The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-21
Che &utland Iailu 6lobe
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1874.
Letter From Charles IN. CongdOD,
Esq.
The following will be of interest to the
many friends of the writer:

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many friends of the writer
WooNsocKET. X. l., Oct. 10, 1874.
My DEAR SIR-When left home lett
in such hurry that scarcely had time TO
say good bye to any one, and if you come
across any friends that miss me salute them
in my name. ! am here in the land of
King Philip of Mount Hope, of Roger
Williams and those who in 1886 were BAN
ished from the Massachusetts, colonies for
conscience sake. The old straightforward
Puritans could not stand the fat sleek
faced Tunkers and so showed them off
among the Wampanoags and Narragansetts
hoping, no doubt, that God in his infinite
mercy would let the savagcs finish them
But the descendants of old Roger still live,
and / am receiving about all the attention
deserve at their hands We are having
beautiful season for the late harvests, there
having been only sufficient frost to drape
the earth in one of the most beautiful
variegatcd carpets ever beheld. Crimson,
gold, purple, orange, lilac, russet, green,
red, white and blue. all struggling for the
supremacy before they shall blend together
and be lost in the gray and desolation OF
winter. And is it not fitting that all the
beauties of the past season should be mar
shalled into the contest to oppose the adj
vance of old desolating Winter?
The same that all the energies of the
soul should be summoned to the contest
before giving up to death. But how many
of the human family realize that they, too,
must have their Autumn, must and will
either be clothed with all the beauties and
excellencies of their past lives or be COW
cred with that cold, gray and death-like ap-
pearance which is the precursor of the
darkness beyond this world. The soul that
has been clothed upon by the spirit of
beauty, of light, of love and of power, will
shed about him that radiance OF beauty, that
halo of glory, qualifications that will usher
| the redeemed soul of men into the sunshine
of those liberated spirits who have come
up out of great tribulatlon and who have
made their robes white in the blood Of the
Lamb. know your trials and perpleXi-
ties, and sympathize with you. But have
thought when we seemed to be the nearest
alone, felt that every one had almost de-
serted us, that this was necessary that we
might be brought to sense of our relation
to Deity. 1t is at such times we see more
clearly and hear more distinctly the point
ing and teachings of the great author OF
our being. Therefore, have courage dc
not despair. think of you, pray for you.
Will you ask those who love me to pray foI
me. l will pray for those who hate me
Qif there are any.
Commend my love to all my friends
abundantly to my Sabbath school. DO no
think that because | am enjoying the so
cety of relatives and friends (some o
whom | have not seen for twenty-five years
that l forget any of you. Oh, no. al
ways loved the people of old Dandy ant
always shall, for when | was a strange
they took me in, when sick they visite,
me, when in trouble they came TO my re
lief. And now shall | turn my back OF
them? No, never rather let my RICH
hand forget its cunning nay, rather letm'
tongue cleave to the roof Of my mouth
than that should do any such thing. w,
might as well make the world beautiful ant
bright take it as a fixed fact and make thu
most of it, as to NOPE and groan out oul
existence in the vain and delusive thought
that thereby our lines may be made more
interesting by putting on long faces and a
sober mien.
Brother, did not thinl, when | bcgar
this letter of writing such homily (no
medley, and if you can decipher it, Eng
fish it, or do anything else with it, you viii
do better than | think you can, and | shall
give you the credit of being a scholar and
an adept at translation. G. II. G.