Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-07-23
Written for the Newsdealer.

Written for the Newsdealer.
Mr.. EDITOR The weekly visits of
your excellent paper gives much pleasure
to my family. When return from the
Post Office, the question is,-"Auy let
ters % "No; but I've got NeaOsdealer. !"
"Ob |! let's see it, Then every column,
paragraph, and line is scanned. "Any
news from johnson ?" is the next ques-
ton; for we all still feel,-
''.There's where our hearts are turning ever,
There S where our old friends stay t., all.
AS we read, the gloomy record tells of a
"brave soldier boy" brought home to be
buried, with all those attentions Johnson
people know so well how to bestow at a
public funeral, when that honored servant
of God, Rev. J. Dougherty, ofliciates.
Sadness fills our hearts as we further
read of those blooming youths, with whom
we have often met, seen the sparkling eye
flash, exchange the friendly greeting; but
now they are cold in death,-truly "all
the glory of man is as the flower of the,
grass. The aged too are passing-among
them we notice the death of Mrs. Lucy
Burnham.. Tokens of her thoughtful
kindness still remain in our family; and
many more are held sacred to her memo
ry las fond recollection presents them to
view," connected with her and her family,
She is the last of the organized IA pill
lars Of the Baptist Church organized
there in 1908. We'll may we say, ''thc
fathers Tand mothers), where are they q,
Besides the interst we take in the gen
eral news of the county, we feel much III
the questions proposed in the Hyde Park
Sabbath School. 1t is very interesting
exercise, and worthy of imitation by
every Sabbath School in the country. g.,
| intended in this letter to write des-
cription of Lansingburgh, "the garden"
as it is called, but 10 my thoughts have
wandered off to Vermont, where they
love to roam. God bless old Vermont !.
am not ashamed of ner in the market,
on the battle field, in Congress-anywhere
nor do | hesitate to say | am from
there. ft. r..,e. ~,
But what times are these in which we
live! Almost every column Of the news
papers filed with war news church bells
ringing peals of rejoicing over victories
gained by terrible carnage and slaughter,
or tolling the funeral knell of some one
who has fallen, f" bravely fighting for his
country p On the Sabbath at the public
gathering, around our family altars, the
burden of prayer is, " Lord deliver our
country from the calamities of war. De-
vout and piteous as our prayer may be,
and ever sincere, they remind us of the
of Joshua when he was re-
pulsed before Ai;--the Lord heard biuf
but said to him, "get up; wherefore liest
thou upon thy faces Israel hath sinned.
o 9 Q neither will 4 be with you any more
except ye destroy the accursed thing from
among you" Even SO will the Lord deal
with US and refuse to 60 with us, unless
we get up, and destroy the 'sum Of all
from our midst, to extend and
which we have spent the last
20 years of our national exeistence Il We
have blown our rams horns all over the
land, proclaiming that Slavery is a Divine
Institution, that "the fathers carefully
provided for Its existence and perpetuity
in the constitution If these two abom-
Unable ideas had become current, the
'Fsther Of Lies might have complacent-