Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-11-20

es without offence.
HE Power OF SoRRow. Sanctifed sorrows what
power they possess. God has chosen his people in
the furnaces of affection. Affections SGnctfed take
the heart away from the vanity of earth, and fix it
things above.
Ii riches vanish, you ready to think Of the
treasures that laid up in Heaven. If honors fade,
you will think more highly of the honor that comes
from God only. If your reputation be injured by
caumny, II will seem a small thing 10 be Judged of
mans Judgment Ii you make yourself,
blessed Saviour did, " of reputaton,'' you will
look up God and enjoy his approving smile.
If friends are removed by death, your eyes follow
them upward, as the prophets did his ascending
Master. If they have gone to rest In the embrace
of their Saviour, you catch their falling MANTLE and
are led to aspire to the same glorious state. Tell
US, young mother, since God took your beautiful
babe and dressed it for the Skies and made angel
of light, has the world seemed poorer aud Heav-
en- more repleie with glorious realities! Tell US,
aged parents, from whom God hath taken daughter
in the pride and beauty of early womanhood, quench-
ing the light of her cultivated talents earth, and
yelling all her acquired accomplishments from the
eyes OF mortas, what think you now of Heaven!
Does 1t not seem more certain and more near, more
bright and more beautiful -?
ask that aged mother who sits inhrm beside the
deathbed of her son, and watches the decay of his
manly form till the staff of declining days broken,
and she Is left to sigh the remembrance of his
infant years and pratte, and his boyish actions and
youthful impulses, and the kind and yearDing spirit
with which he always returned to her in seasons of
absence, what thinkest thou of Heavenly things!
Is not Heaven nearer because earth is drear! Do
not the many mansions glitter more brilliantly before
thine eyes?
] ask that widowed Christian, from whom God has
snatched away the husband of her youth, and the
light of her eyes, and who remembers to-day his
well-known step, and the accents of his voice. ac-
cents that still ring in her when she thinks OF him,
lei thy bruised spirit testify, how do Heavenly things
appear, since the earth is bereft of its chief joy
l make similar appeal to that husband who has
been called to lay beloved wife in the grave, and
has just awakened the fact that he did moi du-
ly appreciate her when living She was so gentle
that you was not aware of the power of her womany
Influence over you, and SO accomplishing that you
did not appreciate her claim upon your sympathles
You think of the brightness of her coGnienance
on the DAY OF your espousals, OF many little con-
vances which she employed for your happiness. You
knew she was mortal, and yet felt that she could
not leave you, that she must not die. But the pale
destroyer came; the bloom fled from her cheek; the
light of her eye quenched; and that face which
had been SO full of life became cold in death. Have
you, bereaved husband bowed to Gods dIspensation
and kissed the rod How, then, do Heaven and
earth compare, after such stroke as this Does
the world appear Paltry naked waste,
GA dreary vale of tears?"
Does not Heaven seem more desirable and nearl
Does it appear you like the New Jerusalem coming
down from God out of Heaven?
Mr.. WEBsrER's DEBTS. The Boston Transcript
states that at meeting of the citizens of Manchester
who had just returned from Marshfeld. remarked:
{" A word about his debts. had heard again and
again that he did not pay enquired of Mr.. Ab0oti.
Said he, - Mr.. Davis, from my personal knowledge
derived from keeping the private accounts OF Mr..
Webster have some opportunity of knowing MOI
bill which has been presented for two or more years
during which have been with him, but 1t has Deeh
promptly paid, and few days before he died he
called the overseer of his farm, and gave him hVe
hundred dollars to pay every man, sent Tor Inc MI"
lister and paid all that was due him. ii shall mol De
said Daniel Webster died in debt TO any man: These
were the words of his private secretary, and bega"
to think those who knew Webster best loved him
most; and, sir, was convinced of II more ana more
as approached Boston to-day"
A FORTUNE IN VIEW. Mr.. John Crotts Coheld'
aged 76 years. died the 2Sh ult al MS reSiuence
in Ann street, where he had Tor seVeIaI years ~
penurous and retired manner IL was oeie'eo
that by his penurous habits he had saved small sum
| of money, earned at his trade, ccbbng ooos anu
Shoes but great the surprise OF his frienus anu
others on overhauling the old boots In the corner Vi
his room, after his death, to IND some oil e
literally crammed with old wallets we'll filled WIN 10
root of all evi'' II is impossible at present to tell
the of fortune he has left, but we have nedlu
it estimated at large sum as 10 seem lncreulDie
5000 900, and what makes it more interesting 10 inc
parties concerned he HIS left will as long as Ile
moral law, well ard faithfully executed, In which 10
DEGREES that his shall be kept in trust for fWeny
years before the heirs, with exception can re-
| ceive any benefit theTeform. Boston paper, ON.
ATTENTION DEMOCRATS. The Democratic party
of this and county have determined to comment
the brilliant and unparalleled Victory u
the Democracy of the country by Supper, Iorcn'
light Procession &c., on Friday night next, l2th
| inst. The supper will be served up In the large
room of the " Pioneer" office, and ample provision
will be made for the accommodation Of all our friends