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Mothers, do you not reap a rich reward for curbing your own spirits, for
every self-denial, for untiring devotion to the immortals given to your
care, with souls to be saved or lost? Oh! neglect them not, lest
conscience utter the fearful whisper, "Mother, _you might have saved
that soul_!"
ELLEN ELLISON.
Feb. 1852.
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Original.
NEVER TEMPT ANOTHER.
There are thousands of persons in the United States to whom the name of
Jonathan Trumbull, formerly a governor of Connecticut, is familiar--I
mean the first governor of that name. He was a friend and supporter of
General Washington during the Revolutionary War, and greatly contributed
by his judicious advice and prompt aid to achieve the Independence of
America.
This Governor Trumbull had a son by the name of John, who became
distinguished in the use of the pencil, and who left several paintings
of great merit commemorative of scenes in the history of our
revolutionary struggle. My story relates to an incident which occurred
during the boyhood of John.
His father, for the purpose of giving employment to the Mohegan Indians,
a tribe living within the bounds of the Connecticut colony, though at
some distance from the governor's residence, hired several of their
hunters to kill animals of various kinds for their furs.
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