Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-10-27
The Late Miss Maryare, Mercer.

The public papers have announced the decease
Of Miss MARGARET MEscER, Of Belmont. 1t 10
due to tina character Of one 80 universally esteem.
ed. SO good. and so prominent in public useful.
ness. to which her life was devoted. that her vir-
tues should DO commsmora,sd beyond the passing
notice Of her demise.
It would be difficult in brief notice to oivo
outline of career which comprises 90
much of interest to the human family; but i, will
bs interesting 10 those who have been for years
anxiously watching the progress of her labors,
to lea that her task is done, and thai she has
gone to rest in the full assurance Of q blessed
Immortality. With physical energies enfoeb lsd
by disease. and always unequal to tho combna.
tons of hor active and nquiring mind, she NAV
be said 10 have bsen retarded in reaching the
summit Of her earthly fame; bet VIVA, she has
done has seldom boon accomplished in so brief a
ca reor, and her success in the midst of 80 many
opposing obstacles must only serve to fill tho
measure of her earthly renown. With an in.
tellect Of the highest order. ranking her at once
by the side Of the most distinguished of her sex,
she living example of the effect of that
beautiful system Of practical pie,y which has
been handed dawn to US by the Saviour of tho
world. Her gaze. in the midst Of all tho tempia.
ton with which she was surrounded, was stead
lastly fixed upon the great object Of eternity. and
she may be truly said to have lived for the benefit
of mankind.
For the last seven or eight years Miss Mercer
has be a resident Of Virgini1. Taking up her
location in a remote neighborhood-amds. obsta-
cies too fnrmida BILE to be surmounted bv ordinary
perseverence-sh livod to witness the complete
triumph Of her untring zeal, and tho accomplish
mont of hor most favorte plans. In passing tho
highway which conducts the stage to the Belmont
Seminary. an humble spire in adjacent wood
marks the location Of n noat ltllo church, built
by her own interchangeable labors. 1t was here
that tho last sad Offices of love and respect were
paid her.
Tho big tear that glis.ened in the eye of tho
hardy yeoman; the suppressed sob Of tho almost
broken hearted widow and orphan; tho shreks Of
numberless dependents, who had lost their only
stay in this world. proclaimed that a more shan
ordinary occasion had called them together. It
was here in this little templo that the triumph of
her labors developed. each succeeding
Sabbath called together tho objects or her un,r-
ing solicitude. The orderly and well.conditioned
multitude that threaded tho avenues leading TO liz
approach. gave abundant evidences that a mas,or.
spirit had been at work, and that the mighty hand
of civilization was directing them to the waters
Of eternal life.
Blu, her task is now done, and it will be for the
blessings which she has dispensed with 30 lavish
n hand to proclaim her irrepa bio loss. In dis.
interested love, in universal benevolence, in self
sacrificing devotion to all the principles Of her
faith. in boundlcss and ending Charity who
shall surpass the brilliant example which che has
bequeathed us?-Nat. Intelligencer: