Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-02-09
mTha Loved and Lost

"The Loved and Lost"
What scene more impressive and Christening
than the death-bedo of the young and beautiful
and to the Parent gazing on the fair one,
fading and dropping as the beautiful rose,
how sorrowful and h~eart-rending the trying
ordeal. She, around whose existence is en-
twined the purest affections ola Parents heart,
and whose expanding grace and loneliness
called forth the fondest admiration and filed
the heart with joy and pleasure-she, the
idol of the family circle and the light and
life of the house-hold-to be smitten by the
ruthless hand offell disease her rosy cheeks
s%upplanted by the paleness of the Higher
happy, Joyous laugh turned into the whisper
ings of suffering and weakness-herful rOun-
ded form wasting away, and the bright, dan
cling eye assuming the CLASSY, cherries Wis
age of death-Oh. it is soul piercing, and the
doting Mother may well shrek in anguish at
the loss of her bright jewel, and the strong
Father bow in sorrow over the desolations of
his stricken house.. But if, amid the gloom
and anguish ofsuch a scene, the pale sufferer
gives assurance to weepingfriends h although
fevers rage and pains rack the frail mortal
tenement, there is a quiet joyousness within
that the SOULS ready to be freed from its
prison-house of clay to take up its abode with
Angels and the Just made Perfect, in Heav-
en-, what a halo of Glory lights up the room
, and seems to fill the very atmosphere with
the odor of Paradise. IT'S then the hearts of
stricken ones grow calm in grief; and they
rejoice that she, the loved and worshipped
one, though cut off in the s~pring-time of life
+ and consigned to the dreary winter ofthe tomb,
that the pure free spirit has taken its flight
4 where
"There's a perpetual spring, a perpetual youth,
No joint benumbing cold, nor s%corching heat,
Famine nor age have any being there"
: Suggested by the following touching lette
from a bereaved friend, the above thought
filed our mind, as with sympathetic grief, "
condoled with him in his affections. Heavel
grant that this dispensation Of Divine Prov
idence may prove a fruitful admonition to a
her friends to meet her in the blissful real
ties of Gods glory. Gentle HELEN! thong
- thou art gone from as, yet we are console
to know, that,
- Gas the bird to its s~heltering nest,
=" When the storm on the hills is abroad,
So thy spirit hath flown from this world Of unreS
To repose on the bosom of God"
on L1LEsvILLE, Arson Co., Jan. 81, 1858.
My daughter HELEN is dead!-Nor J
dead, but SIeepeh what is mortal in the tom
ioe while the freed spirit, re-~invigorated by Il
ot,,OcChoco &C Heaven IivoC md hlOnpac e.
ever! She had but entered her fourteen
ter year, yet her religious exercises and convc
bo1 sation gave satisfaction to the pious frien
- who visited her during her illness, that \
~ heart was stayed on Christ, and had be
get washed by the rcgenerating influences
an His blood. Consoling thought!
She was, you know, a subscriber to yo
excellent paper, and on her death-bed exa
ed a promise from me that it should be &C
Co tinued to be taken and read in the family
IL and here send the means to comply VI
les. that promise. The number of the Age Il
reached US after the death of our dear daus
ter, contained an article most appropriate
my case. | have it now by me, and shall
ways preserve it carefully. Would that
be- might have grace to make thegood ~resolut
HELEN was a firm friend and advocate
TempeTance-a member of the Union
Daughters at Carolina Female College, a
hug often wished for effective Lecturers to co
and in our midst, to win men from the death
the cup. And when the great White '
with us last week, | could but think how
SON. would have reioiced her to SEQ on;ta . nm
nan Der signing the Pledge-and she did see i
for there is joy in heaven over the sin.
,h1o that %repenteth-"
Continue to sendthe Age in HELLEN'sn MAJ
mes and believe me,
over Your afflicted but faithful friend
and NELSON L. LII