The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1837-09-29

better world sBut mother, can ever
stay to be as Old as yoa are ! love the
little birds aud green trees and pretty flow.
ers, bu, still the world looks cold and dark
and | want TO he away My dear, we
must wall our Fathers time. Though Your
BODY is homely aud teiormed, God has
made your sp,lit perfect, and tina, YOU
know will never die, while the most heauii-
ful body will crumble to dust. Think, my
dear OF the great blessings YOU have receiv.
ed, and no, repine far thOse that are with
I holden i will, mother, and be grateful
to God for giving ne such mother, who
has taught me TO be patient and conlented
under my trials. might bave been lima.
,ured, aud euyied dear cousin Mary, for
/ her beauty, had God given me different
mother.
( The widow pressed her close and close,
to her heart, aud the child aud mother wept
long and bitterly. Ellen, many and ina.
Inv, have been the tears have she'd over
( YOU in your infancy, for | welt knew that Il
your life was spared that all these trials a.
waited you. But my prayers, that You
might be blessed with a spirit TO bear them
have been answered. Your good aunt,
with her beautiful Mary, is a less happier
mother than yours Ellen
| will be patient aud happy, dear moth.
er, that | may srievs you 10 mole, sand
little Ellen, throwing her arms about her
mothers neck. Poor Ellen was scarcely
eight years old, She had been subjected
from her infancy to the though.ess taunts
I OF her young companions, and even when
4 they forbore their unklnd and inconsiderale
remarks, they often indirectly and uncon-
sclously wounded her sensitive nature, and
helped to break heg young and gent.e spur
1t. She was indeed soreIy slricken; her
body was sunled aud deiormed, aud her
lace, with the exception OF a very sweet and
intelligent expression, vas remarkably pam.
She became thoughtful, cou,emplauye, and
aiiectiouaie, and dweIl SO much on the hap
piness of Heaven that she iouged TO lay her
self down and dc. The widow tell that the
desire Of The child would BIZ gratiied. She
saw her little frame wasting away, and a
bright, unnatural fire gathering in her eve,
while her countenance sometimes wore an
expression almost Of beauty. Her young
smni seemed already Disseminated from ey.
cry earthly passion and feeling ard CLOS Cd
with an intensity oi love, a stretch Of intel
Ioct aud depth q thought that seemed al
most supernatural. Her ssdsnuas we're So
sight she was able, almost to the last 10 20
about The hous.., and busy herself With her
bprks ard flowers. A few moments before
ner death size lad herself upon The sula,
.asiug,' mother, am weary aud Ntii sleep.
j lie mother ielt that i vas her last sleep.
che kissed her check. Ellen op@ufd her
eyes, and Looked up; mother yuu w.l BE-
all alone when am gone, but | shn! Is 50
aappy, ynu wont wish me back, Leur ITO
tner. How very good our father "a tcas.
eu i, TO let ne % "a soon She half fais
I'd her little arms, as II TO embrace her mo.
lher they tell back, httle Ellen hig Left the
body. Nlrs. @. felt that she vas udeed 4
nIdoaed and ebglelcss woman. bu, she
scarcely wep,. She lived many year, liky
one whn elt she was stranger ana pal.
grin here administering tolae SEX aud re-
iicsug the wrelehtd, and wss a, length bu
RED by the side Of her beloved husband ana
Ellen.