and surrounded by every comfort that industry and prudence can bestow.

We have said that Marion left his country for the sake of his RELIGION:
which appears to have been of that cheerful sort for which a wise man
would make any sacrifice. It was the religion of the gospel,
that blessed philosophy which asks not a face of gloom, but a heart of joy.
And thereunto enjoin a supreme love of God, and a close walk with him
in a pure and benevolent life. From this, the genuine spring
of all the sweetest charities and joys of life, Marion derived
that cheerfulness which appears never to have failed him.
Even in his last will, where most men fancy they ought to be gloomy
as the grave whither they are going, his cheerfulness continued to shine
with undiminished lustre. It was like the setting of a cloudless sun: which,
after pouring its fattening beams on the fields of a live-long summer's day,
goes down in smiles to rise a brighter beauty on another day. This will
is certainly an amiable curiosity, and as it may be of service to the reader,
by showing him how free and easy a good life makes a man with death,
I will record it: at least the principal features of it,
as I got them from the family.

After having, in the good old way, bequeathed "his soul to God who gave it,"
and "his body to the earth out of which it was taken," he proceeds
in the manner following:

In the first place, as to debts, thank God, I owe none.
And therefore shall give my executors but little trouble on that score.

Secondly -- As to the poor, I have always treated them as my brethren.
My dear family will, I know, follow my example.