The blind woman's appeal.

Date:
[1850-1880?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The blind woman's appeal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    JUifcT ■v* It is only in a villai fhat the whole of huu revealed. Here 'every r^an live' t«he open. Here the virtues are constantly exhibited they excite-no attention, They are'expected. Here the vices are pilloried They are odious,* Erastus Pearl, lived' over sixty years of his life in Hamilton,* as clerk, merchant, neighbor,and church warden. It is only now that he is dead that we can observe that during all these long years, he lived a blame- less life. He was gentle, considerate of others, slow to tak.e offense, with- our malice, and full .of the charity that Thinketh no evil. It was im- possible for him to suspect, or look for the false or the'wrong. If the plain proof of evil was offered him, he *simply dropped the subject. He suffered wrong more*than once, but he entertained no resentment. He preferred to be defrauded rather than harbor suspicion, or forestall the in- jury. To doubt the intentions of any man was to humiliate himself. m HARVARD MEDICAL LIBRARV IN THE Francis A.Countway Library of Medicine BOSTON the company of his neighbors of his own age grow smaller he was the more attached to the few remaining. The memory of the gracious offices A that little multitude, who in the last days came silently into the old house to do the thousand things needed to be done, gives infinite comfort to his widow and his only child. It is in the village that he loved, that neighbors in time of sorrow forgot their own household duties, and unwearyingly give service by night and day, until the darkest hour is over. It is in Ham- ilton that woman like Mrs.Hull Gard- iner, Mis. C.T. Alvord, Mrs.Manches- ter and Mrs. E. B. Gaskill, make their neighbor's burdens and griefs their own. It is here too, unlike any other place in the world, where such neigh- bors as Mr. and Mrs. David Mott, empty their hearts and give up their and He sion hayel requi Ti deatj citiz< He som< ered pnei born! whei speni Octol Miss survi) to p\\ muk tinctj bitiu the n itatej beliel him man clearl agen com] to mj mar'j the a PresJ Pre* can Corrj a kij frier) deejj ily Mall Fui St. 5 A. \o& Fra Maxwi ried of thu Mr a Rev. Baptij whichl diate The g\ dry gi Sm Soil and hf circlef>| Taberj tra fcf Mrs. even n visit be at Seym &4