State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-01-05

TO return to the world, and inform some
person that did make will, and where il
may be found. We went, he continued,
last night, to our former mansion, 10 inform
Mr.. Mills respecting the wiki, but found he
was somewhat frightened, and there fore
concluded not TO tell him, but to see you
this morning, and request you To inform
him, MS he will dine with you to-day, for
we passed him On the road and we knew,
| Nanny, that YOU would not be lrighiened.'
! No. indeed, james am not alarmed she
! replied, 'ior am raSt glad To see you, es-
peciay since you are happy The will
he said, 'is in private drawer, in tie desk,
which opens by a secret spring, there Civ
! ing a fall description OF it, which the chill
dren do not know of, and the executors live
! in the neigh orhood. Request Mr. Mills
! he said, 'to return To his house after dinner,
and he will find The will, and can see the
executors, and can have things satislactori-
, ~ settled in the family. And, said he, Nam
! ny, we are permitted TO inform you that on
/ Friday next, at three O'Clock in the after
noon, you will die and be with usp oh
James, she replied. Il am uaSt glad to hear
/ il, ! wish il was Friday now well, said
he, be ready, for the messenger viii GER
tanIy call for Won at that hour She re-
piled, don't fear, James by the grace of
God will be ready aud they left her."
Mr.. Mills heard The account with no
small degree Of establishment and conclu-
dcd 10 return 10 The house from whence he
came in the morning. Without the least
difficulty he found the drac6r and 1ciH.-
He also saw the executors, and was pleas
ed 10 find that the will gave full satisfac-
tion to all concerned. On the following
Friday at three clock, pious Nanny died
and Mr.. Mills informed Mr. Watson, that
he preached her funeral sermon on the sue
ceeding Sabbath.
Mr.. Watson remarked TO Mr.. Summer
field, that he had always before been an I'M
believer on the subject of apparitions, but
he die most fully credit this account.
From the Vermont Chronicle, December 81, 1895.
"And ever and anon hear
Times winged chariot hurrylng near,
awhile onward, all before, see
"Nast oceans Of eternity"
The year eighteen hundred and thirty
five closes its account this day. "With
the years before the flood" il goes to min
gle itself in the abyss OF time past. lis e.
vents are recorded where they will not be lost
nor forgotten, and their infinite invoutions
and connections with moral character are
also laid up and await the uniodings ofan-
other day.
Reader, what has been the influence Of
passing events upon you,-both those OF
which Won have been q spectator, and those
in which YOU have been an originator or
participation Times winged chariot"
this day obtrudes upon your notice, bids yOu
review. reflect. aud examine. Few your
words, thoughts, or deeds leave you with
ont affecting in some way your moral CHAR
acter. The total effect OF these for whole
year upon you, in this respect is not small.
II the eff CT has been TO make you better, or
to make you do better, or accomplish more
good, there is matter OF congratulations.
II the contrary is true, then,
Reader. Grimes winged chariot bids
you think that one seventeen part, at the
least, of your lille has fled, during his last
revolution and that fearful uncertainty
hangs over the future. That future may
he 10 you, not time, but eternity. II that
future should suddenly change its character,
be no longer time, but rterniiy,-how will
you confront the array of those events.
which, Transporting in time and passing to
eternity, will rise up tn testify against you
There can be no return to time, the cfaSu
once passed, to reverse or annul the ntluCn-
ces upon character and consequent condi-
ton. Reader, that will be fearful state
TO stand mp in eternity, and hear hcrne on
every wave of It's vast ocean the echO-Iosl
time loSt-invaluahe time forever lost
and with it my immortal soul. Therefore, /
Reader, Chimes winged chariot" bids !
you seize the present moment, and use II So |
that whenever lis flight with you shall be /
stayed, and time be changed for eternity, /
YOU NAV hail the change with Joy and not .
with grief; and If peradvcnture another /
year lie granted YOU, to uso al is days and ,
hours and moments so, that the review of /
its events, so far as You shall have given |
character "r shape 10 them, may he pleas
an'and consnling, whether it be from deaths .
gloomy he'd, or the bright dawnng of the
resurrection morn.