The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1847-07-23

Leighton's extravagant habits had left
nothing remaining of his handsome froper.
ty for his wife and daughters. They were
stripped of their luxurious home without
means, and almost without friends. Their
gay mode Of life precluded them from max :
ing friendship among that class 10 society
whose hearts can be bought without gold i,
and retained in its absence. And it took
/ but the recital once or twice their mas
fortunes for their friends with an express
sion of commendable spiriD to drop them
! into oblivion.
] Ellen had ever participated in the FASH
ionable rounds Of pleasure more from the
circumstances Of her life, than desire.
Now that the desolating hopeless. feeling
OF unreqnited loveswas oeginnins 10 gnaw
at her heart, and her bereavement had so
overwhelmed her with grief. she was not
sorry to be thus thrown from any farther
participation in the heartless pomps and
vanities of the world.
Not so her mother: she had not, like
y
| Ellen, turned her Thoughts to higher
things, and was now Without an anchor on
which TO rest hope--plunged in the
wrechedness of wild despairing grief
Struggling with the depth Of her own sor-
rows, Ellen turned her eye steadiix. with
the same faith in her Maksr WHICH had
kept her souncontamina ted ~ lie pomp
and show around her, and soasgiit 10 sus-
tain and comfort her desponding parent,
and turn to their advantage those accom-
| plishments she had been so sedulously IN !,
strncted in.
After some months, through her ener-
| getic endeavors she was enabled to open
school in country village some distance
| from the city, near which their former
couniry-seat as situated. Here she vas
enabled to obtain livelihood for herself
aud mother and educated her little sister.
Here she labored for years, daily increas
ing in knowledge and the wisdom ofGod;
educating and leading her young at1 cted
sisters mind TO heavenly pursuits; bear
/ ing daily with her mothers uncontrolled d
murmurings aud regrets, and by patient
endurance seeking to win her affec ions
from earthly to higher or more lasting joys
until after few years of patientateil
and welldoing, she was permitted u cap
tlae rinh-rewarl Of soeiag her mother tafl
pleased in her Savior, rcgenarate and
holy member Of His church. Her young
sister, the only being left her now whose
affections she could claim as her own had
grown to woman's estate, thought sadly
! deformed creature, from spinal affect
iioa, yet being of bright and rarely gift.
ed intellect. Ellen had watched her all
her life with the deepest love and solici.
tude-like tender vine, she had wound
and embraced berselfsu around her heart
! that it seemed its very chords, and to sep>
arate them from it, was like tearing
asunder those which bound her own. But
her grief had been chastened into cheer
ful submission, and as she observed the
daily bright expanding intellect and holy
christian advances Of the feeble cripple,
50 ripeuing for heaven, she would not, /,
by single wish, retain her a moment
from its bright inheritance for her own
selfish love. Without murmhr. she
wat ched the increasing heavenly radiance
of her mental powers, and decreasing Of
the ply sical, until, after her painful life
end ed she laid her in the d eep silent tomb,
and stood there beside ii, aione!- alone in
this cold world! She might well have ex>
claimed with the Psa lmist-'My lovers
and friends hast thou put away from me,
and hid mine acquaintance out Of my
sight:' but she had experienced through
all her trials the tender love and watch
ful care of her Heavenly Father, aud she
said, raiher-'The Lord gave. and the
Lord has takea-blessed be The name of
the Lord!' for through much tribulation
they had entered heaven
Edward, too, had toiled on with heart
scared with disappolntment--str
against The wretched feeling of loneliness
which depressed and embittered the cup
of prosperity which he was otherwise
drinking. Yeais of prosperous toll had
passed, yet in the midst of the accumula
tion of his Golfers his heart felt poor and
wre tched, and returned with bitter year.
nings to his early love. His uncle and
family had never manifested much solicit
tude to know Of his welfare, and in the |
bitterness of his disappointment, he had
ceased TO bold any Intercourse with them,
and gradually, as years rolled on, los, all
trace of his early friendships. lie had
amassed large fortune, and his generous
nature recoiled at the ignoble idea of de-
voting il only to the selfish desires OF his
own heart. Still in the prime of life, he
began % feel strong yearnings to revisit
lis native country, and travel among her
" yondergrown cities and institutions. lie