The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-03-20

1l "There is better world, Of which have
thought too little" i.z '1 o'"l @'" r.
So wrote VIM. Writ to Judge Carr in
1881.
On the death Of one Of his dat ghters, Mr..
Writ wrote to Judge Carr.
81 owe you several letters, my dear friend;
but you are kind, and can allow for my stu
alton. have had such a winter as l have
never had before. Heavy causes to argue,
with broken heart and exhausted strength
when, at every step, felt far better dis
posed to lie down in the grave. Even now,
am unfit to write. For me the heavens are
hung with mourning, and the earth covered
with darkness. The charm Of life is gone.
look at my beloved wife and my still re
mining circle oraff.ctionate children, and
my heart reproaches me with ingratitnde to
Heaven. hare been too blessed for my
deserts. The selection of the victim is too
striking to be misunderstood
"There is better world, of which have
thought too little. To that world she has
gone, and thither my affections have follow.
ed her. This was Heavens design I see
and feel it as distinctly as if an angel had
revealed it. often im,gine that can see
her beckoning me to the happy world to
which she has gone. She was my compan-
ion, my Office companion, my librarian, my
clerk. My papers now bear her endorse
ment. She pursued her studies in my Of
fee, by my sidc-sat with me, walked with
me-was my nexp-essibly sweet and insep-
arabic companion--never left me but to 60
and sit with her mother. We knew all her
intelligence, all her pure and delicate scns-
bility, the quickness and power of her per-
ceptions, her seraphic love. She was all
love- and loved all Gods creation, even the
animals, trees, and plants. She loved her
God and Savior 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 l
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. y.
"Dearest heart, let us both look up to that
Heaven where our angel is, and from which
she is still permitted to observe ms with in
terest-up to that Heaven where our Savior
dwells, and from which he is showing us the
attractive face of our blessed and happy
child, and bidding is prepare to come TO
her, since she can no more come to u.s."
have no taste now for worldly business.
so to it reluctantly. would keep company
only with my Saviour and his holy Book
dread the world-thc strife and contention
and emulation Of the bar; vet will do my
duty-this is part of my religion
In December, 1888, another daughter died;
but he was armed with Christian patience
and resignation, and writes Judge Cabel:
81 look upon life as a drama, bearing the
same sort, though not the same degree, of
relation t. eternity as an hour spent at the
theatre, and the fictions there exhibited for
our instruction, do TO the whole Of real life.
Nor is there anything in this passing page
ant worth the sorrow that we lavish on it.
Now, when my children or friends leave me,
or when shall be called to leave them,
consider it as merely parting for the present
visit, to meet under happier circumstance,
when we shall part no more"