Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-09-14
I'll 90 and come,
NOT fear to die,
TIN from on high
Thou calPst me home, etc.

. Can take my life away, # God be with me
there.
I'll 60 and come,
NOT fear to die,
] 'III| from on high
Thou calls st me home, etc.
Thus we lived, as it were, in an ideal
world of our own creating, while all was
death and solemn reality around us.
With firm reliance on a kind Proyi-
dence, our hearts were kept in perfect
peace. On the 25th Of August my
brother, twenty months my senior, and
residing in Front Street, was attacked
| nursed him, and he recovered From
this date to the 22d Of September | at
tended night and day among the sick.
At the door Of the Methodist Church in
John Street | mst poor widow Ga
mother in lsraeD, whom | engaged as u
! companion and comfort to RebccCa while
/ | miniStered to those who were ready to
/ perish The fear of death had driven
the mother Of Rebecca into the country.
When all had fed who were able and
the Board Of Health had removed the
poor to temporary buildings out Of town
| (yiz, Harlem Heights, then styled, the
census was taken, and it appeared tha!
only 10000 men, women, and children
remained. Ou. Of this lumber G3 died
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ON tins ialaI day my ilrsJ born i1rthe
first time behCld the light of the sun
without was heard the voice OF weep
ing, walImg, lamentaliQn, and woe; but
III my house was Joy ana peace that DAY,
Tor ii was well with the mother, II was
well with her child, and well with all
under my roof 10 be sure, Death on
the pale horse, IN going the rounds,
stopped IN front OF my dwellings he
accommodated the premises Tor mo-
menJ, while the horse stood paving at
Jhe door, but seeing thai the posts and
Ienlels were married by the angel OF pro-
lection, ne dared not enter, but slowly
descending to Maiden Lane ( lrei al
the corner Of Nassau and Liberty
Streets, he stopped at my second door
nclghbor,s, where he lett dart IN the
heart Of DIR, Dingley. At 10 that same
night he was laid IN the Potter,s Field.
1t Is remarkable instance OF proyl-
Dental preservation, that during all the
tevers never left the city, and though
more or less engaged IN nursing the sick
every season OF It's prevalence, neither
myself my wife, nor any OF my children
were ever attacked by that malignant
disease,
During the fever in 1922 my porter,
an lntemperate aged man, went out on
a Saturday evening, in spite OF my earn
est remonstrances, During the evening
a thunderstorm broke upon the city,
and at midnight he came home drunk T.
and wet to the skin. stripped him to
nudity, and put on him large flannel
shirt, and then put his feet in warm
water. ! afterward put him in bed and T.
covered his body with two blankets,
hoping to promote perspiration. In five
minutes he was fast asleep. Fearing an
emergency, slept in the room adjoin- /.
ing. His groanS awOke me at four
O'Clock in the morning. DR.. kissam
felt hi- pulse in thirty minutes thereat.
ter. | nursed him myself At O'Clock .
on the following Saturday afternoon he
slept in Potter's Field.
This was the only death by yellow fe-
yer that ever occurred under my roof .
No other of my family were affected .
though he died in our midst. Th, total .
absence of all fear, yet think, was the
means which Providence employed for
our preservation, We neither took
preventive pills nor powders, but, with .
a firm reliance on our Maker and Pre-
server, kept on the even tenor of our
way, with moderation in all things,
stunning heat by day and chills by
night. 70 be sure in NY visitations
among the sick, walked the streets
during all the silent watches of the
night, but this was an imperious duty,
and | felt confident that death could not
and would not touch one hair of my
head while was engaged in so necessa-