
the palzying illness which quenched the
spirit and laid them low. We grieve that
they are taken from ,,s SO suddeniy-that
they could not have been spared a little
longer-that we could not have appreciated
their worth, returned their manifold kind
ness, and gradually prepared ourselves for
hat event, which from its sudden occur
renee unmans our resolutions and pros
trates us in the dust by the sternness and
severity oftho blow. ~
There is another sad thought, but never
heless a true one-that the more friend
hips we have, the moro attackments we
make, tho more tender and endearing con-
lexions we weave around us and invest
ourselves with, in this world, the more oil
,rief and suffering we shall be called to en-
lure. A time scilI come when all earthly
attachments mast DO severed, and the more
fond we have been of friends, and the
more devoted to connexions, the moro ag-
onizing and severe will DO the struggle
which separates us and tears us away from
among them. 1t may DO that the Stoic's
life is productive, eventually, of less pain
and suffering than that individual endures,
who possesses more delicate sensibility,]
and is alive to the generous impulses of ma
lure and the finer feelings Of the human3
neart il may be so, bus yet lis cold EN-
oyments and demanding sympathies afford
sim hut poor comfort, when most he needs
Inc sympathy, tho sustaining hand and mp
holding arm. OF ardent, enduring Friendships.
Life would not be worth possessing, ifl this
polar star did not illuminate its dark paths,
and throw around its dreariness some eyi-
dence of sympathetic love for each other
and though separation, when it comes,
crush the heart and tear asunder its very
fibres, yet how eagerly we taste Of its deli
cious sweets, and exult in the participation
Of its delirious enjoyments.-NortA. COur.
.as JUDEA.]tl
M. Chateaubriand remarks, that when
you travel into Judea, the, heart is at first
filed with profound melancholy. But.
when passing from solitude to solitude,
boundless space opens before You, this
feeling wears OF BY degrees, and you ex-
perience a secret apes that 50 far from de-
pressing the soul, imparts life and elcvates
the genius. ExtraOgdinary appearances
every where proclaim a land ieeming. with
miracles. The burning sun, the towering
eagle, the barren fig-tree, all the pictures
l0f scripture are here. Every name com