Tales of Early Piety, by Two Sisters

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. 1836 Excerpt: ... ADELAIDE MONTGOMERY. CHAPTER I. In the spring of 1809, Adelaide and Julia found themselves on the eve of being deprived of their sole remaining parent, the widow of Captain Montgomery. Mrs. Montgomery had been an indulgent mother to them, in the truest sense of the words. She had lost no time in endeavouring to lay up a store for her beloved daughters, when the moment of deprivation should arrive, and leave them apparently hopeless, to the care of an unfeeling world. For the preceding twelvemonths her own health had been gradually declining, and she foresaw they would soon be orphans, as to their natural kindred; but she never failed to instil into their tender minds the important and consoling lesson, that however lonely they might be as regards relatives, there is One who is always ready to take the orphan to his bosom, and on whom we may safely rely in the moment of affliction. They had already witnessed the serious form of death, in the loss of a beloved father; but, even at that trying period, the mother sustained herself and children in comparative cheerfulness, by assuring them it was her full hope and conviction that it only remained with themselves to meet, or not to meet, the object of their solicitude in another and a happier state. Weep not, my dear girls, she would say: grieve not for one, whose constant aim has been to love the Lord first, and to bring every thing else into subjection to that law. Our natural feelings lead us to look on the cold tenement of clay, as if it still contained the spirit we have loved and cherished: but remember, dear children, it is the perishable part, and only worthy our regard as having enabled your departed parent to move and act in this lower state of existence. Now, the appointed time has arrived when it ...