| 543 NOTICE.
At a meeting of the High Council, in the city of Nauvoo, this 18th day of May, 1844.
Resolved, That James Blakesley, Francis M. Higbee, Charles Ivans, and Austin Cowles, be cut off from this church for apostacy [apostasy].
George W. Harris, Prest. pro. tem.
Joseph M. Cole, Clk. pro. tem.
A MOTHER'S LOVE.
There is so divine a holiness in the love of a mother, that no matter how the tie that binds her to the child was formed, she becomes as it were, consecrated and sacred, and the past is forgotten, and the world and its harsh verdicts swept away when that love alone is visible and the God who watches over the little one, sheds his smile over the human deputy, in whose tenderness there breathes his own!-Bulwer.
P O E T R Y.
For the Times and Seasons.
Reflections at the funeral of Joel F. Scovil son of Lucius and Lury Scovil; who died on the tenth of May, 1844. Aged 14 years and twelve days.
BY MISS ELIZA R. SNOW.
The spirit had departed and had left But then the spirit of the living God
The mortal tenement a lifeless form! Waked with its light the vision of my mind,
I sat beside his coffin, but for him And I exclaim'd within myself, all, all
I had no tears to shed. How could I weep? Is well. He's gone to do a work for them
His years, indeed, had been but few, but then Of everlasting consequence; and they,
He was a saint, and he has gone to join Ere long shall understand the purposes
The spirits of the just. There was to him no Of him who holds the destinies of man;
Bitterness in death. The pow'r of faith In this their present loss, and then their joy
Imparted through the glorious gospel of Will be unspeakable.
The Son of God had shorn the monster of
His terrors and his sting. It rent in twain Soon, very soon
The parting vail [veil] that hides from mortal view The resurrection morn will dawn and bring
Eternal things: and Kindred spirits came An everlasting triumph o'er the grave.
To greet the dying one and waft him home.
Be faithful then ye parents! Keep the faith-
Freed from Mortality and all its ills; Be steadfast in the cause of Zion, till
To die as he has died, is endless gain. Your course is finished, and your work is done;
Such were my feelings: then I look'd upon And you shall soon embrace your child, array'd
His mourning parents, and I thought of their In robes of royalty-with glory crown'd
Bereavement! 'Tis their only son-he is In your own mansion of celestial light.
Their first-born, and to him with fond delight
Their expectations clung; and here he lies! There, fond affection, everlasting bond
Corruption preys already on the face Of kindred spirits and of kindred flesh,
They dearly lov'd! And now where is their hope? In strength perfecting, will entwine around
My heart was moved with tenderness; and grief The glorious objects of an endless claim.
For one short moment weigh'd my feelings down. Nauvoo May 11th, 1844
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