The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-05-05

WIN an elder sister, who every morning when
me younger children We're about 10 depart to
their separate schools, took them into IA room
ny themselves, and impaired most kindly and
seriouly, such advice, admonition, or encourage.
iheht us had n visible effect on their moral CON
duct, in enabling them both to resist temptation
and to be stea,lfast in trnh and goodness.
But have been much affected with The hsto
ny OF one. who amid the circumstances of pecr-
liar tr!al, was not only to those younger than her
self, but to her parents, and especially TO her
widowed and sorrowiug father as guardian nm.
gel. 1t is more than Il century since Egede,
a native OF Norway, moved with pity for the
benghed Greenanders, left pleasant abode g.
and an afectlonate flock, to become their mis-
sionary. His wife, and four Young children nc
conpaned him. Their privntions and hardshlps
1t IS difficult either to describe or imagine, amid
an ignorant and degraded people, and in that
terrible climate, where rnyless darkness is SUPER
added to the bitter frosts of winter, So that il is
necessary TO shrink into subteranean cells, and
feed necessarily the train. oil lamp lest the spark
Of life should be extngushed
Little Ulrlca saw her mother continually sustain.
ing and cheering her father, amid The labors that
seemed 10 he without hope. She heard her read
to him, by the gimering never dying lamp, from
the few books they had brought from their faith
er.iand. She observed bow cheerfully she de-
MED herself for the sake Of others. and with
what sweet smile she Discharged her daily iu.
ties, She perceived that light and warmth
might be kept within the soul, while all around
was dark and deaolate, and gave her young
heart to the God from whom such gifts procee-
deG.
When the sun, after a long absence, once
more appeared over the icy wastes, glorious as
if new created, and in few moments sunk
gain beneath the horizon, the missionary and his
wife sometimes cmed the high rocks, to meet
the herald beams, aud to welcome their first
brief visit. Ulrca, followed in their footsteps
| obi ;,oI loIyo
and revere the Great Being, who called forth
that wondrous orb with wora and sent him on
brands OF mercy, to the earth, and 10 the chil'
dren of men And when the light Of simmer
whose sun never set, was around them, and
the few juniper and birch trees cleaned out into
sudden foliage, and the reindeer hrowsed among
the moses, and the long days which knew no
evenings, fell upon the senses with "A kind of
oppressive brightness, she sometimes led her lit
tie sister the shore ofthe solemn sea, and raj.
sing her arms some far seen iceberg lowered
along in awful majesty, bnde her fear and obey
the st1od who rulcth the mighty deep, 81 all that
is therein.
The mother was the teacher of her children.
Especially during the long solitude of the
Greenland winter, was it her business and pleas
ure to form their minds, and 10 iortity them
against ignorance g. evil. Ulrica drank the deep
est of this ore.-Ofen while the younger ones
slept, did he listen delighted to the legends OF
other days and how herseifto that blessed Book
which speaks ola CLINE where there is no ster,
il;!y, or tempest or tear. When the father, ac'
panied by the son, older than herself was
abroad in the duties of his vocation, among the
miserable inhabitants OF the sqund cabins, Ul'
RIGA STAT at the feet of her mother, sole auditor,
surrender to her, her whole heart. But what
she learned treasured, for the little brother
and sister. Every lesson was carefully ponder'
ed, and broken into fragments for their wea.
ker comprehension. She dealt ont to them daily
IF oil nS lpny,
Ell. She poured it out warlly, like water in
she wilderness, bidding them drink and live
1t was in:the spring of 1888, that the poor
Gecnianlers visited by wasting epidem-
ic The small pox broke out among them, with
fury that nothing could withstand. Egeio
suming the benevolent office Of physician, was
continually among them He gave medicines 10
the infected, and night and day, besought the
dying to look unto the Lamb of God which ta'
keith away the sins Of the world.'-Dweng at.
ter dwelling left empty aud desoIate, and
the population always thin, in that sterile cline
melted away, as snow before the vernal sun.
Orphans fled to their pastor for shelter, and the
sick TO I've nursed and healed. Every part OF his
house an hospital, where the sufferers lay
side by side. Some who had been his open en'
enes, and coarsely reviled his counsels,
were there, in frightful agonies, so hlon'ed and
disfigured as scarcely to retain vestige OF hn
mainly. One of them, when recovered, came
TO him with penltent and broken spirit, con :
fessed the worth of that religion which could
enable him thus to bless his periecutors.
Through the fearful calamity which lasted
for many months, the wife of Egede, with her
children patiently and kindly tended the sick,
who thronged their habitalion. But when the
| Judgment was Withdrawn and health again vls-
tied the invads, and among the diminished
number of survivors, were indications OF that
| religious sensbty which more than repaid all
her tolls, she herself became the victim of sud-
den decline. Death has come for me-, she
said 10 her husband. In the cold cup which
he presses to my lips there is no bitterness, save
that must leave you while yo1r desires tor HE
conversion of people are nnacron'pist'
To Ulrica, her constant nurse tireless ho'h ni%h'
and day, she committed the younger children
towards whom sho had so long oyinced sweet
combination of ssterly and maternal care. she
hear hose lutte ones wnIIing aroun" hef pea %
com orted them with the hope whereWfh she
was he rselr comforted of God. She dictated
messages of holy love- 10 her eldest son, who
pursuing his theological studies in Denmark, she
| sbould no more embrace on earth And SO, in
that lone Greenland hut, she met the last enemy