Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-01-31
A MOTHERS LOVE.

| 10 the report Of the coroner's iuques,
upon the bodies brought to this city from
the Sound. where the life that inhabited
them once persisted. we read tha, round
the upper part Of the body Of child was
found green veil, partly burnt. IN this
| touching circumstance we find the last aci
OF that passion which ceases only with life
- mothers love. Ceases, did we say (!
Never! II is Of heaven, heavenly-ollied
TO the essence of Deity. and coelernal with
the soul which never dies. In the mothers
love, to he last moment that the trembling
spirit fingers in i's earthly tenement IN
its increasing strength az life wanes, strong
cs, as the soul ia futterng TO depart, we
read the best natural evidence Of the truth
Of revealed religion. In the las, smile Of
mother upon her cff:pring, where the
attention of friends smoothes the dying pll
low; but more than ALL in the mothers
convuIsvc embrace OF her child. in he sea
son OF peril, where there are none 10 help
lin the frantic clasp which death makes
only more rigid. are affecting testimonials,
better than oil the others to immortality OF
The SOUL. A mothers soul is in her love
Of the children she has borne-and when
should that soul be more free. more like It's
| source. and less selfish, than a, the moment
its ShackIes of clay are loose? Forgive Us
il the scH,men, be sacrilegious-bul 20 us
it seems an,,'date OF HEAvEN-a manifesto.
ton Of the DEITY.
The ages Of terror that passed in the
| few hours antecedsnt TO the deaths ct the
sufferers are more painfully described m
this lt,le evidence Of mothers care iar
her child, than in volumes of description
We can read in it her retreat to the last
corner Of plank upon the wreck whc'
would yield support TO the horror stricken
passengers, at the greatest distance from
the devourng fire; we can see the child
face buried n moment il the bosom wheel
had yielded n sufficient shelter against a.
its apprehensIons of danger, previous Il
that awful night The terrific screams o
The weak, and the more violent despair o
those who were cast down from iancie
strength to conscious impo,ence--,he con
fusion Of the appalling scene, and the Ger
,ainty OF unacceptable danger, apparent eve
to an infant. would force lts face, in vii
alright from it's temporary asylum. II wa
then. os she bound her terrified child TO he
I breast amid the horrors and dls,ractir
5 cir cumslances Of that moment, that, desplt
p Of every thing which might draw it away
g her heart was centred upon her chic
K 1t was then that she interposed the feehl
barrier Of a cause veil between its face an
r the flames. Had feather, in air passe
: her, it would not have escaped her after
r nd cho ,uouId hova Int hoA 10 n
f,iiuess of mo,bcr'e tope, to huve piac
= between death and her infant. For bel
" self she had not a thought and could tn
e attitude IN which she last srood alive
u painted, we would stake our life upon tt
fact that her body shielded the infant
u from he fire and that the veil was draw
II over lis head to project the features whlt
5. childish waywaIdness, terror. and curiosi
1t would not permit the mother to fold in b
J, arms. But both are gone now--and I
IS who saw their last moments and their ter
II porary separation in death. sees them aga
unite. While God lives their iren
re monrn not as those without hope.
'e Did the world need this lesson to tea
}" Us our obligations to our molhers--l
x unrequited debt of love, due from the no
e Of travail which gave Us birth, through t
'e years of mental pain for orr prospect
grief for our adversi'y9 Child imp
q, :, tent Of thy molher-be thy years infant
$ or mature, remember that 10 her thou {
g. still child: and when the pride Of fanci
- superiority would make thee impatient
her womanly, and, it may seem 10 thu
NJ childish suggestions. think of the burn
$; threads ofthe green vell.-N Y. paper.
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