You would not object to your parents' securing for you a
costly estate while in your minority, and why then discard the heavenly
inheritance they would provide for you? Fulfill your vows. Choose His
service, and be blessed now and forever.
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Original.
THE PROMISE FULFILLED.
"Leave thy fatherless children with me, and I will preserve
them alive."
(Concluded from page 119.)
The elder brother, DE WITT, from childhood, was of a thoughtful
cast of mind, regular in his habits, careful in forming his
associations, kind and dutiful as a son and brother. He ever proved a
help and solace to his mother in the family circle, where he was the
oldest child. In pursuing his course of studies he evinced industry of
application, and sustained an excellent standing in his classes. His
regular and interested attendance on the exercises of the
Sabbath-school, as well as the services of the sanctuary; his conduct in
the family circle, and the developments of the closing scenes of his
life, all tend to form the conviction that divine truth had obtained a
lodgment in his mind by the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit. At
the interesting period of nineteen years, full of hope and promise, the
seeds of pulmonary disease sprang forth within him. In the fall of 1850,
he began to cough, and since then, with variations as to its severity,
it continued with him, and his friends marked that it became deeply
seated, and apprehended its probable termination.
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