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TOWANDA:
alancoltap filming, October 81, 1849.
DOUBT NOT
In' J. M. KNowi.tori
When the day of life is dreary.
And when gloom thy curse enshrouds—
When thy steps are faint and weary,
And thy spirit dark with clouds.
Steadfast still in thy well doing,
Let thy soul forget the - past—
Steadfast still, the nght pursuing. )
Doubt not: joy shall come at last.
Rtriving,still and onward pressing,
Seek not future years to know.
Bat do re the wished for blessing,
It shall come though it be slow.
Never tiring—upward gazing--
Let thy fears aside be cast.
And thy trials tempting. braving—
Doubt not! joy shall come at last!
Keep not thou thy Font regretting,
Sea the good—spurn eril's thrall,
Though thy foes tby path besetting,
Thou shall tnumplt o'er them all.
4 Though each year but bring thee sadness
And the youth be deeting fast.
There'll be time enough for gladness—
Doubt Dot! joy shall come at last!
Eis fond eye is watching o'er thee—
Ht‘ ctr.•ne arm shall be th,y gnard—
Puir'• path ic straight before thee,
to thy reward.
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I rnm uckle)'s LEAN', [3c ,
TIIE DONATION -VISIT.
ET T. S. ♦RTHCR
The congregation of the Rev. lason• Edwards'
was made up of ery good sort of people, as the
53% In; is. They liked their midi Mer very well;
only it did seem to them that it took a" power" of
rri , ney to support his family. They paid him,
le-ularlv. the very handsome salary of three hun
dm! dollars a year, besides providing a house for
use, with gmund enough fur a garden , yet,
cm withstand inf.; this, the minister was always poor.
lt.was plain, that he must waste his money in ex
Itara;"ance of some 1.0%1 or o t her but he was a
good man. and preached the word faithfully ; and
so they bore with him, and endeavored to make
up the constanily occurrlng deficiences by forced
efforts of one kind or an other. Every fall. he was
favored with either a Donation Visit or a -Donation
Party, which was expected to put hiin beyond the
reach of want fur the next six months—if not a
- zhole rear.
On the last occasion of this kind, it was tie pleas
ure of those who had the -ordering of pidahc mat
ten in the congr e gation, to decide upon a r e gular
Donation Party, due notice was served upon the
moister. The afternoon and evening on which
be affair was to come oil, proved altogether pro-
p.aous. (unfortunately for the minister!) and there
was, of course, a large turn out of men, women,
r.r.) children. Mr. and :%Irs. A—, who mairib
ulei a pair of yarn stockings for Mr. Edwards. and
rree pounds of home-made sausa.ges, felt entitled,
r: course, to bring their three boys along. each of
e nom. having saved his appetite since morning,
devour, in the way of cakes, pies, and more
articles of food—the contributions of other
tnennbers--about three times the value of those ar
te;es. And Mr. and Mio. B-- ; who furnished a
pair of Indian rubber shoes lot Mrs. Edwards.
and a worked cap for the baby, also felt privileged
to bring their two daughters along, whose appetites
were, likewise sharpened br the occasion. And
something after this fashion was it with the C---s,
Et—s, E—s, F—s. The conclusion of the
matter was, that the minister's family, after super-
Intent - hog a lavish entertainment, the raw. mate
rnal for which was furnished by the congina
bon. and the labor and care by themselves, was in
pre-session of the tragments of a feast that, by nat
urii coarse of consumption, would disappear ye-Ith
a week. Beyond this, a few pair of shoes and
rXiingtt, numerous ornamental articles mannfac•
ti;:ed by young ladies, a couple at loads of wood,
and sundry niclma4eries of no crest value, were
ieady ail that the Donation Party yielded. As it
%u to be a party,' - the majority of those who
ratne brought such things as would best serve the
tcrusion, half torgening in their anticipations of
pleasure, the real obrcts they proposed to accom
plish. Eatables and drinkables, therefore, made
. up more that , two-thirds of all that was donated
and these were mostly in articles of present con
sumption. One old farmer, more substantial in his
moons than the rest. did bring a " whole be;
and an ;other provr,!eAl a couple' of hams-=but, of
latter, one disappeared at !poppet lime.
In fact, on the morning after the donation party.
NI; Dcrarat. instead of feeling in a comfortable
sate of mind. so far as this world's goods were
felt eiltisaierably poorer than before
rrtale the visitation with which he bad been
;ACCeexi was of Imu tattle real benefit, he knew that I
in . ..lrm;iori had gone abroad through the coo
,- gist he was so cn - er-supplied with every- •
tig for the natural man, as t' be unable to es
`-ant the work for months. ln consequeoce of
thdOldtgllS who would otherwise have re.
efflheTrd him, would now omit their loads of
vxd bap of potatoes or meal, and sundry other
of a like nature, under the impression that
we would be entirely supedluoas.
