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Memorials of Capt.n Hedley Vicars,97th Regiment
Memorials of Captn Hedley Vicars97th Regiment Author:Catherine Marsh Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. " Happy h With such a motherl Trust in all things high Beats vif h bis blood ; and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind bis soul with clay." ... more » Tbnntsom. The 97th was ordered to Jamaica in 1848. From Maroon Town he thus writes to his mother : — " I see it all now. It is I tbat have caused your illness, my darling mother. Ever since the receipt of your last letter, I have been in a dreadful state of mind. I feel that I deserve God's severest punishment for my undutiful conduct towards the fondest of mothers, but the excruciating thought had never before occurred to me that He might think fit to remove her from me. Oh, what agony I have endured ! what sleepless nights I have passed since the perusal of that letter ! The review of my past life, especially the retrospect of the last two years, has at last quite star. led me, and at the same time disgustedme. You will now see the surest sign of repentance in my future conduct; and believe me, that never, as far as in me lies, shall another moment's anxiety be caused you by your dutiful and now repentant son." The remorse which he thus affectingly expresses, was caused by his having incurred debt, to no great amount, but such as he knew would become a burden to a widowed mother. During his residence in one of the Mediterranean isles, he had become acquainted with a family who showed him great hospitality, and in maintaining social intercourse with them, and sharing their pleasures, he had involved himself beyond his means. It was the first and the last time that his unselfish nature thus transgressed. In the depth of his penitence for his errors towards an earthly parent—called forth by the patient bearing of her forgiving love—do we not see the foreshadowing of that prostration of soul with which he humble...« less