Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-10-25
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| forming dvire service and meeting the So
ciety in a school house belonging toa res.
pec,able nei ghbornood in the western part
of the empire s;ate, the writer called on his
old friend w. to PIT up for night. |.
was IN the dusk OF an autumuai evening IN
he ysar Is.
The rites ola hospitable snpper were per
formed, the evening passed in friendly and
pious conversation, and was d,ly closed
with thanks to he Giver of all good, and
with supplicalion to Him for the saliva ion of
all the souls belonging TO the family. Soon
after this the younger par ofthis i'osptab G
household retired, and another agreeable
hour was passed in The society of the old
gentleman and lady.
These, the former Of whom was well
stricken in years, were enjoying til COM
forts of a second marriage. the old gen
,leman had long been member of our
church, bat truth cons'rains US to acknowl-
ledge that, although a moral man, he was not
very warm hearted ana active chr'stlah.
A daughlsr Of his BY "a former marriage,
some eighteen or twenty years OF age, was
we'll disposed and agreeable, and like her
father memtsr Of our communion but,
like him also, she was, to all appearance,
deficien 10 sad extent, i'll zeal and vital
tnty. Mrs. w., who was some fifteen or
i"enIy years the junior of her husband,
was at this time fory or forty five years OF
,ye. She was women Of cnhol c spIr.
it, of strong faith and of deep devotion.
Though OF ano her church, she was in
habits of attendance on the means of grace
among us and it had been upon her invi.
talion, Us n, arly as the writer recollects, that
he ha become a gu St of The family on
his ,,iul occasion. 4 daughter others
y, a former husband. and who is the prin-
p subj CT OF his Iarra'v'. was h only
end or, at least, the oity one resident IN
the family at this time.
She was at the age of sixteen, and un-
dou5tedly ha,ered by u vain world with the
idea of her beauy; and III sober soolh, she
was not without preten,ions hat short
lived but dangerous thing. But, alas !she
had a heart full Of pride and sin. God was
not IN all her thoughts. She felt no thank.
tuuess to him, no dependence or him, and,
Consequently, that holy Being, it is feared,
m' never seen her devouily kneeling be.
or; him, nor heard her hearts language Of
prayer or praise ut morn Or even. In
short, this young and amiabe creature, for
she had won the tavorable regard of rela-
tives. affinity and Iri'nds, was an unhum
bed sinnrr-a lover Of pleasure more than
lover OF God. These Iour with the ex-
cepton of son Of the old gentleman who
bears no conspicuous part in our story,
ccmpos d the family circle.
Tie scene properly opens at the hour Of
ten in the evening. 1t was then that the
writer, on walking out under the open sky,
was sruck by ,eles. s.ia spectacle, inprs.
sing at once the idea of the novel wi h the
grand and solemn. From subsequent in.
formation it ;p ,"ars that, about two hours
le re, the ar,tc ocean had rongly rad.
atcd the mort ern part Of our hemispher,'
wi the well known yet mys er,ous fluid
which under tn name Of northern ligh-
(a rora CoreaAs) has long eluded the pill
81 he, and reused the admiration and
sometimes the apprehcusions ofthe common
brLoG,r. After tlrowidg itself INTO thou.
Sd, fantastic sir"p's a. d performing a
III us nd fan asiic cv' lutions resembling Il
daLce o. spIri;s, it rose, dense curain Of
UNA NJ white, lcasin- he clear cclu .au
beneath it. |, continued slowly rising, US
fi.s bright mass had been IIf:ed W til fiji
Guilty by IA strong wind, while its affinity for
itself. IN the ratio o 9 8 ce ir m ''
influence originally ocLng upon :s w"s
cons an,ly operating upon 1t to diminish its
width. so that blythe time il passed the 10Th
or slh degree en- its journey TO the mid
heavens, it had acquired the character ola
well defined arch. whose bases were the