Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-10-04

| love tic little birds md green trees and
pretI" lowcrS, but sill the world looks cold
and dark, and ! want to be away" MY
dear, VIC must wait our Fathers time.
Though evour body is horely and deform.
cd. God las made your spirit perfect, and
that, you know, will never die. while the
most beautiful body will crumb!e to dust.
I'"ink, my dear, of the great blessings you
have received, and do no. repine for those
which are wilhholdren." 81 will, mother,
and be grateful 10 God for giving ne such
mother, who has tanght me to be patient
and conien;ed under my trials. / might
have been i-natured, and envied dear cou.
Sin Mary for her beauty, had God given
me different mother"
The widow pressed her closer and closer
to her heart, and the child and the mother
wep: long and bitterly. Ellen, many and
many, have been the tears | have shed over
you in your infancy, for we'll knew that
if your life was spared, all these trials
awaited 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 less happy
mother than yours, Ellen"
81 will be patient and happy, dear moth.
er. that may grieve you no more" said
little Ellen, throwing her arms sbour her,
mothers neck. Poor Ellen was scarcely
eight years old. She had been suhiected
from her infancy, TO the though,less taun,s
o. her young companions, and even when
they lorbore their unkind and inconsiderate.
remarks. they often indirectly and uncon-
scious y wounded her sensitive nature, and
helped to break her young and gentle spirit.
She was, indeed, sorely stricken her body
was sunted and deforlned, and her face.
with the exception Of very sweet and in.
teiiiscnt expression; was remarkably plain.
She became thoughtful, contemplalive, and
affectonate, and dwell so much on the han.
pIness ofheaven that she longed to Law her
down and die. The widow felt that the
desire Of The child would be grati6ed. She
saw her lille frame vas wasting away, and
bright unnatural fire gathering 10 her eye,
while her countenance sometimes ware an
expression almost ofbeau,y. Her Young
spirit seemed already disenthralled from
every earthly passion and feeling, and
g!owed with az intensity of love, a stretch
of intellect and depth of thought, .ha: seem.
ed aImos supernatural. Her suferings
were SO Sigh, she was able almost to the
last, to go about the house, and busy her.
self, with her books and flowers. A few
moments befor, her death, she laid herself
upon the sofa. saving" mother am wca.
ry Nh! will sleep" The mother felt tha. i.
was he, last sleep. She kissed her cheek.
Ellen opened her eyes. and looked up +;
smother, you will be all alone when l am
gone, bu: shall be SO Happy, you won.
wish me back, dear mo:Fer. How very
good our Father in heaven is TO lc. mo 90
so soon I" She half raised her little arms,
as ifto embrace her mother they lell back /;
little Ellen had left the body. Mrs. G. felt
that she was,indeed,a widowed and childless:
woman, but size scarcely wept. She lived
many years like one who felt she was
stranger and pilgrim" here, administer.
.ngto the sick, end relieving the wreched,
and was at length buried by the side Of her
beloved husband and Ellen"