Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-06-20

manu- VI mercy.
: "Sorrow generally makes us selfish,
. said Edith.
Yes, till we understand its uses"
5 "Do you think that will ever under
e stand why it lis, that am made to weer
7 over withered hopes, disappointed love
humbled ambition, mortified prides / can
: not understand why it is that God. who We
are taught to look upon, as tender Faith.
er. should implant in our hearts these ca.
} Pacities for loving. and after having ere.
ated these feelings, and sending an object
to call them forth. should thus harshly re
move it from our affections. A year ago,
felt so secure in my earthly happiness that
| thought no sorrow would ever disturb the
serenity Of my soul. After years of self.
discipline, | thought / had sufficient
strength to contend with and rise superior
to most of those earthly sorrows, beneath
which 81 many weaker natures have sue.
cumbed. lam now buffetted by the first
wave. Where is.my boasted strength--my
superiority-my pride, that cannot teach
my heart to despise the man who has
brought all this suffering upon met L am
disappointed in him, the only man have
ever. or can ever love; but worse than all
| am disappointed in myself was pre-
pared for everything in life but this"
"Wecannot tell for what W are prepared
until we are tried by circumstances,
neither do We know what passions are
slumberipg in our hearts until they are
thus aroused. Trials and sufferings are
the magic mirrors which reveal TO us our
hearts as they really are, and it is by look.
ing through them thus that We regard them
as sent by God to perfect our natures and
purify our lives. We cannot tell what ter
rife power there is in.the wind by the sum.
mer breeze that fans our brow; neither can
we sympathixe with the sufferipes of hu-
manity till storms of sorrow, like lorna.
does in the natural world, have swept over
it, aud have made desolate some of the
fairest portions OF the heart. Those who
have always basked in the sunshine of
prosperity, and have had every wish graft.
fed, think earth delightful abode, think
that the disturbing anxieties of life are few,
and only occasionally occur to mar the
happiness of people in general, and that
the declaration of the Bible, that oman is
born to sorrow as the sparks to fly up
ward" may possibly apply to a small
number of discontented beings, who would
not have been satisfied even in Eden, un.
less they could have found something
there with which they could have found
fault, and in the main, believe there is
more real enjoyment 10 the world than the
majority Of people are inclined to credit it
for. When We learn by experience the
reality Of the deaclsration l have Just
quoted, We look upon earth in an entirely
different light. Sorrow removes the vail
from the young heart, and this wondrous
world which once appeared so beautifulIi|
regarded through no false medium. Years
ago walked one evening in my garden,
and gazed with pleasure upon trees, shrubs
and flowers, upon which l had bestowed
much time and culture. They appeared
to me as ifthey had attained Perfection
As regarded them with delight, thought
their loveliness rewarded me for all my
labor, and that they would be a perpetual
source of satisfaction to me. was laying
out plans by which I could add to it
greater beauty, when | noticed dark
cloud in the sky. Nearer and nearer 1t
came. A tornado passed over my garden,
and though its fury was spent in few
moments, the labor of a lifetime was de-
stroyed, and the desolation it made it has
taken years to repair. In life there are
some SORROWS that in their influences are
like the refreshing dews aud the gentle
showers, and clearly we can understand.
when we have passed through them, the
purpose for which they we're sent. There
are others which beat upon our heads with
all the pitiless fury of the hurricane, and it
takes years to sanctify the sorrow and OBJ
literate the traces of the stern. But your
attachment for Mr.. Yilleneau, and its un-
fortunate termination, should not be re-
garded as an overwhelming sorrow. 1t is
absurd 10 the extreme for you TO grieve
over the neglect, fancied or not, of per-
son whom you have seen but four or five
times. Ii he endeavored, as you think, to
win your heart as a sacrifice to be laid
upon the altar of manly vanity, you should
be thankful that, upon SO short an ac-
quaintance, you discovered his inten'
tions. Did you never think that you may
have wronged hImi You may have driven
him from you by the harshness Of your
letter."
"If he considered my letter harsh it was
nothing more than he merited for not Wis
itirg me according to promise. If h'
thought had misjudged him why did hi
not come and see me and have all explained
No, he wished to get rid Of me, or b.
would not have gone home in less than |
month after my letter was written, with
out seeing rae. Think of it, my hand dis
carded, my love rejected, my pride hum
bled. The grief which We feel as we weel
over the grave of friendship, is feelinl
!. of Joy compared with that sorrow whicl
:, fills our souls when when we discover tha
those we had loved and trusted, are un
worthy Of our affection and our confidence
!. The former we regard as righteous dis
!. pensatiou Of Providence. The latter les
sens our respect for human nature in gen
q eral, and ourselves in particular"
,. "I will admit. Edith, that under an
n circumstances Mr.. Villeneau's conduct tc
l. wards you has been very strange. ca
70 not imagine what construction he wi
,e think you can put upon IT, II he ha
at wrouged you Intentionally he could ha'
10 made no reparation for IL by merely csllin
10 to see you; II you have wronged him 1t
" too late TO ask forgiveness now. aud yC
" would not II you could. My advice TO yo
ID IL TO banish him at once from your min
rs leave this prison Of yours, take an intere