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^ ^ n rkif wiTH ^ rr a calling . BY " Sflfti AUTHOR O # * J ^ ll ^ iN ©»^ M / * DaVETON , ' &C v . ' . t - ' : •'• . J /' ¦ - ; . ? , * " V " - * > - ' - > - . . . /¦ - ; " Give your son a * hi We' and a ' calling / and you have done your best for him / V jfe W il ^^ and it rightly , I think , belongs to ftd&ert HaH . ' ' Poor Stephen Cameron ! He had a bible , but he had no calling .
He read his bible ; and he longed , oh ! how he longed , to be employed * He was not ambitious ; he had no inordinate cravings , but he was an idle man , and it was a grievous corse to him to feel that he was utterly useless—a thing of nought in the world .
He was the $ on of an old Subaltern in the veteran battalion . At the commencement of the war , he ( the father ) had suffered himself to be invalided * Against his own judgment he had done this ; it was an unwise act , but it was not the act of a coward . He had a loving wife , and the fear was all on her side ; she ft ^ red for him and for her children ; she solicited and she
prevailed . Kind-hearted Mrs Cameron was never meant for a soldier ' s wife . They had many children , and they were very poor ; but they were honest , and they were much respected . They * vere forced to pi ^ ch th emselves a little , hut they were the most hospitable 9 / poor gentry ; and although their fare was always homely , there was plenty of it , and , when sitting at their table , if yoi *
did not feel pat you were welcome you must have been the most insensible of beings . They had many daughters and but one son . Stephen Came * ron was th ^ youngest , and the most beloved . "He was the only son of his mother / ' and it must be acknowledged that ^ do ^ d oii ^ r lM ? ; Yet the great love of his parents and of his sisters , wrought np prejudicial eifect upon the cliaracter of Stephen Cumcr ^ . Ste f ^^ wgip . » € « b ^ i ^ ft 4 i ^^ : . « j nQr ¦; . ji ^ tiul ^ mt , » pr exacting ; he was pot
like the herd of " only son s / V tie gxevyr up amongst " his own g ^ p le / V cherkhed , but not ippi ^ bar « . < hw dbMBrishing . He fe eveu as he xec ^ ived , and he regarded the love that w ^ s lowed unoa him , not as his 4 n H $ , biit . avd ^ bt to be repaid . 4 | j |;^ f || i 40 iJ , he tsmy thie de | & ^ e nva a the yenr lif e or th ^ houjiehpld ; cheerAil solfrsacrificing , always reader to oblige , and never so happy as when confomng an obligation . A kind word " or a loving action was never thrown aw ' ay upon him . He
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am Stephen Cameron .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/50/
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