An Offering of Sympathy to the Afflicted

As may be inferred from the variety of the topics here treated, these pages are designed, and it is hoped they may not be found unsuited, for the consolation of all sorrow. Yet there Will be perceived a particular reference to that grief Which is suffered by parents under the loss of children. Of' the trials of domestic 'life, appointed of' our heavenly Father, none are of more frequent occurrence, and none, perhaps, cause a more poignant sorrow, than does this. I have lost my children, and am desolate, is the natural language of bereaved paternal affection. When the infant, that had lately entered apon existence, or the lovely child, whose powers were just unfolding.

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