Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE WIDOWS son:
LINZ WV" - pCAN'
on, MY MOTHERS LAST PRAYER.
BIZ The .1,lthor Of "Ihe Cold Uater Man"

lCnltI. NuT IiDCl'Ns diC III p''h .
we shall not be allowed To eat or drink
without a license from temperance So
ciety or from coldwate man" lie
was not yet given up 10 perfect "bduIa-
cy Of heart and therefore as he spoke,
his conscience smote him and he con
tinueG, "but for once ! will attend Il
Temperance meeting. ! Lear the socie-
ty meets tomorrow afternoon. ! am bull
let proof They cannot convert me"
Uncle Bony, in his early youh. was
young man Of standing. He was re-
spectacle. As to wealth, he had enough.
His character ranked among the faircst.
lis parents were the son and daughter
OF the King Of kings. Ills pious mother
was an Isrurlte indeed Many time
and oft had she knelt beside her sleep
ing sons pillow, and invoked upon hun
the best blessing OF the Christians God. .
Before he was her own, she gave him TO
the Triune Jehovah. AS he knelt by
his mothers lap, she taught his infant
lips to speak in prayer, While thus in
the ways of wisdom he was growing up
to boyhood, his angel mother watched
his erring steps, and pointed him TO the
path of life
AS he approached the most critical
period in human life, that between the
boy and man, his mother sickcned.-I
/ With pious mothers love, she earned
over her darling son. She prayed for
! life only that she migh be counsellor to
this, her almost idolizcd child. Her dis
ease increased III malignity. She felt
that the fountain OF life would soon be
sealed up forever. Death was advanc-
ing towards her with Il steady, fatal step.
She called her son. lie came. She
cautioned him. - She warned him to n
void the very appearance Of evil. IIav
ing prayed for him, she laid her trcmb-
ling hand upon his head, and gave him
again to Him who hath said of the wild
ow and orphan, "If they cry at all unto
me, will surely hear their cry" Then
with heavenly smile she followed her
angel guide into eternity. The fountain
Of manly feeling was opened in her sons
soul. The tear Of anguish started in his
bright blue eye. 1t rolled in burning
flood over his cheek and fell The bit
tcrest form Of distress entered his soul.
His mother, (the very sound OF the name
D.. carries rapture to the feeling heart, ) his
mother was no longer ar inhabitant Of
earth. lie had never seen his father
He entered the world an orphan To
him the world now appeared to be but a
!, dreary desert. In almost hopeless ago
ny, he exclaimed, "My mother, q, my
it mother, would to God, the kind hand OF
death would send me to my molher!-
'r But | must remain alone in this wilder
ness Of strangers" When this deer
toned grief had in part subsJc Jcd-whcr
the intervals between his heart breaking
e sighs gave time for re Election, he prcpar.
ed to lay the remains Of his revered, hi,
" half wol lshipped mother in the cold ano
h silent grave. When the clods of the
valley rested on her bosom, and month
:? had well nigh sunk into eternity, he be-
'r gan to think OF putting in practice hi:
mothers preccpts These he had lait
Is up in his heart; they had been as partic
ular and pointed as mothers love coul,
E. make them. He loved her counsels; h,
delighted to obey her precepts, fhougl
the worm was now icasiing on her clay
cold remains His feet visited the sane
ID tuary of God. The sabbath seldom
found his seat in the house of worshil
unoccupicd. 1t was next to that upol
'e which his mother once sat and heard TIT
offers Of free pardon and salvation made
'e The gospel impressed his soul ; he be
came a professed follower Of the Lor,
Jesus Christ; and, so far as man coult
ne perceive, he lived life Of faith upon til,
Son Of God. lie became attached to
H. lady more lovely than the fancie,
nymphs of the poets Imagination. ii,
led her to the hymenia altar, and ,her
in the presence of God, angels and men
made her his own, and vowed to be hers
Around this welded pair, happines
threw its mantle of deli ght. They wer
blessed in each others love. Togethe
they visited the house OF prayer. Eve
ry sabbath morning, when the sun thre,
It's beams upon the world, their song {
praise ascended to the great Creator
throne. Angels caught the sound an
tuned their harps 10 loIter strains of he
ly Joy together they knelt before tn
family altar; they wept together over tn
Saviour's dying love; they together par
took of the holy symbols Of his broke
body and shed blood; their offspring to,
they gave to God in the holy ordlnanc
Of baptism.
The widows son loved to follow th
Instructions of his sainied mother Sh
who divided his sorrows and doubled h
joys, delighted to see a mothers innl
ence, thrown back from the tomb, lea
in paths of virtue and honor, and peac,
a mothers only son. Her own exampl