Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-03-21

you from idolatry: lfyou did not, you
have your God still, and q creature can
not be miserable who has a God The
little words, nag God, have infinitely more
sweetness in them, than, nag sons or my
daughters. Were they very desirable
blessings, your God calls you then to the
nobler sacrifice. Can you give up these
<o,him at his call? God delights in such
a sacrifice.
Were they your all? So was Isaac,
when Abraham was required to part with
him at Gods altar; are you not daugh-
ter of Abraham' Then initiate his faith,
his self-denial, his obedience, and make
evidences of such spiritual relation to
him, shine brighter on the solemn occa-
sion. Has God taken them from your
arms' and had you not given them to
Goo before? Had you not devoted them
to God before' Had you not devoted
them to Him III baptism' Are you dis
pie ased that God calls for his own? Was
not your heart sincere in the resignation
of them to him' Show, then, madam,
the sincerity Of your heart in leaving
them in the hand Of God. Do you say
they are lost! Not out Of Gods sight,
and Gods world, though they are gone
out of our sight and our world.
.4ll Hre 10 God. You may hope the
spreading covenant of grace has shelter
Aed them from the second death. They
live, though not with you. Are you rea-
dy to complain you have brought forth
for the grave? it may be so, but not in
rain. ISAIAH, 60. 23-Ihey shall mol
labor IN rain, nor bring forth for trouble
! ii. e. sorrow without hope,) for they are
the seed Of The blessed cfhe Lord and their.
offspring Nth them. This has been a.
sweet text TO many mother, when their
children have been called away betimes
And the prophet Jeremy, ch. 81, VS..
10 II, has very comfortable words to al
lay the same sorrows. Did you please
yourself in what comforts you might have
derived from them in maturer years?-
But, madam, do you consider sufficiently
that God has taken them away from the
evil to come, and hid them in the grave
from the prevailing and mischievous
temptations of degenerate age.
My brothers. wife in London has bu-
ried 7 or children, and among them all
her sons: this thought has reconciled her
to the providence of God, that the temp
tations Of young men in this age are so
exceedingly great, and she has seen so
many of the young gentlemen Of her ac-
quaintance so shamelully degenerate,
that she wipes her tears for the sons she
has buried, and composes her soul to pa
tience and thankfulness.
Perhaps God has by this stroke pre-
vented n Thousand unknown sorrows. A
worthy husband is living comfort, and
may God preserve and restore him to you
with joy! Food, raiment, safety, peace,
liberty, and religion, access to the mercy
seat, hope Of Heaven, all these are dai-
y matters of thanklulness. 4,
Good madam, let not one sorrow bury
hem al!-shov that you are a christian
~ making it appear that religion has sup
'orts in it,which the world doth not know.
What can poor wording do, but mourn
'ver earthly blessings departed, and 60
lown with them comforiless to the grave
But methlnks christian should lift up
he head as partaking of higher hopes
May the blessed spirit be your comfor-
er. Madam, endeavor to employ your
elf in some business or amusement of
ile continually, lest solitary and mac
i've frame of mind tempt you to sit brood
ng over your sorrows, and nurse them 70
dangerous size. Turn your thoughts
1en to the brighter scenes of heaven
nd the resurrection. II,
You have so many excellent comfor- !
ers round you, that l even blush to send
That have writ, yet since the narrow /
ess Of my paper has excluded two or {
hree thoughts, which may not be unim- !
ortant or useless on this mournful occa- I
ion, Twill insert them here. You know,
madam, the great and blessed God had
ut one Son, and he gave him up sac
ifce, and devoted him to bloody death,
ut of love to such sinners as you and l.
Can you show your gratitude to God (
n more evident and acceptable man
er than by willingly rcsigning your two
ons to Him at the call Of his Providence? :
his act Of willing resignation turns a
aiD!ul afiliction into holy sacrifice =
Ire the two dearest things torn from the
cart of mother' Then you may ev-
r sit so much the ooser to The world and
ou have the fewer dangerous attach
nents to this life. 'Tis happiness for
hristan not to have the heart strings tied
90 fast to any thing beneath God and
Heaven. Happy the soul who is ready /
o remove at the divine summons. The
ever engagements we have on earth the
more we may live above, and have our