American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-08-03

S'JOSh iOi WlllClA hou LOlO0 o. 'ShH' ANN
did not even refer to his DEATH In the mag.
nanimity of his great heart, forgetfu of himself
or else not daring to trust his feelings in an al
fusion 10 his fate, he closed his sublime address
| in the following touching language: "The eter-
nal God ID thy refuge, and underneath are the
everlasting arms; and he shall dwell i'll safety
alone. Happy art thou, o Israel! who is like
unto thee oh people saved by the Lord, the
shield Of thy help, and who is the sword OF thy
excellency." Noble language-nob heart
Carried away in the contemplation of his chill
dren's happiness, he burst forth into exclama-
tons of Joy in the moment of his deepest dis
tress. But did not that manly voice talter and
that stern lip culver as he advanced to bid them
his last adieu? For moment the rising emo
| tons checked his utterance. They had been
the companions of his tol-the objects OF his
deepest solcitude. A common suffering, a
common fate, had bound them to hlm by
thousand ties. He looked back OH the desert
it was past. He looked forward on Canaan: it
was near. He turned to the people, and they
were weeping. He cast his eye up Nebo, and
he knew he must die. Although 10 complaint
| escaped his lips--no regret fell from his tongue
a deeper paleness was on his cheek and sterner
strife in his heart than he had ever felt before.
Though outwardly calm, his stern natuIe shook
the struggle was over. His farewell was ech-
oed in melancholy tones from lip to lip through
the vast host as he turned to ascend the noun
tain. AS he advanced from rock TO rock, the
sObbings of the multitude that followed after,
tore his heart-strings like the cry of child its
parents, and it was long before he dare trust
himself TO turn and look below. But al length
he paused on a high rock and gazed moment
on the scene at his feet. There were the white
tents of Jacob glltteiing in the sunlight, and
and there the dark mass of lsrael's host as they
stood and watched the form of their departing
! leader. Those tents had become familiar to
him as household scenes, and as he gazed on
them now, far, far beneath him, and saw the
cloud overshadowing the mysterious ark. sigh
ofunutttr ah!a sadness escaped him. He thought
of the bones of Joseph he had carried for forty
! years, that were TO rest with his descendants,
while he was to be left alone amid the noun
tains. Again he turneu TO the ascent, and
soon a rock shu! him from view, and he pas
sed on along TO the summit
There God miraculousy spread before him
! all tho land OF Canaan. He stood speck on
the high crag, and gazed on the lovely scene
Jordan went sweeping by in the glad sunlight,
Palm trees shook their green tops i'll tine sum-
mer wind, and plains and cities and vineyards
spread away in endless beauty before him. But
ah, methinks he saw more than the landscape
smiling beneath the eastern sky. The history
of the future was unrolled before him. He saw
the spot Of Bethlehem, and also the star that
hung over it. There lay glitteling liz the land
scape the sea of Galiee, but he saw more than
the water; he beheld the mysterious form walk
ing there in the midst of the midnight storm
He saw Jerusalem in its glory and DOWNFALL
He heard the birth song Of the angels, and
last of all, mysterious mount rose before him.
wrapped in STERN and cloud, through whose
gloomy fodngs cleaned cross. The clouds
rolled away, and 10, the Strength of Israel, the
Refuge Of Judah, hung in death. Again the
vision changed-the sepulchre was open, and
like an ascending glory that form rose to hea
ven
The scene vanished from his sight, and with
the rock for his couch and the blue sky for hlE
covering, he lay down to die. Oh, who car
tell what the mighty law-giver felt, lett IN thai
dreadful hour alone! The mystery of mystic
ries was 10 be passed. No friend was beside his
couch TO soothe him, no voice to encourage
HIM in that last, darkest of all human strug
giles. No one was with him but God, ant
though with one hand he smote him, with thu
other he held his dying head. How long was
he dying God alone can answer. Wha
words did his quvering lips last utter God alone
knows. Was his last prayer for lsrae?-hi
last words of the Cruciied? From that lone
ly rock did shout 60 up-"Oh Death, where
is thy sting Oh Grave where is thy victory?
OF that last scene and its changes we know
nothing, but when it was over, Moses lay {
corpse on the mountain top. And God buriet
him. There he slept alone--the mountain
cloud which night hung round him was his on
l.. III ha no otorn
: his only dirge. There he slept while centuries
rolled by, his grave unknown and unvisted, un
til at length he IS seen standing on Mount Ia
Dor, with Christ, in the TRANSPORTATION. Owe
: Jordan at last-in Canaan at last.
will not speak7here Of the instruction thi
scene affords, but from the very summit of hi
sorrows, where he had gone to die, Moses TO
tho first time in his life, caught view of Ca
naan. He did not know as he went over TIT
rocks, torn and weary, how lovely the prospec
was from the top In this world it frequently
Il happens that when man has reached the place
: of anguish, God folds away the mist from be
= fore ms eyes, and the very spot he selected
:, the receptacle of his tears becomes the plac
u of his highest rapture.
For thirty days did the raelites mourn at tn
d base of that mountain over their departed lead
81, and then mournfuily struck their tents am
q moved away. Consecrated by the death .
1t Moses-recevng his las, prayer and last SIGH
:. Mount Pisgah stands the th!rd sacred moun!ai
:, on the earth.
AN INDUsrRIous OLD LADY. Hannah Pei
}, ny, wife of Seth Perry, of Hanson, Mass
ninety one years Of age in JANUARY last, perform
l. ed the following labar in one day:-The week
Is washing for family of four persons, spun on
:. skein of yarn upon an old fashioned spinnin
10 wheel, walked a mile and then picked qua