December 14, 1833
DIED
On the night of the 12th inst. Ann, third daughter of Col. A. Hynes. She was justly the object of her parents most tender affections. She was incomparably lovely to all who came within the sphere of her infant movements. But heart rending as it was, He, who "maketh and unmaketh at his will, called her in the down of existence from the barren sands of human life." No person could reflect with stoical indifference upon the untimely death of this lovely child. No man, unless his heart was adamant, could hear the sudden bursts of bitter anguish and the throbs of a maternal heart, without relieving his soul with a sympathetic tear. But 'tis the lot of man to suffer and to die, and twins ever from birth are misery and wo--- and hence we should succumb with Christian resignation to the dispensations of Providence, however trying, they may be upon human nature. The sensibilities of man will always be excited to weep and wail over the woes of human kind; but the gloom that surrounds the precincts of the grave is dispelled by the consciousness that our existence does not terminate here below. There is a living principle within us which will flourish in immortal youth, when time shall have ceased to be & Heaven and Earth shall have passed away. And this is one of the balsamic anodynes of that religion which teaches man how to live and to bow in peace when he is summoned to the courts of death. The perishedableness of human greatness, and the uncertainly of life impress that solemn maxim of the wisest of the sons of men, vanitas, vanitatum omnia sunt vanitas. ---
Communicated.
DIED
On the night of the 12th inst. Ann, third daughter of Col. A. Hynes. She was justly the object of her parents most tender affections. She was incomparably lovely to all who came within the sphere of her infant movements. But heart rending as it was, He, who "maketh and unmaketh at his will, called her in the down of existence from the barren sands of human life." No person could reflect with stoical indifference upon the untimely death of this lovely child. No man, unless his heart was adamant, could hear the sudden bursts of bitter anguish and the throbs of a maternal heart, without relieving his soul with a sympathetic tear. But 'tis the lot of man to suffer and to die, and twins ever from birth are misery and wo--- and hence we should succumb with Christian resignation to the dispensations of Providence, however trying, they may be upon human nature. The sensibilities of man will always be excited to weep and wail over the woes of human kind; but the gloom that surrounds the precincts of the grave is dispelled by the consciousness that our existence does not terminate here below. There is a living principle within us which will flourish in immortal youth, when time shall have ceased to be & Heaven and Earth shall have passed away. And this is one of the balsamic anodynes of that religion which teaches man how to live and to bow in peace when he is summoned to the courts of death. The perishedableness of human greatness, and the uncertainly of life impress that solemn maxim of the wisest of the sons of men, vanitas, vanitatum omnia sunt vanitas. ---
Communicated.
December 14, 1833
DIED
On the night of the 12th inst. Ann, third daughter of Col. A. Hynes. She was justly the object of her parents most tender affections. She was incomparably lovely to all who came within the sphere of her infant movements. But heart rending as it was, He, who "maketh and unmaketh at his will, called her in the down of existence from the barren sands of human life." No person could reflect with stoical indifference upon the untimely death of this lovely child. No man, unless his heart was adamant, could hear the sudden bursts of bitter anguish and the throbs of a maternal heart, without relieving his soul with a sympathetic tear. But 'tis the lot of man to suffer and to die, and twins ever from birth are misery and wo--- and hence we should succumb with Christian resignation to the dispensations of Providence, however trying, they may be upon human nature. The sensibilities of man will always be excited to weep and wail over the woes of human kind; but the gloom that surrounds the precincts of the grave is dispelled by the consciousness that our existence does not terminate here below. There is a living principle within us which will flourish in immortal youth, when time shall have ceased to be & Heaven and Earth shall have passed away. And this is one of the balsamic anodynes of that religion which teaches man how to live and to bow in peace when he is summoned to the courts of death. The perishedableness of human greatness, and the uncertainly of life impress that solemn maxim of the wisest of the sons of men, vanitas, vanitatum omnia sunt vanitas. ---
Communicated.
DIED
On the night of the 12th inst. Ann, third daughter of Col. A. Hynes. She was justly the object of her parents most tender affections. She was incomparably lovely to all who came within the sphere of her infant movements. But heart rending as it was, He, who "maketh and unmaketh at his will, called her in the down of existence from the barren sands of human life." No person could reflect with stoical indifference upon the untimely death of this lovely child. No man, unless his heart was adamant, could hear the sudden bursts of bitter anguish and the throbs of a maternal heart, without relieving his soul with a sympathetic tear. But 'tis the lot of man to suffer and to die, and twins ever from birth are misery and wo--- and hence we should succumb with Christian resignation to the dispensations of Providence, however trying, they may be upon human nature. The sensibilities of man will always be excited to weep and wail over the woes of human kind; but the gloom that surrounds the precincts of the grave is dispelled by the consciousness that our existence does not terminate here below. There is a living principle within us which will flourish in immortal youth, when time shall have ceased to be & Heaven and Earth shall have passed away. And this is one of the balsamic anodynes of that religion which teaches man how to live and to bow in peace when he is summoned to the courts of death. The perishedableness of human greatness, and the uncertainly of life impress that solemn maxim of the wisest of the sons of men, vanitas, vanitatum omnia sunt vanitas. ---
Communicated.
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