The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-03-13
The Dead.

The dead are the only peopis that never
grow old. There was something typical in
the arrestment of time in the case of The
youthful miner, of " hom we have already
spoken. Your little brother or sister that
died long ago remains in death and in re-
membrance The same young thing forever.
Ii is fourteen years this evening since the
writer's sister left this world. She was
fifteen years old then-she is fifteen years
old yet. | have grown older since by four
teen years, but she has never changed as
they advanced and if God spares me to
four-score, | never shall think of her as 9th
er than the youthful creature she faded -
The other day listened as a poor woman
told OF the death OF her first born child. He
was two years old. She had small wash
ing-green, across which was stretched a
rope that came in the middle close TO the
ground The boy was leaning on the rope,
swinging backwards and forwards, and
shouting with delight. The mother went
into her cottage and lost sight OF him for a
mihuts; and when she returned the little
m an was lying across the rope, dead. 1t
had got under his chin; he had not sense
to push il away: and he was sufocaied
The mother told me, and belive truly,
that she had never been The same person
since but the thing which mainly struck
me was, that though it is eighteen years
since then, she thought of her child as an
infant OF two years yet; II is a little child
she looks Tor 10 meet at the gate OF the Col
den City. Had her child lived he would
have been twenty years old now; he died.
and he is only two; +; he is two yet he will
never be more than two. The little rosy
face of that morning, ard the little half ar
ticulale voice, would have been family re-
membered by the mother had they gfadu-
ally died in boybood and manhood but
that day stereotyped them; they remained
unchanged.
Have you seen, my reader, the face that
had grown old in life, grow young after
death ?-the expression of many years
since, lost for long, come ont starlingiy in
the features, fixed and cold Every one
has seen il; and i; is sometimes strange
how rapidly the change takes place. The
marks OF pain fade out, and with them the
marks of age. once saw an aged lady die
She had borne sharp pain for many days
with The endurance of martyr; she had 10
bear sharp pain to the very last. The fea.
lures were tense and rigid with suffering
they remained SO while life remained. Il
was a beautiful sight to see the change that
took place in the very instant of dissolution
The features, sharp for many days with
pain, in that instant recovered the old as.
pect OF quietude, which they had borne in
health the tense, tight look was gone
You saw the signs of pain go out You fell
that all suffering was over. 1t was no more
of course than the working Of physical law
but in that case it seemed as if there was a
further meaning conveyed. And SO il
seems 10 me when the young look come;
back on the departed Christians face
Gone, it seems 10 say, where the progress
of time shall no longer bring age or decay
Gone where there are beings whose life
may be reckoned by centuries, but in whom
life is fresh and young, and always will be
so. Close The aged eyes Fold the aged
hands in rest Their owner is no longer
Eror. Recollection, ofd Country Puson