An Address Delivered in the Orphan Asylum, New-York, Feb. 5, 1822 On ...
An Address Delivered in the Orphan Asylum, New-York, Feb. 5, 1822 On ...
John Stanford
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^ Who but will apply to them the pathetic language of our text.^ How strongly it marks the sorrows of their breast ! their voice is heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning; refusing to he comforted, because their children were enveloped in flames. But why do they refuse the consoling balm, and abandon themselves to bitterness and woe ? Were you and I present with them, we should hear them say — ^^ Our children's death was awfully severe. Had ^^ ordinary sickness, or the noisome pest...ilence, assailed " them in their habitation, we then could have pro- " cured the physician's friendly aid. Then might we ^^ have soothed their pains, and instructed their tender " minds. We could have watched the stroke of death, ^* and when the vital spark expired, closed their sight- Digitized by LjOOQ IC ( 9 ) ^ less eyes, and performed the last friendly office, by ^^ committing their remains to the cold grave. But (^ ah ! all these were denied ; the fire raged ; the house ^^ is destroyed ; and, many of our orphans are burned in ** its fiery ruins."* Children of this Asylum.— From the recital of that great calamity in Philadelphia, I am persuaded your tender breasts receive the most serious impres- sions.
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