Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr.Hall, Edward B. (Edward Brooks)
Religion
Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr.
Hall, Edward B. (Edward Brooks)
Unitarians -- United States -- Biography; Ware, Mary L. (Mary Lovell), 1798-1849
"I use my first moment of repose to write to you, for I know
you will long to hear what we have been doing, and as far as
possible to enter into all our thoughts and feelings. I want to
have you know all that has taken place since you left us, and
shall therefore send you a minute detail of every day, when I
shall have time to write it; but now so much is pressing upon
me which demands attention, so many duties which must not be
neglected, and which belong to this time, and must be performed
at once, that I confine myself to the last two days.
"After dear father's death, I told Uncle John that I wished all
arrangements with regard to his funeral should be made in
accordance with grandfather's feelings; and I gave it wholly
into his hands to arrange. He came up again on Saturday, and it
was decided that we should come to grandfather's on Monday
morning, and have a service at his house. On Sunday we all went
to meeting; we felt it was good to go to the house of God, and
find peace to our troubled souls in the act of worship. About
six in the evening Mr. and Mrs. Barry came to us, for I felt
that I could not have father's body leave that house without
'the voice of prayer at the sable bier,
A voice to sustain, to soothe, and to cheer.'
He read to us some passages of Scripture, and offered for us
and with us a prayer to Him who alone could give us strength,
that he would aid us in that trying hour. We had no one with us
except Mr. and Mrs. W----, whose kindness was most valuable to
us during the last days of father's life.
"Then John and I brought dear father's body to Cambridge in our
own carriage; we could not feel willing to let strangers do any
thing in connection with him which we could do ourselves. We
reached here about half past ten, having had a season of
precious intercourse upon our way. We found that, in accordance
with the wishes of the College Faculty, it had been decided
that we should go to the College Chapel, for the service, at
half past three on Monday.
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