Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-14
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WILLIAM WIRT.-"There is a better world
Of which have thought too little"
So wrote William Writ to Judge Carr in
1881.
On the death of one of his daughters, Mr.
Writ wrote to Judge Carr:
81 owe you several letters, my dear friend /;
but you are kind, and can allow for my situa-
ton. have had such a winter as l never had
before Heavy causes to argue, with broken
heart and exhausted strength-when, at every
step, felt far better disposed to lie down in
the grave. 1t was not in such a frame that l
could address you. Even now l am unfit to
write for to me the heavens are hung with
mourning and the earth covered with dark
ness. The charm of life is gone. ! look at
my beloved wife and my still remaining circle
of affectiOnate children, and my heart reprOach-
es me with ingratitude to heaven. have been
too blessed for my deserts. The selection of
the victim is too striking to be misunderstood.
There is a better world, of which / have
thought too little. To that world she has gone,
and thither my affections have followed her.
This was heavens design. | see and feel it
as distinctly as if an angel had revealed it. I
often imagine that can see her beckonng me
to the happy world to which she has gone.
She was my companion, my Office companion,
my librarian, my clerk. My papers now bear
her endorsement. She pursued her studies in
with me-was my inexpressibly sweet and in
separable companion-never left me but to 90
and sit with her mother. We knew all her in
telligence, all her pure and delicate sensibility,
the quickness and power of her perceptions,
her seraphic love. She was all love, and loved
all Gods creation, even the animals, trees, and
plants. She loved her God and Saviour with
an angels love, and died like saint"
About the same time he writes to his wife
"My sweet angel visits me, by faith, many
times in the course of the day and night |
want only my blessed Saviour's assurance of
pardon and acceptance to be at peace. | wish
to find no rest short of rest in him" "Dear-
est heart let us both look up to heaven, where
our angel is, and from which she is still per
mitted to observe us with interest-up to that
heaven where our Saviour dwells and from
which he is showing us the attractive face
of our blessed and happy child, and bidding us
prepare to come to her, since she can no more
visibly come to u.s." 81 have no taste now for
worldly business. l go to it reluctantly. l
would keep company only with my Saviour
and his holy book l dread the world-the
strife, and contention and emulation of the
bar yet will do my duty-this is part ofmy
religion"
In December, 1888, another daughter died,
but he was armed with Christian patience and
resignation, and writes Judge Cabell:
81 look upon life as drama bearing the
same sort, though not the same degree of re-
lation to eternity, as an hour spent at the thea
tire, and the fictions there exhibited for our in
struction do to the whole of real life Nor is
there anything in this passing pageant worth
the sorrow that we lavish on it. Now, when
my children or friends leave me, or when l
shall be called to leave them, consider it as
merely parting for the present visit, to meet
under happier circumstances when we shall
part no more"