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Day
29
Month
December
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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Died, in Cerlin, (Ohio) Cmaul-jtte Temple, fonneriy a 'ave in Virginia. She has been n Oberlin most of the lime tbr the last iwo yenrs (-eajrs ilie paper pubtished ia that place) during which. sfie has mnintained a uniform upriht character. Uur religious liislory, as given ïy hciself, iá truly delightful;' cfspecinüy i(1 relation to her first radonal idea p'f.Goii and ihesoul ns the active principie of her iieing, and also of death and of cternitv. She was iynorant of her own age, but her hoary Iiead and furrowed checks shou-ed lliut bcr years had not been few. Tlie numerous scars on her body told of the extent of inhuman barbarily infiicied unoher. The slavery fruni whieh she ilod still retains 'm its grasp all her relativos. Chüdren and grand childrën survive her! Bul they were not present to smooth her dying pillow, nor follow her to the grave. The mpjlier died. alone, and was bnried by slfiinirecs, without oue fromamong her aumeris ofipring (o follow her to the tonibj fur they are all shut np in the prison house of slaverv."Reader! does not your bosom heave wiih soriow and shame when you contem)!aio ihe untold wrong which your eouiiry has 'heapcd upon thia child oí God,and housands hke her? And yet these are he everyday doins of ono half of thid epubjicj A professedly christian !and, with ihousands wacmly eogaged in sendng forth Biblcs, and (racis, nnó miesiQnncs toa 'benighted world. To ihooe th4t o or uphold lbeso wrons we extend, as a people, the hand of christian fellowship!