Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-20
NUMBER 46.
SELECT VARIETY.
The Departure of the Good.

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| IRE STING OF DEATn.-In a biographical notice.
giving an account of the last days of good man.
who was distinguished for his serene and lofty
ai,h ne is reported as saying 81 appear to suffer,
put DO not. 1t seems as if some angel were stan
ding by me, he bearing all the pain, and this Door
3ody Of mine only exhibiting the outwanl signs of
H. a sIlcklng instance Oft the same kind occur
|Ied not long since within our own knowledge A
iaay OF exalted pety, was suffering from protlact-
| ed ana iatal sickness, and at certain intervals
there came spasns and conyulsions, giving exter-
nally all the symptoms ofintoerable agony! Once,
when these spasms were evidently coming on, and
nef trends were bending over her with anxious
faces, she looking up with a sweet and. TRANQUIL
smile, sad, "Do not be troubled about me- You
| think suffer extremely, but L do not. / know
not how 1t is, but somehow, when those conyul-
slons came on, there comes with them a sense of
the Divine presence an inward power that takes
upon itself the burden of my suIenngs; and these
] spasms are only an appearance."Gtji ,I5u
1t is most beautiful and benifcent law that
when the mind is exalted with great conceptions
or filled with an all-absorbng love, the body he,
comes less sensible to its inirmites and sufferipps
anu sometimes forgets them altogether. Even our
natural affections and passions have power though
in limited degree of suspending our bodily sensa-
tions; "A mother who a little while ago was pale
and dropping under the smallest burdens is bye and
byeseen hanging over the bed of her stricken child:
and how changed from W hat she was! Her coun-
tenance that was SO pale now beams withlife and
the arm that hung down is nerved with enerey-
comes free Of the body, and cold hunger, and IA
tigue are alike forgotten Butreligious faith, when
warm and clear, and its eye open wide on immor-
taty, elevates and changes all our affections, and
then it reacts upon the whole frame and sends its
tranqualizing influence along all its nerves. 1t was
this that made the martyrs almost nsensibe to suf-
ferng, and they to God out of the fires while
singing triumphal hymns. And the Ideals suggest
ed to us that the facts here cited may range Them
selves under benignant and all l-cifclnsl law,
whose operations we experience as yet most mper-
fectiy, and that when our mere belief and make-be-
lief shall change into full reflgent faith, it shall
destroy the sting of death, not merely by giving us
patience to bear the burden its suferings but by
rolling of that burden from humanity. For the
soul, cleansed and inhabited by God, and constant
ly borne out of itself toward the objects it adores
and loves, frees from the more painful conditions
of mortality and enables every day 10 put on in
corruption. Wordsworth has finely described this
state of mind as vG5,l6Es a-.,t5siiz-4y
that blessed mood ,z n y, ,.rsfs f-ly
H. (which the heavy and the weary weighs
so or all this unntellieible world '.-'@'t4 2. y
- Is hghtedi that serene and blessed mood, TrdtSd
1'O In whicirthe affections gently lea on, ,a,qyH
Until the breath OF this corporal frame, j, .,-S
And even the motions OF koo6
Almost suspended, we arc laid asleep iiC ly5E.
In body, and become q living soul
81 Irgo1 ~ ts .l,itssIE ar ,CsIistien hsisrr-