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and his joys, were alike intrusted to her; a precious deposit, 
which her heart knew how to keep and ponder. 
Professor HusBARD was married at the age of twenty- 
five to Miss Saran E. L. Hanpy of Washington, on the 
27th of April, 1848. Few men were more fitted than he to 
enjoy the comforts of a home, or could better appreciate the 
blessings of his new relation; but there were many clouds 
to overshadow the horizon, as he himself says in one short 
note, whose pathos only those can understand who know 
that it was but once or twice in a lifetime that a murmur 
escaped his lips. Upon the threshold of his home stood 
always that dreary visitant, [ll-health, whose dominion over 
both mental and physical content most of us know too well. 
Husparp’s own health was never certain, but his wife was 
a far greater sufferer; and often, unknown to herself, her 
troubles weighed too heavily upon his over-tasked mind and 
Sensitive heart. Even pecuniary embarrassments, those 
petty cares that, unlike deeper sorrows, fail to brace the mind 
they attack, were not wanting to sting his delicate and 
generous spirit. Each day their peculiar circumstances 
compelled new outlays, to be defrayed only from means 
already too slender. We can appreciate their struggles, 
Without prying too closely into what he might have wished 
forgotten. We can see the student compelled to forego his 
cherished pursuits, the man of tender sensitiveness wrung 
by the sufferings of those nearest him, the invalid whose 
frail health varied with each new trial. We can see all 
this; but to a spirit such as his must have come many a 
Compensation, many a blessing won from the dark angels 
by bitter wrestling. 
“ For that high suffering which we dread 
i joy discloses; 
Men see the thorns on Jesus’ head, 
But angels see the roses.” 
