The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-07

The daily paper brings us the above an.
nouncement. Mrs. Paterson is gone from
among US: and while her mortal remains stay
for while from their last resting place, in the
sacred privacy of domestic sorrow the remoter
but not less real ties of Christian respect and
friendship, may utter, in this way, their sor-
rowing tribute to her memory, and express
casion also prompts aud justifies the correction
OF false estimates OF life and of its aims-too
apt to degrade US in seasons of misfortune and
calamity.
Mrs. Paterson came to Minnesota in June,
lS57-an invalid. Her state of health had ex-
acted withdrawal from activities congenial
to her whole nature, and indicated an increas-
ing, perhaps an entire, abstraction from them.
Her home was chosen in two adjoining cot
tages, near the site of st. Pauls church, then
III the first stages of erection. The effects of
the climate on her naturally vigorous cOnsti.
tuition, which were soon gratefully hailed by
her family, were recognized by herself as call
to new career OF activity.
70 US who write, this estimable lady was a
stranger until her settlement in our city; and
our memorial finds its scope only in the i'm
presslOns Of her life and actions as a Christian
emigrant, amid the heterogeneous elements of
pioneer society. Whatever influence the acct
dental aim OF seeking renewed health in
change OF climate had, in determining her EN-.
lgratlon to Minnesota, the event proved that
have been any where, paramount. AS vigor
returned, 1t was devoted at once and heartily
to the highest objects OF human life on earth
the interests OF humanity: but to these inter.
estS, as they are interpreted and promoted by
the presence in society of tine laws, the lnstl-
tutous and the blessings of the Church of
God.
10 plant. TO dituse. and to perpetuate these,
as duty lmpelled her from rooted conviction.
SO the labors to which 1t called were evidently
her pleasures and they were successful. In
personal endowmenls and the exterior ap-
pllanceS OF means and influence, as she had re.
celved freely. SO she freely bestowed to the
iurtherance OF her aims doing good. in the
ways wisest, most benefcent and real.
The very horses which have become identi-
fed with our memories OF her activities, knew
the way to all the homes of misfortune in her
neighbOrhood. The gates of our Church, Or.
phans Home and Hospital, during all last sum-
mer We're almost daily passed by them on
some ministry OF mercy, with her Tor at her
bidding Its firm establishment was accelera-
ted, II not secured, by her earnest c. operation
with those who had founded, and thus far, amid
great discouragements, sustained it.
The church edtce which will on Sunday
give Its last friendly shelter to her body, AS it
was founded, and endowed with its site, by
aims Kindred with her own, so it owes beyond
question its completion to their operation
in her life. How fully she felt that the edifice
whose cross crowned tower she almost con.
jured into being and completion. and the
associations that will forever cluster round it,
were to be her true monument in naemoriana is
shown by the wish not idly uttered by her.
that the last resting place OF her worn cut body
might. If 1t were proper. be found under its
shadow. 1t will at any rate be her monument.
1t is with added admiration of the sway of
principle and duty in her life, (snbordinating
the influence OF mere sentiment and opiniOn,)
that We record, that her burial place is to be
i'm fIp first n (tc
religious conservation in Minnesota-at least
Protestants-and that. as We trust, her grave
is To recall here her example and prompt to its
imitation, for generations Of the future.
The ho,pitalities of life are an essential in.
strument of christian influence and duty every
where-most OF all In pioneer society. How
fully the subject OF our sketch recognized this
and how dutfully she practised it, the hearts
of all around. and those sOjOurners now far
away, will testify. HosptalIties. generous and
cheerful. but excluding frvOlity and dissipa-
ton.
Her education, We should Judge, had in
spred her with large views of life, and as this
had led to the formation of fixed and well rea.
soned and infexible convictions on the great
subjects OF both Church and country, so these
convictions were warmed by a characteristic
zeal into active efforts for their diffusion. de-
fence and perpetuity.
She was churchwOman and an Americani
She knew we'll why; t0what these characters
called her,and to what they did not, the last the
hardest requirement of the two. AS a proof,we
recall that the library in which her body now
waits for the last office, had on every Sunday
afternoon even to the last before her death,
been the scene of the true Christian Sunday
School, the children of family grouped in
Bible class around yenerated mother.
Ii we shall have set before the reader, in
this sketch, corrective example of a Chris
tian woman, courageously illustrating the true
aims OF life, and cOnsecratng a secon lease
OF lie among strangers, to His service who had
inspired and who sustained her in them, the
wish and purpose of both heart and head will
have been realized. To live for God, and for
His Church, and for Humanity.
st. Paul, May 81, 1861. A FRIEND.