Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-11-27
" I'D shall reid away fhe Stone
freht ts7c door of tlic se;sgE.CisTe !''
by II. B. STOWE.

c stone of utter, hopeless separation. Sine
the beginning Of the world there it ha
= hecn-no tears have melted it no pray
ers pierced 1.-THE children of men, surg
: ing and complaining in their anguish 0
bereavement, have dashed against il
only to melt hopelessly backward as
, wave falls and goes back into tn
:. ocean?
Nothing about the doom of death i
80 dreadful as this dead infexible 81
lence. Could there be, after the passage
Of the river, one backward signal-on,
last word, the heart would be appeascd
There is always something left unsald
even when death has come deliberately
and given full warning. How much
more when it has fallen like the lightning
and the beloved has been wrenched from
life without parting look or word
Walter Scott, after the death of his
wife, wrote What shall do with that
portion of my thoughts that have al
ways been in the habit Of telling only to
her And after death. for many and
many weary days, the heart throbs and
aches with things unsaid and which
can be said to no other-tor each friend
takes away portion of ourselves
There was some part Of our being related
! to him as TO no other, and we had things
to say to him which TO other would un-
! derstand or appreciate. A portion Of
our thoughts has become useless and
burdensomc; and again and ag,in. with
Involuntary yearnings, we turn to the
stone at the door Of the scpulchre. We
lean ag9nst the cold, silent, marble
but there is no answer-no voice --nci-
ther any that regarded
There are those WHO would have us
think that in our day this doom is rcvcrs-
cd that there are means which have
the power to restore us the communion
Of our lost ones. How many q heart,
wurn5 and tortured with the anguish of
this fearful silence, has throbbed with
strange, vague hopes 1T the suggestion
| Uhen we hear. sometimes, Of persons
Of the strongest and clcarest minds be-
coming credulous votarics Of certain
! Spiritualistie circles, let US not wonder.
If we enquire we shall almost always
ca t,,a+ +ta holicf las followed some
stroke of death-it is only the indication
of he desperation Of that hcart-hunser
which in part it appoases.
.Ah. were it true. were It indeed SO
that the wall between the spiritual and
a.at.r;aI ,.','t - ',rou,inr tb;n and a new dis
,a,'s.' - ,,or,,;,ot;nr IN which conmu-
- v.;,b The 6onartod ble,t shall be
a',.,. 49,, .La ,rr;veIo' a. and nossibil;tcs nj
~ H',. ,,,t,.oI st,ta, Ali. were it so
.ta. 49, ,,.I,an ,ro .,a f,rtl, w,e3ino in the
''.''. 49,, ,s.,'a ,oar;,,., s,,o.s oo3 o1ors
-rh,ab Wa Ian to noor forth for the be-
1a,.a5 d.,l ,Tc sba31d indael find the
s,oo, rolI.1 away. and an angel sitting
-,
D.. c. -, f,,c s.,no must i,c rolled
10y ~. 80 a., ,,,nrost;on,h,o anrcl whose
,'"' y 80 " - 90 rho l;qhtn;,r who
aa,L,T,L ;,o,Ie bv naIe
o1-1e"ts, ~, ~ y, st,rl;,ht NJ roll: hack
- ~ c,;r onon mornin, and sits
'10 ,rh.. ,.o ooull bln.s Cod fo,
III IL, -; ,lty Off and with love and awe
l'1 ~ ,, ',,3 .o,oa +olc nm Nat blessed fel.
,'''.' ,,.;,,, o~n+aar lifc and weave il
,'l,',,.., a'. AVA ,rn.tinoly into the web OF
.I,-.I.a,: ,I,9'.', ooYr.a
0"l ,',''-' ~ s,,,L arenI have wc seen. NJ
- '' lite II, nn9qosfionablo elorions
srIa a.';r,.,.t;,ns co,.,''' Ana when VIC look a,
,nhat = o4;erci 70 ms nh who that has .
r.;', na' = baavon could wish thom to rc.
.nr, 'r'f IN s. such wise as this? The very in
s,;na. af s,c,e1 sorrow seems to f5rbit
Ilat on. - hoaYt;fnl our olor;ed one,
shar,I 49, s,oor lawcr tban cvcn tn the mr.
- ':aas',t 49, COST off bo1;e, to ;npole
'''' ~ nan an1 sonc.k and nertnru
".', ,.tah"o, iIp' .r;c, with t,bIcs and chair
!, s,,,cness harn,Ie,
,r.,;sn,S vb;cb We were wise enough t,
sa, Ia,.' Gir ourselves to triac and banter an,
"a. ~ =, la ne tbronuh endless moon
y o,,a,ssNsadI,, w - ,a1 soborlv wc saw
,h.I r, ,hi. bo commu,,ions with the dca,
we w b"5 r,tlnr br without it. we wan
. .a,na,t;n~, = Et,lo !, advance Of our prcs
ont ,,fa a,d no, b.low it. We bav,
,..1 ,n;.L so,,o ,ftc,tio, weary moe
faa,;.;.nal accommodation pror1ss;ny +,