Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10
Washington.

To the Editor. would there be more, CT 1 ties attached, for the protection of the good, and punishment of the bad no jails, peniten- | tIaries or gibbets Are men never restrained | by fear, and are corporal punishments of no benefit in this life as a restraining and reform ing agency? The punishments of the future ! life are retribution.-2d, do the canons of the | Episcopal church require different belief of the clergy, from that of the laity?" The first question put us above is one that we will answer at some future time when we l have more space. In regard to the second, | the profession of faith required of the Episco- pal layman is brief and general. and does not touch upon many points usually held essential; but the clergy are bound by the very full dec laration of orthodox faith found in the Thirty Nine Articles. ENQ.
 -Wm. Thrall supplied the desk for his brother George. Feb. 27th.
 Porter D. Ford sailed for Mexico, the 26th inst, with corps of engineers. Mrs. Wolsey Leavitt left on Wednesday, to visit her daughter Nellie, in Chicago, en route for her home in Florida.
 It is with sorrow that we record the sud- den death, the 2d. inst, of Samuel A. Baker, aged 66 a former school mate of ours. A much esteemed citizen, friend of good order, of soundjudgment, and decided opinions, he has filled several offices of trust in this community in past years, and we trust rests from his labors.
 A TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED wORTH.-Died at Roxbury March 1st, Anniss Hunt, the es- teemed wife of John Smith, and daughter of the late Edward Hunt, of Marketable, aged 65. Endowed by nature with an exuberance of animal spirits, she was fitted to become the life and the leader ot the circle in which she moved and to gain the confidence of the young of whom she was 2 successful teacher for several years In 1883, at the age of eighteen, she became the hopeful subject of divine grace, and her subsequent life attested the reality of the change. She united with the Methodist Episcopal church as most con- genial with the Impulses of her nature, and to that church she vas strongly attached and one of its most active and earnest supporters but her charity embraced all who bore the inn age or manifested the spirit of her Saviour. Some 43 years since she was married to Mr. John Smith of Roxbury, to whom she truly proved help meet One child, an only daugh- ter, was given them, who, just as she W as in the bloom of youth and maturing into womanhood, was removed by death at the age of eighteen. The mother bowed in submission to the divine will but from that tinle though in the world faithfully performing every duty. ministering to the wants and happiness of those around her and especially to her friends who were very dear to her, rejoicing in the prosperity of Zion, the gifts of God, and the beauties of nature which surrounded her-she was not of the world. Her heart. her conver- saton her hopes and home, were in heaven. No one could be long in her society without being impressed with this fact. To that home she aspired, for it she longed, and into it we trust she has found an abundant entrance.
 There is no death in heaven,
 But when the christian dies,
 The angels wait his parting soul
 And wait it to the skies.
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