Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-02-28
From the Sunday School Journal.
AARON BURR.


does not hesitate to rank him among the
most unprincipled and heartless ofbertines.
Not satisfied with a licentous career of
more than half a century, he carefully pre-.
served to his last day every record OF his
crimes, and never spoke Of them but with
exuItation. When it is known that such a
man had pous paren;s. it is natural 10 in
quirc what facts his life furnishes in corrobo-
ration of, or as exceptions to, the principles
OF education. and the promises Of the BIZ
bic? We regard the case, as far as the
only volume Of his yet published carries
his history. (the forty-6ur;h year Of his
age as striking instance of the power Of
religious instruction in infancy, requiring
many years of bold opposition TO the force
of conscience wholly to overcome it. 1t is
a case Of fearful warning to the children of
pious parents.
The father of Aaron Burr was a dis.in.
guished clergyman, and the first President
of the College Of New Jersey, at Princeton.
His mother was the daughter of the cee-
brated Jonathan Edwards. the second Pres
ident of the same College. Both his pa
rents died before lie reached the third year
of his age; yet the piety Of his mother, and
her prayers on his behalf, were frequently
broughtto his mind By the letters IN which
she mentioned him uhilst in his infancy.
His biographer inserts a letter written by
his mo!her to her father, few months after
her husbands death, which letter was en-
closed to Col. Burr, by a pious lady, with
the following among other remarks -
Here in The wiIds Oft | have found
an extract Of letter, written by your ines
timable mother, nearly sixty years ago, of
which you ARE the principal subject, and a
transcript of which shall enclose for your
pcrusal. The enclosed is CAL
culated to excite mingled sensation, and of
melancholy and pleasing nature. The
hand that penned it is now among "the just
made perfect" Your molher had given
YOU up by faith. * The great Au-
gustne, in his early years, was an inhdel
! in his principles, and liberunc in his con-
due. which his pious mother deplored with
bitter weeping. But she was told by her
friends that ''ihe child Of so many prayers
and tears could not be lost;" and i, was ,veri-
fed. to her happy experience, for he after
wards became one of the grand luminaries
Of the church Of Christ. This remark has
often been applied to YOU; and trust YOU
will yet have the happiness to find that SHE
prayers OF the righteous" have ''avacd
much"
Some expressions in the letter Of the
widowed mo:hcr may serve TO remind pa
rents how well it is to be resigned TO the
will of God in removing their children; on
this ground, among others, Of the uncer-
tainty OF wha. ihcrl future characters may be.
Nv little son has been sick with the slow
fever ever since my father left US, and has
been brough; to the brink of the grave.
But | nope, in mercy, God is bringing him
up again. | was enabled 10 resign the
child (after severe Struggle with nature)
with the greatest freedom. God showed
me tha: the child was not my own, but his,
and that he had right to recall what he had
lent, whenever he thought fit; and had no
reason to complain. or say God dealt hard
with me. This sicnced me But how
good is God He hath not only kept me
from complaining, but comiorled me by
enabling me to offer up the child by faith.
* After much selEexamination
and prayer did give up myself and ch'l-
dren to God with my whole heart. y x
O, 10 be delivered from the power of Satan
as well as sin! cannot help hoping the
time is near. God is certainly +:tng me
for himself; and when think 1t will be soon
that shall be called hence, the thought IS
Transporting. -
But, made an orphan at so carl rIy an age the
influence of his parents had scarcely any
time to make an impression upon his mind;
and it IS stated that when he was about four
wears old. having been offended by some
one who had charge Of him, ne ran from
hnnlc and WIS NO tnunA for 'kr"c or four