M' Edwards was hardly a man anited for aeon
lake that at,Everton. He had really too
refinerntent, delicacy, and independence of
•!•.n;:. These donation vista and Mile) were
kariy unpleasant to 'him, for they were at
•ec.:ied with an much that was palsanisirtg ;zoo
tital taut his selt.faspeci, that their ortewmenee
a t i4 n boat all ales cinisidacaliaaa, was ISfecialLY
4v"rin- His salary was paid to trim as some
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as the fulfilment of a contract, and therefore, with
out a sense of humiliation. It was inadequate to
the supply of his real wants:, and the deficit had,
every year, to be made up by the congregation,
anti this came to him in a balf-grudged gratuity,
and, therefore, its reception always wounded 'him.
After all; the member of the church bad to meet
his expensei, and it cost them quite as much to do
so afterAhe flisjaion they seemed to prefer, as to
have paid him Ili sufficient salary at once, and left
him to provide, tin true independence, for I is fami
ly. This was srfen and felt by Air. Edwards, and
it fretted him whenever his mind recurred to the
subject_
Some time during the latter part of the year suc
ceeding that in w - iiich the donation party jnst refer
red to took place, Mr. Edwards had a hint from
one of the " officials," that an otter affair et the
kind was likely tecome ofi before a great while.
" Brother," said the minister, when this hint
came bending to the ear of the person he address
ed, and half whispering. " if you have an influence
spare me another,party.' "
The brother looked surprised.
' "Or. at least." added the minister, With a mean
ing and the humorous twinkle in his eye,
let it be untlerAoad that no one who intends com
ing shall fast from breakfasttime."
it took the obtuse-minded brother neatly a ntiante
to core ^re'rted •!^r meaning of Mt &In art_.
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to. .14 , 0.: i < pa-s• 1 , , e. 'le Lad q u ite na. urat-
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.t • . 't ftll34l:iy to t,e who came to
g.-:her for purposes of testiroy,particular_ly, as they
had brought their own, pros istoris.
" I see no use in pmcirling; a good supper, if peo
ple don't brim; appetites to the entertainment, - said
he. '= Besides you know that 'each one brought
!someth mg."
Yes, I know that. One lady, who came kith
her two daughters, brought a pint of cream and a
cotton night cap ; another—but," the minister check
ed iumselt - I must not refer to these things: All
I now ask, brother is that, without speaking of my
wishes in the matter, you will use your influence to
save me from the infliction of an other donation
party."
" I don't know . why you f• h utl a F . lert so trong
ly ; or why you should g,TudgeL-escuse my free
dom--the link your visitors happen to eui,"'sairi
the official.
" How much do you think I bad lett, aher near
ly all the whole Congrevation had fed themselves
to repletion r' inquired the minister, who was spur
red into Speaking more plainly than was his custom.
Enough provisions to last you three or four
months, besides wood and clotting "
"Not enough provisions to keep the family tor'
two weeks : and as for clothing., I could have ,
bought with five dollars more that would have
been really useful in the family, than all that was
received. There, you have the plain Va. I speak
it for your own ears. You now nodenstannd why
I want no move donation parties. The last was
prettey much as all the others have been—a great
deal more trouble than profit—teaving me with the
reputation of having received large supplies of ail
thin=s aeedful, when in reality, I was little, if any
better off than before.
The mental vision of the brother was a little
clearer on, at least, one subject, after bearing this
declaration. Ile went away rather more thought
ful than when he came. There was no donation
party that year but in its stead, a donation visit
was planned, and Mr Edwards duly notified the
time when it was to take place.
On Saturday, the twentieth of October, the day
appointed for this interesting event, the minister's
little household was in a state of restless anticipa
non pleasant 'or unpleasant, according to the par
tinnier temperament of the individual Mrs. Ed- I
wals, too, piiobably, felt the exhauition of all
things temporal, more than her husband, could not
help letting her imagination picture at least some
things more particular needful than others. There
was a new bonnet for herself. Nodoubt some of
the kind sisters had noticed how rusty and defaced
hers had become, and would supply the need. -
I hope they will not bring ki bonnets," she
said to herself, as she mused on the subject. It was
settled in her mind that one would come. The
trouble was, least two of the church members
should decide upon the same article—a thing that
seemed to her quite nanualty. as all mast have ob.
served how greatly she stood in need of a new bon
net: Then there were clothe , . fir the children.—
Her two boys must have each a.coople of warner
suits So plain a want as this any one could see .
I'm sure," she said. to her husband, "that Mr.
Jenkins, who 001113 the factory, will Wing as some
of his nice sande, to make jackets and trowers
for the boys"
" Can't tell . anyting about it." replied Mr- Ed
wards, to whose mind anticipation brutght a feel
ing of disturbance and humiliation
: Well Yin sure he'll do so. Wouldn't it be na
tural for him. above all lathe* to think of a few
suds of satinet! And he wouldn't feel in all; for
be*s got hundreds of pieces."
