The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-01-07
TIE LETTER.

May He who has the power, and always the
will, when earnestly. humbly, ard devotedly
entreated, support and comfort you, my
brother. shall not point to the treasures
thut remain to you in your surviving children,
and their mother, dearer than all OF these put
together. No,I have felt too deeply how little
power have words that play round the head
to reach the heart when it is sorely wound
ed. The common places of consolation are
at the tongues end OF all the self-complacent
and sat SIZED, from the pedant priest to the
washer-woman. (They who don't feel can
talk.) allure them all. The father of Lord
RUSSELL, when condoled with according to
form, by the book, replied, IL would not
give my dead son for any other mans living"
May this thought come home to your bosom,
roo; but not on the sameoccasion. May
the spirit OF God, which is not tn chimers OF
heated brains, nvr--Jorice of frighten and
caiole the credulous, but IS a. m" lexis
- 90 Ia, can be felt and understood as Viz
t~s..-r--;.. -. OF your own heart, or the love
you bore 10 him that you have iost-may that
Spirit, which is the Comforter, shed his in
fuence upon your soul, and incline you heart
and understanding 10 the only right way,
which is that of lite eternal.--Did you ever
read Bishop BuTLEs's 4 naiogy! Ii not,
will send it you. Have you read the book
What say upon this subject. not only
believe, brt | know to be true-t..ut the
Bible STUDIED with. an humble and contri;e
heart, never yet failed 20 do is work, even
with those who from idiosyncracy or dis
ordered minds have conceived that they were
cut of from It's promises OF lite to come.
"Ask and We shall receive; seek AMI We
shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto
YOU" This was my only support and stay
during years of misery and darkness; and
just as | had almost begun to desp ir, after
more than ten years of penitence and prayer
| it pleased God to enable me to see the
truth, to which, until then, my eyes had been
sealed. To this vouchsafement, have made
the most ungratetul returns. But ] woulC
not give up my slender ortion OF the price
paid Tor our REDEEM ption-yes, my brother, ouI
redemption-the ransom of snners-of al
who do not hug their chains and refuse tt
come out ON the house oil bondage-I say
that would not exchange my little portion
in the Son Of David for the power and glor,
of the Parthian or Roman Empires, as des
cribed by Milton, in the temptation of on
Lord and Saviour-not for all with which tn,
enemy tempted this Saviour of man.
This is the secret of the change Of m
observed within few years past.
! Alter years spent in humble an
contrite entreaty that thu tremendous sacr
fee on Mount Calvary might not have bee
; made in vain for me-the chiefest of sinner
it pleased God to speak his peace into n
heart-that peace of God w ich passe;h a
; understanding to them that know it n.
and even to them that do. And although
!, hal tn
time misspent and faculties misenploye;
although my condition has, on more than oe
/ occasion, resembIed that OF him who, havig
one evil spirit cast out was taken possessil
of by seven other spirits more wicked TIN
: the first, and the first also; yet | trust TT
d they, too, by the power and mercy of CT,
Y my be, it they are not, vaDguished
: But where am running to! On this subJt
a more hereafter. Meanwhile, assure yourif
: of what is of small value compared with at
q OF those who are a piece cf yourselt-of he
e unchanged regard and sympathy of yr
h mothers son. All. my God! remembeto
e have seen her die. to have followed heto
O the grave, to have wondered that the In
J. continued to rise and set, and the ordcof
|! Nature to 90 oil. Ignorant OF true relign,
" but not yet an atheist, remember tn
J. horror my impious expostulations with Cd
= upon this Recommendations not yetan
IS atheist" The existence of atheism as
DR. been denied; but was an honest one. tne
lie began and Hobbies finished me. / lad
er Spinoza and all the tribe. Surely I fe by
no ignobe hand. And the very man (-)
who gave me Hume's Essay upon Han
80 Nature" to read, administered "Beattie' ION
IA TRUTH as the antidote Venice trcle
I'd against arsenic al d. the essential oil filter
Ii, Almonds bread and milk poultice fthe
of bite of the cobra capel!o.
lie Had remained successful pocal
- leader might have been a Christian But
re 1t pleased God that my pride should beor-
he titled; that by death and desertion / .uld
lose my friends; that, except in the YES of
q maniOc, and he. too, of u child "pessed
by deaf and dumb spirit" there shounot