Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-02-04
A BEAUTIFUL SKETCH.

We select the following beautiful pic
ture from a recent Published address OF
Richard v. Cook, Esq, Of Columbus, Texas,
on the "Educalion and Influence OF Wo-
man" II will touch the heart Of the read
er. We seldom stumble upon SO well ex-
pressed an idea of woman's true mission:
fancy a young man just emerging from
the bright elysium of youth, and commencing
the bright journey of life. Honest, noble
and gifted-the broad world TO his warm
hopes ie the future scene of afflueDce. fame
and happiness. Under his active energies
business prospers, and, a. a consequence,
friends come about him. Ere long he
meets a sensible and simple girl. who wins
his heart, and who loves and trusts him in
return. He does not stop to ask what the
world will say shout the match in case he
marries her. Not be. The world is kicked
out of doors, and the man Determines TO be
the architect of his own happiness. He
does not stop to inquire whether the girls
father is rich in lands, and slaves, and coin /;
but he marries her for that mos: honest and
phiiosophic of all reasous-because he loves
her! He builds his house in some quiet spot,
where green trees wave their summer glo-
ries, and where bright sunbeams fall
Here is the Mecca of his heart, toward
which he turns with more than Eastern ad-
Grafton. II is green island in the sea OF
life, where rude winds never assail, and
storms never come. Here, from the trou-
bies and cares of existence, he finds soiace
in the society of her who is gentle without
weakness, and sensible without vanity.
Friends may betray him, and foes may
Cypress; but when toward home his weary
footsteps turn, and there beams upon him
golden smiles of welcome; the clouds lift
from his soul-ihe bruised heart 10 restored,
and the strong man made whole. / see the
man fall into adversely. Creditors seize his
property. poverty stares him in the face, and
he is avoided on all hands as a ruined bank
rupt When he sees all go-fricnds, credit
and proPerty-griefstricke and penniIess
he seeks his humble home. Now does the
wife desert him too! Nay, verify. When
the world abandons end persecutes the man,
sne draws closer to his side, and her affcc-
ton is all the warmer because the evil days
have come upon him. The moral excel
leneies OF her soul rise superior to the dls-
asters of fortune. And when she sees the
man sit mournful and disconsolate, like
Themislocles by the Household Gods of
Adme,hus, hers is the task to comfort and
console. She re minds him that misfortune
has oft overtaken the wisest and the best;
that all is never lost while health and hope
survive; that she still is near to love, to
help aud encourage him. The man listens,
his courage rallies. and the shadows fee
from his heart; armed once more, he en-
tiers the arena of lite. Industry and energy
restore him to competency. fortune smiles
upon him, friends return, and -I-.
Joy mounts exuIting triumphant Wings
Again the scene shifts. / see the man
stre.ched weak and wasted on the bed of
sickness. The anxious wife anticipates ev-
cry wish and necessity. Softly her foot falls
upon the carpet, and gently her hand pres-
ses the tevered brow of the sufferer -
Though the face gives token of her osssn
WEAKNESS aud suffering, yet though the long
watches of each returning right, her vigils
are kept beside the loved one g couch. AT
last disease beleaguers the fortress Of lite;
and the last words of love and trust are ad-
dressed to her who is weeping beside his
dying bed. And, in truth, the last hour
hath come. imagine it is fit time TO de-
part: tor the golden sun himself has died
upon the evenings fair horizon, and rosy
clouds bear him to his grave behind the wess
{, rn hills! Around the couch of the dying man
weeping friends md kinsmen stood, while
the minister slowly reads the holy words of
promise:
81 am the Resurrection and the life, saith
the Lord; he that believeth on me, though
he were dead, yet shall be live; and who so
iiveth and beievth in me, shall never die. !"
Slowly the clock marks the passing mo-
menis, and silently the sick mans breath is
ebbing away. Slowly the cold waters are
rolling through the gateways of life, And
now, a the death damp is on the victim q
brow, and the heart throbs its pulsations.
the glazed eye opens and turns in one full
farewell glance of affection upon the tremb-
ling weeper who bends over him; and ere
the spirit departs forever, the angels hear
the pale wife say--"I'li meet thee--Fll
meet thee in Heaven!"