Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1848-07-20
Fur the L,tcAaeld Enquirer
ARBITRARY.

LOUISA A. CAMP, wife Of Ralph q. Camp.
Esq, and daughter OF Deac. Merritt Clark, aged
70 years, died at NOItn6eld, OF small pOx. Oh
the 29th vi June.
DEATH, under any circumstances, is a solemn
thing and a solemn thing il is to consism III.
remains of the departed TO their last resting
place. But peculiarly so Is II. when DISEASE
comes IN such a form as to smut out from the
sufferer the active sympathy Of friends anu
wi hen the last off, of kindness, the burial oi
The dad. must be pefioi med al midnight
midnight mooniess aud starless. Yet. such
burial was hersi But. as we stood around be,
grave. and 81 W. heaped up the earth above her,
we fell that even from such grave, the g,av'
oI her we loved, there cleaned the first ray Of Il
glorious eternity hey, nj. We feli--and we
could not be mistaken, for we had known her
from her childhood upland we had been init
Inaiely acquainted with the exercises oil het
mind at aud subsequent TO the time Vi her con-
version-sce felt, and SINGER, ~ do we pray thai
all her friends may teel. she 10 not dead. but
s'eepslh-M0t lost, but gone before. May they
through the clouds and darkness Of the present
look with faith TO future Ie-union with her
in glory and immortality.
We knew her, like the sensitive plant.
shrinking from the touch ofthe out door world
We knew her possessed Uf a fIneness OF feeling,
OI u uellCdCy VI eSHk'ucHtt tudt WWtu Su9i"
not appreciate, and Tor which, because it c"uid
not appreciate, il blamed her. We knew the
purity aud nndying ardor of her affections, AID
we believed her when she told US in half lu.
ED interval the morning before she died, that
she INDUCED not feeling Of unkindness to-
" ards any living being" We believed her
..xlt from this world TO be but the entrance
to q world purer, fairer, happier for the path
she was Uead,ng 10 path that leads onward
and upward forever.
Dealt, coming as he did in . manner 80 IN
expected, had hung round her couch and round
her dwelling, his darkest curtains but we felt
assured thai her iuneful spirit, so thfillingly
sensitive TO The discords Of esrih's jarFing ma
chinery--sc highly exalted ab"ve ell that is
vulgar or mean aud 80 EN- aptureds AS we had
known il 10 be. with even . moftats vague
imag inings Of the iuture--hsd passed from
eAnh TO the full Tuition oi those unseen glO-
ries which lie
Beyond the visible dlurnal sphere
We knew that. though torL from the embraces
Of dotiAg husband. from The child Of her ose,
and from friends, she had iound . caiWeT.
swreter res, in the bosom Of her God We
knew that the pearly gates were open for her
admission into that wcrld where no hopes arr
crushed. where no poison 10 poured into the
hearts pure iountain. and into that Temple
where, without one note Of discard.
Anthems OF glory INCREASINGLY roll"
We knw that in that better wOrle she might
satisfy her spirits ken. With the contemplation
Of all parer. hotter things A; d how. though
we cannot wholly rspTess these linge' ing,
burning ,houghis ii mouI ming. We hear still
small voice whispering, II Is sceH! Even
"AfIection's elf reprovesihs tear,
Which falls, Louisa, on shy bier"