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: die; and believing, as we do, that every appointment of Providence bas a direct view to the happiness of his creatures, we dwell with a deep interest on the character of one who realized this truth in its fulness. The change is to come to us all, and we are grateful to those who teach us that it is a happy change; that the anticipation, the approach of it may sanctify, without clouding, each event of life, and so the enjoyments of the present, be made beautifully to harmonize with the prospects of the future. Ann Lincoln Boutelle was the only daughter of the late Dr. Boutelle, a gentleman, whose high moral worth, professional skill and courteous manners, have endeared his memory to many among us. She was born in Plymouth, on the llth October, 1819; a few weeks after the death of her father. Ann's life was unmarked by any striking events: it was a life of simple action, of devout thought, of kind affections. They who knew and loved her as the light-hearted school girl, hardly realized the strength ofcharacter which was growing up under an exterior, peculiarly delicate and gentle. But her sickness developed it all; and they, who were her seniors in age, and over whom the severer discipline of life had passed, went to her room, not as we usually go to the sick chamber, to comfort the suffering body and to strengthen the fainting spirit, but to be themselves refreshed and strengthened by the faith and piety and patience which there shone so conspicuously. Her whole appearance was so. feminine, even frail, her heart was so full of exquisite susceptibilities and ready sympathies, that we feared lest the storm should overwhelm her; but it came, and we saw her bracing herself to meet it with unwavering firmness; we found ourselves her pupils, her admirers, and not her teachers and p...