Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-05-06
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LAST DAY OF EVE.
NV MIss MARY lANN.cHEsTER.


rude couch. The western wind famed
herpaIe cheek, and played amidst her
grey locks. Near her sat her husband.
Eve turned her,eye upon him with look
of sadness, yet ofdeep affection, aud as she
saw his wrinked brow, bent form, and head
ofsnowy whiteness, seemed 10 call TO mind
other days.
Inwardly she reproached herself. cab!
not thus was it saw him, when frs; given
to him by our God. Where has vanished
that mauly form-where is the elastic step
the eye that beamed with bright
ness-where now The rich and mellow
voice? Alas, how changed! And it was
I who tempted, who destroyed him. the
wife-the cherished .companion--l bade
him eat, and now what's he, who but for
me had known neither, pain, nor sorrow,
nor age. And what remains Of her on
whose beauty he then gazed with unsatiat-
ed pleasure? A trembling, wrinkIed-form,
just sinking into The grave. Where is now
;thatparadise with its rich frui,s-that bal
my air, which brought OH every breath
tribute to each happy seuse-those rays
which warmed but never scorcled -! And
sadder, sadder still, where now is that bliss
full intercourse with Him who made us
rich in the happiness Of living. His voice
is no longer in our ears-driveu from bliss
from scenes so lovely-lhe earth cursed
sin, sorrow, and death, the inheritance
ofour children"
Our mother was overcome by the rush
ofrecolections. Her eyes, long dry, found
new fountains, and her aged form shook
with deep emotion.
1t may be that Adam had been induI-
sins in musings not unlike, for he was
startled, as if from a reverie, by the emo
tions of his wife. The old man placed
himeslf beside her-she laid her head on
the:bosom which had SO often soolhed its
throbbings. "What ails thee, Eve?''
"Oh, my husband, how can,t thou show
kindness 10 her who has done all this -
Thou vast young and knew only happiness
and all around was formed to delight our
every sense, and l who should have
sreugthed thy virtue, fell, and dragged
thee with lne, the partner Of my sin, to
this deplh Of ruin. And after few years
of toll and anxiety, We are about 10 lay
these worn out frames in the dust.
"Bu, for sin, we had lived in perpetual
youth, and feared no change. The threa-
tened death has worked slowly but surely,
and now his works nearly done.
"The first 10 SIM. it was meet that i
should first return to the dust. Had the
guilt and the curse been only mine, might
endure it, but see thee now, aud com
pare thee with what thou vast, as it seems
TO me but yesterday.
'.A few days will lay thee low. Let
our children lay us side by side in The cold
earth. 1 know not why it Is, yet seems TO
me there will be pleasure in the mutual
dissolution of our bodies as if there were
something of consciousness in the lifeless
dust. Little Of comfort as is now left in
life, yeti cannot endure the thought that
Bua1f mreTfy CEASE IU.DB. =:
Z" Adam, thou hast often given me words
of consolation. Is there augh, can cheer
me now, / anlto bid the farewell.
Thou seest yonder sun-thou wilt a.
gain see him rise and set-he is bidding
me last adieu.
"Sense shall soon cease forever, and no
light shall again enter these eyes,"
The old man wiped the tears that fell on
the wrinkled brow of his partner. A sud-
den light was on his counleuance as if a
new lamp had been lit up in his soul. Eve
saw il, and il brought to her a gleam of
hope; she gazed on his face as if death
had lent new powers to her faded vision.
"First Of women, (said ADAM, claim
no prominence in guilt-together we sin.
ned-togerher we have borne the punish
ment. But there is redemplion-lhere is
hope.
"Whilst thinking of the fearful change,
which betokenedlo my heart that its part
ner was about to be taken away, a heay-
emily light beamed on my thoughts, and
taueht me 10 understand the visions which
have often visited me on my couch. We
shall not die-there is costly ransom pro-
vided. We must sleep under the cold cath,
but we shall rise again in the freshness Of
youth which we first enjoyed; and, puri-
fled from all sin, we shall walk in our
Eden seven times more beautiful than
when we FIRST roved amidst its fruits and
flowers.
"And there will be the ten thousands
who, inheriling our evil natures, will have
found powerful Physician-and there
will be that mighty Physician, whose pres
ence shall wake ten thousand harps to
melody.
"This earth too, so long-so grievously
cursed for our sin, will come forth more
than purified from every stain, aud in more
than its pristine youth.
"Thou wilt 60 little before me 10 the
grave; but we shall rise together with the
glad shout of gratitude, and with us mil
lions on millions Of our posterity ransomed
from the CURSE"
Adam paused-his eye fell on tie face
Of bis wiCe-a smile seemed to play in the
brightness of hope upon her pale lip, but
the heart had ceased to beat, aud that sleep
had fallen on her which the trump of the
Archangel only shall disturb.
, Machinery Of the Human Frame.-Very
few, even to mechanics, are aware how