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Vermont Christian Messenger - Montpelier, Washington Co., VT - December 4th, 1858 Mr. Editor - The following is in memory of three children, of Atkins and Mary Perkins, who died in the Spring of 1858
The fading, falling leaves of Autumn remind
us of the transitory nature of all things earthly. While these leaves were
unfolding, death laid its icy hands upon three little precious rose buds
of beauty and they withered and died. The first taken was the young,
beautiful, active and gay Alberty Perkins, of nine years. The next,
the sedate, modest, retiring, and meditative little Henriet Perkins
of six years. The last, little Rosette Perkins, a rose bud of
beauty, of only three years. Thus they have gone, gone forever from the
circle where they were cherished - the pure, the lovely and the good! In
twelve days these little sisters were cold in death. But we know they are
happy, and that angels gently bore them to yon blue sky; but oh, for the
breaking, bleeding hearts on earth!. Toil on, struggle on, weeping
mourners, in the way of duty a little while, and you will be called to
that Mansion of light and rejoin the departed. Then grieve not, think not
of them as lying in the cold, dark valley, with the green turf raised over
them, but as dwellers in a heavenly Paradise! It was not their bodies we
loved in life, although they were beautiful, but the soul beaming in the
eye, visible in every action, motive and word. Then comfort ye bereaved
parents, and may we all be prepared to meet the departed in that better
land.
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Vermont Christian Messenger - Montpelier, Washington Co., VT - January 13th, 1870
Rev. JUSTIN PERKINS,
died in Chicopee, Mass. on Friday. He was for thirty-six years a
missionary among the Nestorians, and for several years was editor of a
Christian monthly publication known as the Ray's of Light, the only
religious paper printed in Persia. He arrived home in August in failing
health.
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