This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...undertook to perform all the necessary offices for the dead, nor intended to leave his remains till they were placed under the care of his own family Just, however, as they were about to be conveyed to the steamboat, for the purpose of being taken home, your dear father himself was seized with the same direful ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...undertook to perform all the necessary offices for the dead, nor intended to leave his remains till they were placed under the care of his own family Just, however, as they were about to be conveyed to the steamboat, for the purpose of being taken home, your dear father himself was seized with the same direful disease, and I was very soon called upon L2 perform not only the offices of benevolence, hut to administer the rites of our holy religion to him. 1 am happy to say, that he had every attention, both of a religions and medical kind, that could he desired: and though all, alas! proved ineffectual in saving his life, it IS a great consolation to his surviving friends, to thinlt that all was done that mortal man could do, to render his last moments easy and happy. It is a peculiar character of this disease, thai though the previous stages are marked hy extreme suffering, the last moments of its victims ace invariably composed and tranquil; luit in no instances have 1 seen the impress of Almighty (Jod marked in such legible characters on the human countenance, as on the features of Mr. Linley and your father. Mr. Linley was about six hours ill; your father eleven; and though, from the first, he seemed to believe his death inevitable, not a regret or a murmur ever escaped his lips. He spoke frequently and tenderly of you; said he should have been very happy had it pleased (.Jod to allow him to remain with you till yon were place;! under the care of some other protector, or at least till you had a few more years' experience over your head; hut that he had every confidence in your piety and virUie, and in the pro tectinjr care of Almighty Providence. lie desired me tc assure you, that his last prayers were breathed for yon, and that his last...
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