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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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In this town on the llth inst., Lucinda, second daughter of John Chandler, ) aged 22 years. ' The deceased has been for eight years an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church in this village. She adorned her profession by the conscientious observances of the duties of a christian, and by an exemplary deportment. But it was reserved to asick and dying bed to exhibit the power of religión in enabling her to endure a protracted disease, and to triumph over the King of terrors. For months previous to her death, the conviction fastened ïtself upon her mind that she could not recover. Her family attachments we re strong and the society of friends dear. But a sister and a Saviour in Heaven aiForded her a far greater attraction than earthly ties. Her reason and consciousness were preserved to the last, enabling her to converse freely with her friends. It was her delight to talk of the glorious but unmerited reward that awaited her. When the last dim spark of nature was expiring, her enraptured soul was stayed upon God, whose angels wafted her (reed spirit to the bosom of her Savior. "So fades a summer's cloud away, So sinks the gne wnen storms were o'er, So gently sliuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victors brow, Fanned by some guardián angel's wing, O death, where is thy victory now, And where, O death, is now thy stingT' ! COMMUNICATED.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News