Litchfield enquirer., 1857-08-27
Whole No. 1637

reclaim and raise Ter fallen sisters. Many was the rebutf she met with-many the scoff from profigate lips but still she was neither daunted nor deterred Vice had for her no pollution no repulsion still she persevered and though her words were often spoken in pain, yet may they often have brought com- fort to some sin laden heart, or awoke centri- tion in some first sinner. As instances of her failures and disappointments, she used often to tell, with playful humor, slightly dashed by sorrow, how woman who had frequently been tenant of the jail, and had always left in feigned state of repentance, on her coming for the sixteenth time, greeted her with
 Well, ma'am 1 must surely be converted this time'
 Perhaps the mild teachings and sweet truths so often tolo, may after many days, have been as bread cast upon the waters, even to this hardened heart
 Gentle sister loviug heart thou didst thy mission in love. There be those coming after thee who will employ threat, rebuke and disci- pline, where thou vert wont to use persuasion, and strive to force or torture mankind into goodness by forms and penitential processes. They may succeed but we believe, as thou didst, that Gods work is to be done by gen. tie influences that Gods messages should fall on the heart softly as evening dew that Gods promises should be waited on the eoul with the gent!eness and fragrance of south wind. that Gods truths should shine on the under standing Ike the summer sunshine. Sweetly does the memory of thy good deeds rest on many heart, and sweetly, doubtless, has their incense risen to heaven.
 There were other cid ladies who had no mis- sion save that of their gentle degree, whom VIC regard as goodly relics of the past--the old gentewomen who sat and moved in 8 certain state and statelinesS, and surrounded them- selves with dignity which won deftrence of those who approached them. We associate those with higll-backed chairs, in waiuscoted parorS, hung with dark portraits, with old tolio-picture bibles with peasaunces and lau- relied walks-with avenues and partcrres- with peacocks and Blenheim spanicls--with gold-headed canes, ebony cabinets, and won drouS cultures. We defend not those head dresses they stand in evidence againat us in back numbers of the Ladies Magazine. But we remember sitting with great pride at our first play between two turbans-one yellow, one pnk-and retollect regarding the gold faced watches which hung pendent from the glrdles of our patronesses, as an almost A lad din realization of wealth and spIendor. Love- y were those gentiewoEen often, in the rich ness and mellowness of their decline iustrat- ing, by their serenity and peaceful repoSe, the beauty and holiness of grey hairs--not mock ing old age in carrcature of youth, nor scar ing young hearts by the skeleton of their own life
 There were old women, tco, whom we regret -old servants, old nurses--garrulous chatter ing, stuhy old gossips Q Age they were pleasant old women withal told pleasant sto- res: had an unproGtable habit, when their functions ceased, of regarding those whom their care brought into the world with sort of fos- ter affection, and had pleasant way of bring ing back by story and anecdote, the image of our infancy. These "reminiscences were not however, always gratifying to our stripling pride. We remember once, when standing six feet without our boots, and arrayed in our first London suit, being rather humbled at hearing of period when we hadn't shirt to our backs, and might have been squeezed into quart pot.
 We have done with the old age of the past
 let it sleep its sleep.--Blackaoood.