The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-24
OBITUARY.

| year Of his age.
Motto conform TO custom, not with a wish to at
tract attenuon to linn now passed from earth for
ever, has this brief notice of his life and death been
drawn amidst the lingering agonies Of that separa.
ton. But son, husband. father, master, a
| tnen !, tuch rs he was, +" liyeth not to himself
| neither dieth he to himself" We know from
whence comes every attribute of soul that 30 en-
dears man to his fellow and while We thus present
the world Tor Its contemplation those attributes
are we not but inviting men tn view of their dis
yine source He Who has just left this carth-well
did he know how to look Yom nature up to natures
dod and all things that were sublime or beautii,,
ever incentives to the hearts hottest worship This
| was the habit Of his thought. Goods noblest
| work, an honest man, whatever might have been
ms grade IN fe was ever with him object of Pc
c0liar interest; and who can doubt but that that
interest, thus shown, has strengthened many heart
IN is pursuit OF the true and the right; and that
| 'ods Kingdom, by this feeble MEANS has been
hahtened t. its coming But not in man alone did
ne seek Tor the manifestations OF his Creator To
| hlfo nature had a Voice so sweet 50 tender A.,
toushlng that 1t seemed an angels voice sent from
earth to Heaven to sing Of Gods mercy and benc-
violence to msn. Hush, heart, thy anguish, It
must be tod. The one who writes these hnes
IN childhoods earliest hour vas taught by
nm to hook upon the stars, the changing
seas Seasons, me my insect, the gathering cloud,
| the bursting storm, and mark, with awe and
a1oratIon tile workings of the great Invisible Often
has this one watched, with SILENT unuttered PRAYER
OF thanks to heaven the softening light steal over
| his face rs he dYet with warm admiration upon
the all-wse the a'lEiysteii0u workings of loving
Father III His creation. On one occasion, after
Walking alone on the porch for long while he
suddenly came i'll said, with tears In his eyes
"Therc is dear little bird building its nest in the
| old catslpa tree: see that one dsturbs it,
MlrT:inX Though Il long life i'll the busy word
never took from him thebeaufu freshness Of child
hood, or the stern integrity Of principle, strength
ened by manhood. His true character not many
knew. With pride which secnssd almost incon-
sstent with such softer emotions, he cnde,voredt to
conceal the sacred feelings OF his SOUL and
often preferred being misunderstood rather than re-
Veal them IN their great depths. They who knew
h'm bcst tavencve1 aculded those depth; but they
yet look with longing eyes to that eternity which,
while revealing the mighty einotlons OF the human
heart, shall present to their view that fountain
whose waters alone gave them life as it flowed out
from the great bosom Of Him who has called hir,-
s1f-I.Oyc. Until that hour, dear. earthly father
thy weeping ones will call to mind thy precepts
and, feeling thai hand divine has LAID this heavy
burden on their hearts, Will say to thy spirit minis
tcrns round them. Take to ODD thy dear ones
message, we submit"
For long, long years, the deceased believed that
God was revealed to man sufficiently in nature;
although, duling that period, he was reader,
almost student, OF the Bible: Reye,enty, and
With unfeigned admiration, had he ever sIoken
OF It's prece3ts; and relision-that religion which
| comes to man by nature; Or may 1t not bo
more properly SAID by the influences Of Gods own
SPIRIT found in him never d Sccifsr or II dcub,er
lie believed sincerely in its reality, aud those who
gave him unmistakabc evidences OF their sincerity
us Christians had over him an Influence whl.h Lo
himself did Lot know they possessed. This infiu.
| en,e was one of the means which Cod was then
using to bring him into the light Ut that more per-
fest revelation OF Himself which was eventually to
crown his earnest, heartfelt search Tor the Great
Infute.> Troubles - rs blessings misirter-
preted-came heavily. They fell upon the heart
Of the deceased. Tie mourned over the sorrows he
could notalleviate. When the devoted descndarsof
this country passed, with ta,y STEP to Ecw enes
of duty, be would bury his face in has hands, weep
like child, and retire into the solitude OF his own
room The world bad seemed to have lost all Of
comfort for him. lie Withdrew from society, AMI
gave himself up to hours CT thought and Of read
ing. How sad to see him thus forget, in his sou
rows for others, that his own falling spirits were
fastening him Oh to death. These We're the tLorc,s
Of his friends. All. how shortest GIFTED Is van -
1t was God who thus led him from compaxionsLip
with man to secret communion with Timself--
lie alone with his Creator, who was den deepen
ing, inenssying and enlightening bis soul WITH
that presence whose glory had, for so many long
years, been afar OIL, and so dim!y Ca ey were
works on religion read, and with deep interest
and pleasure, excited by desire to grasp that vague
underlined something for which the soul knew no
name, and wi hout which it could 40 longer rest
His Bihlethere it hes chosen passages 80 lately
marked by his own trembling hand II sm Tie
Word and the Word WAS God" Thoughts almost
too sacred to be dwelt upon: the Communism te-
tween and his God. DiAthat mer,iful Father
leave his work unfinished Conviction SAYS not
few hours beiote Iii departure, the laithu minis
ter Of Christ knelt at his bed and prIel that the
CONES through Christ alone. This prayer Of faith
went up TO God, and the holy calm and peace that
entered the soul Of his servant mrrorcd itself in
beauty on his conntenaDee, and Gods holy angel.
mus, have reioiccd that lie vho, in darkness, hal
CROPPED perslstently to come into the light, had
that Light come down to him in all the unsui-
lied purity and beauty of the day Of Heaven. Nevey
by that family of k,ndref and servants, who SO
mourn hi, los, those solemn hours be forgotten
those hours when Christians boldly claiming their
privileges before their High Priest, cseton Heaven
importunate for H hea:ing-IIeavcn could not deny
them, for her promise bad gone forth. PRAYER, With
Faiths petition damp with the tears Of earth as
cended up high, and the pea,ly gates few open,
whence a shining throng poured forth and bore
from cn,th a soul forever saved God, by HIS inf
mite power, grant that this His mercy may not b.
LOST upon any; bat that kindlins in the bosons Of
all the fires OF love and :ra:iiut1 they may make
and pay unto Him vows whose effects neys, lc
lost through eternity. II Is.
Died, on the 27th Of Fet rpary last, Of rheumatism
Of the heart, BETTE CHAFPELL, daughter
Of Robert and Martha r. Harris, aged four-
teen years and thee months.
When the old and weary ones Of earth lie doxn
and die, and when We commit their lifeless remains
to the dark and lonely scrulohte, We perform the
last sad rites with feeling of resignation 70 The
Divine WILL fo( we know that the scar and yellow
leaves Of autuIn must fall, that flowers must is'c
and decay in their appointed time, and that all OF
animate and inanimate nature Is bora to die. Bus
it is a sad reflection, that while "the Old mrs dc
the young may" The green leaves Of the forc,s
are scattered By the tor1pado and the whirlHlnd;
the beautiful flowers Of spring arepuekcd from thei
parent stems fade, wither and die; and thus TIE
icy hand Of Death is otter laid upon sweet and III
noseut children, and We seem to hear death say
For me must the father his loved child resign,
And mother, and babe at the breast, musqbe mine'
The brother aud sister for me arc TO part,
And loved ones to break of each tie vi the heart.
Aud 50 in our sxcet Bette's death-the father has
resigned his child, the mother has given up her
babe the brother and sister have parted the tender
ties Of affection that had woven around h.r
little favorite have been rudeiy sandered' ana
though witV humble resignation and submission TO
the Christening hand OF God strlv. 10 bear our
bereavement without complaining still