The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-06-04

such agony as hers is too deep for tears and
lamentations. Though light sorrow NAV il
assuaged by outward utterance. thars = on
anguish when the soul wells itself in silence
and God alone sees the intensity Of suffer;ns
within. Grace was in this STATE, and wba5
her pastor knelt by the dead. beseechinU onr
Father to comfort His stricken child or when
KIND friends whispered words Of sympathy.
their tears falling all the while like rain, she
heard them like one stunned and uncon.
scious.
!" 1t is difficult to imagine a more com.
plete change, both in the inward and out.
want current Of life, than this bereavement
produced in that Of Grace. Nurtured ten
derly in her early home, it had been Ed.
wards delight to surround her with the
means OF enjoyment particularly pleasing ID
a refined and cultivated taste. Her comfort
had been considered in every household ar.
rangement, while of the petty details of bust
ness, his loving care had kept her ignorant
as child. This was ill.judged affection,
for the flower too tenderly sheltered bows
before the first blast, with its petals crushed
and its tendrils trailing in the dust.
Trace was soon reused from the lethar.
gy of grief by the necessity which compell-
ed her to take thought for the future. Cred
ltors presented their claims her child must
be fed and clothed; and now there was no
strong arm to come between her and these
exigencies. Like true woman, she scorn-
ed to be burden to others. Accordingly,
refusing all pecuniary aid, she left her home
with its sweet and sad associations, parted
with furniture, each article Of which was
linked with some fond remembrance, and,
looking to the widows God alone for help,
commenced her struggle with adversity.
The following years we're years of trial.
Patient labor, meek endurance, and uncom-
planning self-denial--much as has been writ
ten on these themes, how much still remains
to be recorded
~ One bright spot, however, gilded her
life's page. Her child was a lad of much
loveliness Of character. possessing mental
endowments beyond his years. To train
him for position of honor and usefulness,
was an object for which she concentrated all
her energies. She ate palmer food, wore
coarser garments, labored when she needed
resi-, for the sake Of supplying him with books
and teachers.
" As time passed, awakening in the heart
of the child the deeper thought and ofiier
purpose Of approaching manhood, The dis
ease which blights many buds Of promise set
its seal Oh the widows son. How eau
give thee up" was the cry that burst from
her agonized heart, and she prayed as Jesus
did in the garden when He sweat great
drops OF blood, Father, if it be possible, let
this cup pass from me- Blame her not IL it
was long before she could add, Not my viii
but Thine be DONE.
The blow came, and Grace stood alpne
amid her graves, a childless widow. The
wintry sky bent frowningly above her. the
earth was hard and frozen under her feet,
aud the black desOation Of nature was all
emblem Of her chilled, desolated heart. Pc
cuniary resources were exhausted by her
sons prOtracted illness, and the combined
weight Of poverty and bereavement was al
most too much to be borne"
"Where were her friendsp interrogated
Josephine. "They certainly would not be
SO unfeeing as to let her suffer"
"Ier parents had long been dead was
the response; }" her only brother had remov,
ed to a dstanthome. and Immediately around
her new generation had arisen, who, like
the Egyptian king Of former days, knew DOT
Joseph. More than one home was thrown
open to her, but she nobly refused TO accept
its shelter, saving tina, charity was ior tne
infrm aud helpless, and not for those VINO
had health and strength to labor.
"Not long after her last bereavement,
one who had loved her when she was tne
young and admired Grace Ham,l1On' ah9
who, for the memory Of that early love; trod
4 lonely path in life, offered hIs hand aud
fortune to her acceptance. my aneStlens
arc buried in the grave Of husband ana chlld,
she replied, and would not WRONG YOU oy
Ss,rt. @ HeneefSrth / shallliye alone for God.
.ad tbs cnn that nv Father giyeth me, shall
! TN M "A Srinb iti' Though he did not press
h;a sOs claim he felt that Grace Hamilton, in
Sss ~ ,'n,, nneh,nrns DEVOTION to the dead. and
n me- aa aa,S tr,,st ii God, was infinitely more
ne a.. W. ,I,n she had been when in the full
lao n,ow II youthfil beauty.
s'o" :. s;ncs This time she has led life Of hum
q. n.sfalness, unseen by the gay world in
uls .s;.h she was once the brightest star, yet not
WIZ" .a...J hv the Father whose loving eve is