Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1848-12-14
From Meals Saturday Gazette.
TRUST INGOD.
A SKETCH FROM REAL LIFE.

SNbitii fhOi REAL LIFE.
Arrived at that period inlifc from whence
| can calmly and dispassonately look back
upon the past, and contemplate the varied
scenes through which have journeyed, |
am strongly reminded, and feel deeply con.
WINGED, that it has been through confident
reliance and an answering Trust in God"
that | have been enabled to surmount the
many difficulties, and bear up under the af-
flicting trials that have throDged my path.
way through life.
Time was when to me the world was all
bright, its flowers all beautiful-a favored
child Of fortune. From youth to manhood
the ruder blast Of adversely never penetra-
ted the shield interposed by mothers love
or the protecting influence of fathers
wealth--from the one inherited love for
mankind, from the other the means to which
the world ever pays differences and servlle
adulation. l had troops of friends-they
clustered around me as bees around fra.
grant flower, to pifer its sweets and leave
it TO wither, wilt and die.
Wealth, friends, station, influence, these
were all mine, yet there was a void in my
heart; there was something wanting which
| sought and found in a creature fair as e'er
bloomed upon an earthly soil; heaven smiled
upon our union, we were blessed with chill
dren, and our home was a paradise, but alas
for poor humanity,
The SPIDERS most attenuated thread,
Its cord, its cable, to mans most tender tie
On earthly blss--it breaks at every breeze
1t was not long ere felt re full truth OF
the above quotation. A crisis arose in the
monetary affairs of the country; it swept
tornado like, with desolating strides, from
the chill waters of the Aroosrock, to the re.
gion ofeternal flowers, and when the storm
had passed, and the sun peered forth again
the turbid stream of bankruptcy bore upor
its bosom the wreck and shattered frag
ments of health, wealth, peace and happi
ness. Need say that my fortune was {
wreck, my ruin Gin pecgniary point o
wiser Nature had endowed me with {
heart susceptible to the wants of others, al
ear never deafto pleading, and a hand evel
willing TO execute the promptings of the
soul. | endorsed, and the oft.tod tale wal
repeated Some for whom suffered nov
roll in wealth, but are no longer friends t.
me. Thank God am enabled TO live, ant
would scorn their friendship as | despis
their groveling souls. | leave them t,
their conscience and their God, with al
, abiding trust in mine.
If wealth departed and friends forsooI
me, was "richly rewarded, douby re
compensed by the love of wife and chill
dren, which rose superior to misfortune
and if possible, burned with brighte
flame as trouble thickened around beaut
fully reminding me of the evergreen. whic
twining its tundrils around the sturdy oal
seeks beneath its protecting foliage a she
/; ter and home, and which oosens not il
grasp, but clings with yet fonder tenacit
: when the tree has been blasted and rive
! by the thunderbolts of Heaven Strip
of its verdure, it stands forth, exhibiting /
every eye the plant before unseen, seekn
) with its tiny form to protect the s,ructur
" which had sheltered it,