The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-12-04
NO. Xxx.

three---four She begins to grow feeble, requires
some care, is not always perfectly patient or salts.
he'd; she goes from one chd's house to another 10
that no one place seems like home. She murmara
IN paintire tcncs that after all her toll and weari.
ness it is hard she cannot be allowed home TO dis
in; that she must be sent rather than invited from
house TO house. Eighty-eighty- nc-two-three
l-lour i--ah, she is now second chid--now sha
has outlived her uscfulness-she has now ceased tn
be comfort to herself or anybody else THAT IA
she has ceased to be profitable to her carhcraying
and moncy-graSping children
Now sounds out rcverberating through our
lovely forest and cchoing back from athe Hill uf
the dead" Eightyhine There she lies now, IN the
coffin, cold aad still-shc makes no trouble now...
demands no love no soft words no tender little Of
| iiccs A look Of patient endurance we fancied al.
SO an expression of grief for unrequited love, st
on her marble features Her children wcrs lhcFu
| clad in weeds of woo, and in irony we remembered
| the strong mans words "Shc was good mulhuF
in her day."
Whenthe bell ceased toiling, strange the minister
rose in the pulpit His form was erect and HE
voice strong, but his hair was svcry white ha
read several passages of the Scripture expressive Of
Gods compassion to feeble man. and especially "
His tenderness when his gray hairs are Oh him and
his strength faileth. He then made some touching
remarks on human frality, and of Dependence On
God, urging all present TO make their peace with
their Maker while III health, that they might clai,a
his promises when heart and flesh should fail them
"Then' said he, "the eternal God shall be thy rs-
iuge, and beneath thee shall be thy everlasting
arms" Leaning on the desk, uhd gazing intcntly
on the coihned form before him. he then suid RIVER
emily "From little child have hpnurud this
aged but never till gray hairs covered lhy own
head, did know how much love and aSnibathS
this class have right to demand uf their fellow
creatures. Now feel IL Our mother" be added
most tenderly, :" who now lies III death before u
was stranger to me as all these her descendants.
All know Of her is what her son has told me to-
day--that she was brought to this place from sfaa
sixty-nine years ago, happy briIe-that there she
passed most other lifa toiing rs only mothers evsr
have strength to toll, until she has reared larre
family of SONS and daughters---that she left hss
home here, clad in the weeds of widowhood, TO
dwell among her children and that till health and
vigor left her, she lived for you, her decendants-
YOU who together have shared her love and her
care, know how well you have requitet her tod
forbid that conscience should accuse any Of ingrst
ltude or murmuring on accouht ofthe curc she has
been to you OF late When you go back TO yous
homes be careful ofyour words aud yvur examples
before your children for the fruit of yohr own do
ing you will surely reap from them when you your
elves totter ON the brink of the grave | entreat
1ou as friend, Que who has himself entered the
evening of life that you hufcf say IN the presence
'f your families nor Of heaven, Our mother had
,utlivtd her uselulness--sho was q burden to VA
Never, never mother cannot live SO long I'D
hat No when she can no longer labor for her
children, nor yet care for herself she can fal like
precious weight On their bosoms and call forth by
ldf htlpltssrtss all the noble generous feelings pf
heir natures.
Adicn then; poor toil-worn mUthcr-there are
10 more seepeess nights no mon, days of pain for
hce' Undying vigor and everlasting usefulness
lre part of the inheritance of the redeemed Feeble
Is thou vert on eurth, thou wilt be no burden on
he bosom of Infinite Love, but there shat thou
ind thy longcd for rest and receive glorious sym.
pathy from Jesus and his ransomcd fold"