Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-11-29
WAS IT PROVIDENCE,
Nov. 10, 1874.
ny MISS sEDGWIcK

Take, for example, young girl, bred del,
icately in town, shut up in nursery in her
childhood, in boarding school through her
youth, never accustomed either 10 air or e1.
ercise, two things that the lao Of God makes
essential to health. She marries her
strength is inadequate TO the demands made
upon it, Her beauty fades early. She Ian.
guishes through her hard offices of giving
birth to children, sucking and watching over
them, and dies early. "What a strange Prov
idence, that mother should be taken in the
midst of life from her children !" Was il
Providencel Mo- Providence has assign
ed her threescore years and ten a term
long enough TO rear her children, and to see
her childrens children but she did not obey
the laws on which life depends, and Of
course she lost it.
A father, too, is cut off in the midst of his
days He is a useful and distinguished citi-
zen, and eminent in his profession. A gen.
eral buzz rises on every side, of "what
striking Providence % This man has been
in the habit of studying half the night, of
passing his days in his Office and the courts,
of eating luxurious dinners, and drinking
various wines He has every day violated
tn claws on which health depends. Did Prov
idence cut him off The evil rarely ends
here The diseases Of the father are often
transmitted; and feeble mother rarely
leaves behind her vigorous children.
1t has been customary in some of our cit
les, for young ladies 20 walk in thin shoes
aud delicate stockings in mid winter A
healthy, blooming young girl, thus dressed
in violation of Heavens laws, pays the pen
atty; a checked circulation, cold, fever, and
death. "What sad Providence p exclaim-
ed her friends. Was it Providence, or her
own follyl
A beautiful young bride goes, night after
night, to parties, made in honor of her mar
riage. She has slightly sore throat per-
haps, and the weather is inclement, but she
must wear her neck and arms bare, for who
ever saw bride in a close evening dress (!
She is consequently seized with an inham-
nation of the lungs, and the grave receives
her before her bridal days are over What
a Providence ~ exclaims the world ecu,
off in the midst of happiness and hope p
Alas did she not cut the thread of life her.
self tst
A girl in the country, exposed 10 our
changeful climate, gets new bonnet, instead
of getting a flannel garment. A rheumatism
is the consequence. Should the girl sit down
TRANQUILITY with the idea that Providence has
sent the rheumatism upon her vanity, and
avoid the folly in future Look, my young
friend, at the mass of diseases that are in
Cured by intemperance in eating or in drink
ing, or in study, or in business; also being
caused often by neglect of exercise, cleani
ness, pure air by indiscgeet dressing, tgh
lacing. &C., and all is quietly imputed tC
Providence Is there not impiety as well al
ignorance in this? Were the physical law!
strictly observed from generation TO genera
ton, there would be an end to frightful dis
eases that cut life short, and of the long lis
of malades that make life torment or tri
al. 1t is the opinion Of those who best un
derstand the physical system, that this won
derful machine, the body, this "goodly tenn
Pile, !" would gradually decay, and men would
die, as if falling asleep.