Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-07
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pure instructive interesting book, made attractive
by sentiment thought and expression is indeed bene-
faction to the reading public For such gift our fire.
sides indebted to Mrs SIooURNEY of Connecticut
beautiful volume, entitled Examples of Life and
Death, has been contributed with the year to the
religious literature of libraries by this gifted and
pous lady In perusng this captivating volume we felt
if wandering through rich gallery Of antique por-
traits where the STERN manly faces of heroes and martyrs
stand in bold relief beside the gentle features of the
beauties of oden me and where the appropriate cos
of the age sheds the whole indescrbabe air
Of reality. II is delightful to wander through the gale
ries of the past with agreeable and gifted cicerone
Those who love philosophy teaching by example,
win select this production of Mrs Sigourney as classic
in this description of writing 1t would be- indeed re-
proach American community be supposed capa-
BILE of overlooking native pen brilliant as to have won
spontaneous appreciation and acknowledgment from lead
ing minds on the other side of the Atlantic
One Of the most gracefully told Of these delightful
sketches the life of Ann Eo the wife of the "Aposte
Of the Indians" 1t is sweet domestic portrait We
select the following passages the describing her
val the bleak shores of New England the morning
of life andhope the other presenting the calm and beau
tifu evening of life whose decline glded by the
cheerful beams Of affection:
The comforts that modern science has invented for
the traveller the trackless deep then unknown
No noble steamer with its lofty deck and luxurious state
rooms appeared with the promise of speed and safety
and with power to make winds and subseryent
its will. Only frail rocking barque was there which
the pillows seemed to mock Wearisome days and nights
and many of them were appointed to those who adyen
tured their lives in such craft Rnt the afanced bride
shrank not. Often amid storms mounting up to the
heavens and going down to the depths and long by the
reary prospect of and Skies and by the oathing
which neither pen tongue hath descrb
cd the complexion of her love and the fabric her
faith tested and both triumphed At length the New
World stretched thin cloud to their view More tary
than seemed the movements Of the vessel
lowering upon the coast, the autumnal brnce of Ame-
rcan forests and thickes the crimson the orange and
the umbered brown blending, recedng and contrasting
beneath the bright of October sum- struck the
daughter of the DINNER skies of England as gorgeous
| dream of fairy land.
Scarcely than ten years had elapsed since the
colonists at Plymouth first set foot upon the nowcad
rocks tenanted only by wild beasts and savage Though
visible progress had been made during that peod in the
accession Of household comforts yet many of those luxu
ries which we are accustomed to count mcessares
were unatalnable. Carpets sofas, the sheltring
tans and the FURNISHED CRATES of the motherhnd with
their neyer-dying coal fires unknown Yet the I'M
adorned apartment and homely board beautiful to
Them for love was there love whose entreness per-
fected and made permanent by having its root in the
love of Saviour In the autumn of the following year
1888, their frstborn fair daughter smiled upon them
waking fountain of unmngled ioy and mailing their
hearts more at home in the stranger land The cradle of
rude boards rocked still ruder floor But I'll lullaby
OF the young mother gushed out with rich melody
IN Daroma ha ana doubly sweet the wilderness
seemedthe hallowed balf-inspired words of Watts:
Hush my dear lie still and sunber
Holy angels guard thy bed"
81 And so years stole on with their silver hairs
Ann Eliot struggled not with time for the vain semblance
OF those charms which he must bear away but was con-
tent with the beauty that belongs cheerful yenerated
bengnant age; that better beauty which hath less in
of earth and more of the heaven which it draws near
Still she safe peacefully and lovingly by the side of her
heavenly hearted husband More than fourscore years
had passed over them. Their minds we're unimpaired
and their charities in action Life to thm was pleasant
with halowed memories and hopes thatneyer die The
scenes of bygone days cleaned before them through
the soft dreamy haze of an Indian surimer-the woes
Invested of their sting and the joys susmated They
spoke to each other of all which they had borne with the
same humble gratitude. This love of their old age
seemed like that of angelic natures Yet useless
they, forgotten. No was weary Of them. The
tender attentions of their daughter herself in
the of years, but cheerful and vigorous
wearied and beautiful 1t supposed that she had
overrued in the prime of fe alurements
for herself that she might devote her life to her parents
and comfort them for the children they had lost Doubt
less such al piety brought own high reward Some
times the venerable Pastor assembled the pulpit and in
voice enfeebled though still sweet besought his flock
love another Still to the armchair of his aged wife,
where by the bright wood FIRE and the clean hearth she
sate those who suffered and she gave medicine
the sick, and food to the hungry. Thither also
the poor forest children longer lords of the soil Hum
bled in heart and sad, they found christian welcome
They told of a country where there is
crying and urged TO make the king of that country their
souls friend. They loved him who had toiled give
them the bible and had baptized their children and laid
dead in the grave with prayer They loved her who
had smiled kindly upon and pted their sick babes
though they were her Their dark brows
furrowed with they marked the increasing in
rmtes of their white father and mother for they said
When these go the land of souls, who viii remember
the poor Indans?"
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