The National Nurseryman Volume 19 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER III. TO MISS EWING. Perth, May 6, 1/77. My dear soul, I would give any thing you knew the family in which I now am. Your mind is fitted to taste the pleasure which angels may share with us; that of seeing a happy family living in love and harmony, and enjoying the heartfelt consciousness of living in the faith, and imitation of our Blessed Redeemer, with all the hope and comfort such a life inspires. Such is the excellent person whose tender care I now experience; and such are the children of her heart and of her prayers; the heirs of her humble piety and meek benevolence. Her eldest daughter f is certainly one of the worthiest of human beings; The family of the late Rev. Mr. Black, one of the Ministers of Perth. t Mrs. Bridget Black, afterwards Mrs. Bonnar. and the ease and o;ood breeding of the whole family would soon convince one that it requires neither constraint nor austerity to live among religious folk. How glad I am to have found out these lefs than kin, and more than kind, for they don't exactly know our connexion, and have the more merit in their attention. I can taste no pleasure without trying to share it with you. O, my true friend! how eagerly do my hopes fly forward to the time when we shall once more share every hope and wish together! Yet, should this be denied, I would fain look forward with trembling hope to our re-union in that state, which excludes cares and wishes, yet excludes not But I will avoid presumption, which must result from endeavouring to mingle, too fondly, the affections of this mortal state with our dim discovered views of the world unseep.?Did I tell you of an excursion to Scoon, which we made in company with a large party of the beau monde of Perth? I think I caught cold while contemplating the forsaken mansions o...