James Cook Richmond
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 26
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ..., THfi RHODE ISLAND COTTAGE. The approaching dissolution of a very dear mother had cast a deep shade of sorrow over the minds of two brothers. The younger of them relates the following unadorned incidents, as they then occurred, in the fervent hope, and with an earnest prayer, that they may be to many who are sorrowing, as they proved to him, a lesson to bear, with resignation and meekness, the trials sent by a merciful God, to wean our souls from the world, and advance them to a heavenly and enduring inheritance. He trusts that many sons and daughters of suffering may thence derive encouragement to receive, with devout submission, afflictions that dwindle into trifles, compared with the sore and heavy burden that God is pleased to lay upon these children of sorrow. On a pleasant day in the spring of 1832, we determined to leave the noisy and bustling town for the more tranquil scenes that surround the rural graves of our forefathers, A2 Our way lay across that beautiful island which has sometimes been called the Eden of our land. And indeed, the peaceful vale which lies within it, refreshed by cool and healthful breezes from the sea, and enlivened by the waves whose snow-crested summit may be seen, and their roar heard, as they roll in and break upon the distant beach; DEGREESthe green meadows, brightening in the sudden glances of the sun, now hidden, and now beaming forth again from the hasty clouds, while the flitting shadows are seen running along the sloping hillside, or quickly crossing the valley; the fertile fields, relieved at intervals by clustering trees, or here and there adorned with a quiet habitation, whose industrious and healthy inmates, dispersed over the valley, give animation to the scene; the birds and the flocks who m
