Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-01-23
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Nothing Lost by Kindness.
Halls Journal of Health says:

lisa dreadful thing,to be Old and poor,
3 Z saad have no home; BuS2athesetis!aSdcsper
depal of human calamity than this-iit is
as to,hage, in addition, ,sn old age, Of vast
t9Lina; WeafiRgasiSkHess which is often SUI
psrinduced By that constant depression of
mind which attends chs ieonsciousness Of
being alone aDd-f-icndlcss and in want.
One of The very best means of avoiding,
-svre4tl old age oficstitqti6n and bodily sut-
So fedng,5is to ealti9ate while young all the
?. benevolent and generous feelings of our
-; .nature: never by any possibility allos!ng
- any opportunity to- pass of. f..befi'ienoing
fellow-travelcl, as we arc passing sRong
a.~' fiicfs ioGrney::7fdr Sooner or later the re-
ward whf conre4the reward oi' happy
J = heart. alNDofaithles' u comfortable pro
= vision for declining years. = 80.
MlSR wounded soldier. was lying
~ helpless on the paiifs-of thamette. a few.
miles below New Orleans. A youth
passing that way knee!cd at his side. m
quired as to his. wants, conveyed him to
q shelter, and remained with him until he
was able to leave for bis, home in the city.
Neatly half 'a!ecntdry later, the old SOL
der died, but old Judah Touro never for
got the youth who Helped him on the bat
tlefieId, aid feit HIN $4,000 in money,
besides some duties 10 perform which
eventually yjeIdssd s Is Mr.; M; Shepherd $780,
While living in New Orleans, about
The year.lS50, poor young doctor with
6 large family and small practice, often
came into my Office. He was always
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and who coald &c otherwise when anxiety
for to-morrow's Bread for wife and, chill
dron is always pressing ON the heart /!
But there came g letter one day, With
the English post mark, making inquiries
for certain young American doctor who
had greatly bcfriended an English gentle
man during long and dangerousattack
of sickness in New Orleans i. number Of
years before This grateful gentleman
had4died and left our poor young doctor
large estate. =
Ten years ago and less, there lived in
the city of New York a clergyman whose
name aud memory are sacred to thousands
OF grateful, loving, reycring hearts. He
has not been dead long: be will never
die out OF the holy affections of the pco
pie before whom he came in and went
out 50 many years. Among his people
there was one man. and he was of large
wealth, who seemed to make it his special
business, as it was his highest happiness
to see that his -reyered pastor, wanted
nothing. 1t was not fitful care. 1t die
not spring up in May and die long before
December .came,t but through weeks and,
laon,hs and long years it vas always the
same, incessant, perennial, gushing up
always like never failing spring. The
pastor died; his loving watcher, no fault
of his oSn, failed for almost millions.
and recovery was absolutely hopeless.
The grief That pressed him most was the
loss of ability to help the helpless Men
locked on and wondered, and began to
question if Providence would let such
lnan come to want in his grey hairs. Bur
there was an eye upon him. 4 man OF
very great wealth said: +" lie must NOT
suffer who cared so well and so faithfully
end long for my old Minister. He is
just the man want to attend to my es-
tates, and he shall have. oil he asks for as
compensation for his services ssS