Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-08-27
LADIES' DEPARTMENT..
Written for the Spirit of the Age.
I'D A M A Y.
BY CHAs. E. w. DOBBs.

BY CHAS. E. w. DOBBS h
Reader, come 90 with me into this love =,
ly wood the distant sound of a waterfall q
strikes our ears we pass on and a quiet
murmuring brook meets our delighted eyes. q
Flowing on, playing sweet music as it rip o
pies over it's pebbled bottom now foam q
ing into eddies as it meets an obstruction v
in its course, but defying, it laughs and Il
rushes on. A beautiful scene is this, but h
WI mustnOt drink all the pleasure ourselves, y
God made the brook for all and not for US q
alone. !
Upon a seat, close by the brook, formed a
by nature, sat a young girl. She looked z
as if no care or trial had ever dimmed her |
bright eyes with tears. Fair and beauti- ;
full, young and graceful, kind and loving
WIS sweet Ida May, and as she sat now,
seeming to drink in the sweet music Of ma
ture, with her fair forehead resting on her
hand she was indeed beautiful, a fit sub
iect for a painter artist from whom to form
a Venus. But as happy as Ida seems, a
deep care and sorrow is in her heart she
has a lover, one who loves her with his
whole affection, and his love is reciprocal
ted, but alas he loves the wine cup and
her young loving heart sees and trembles
at his danger. * = :
Six years previous to the commence
ment of our sketch, weeping friends are
gathered around the bedside of one beloved
and honored by all who knew her, she is
now about to pass away from this world of
care and trials, and to soar to mansions of
infinite Love. Death has no terror for
her, she trusts in Christ, her faith is on
r. II L. IL, =. L.. e. - = -
bled to shout 90! Death where is thy
sting Z"
"Will he never come, will he desert his
/, dying mother" comes from the dying wo-
! mans lips.
eyes Mary, he will come we have sent
for him, he will be here to-day"
n " Frank, my son, why don't you come ?
long, long days and nights I've waited,
: and still you never come, why did you not
# stay and sec your mother die !? Oh! God
take from me this pang, let me once again
behold tho pride Of my life, the joy of my
N soul"
eyes, dear mother | have come, your
prayer is answered." and a young man
~ broke through the crowd and fell on his
mothers neck, and tears ran down his man
ly cheek as he gazed on her sinking form
Thank God" the dying mother ex
70 claims, "the bitterness of death is past"
Frank looks towards the physician wht
is standing by the bed but he sees no hope
No his mother who shielded him in infanc,
re must die, and he weeps again.
Weep not for me, Pm going home,
NJ soon shall be at rest, and never more sha,
II, sorrow, pain or trouble break over my wear
for soul. Dry up your tears, Frank, and 20
we also my dear friends, weep not for MT
ltb Good doeth all things we'll" remembe
this great truth. Put your trust in Hin
He will sustain you in the dark hour
trial, when danger surrounds you, whe
friends desert you, He will be your frier
70 and He will bear you up. And when yC
come to die, He will carry you throue
oor- the dark waters of death with songs of 81
not ry on your lips. Put your trust in Hi
and my friends, make him your stay, yo
guide and protector, and all will be W
1 70 with you. Farewell. | 90 to my Faith
in Heaven. Farewell" The dying chr
tian closed her eyes and was no more, S
that had gone to join the Angelic choir abo7
and to shout songs of JOY and love amo
b;s the redeemed in Heaven. She had
"Diedlike one who wraps the drapery of his COT
i. about him
oice, And lies down to pleasant dreams"
SER Mary Leslie was buried. A long c.
course of citizens had followed her to ]
aid; long home. Frank was inconsolable.
v to had left home a month before his mothe
death, to 90 to New York on business, a
n ?' the first intimation of his mothers sickn
Dor was a Geographic despatch for him to b
ther. ry home to see her before she died.
le at Ida May at this time was twelve ye
from old, but having lived adjoining to n
N be Leslie she had been with her much
she had learned to love her. She 10
and her because she was a pleasant old Ia
was and because she always had a smiling
have for little children. She loved her beca
over she told of the infant Savior and of
rself, Father IN Heaven Her young heart
Jay at rent by this separation, ana hlrs; Lat
only had not a more sincere mourher IMAM
and ing Ida May.
little
Six years have quickly flown and Fl
only Leslie is twenty-four years of age.
fiji. ring three years he has been in the b
of tasting Of the wine cup. He had
gotten the dying words of his chris
can we mother. He had forsaken the path of
tue for that of vice. This change
arging been brought about by friends ~
lr girl first entlced him TO go 10 the par
you them, then to taste Of the poisonous b
norant, age himself.
not a Frank had learned to love LA May
ally by his whole soul, he had told her OF
o assist she had acknowledged hers In retul
g kind him, and now both looked forward to
Ocent a. union with pleasure.
!, out Of = =
lonely, We will now leave this ramblin
you come again to our starting point.