The people's press, and Addison County Democrat. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1838-1841, 1841-05-25

conferred vacant cerk'shp until his health
would enable him to resume the duties OF his
ministerial Office: 81 see no company Oh Sun-
aay, and dine in plain way; but shall he al
WAYS happy 10 see you at my table, for love
10 have the clergy with me on Sunday.
In this connection it may be proper TO state
that. al his own hospitabte mansion at Norm
Bend. when the infrm health of Mrs. Harrison
would not allow her to attend public worship
elsewhere, Gen. II. would often obtain The SER
vices of a clergyman for the day and remaner'
are him literally. 1t has also been stalled 10
s,e by a member of the family that, some years
since, he accidentally became acquainted with
4 vo,,pq Minister of the Methodist Church In
Indecent circumstances, whose native talents
and powers of mind promised extensive use
fitness If properly cultivated. Gen. ii. kindly
invited MIN 10 become member OF his family,
and offered him the use of his library until well
prepared for the exercise Of his ministry. This
yeung clergyman is now a distinguished and
srccessfnl ioborer in the vineyard of our Lord.
OF late years, notwithstanding his having e.
rected mostly at his own expense, church IN
lis immediate vicinity, yet, not being able To-
surport Il clergyman for the regular services OF
The church, he was found ia the habit OF leaving
his home on Saturday afternoon Tor The sole pur-
nose of attending the church in Cincinnati, OF
which the Rev. j. T. Brooke is Rector, twice or
thrice a day. He also frequently attended
stated weekly lecture.
From the day of his Inauguration, it was his
inyariable practice to rise with the GAVIN Of day.
and, after reading the Scripture, 10 take walk
for exercise; and seldom did he breakfast or dine
without some old friend or acquaintance partak-
inu of his hospitality. In this manner his whole
tirac was occupied. Occasionally, II for mo-
meat disengaged from his official duties, and the
press of visiters he would steal away from his
family, and visit sore of his old acquaintance,
with all that cordalty and generous good feeling
so characteristic of lLewaIn-hearted soldier and
devoted friend
HIS DEATH.
With this brief notice of past events, We come
10 the closing scene OF the melancholy drama
On Thursday, the 26lh of March, in short
interview with him, he complained of being quite
unwell; and this indisposiion continued to in
crease until the exposure OF his person in the
iacrning walk of Saturday brought on severe
chill and fever which the best medical skill could
net arrest No human prayer could stay the
ravages of his disease. The community geDer-
ally. in this CITY, without distinction D! party,
manifested much anxiety for his recovery, and
in great numbers daily and hourly called at his
residence with anxious inquiries Tespe' ting his
sickness and its probable result. Its violent and
exciting character seemed. in the opinion of his
physicians, to forbid the usual religious services
N his sick ROOM, lest they might produce an I'M
iayorabie elect.
On Saturday evening. the 81 instant, about
O'clock on approaching his slck-bed, his strength
appeared to be rapidly fs ling and as little or no
hone could be entertained of his recovery, few
OF his friends united with me at his bedside in
that "comme nGatoTy prayer for sick person at
the point of departure" to another world set forth
in the service Of the church, 10 which he appear
cd to list with silent attention and approba-
tom About 80 minutes before one O'Clock, by
the watch held in my hand, On the morning of
The 4th Of April, he gently brealhed his departing
tpirit into the hands ofhis God and Savior, and
sunk to rest without the movement of a muscle
of his cnnnttn2nce, struggle or a groan. Thus,
after one short months eleTation TO The highest
station and horors which earth can besIow, he
has passed away fiom all the troubles, sorrows,
and trials of mortality trust and believe, 10 the
possession and enjoyment Of an unfading crown
of glory in tie realms Of Eternal Day. For,
whatever n ay have been his character and con-
duct in lorne T years, of late an evident change
had Ieen observed by his friends in favor Of true
religion.
On Sunday evening saw him in his winding
sheet. with "a c,uulenance mild and placid as
when he expired.
The next day, after being placed in his co fin,
the public were permitted final, farewell look
of the Chief Magistrate Of this 9:eat Republic,
the President tf nearly twenty llionl of people.
It is said that not less than ten thousand paid
their respects TO his lileess remains.
TIE sadness ana gloom obviously marked
on all countenapceS now spoke the silent Ian
guage of grief. The victim Of death-th the emf
nrnt parsonage who so recently occupied the
first pace in tie gilt of his country, whispers in
the voice Of solemn st Illness thai tie Great Des-
.Ioyer has come among us; that the igbty cor
Guerer of man in every age, for nearly six thou
sand years, has winged his flight ItheI, and fell
ed 10 the ar;h one who had been distinguish
in arms, in the ccunsls OF his country, in all the
excelencies OF private life. How exalted the
mark How distinguished the object How fatal
The blowi The arrow was sped by the arm OF
Omnipotence: the victim fell-he lies beneath
the cold earth 10 rise no more until the voice of
the Archangeland the trump of God, on the NOR
ming of the Resurrection, shall call his reposng
dust into spiritual ife. Fur SHE trumpet shall
sound and the dead shall be raised, incorruptib!e
and we shall be changed" and summoned 10 the
final Judgment.
In anticipation of this coming event. and of
the awlul!y momentous consequences involved
in it, our deeply lamenIed departed friend, was
mol unmindful of the needtul preparation. 1t
has come to my knowledge that, for some years
past, his mind has been deeply impressed with
the important concerns of eternity, and that lie
had frequently expressed hi. confident faith and
ropes in the Son of God, and had been for some
time DESTROYS of uniting himself in communion
with the church, and intended doing so as soon
as the recent political excitement should have
passed away, whether it terminated favorably to
lis elevation to the Presidential Office or ether
wse. This holy purpose, it is understood had
he survived was intended TO be consummated on