Mr. Edwards made no reply ; but it did seem to
hit as ins wife het sated it, that it would be
quite natural for Mr. Jenkins to remember the boys
in a present of cloth dot & twit of clashes. The
thoema acted as a relief to his tied ; for the boys
had looked rather shabby kir tome time, and the
way by which new clothing was to ootoe, bad not
seemed at all plain 'bakes his eyes..
So it was tacitly settled in the minded the minis
ter and his good wife, that Harry and Josepn were
to be supplied with new suits of clothes from the
factory of Mr Jenkins.
From the bonnet and the satinet, the mind of 31r&
Edwards went hater. Shoes were very ,mach
needed by the etiddren ; and, as lot herself she
bade (a pair that was Bt to go to chew:aim Theme
would of coarse, come. In fie, then was sorely
a want eitiele4 in the family that the mightier%
wife did not, In imnination, see amply &Gabe' d
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PUBLISHED EVERY 'WEDNESDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COTINTY. PA., BY E. 011EIRA GOODRICH.
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aribinvness rormectifiam ritOSI •NT auasTra.'
and her mind was thus eased of a portion of its
weight of care and anxiety. :
Dinner was ready an hour earlier than usual,
and hurried over in ode: that all might prepare to
receive the visitors, who were soon expected to ar•
rive. Mr. Edwards took his place in the parlor
about one o'clock, and tried to compose his mind
to read. But his errs wandered over the pages
spread out before him, without his mind petreiv
ing the sense of opprestsion on his feeliugs. Llope
struggled with humililaion.
At length, the first visitor appeared. He was -a
sturdy old farmer, living a couple of miles from the
village. He came with his wagon, and brought a
load of wood, which his man threw out while be
came to shake hands with the minister, and inquire
after his health.
" Pre brought you something with-which to drive
Jack Frost away in the coming winter," said the
farmer as he entered the parlor of Mr. Elwanls.
You are very lind.,"•returnell the minister, as
he took the hand of his parisboner, and invited
him wait down. The little talk that succeeded
was rather constrained on both rides. The farmer
kit erntarrassed, lot he was a man of excellent
feelings, and some knowledge of human nature ;
and Mr. Edwards was equally' constrained. As
soon as the last log of wood was thrown from the
wagon. the farmer rose, and balding the in virii,ter
fate wet!. retired kle ilid'ut feel altogether pleas"d
ht, pat.'. fur itiere was a perception 111 his tit hid
that tear inittittt•er•t. independence had beett
Ile k..rx how it would be with himse:f, if their re
lations :o each other were r e served.
Soon aher the former retired, one of the ladies of
the congregation came, She brought a pair of knit
gloves for the ministe r Her ability wasn't great,
she said. but what she could do was done cheerful
ly. Hoped all 'roukf do as well. taking their means
into consideration. Next came a little bag of dough
nuts next a ham: nest a pair of stockings ; and
next a cradle-I;uilt for the baby. The fatter was
brought by the hands of one of the ladies fixed up
on by NI s. Edwards as the'douor of her new bon
net.' Immediately after bet attical. lfr. Jenkins,
who owned the factory, and to whom Mad ben
mentally assigned the privilege of furnishing fall
net for the boy's rie - x suits of clothes, pushed open
the door, and entered with a large
a ; fine fat goose in his band ! The sight of the bird,
in spite of the immediate effort to bring into ecer-
cise a due portion of Christain philosorhy, had a
decided effect upon the minister's feelings. Even
he had permitted himself to make calcmations on
Mr. Jenkins, which the appearance of the goose
scattered into airy nothingness. And, poor Mrs.
Edwards! how heavily sank her disappointed
heart, when the smiling, smirking face of the man
ufacturer appeared, and he presented his gome
with the air of a man u-ho was doing an especial
act of kindness. To the self satisfied Mr. Jenkins,
others succeeded in quick sm:cession ; and so the
current was kept up until the sun went down, when
the minister and his family were left amid their
treasures; and those who had made their donations
returned to their homes, well satisfied that peace
and plenty were smiling guests at the csiiscatagr,
and would not spread their wings for months to
come.
The sober reality of this ceteptabous affair was as
follows loads of wood, • barrel of cider.
three lamp mats, three hams, six loins of real, a
bushel of hickory nuts, seven ge es e, fire chickens,
brae turkeys, four ducks, a sacking pig, fourteen
yards of sausage links, (actual measurement„) four
shoulders of manors, three pairs of stirck tugs, (Lone
of the right size.) eight pairs of knit gl, rives for the
minister. a dozen table mats, three wollen night
caps, one comfortable, a pair of blankets, tour jars
pickles, three pots apple-boner, two jampreservev.,
half a barrel of salt pork, two racks of flour, six bar
rels of apples, a bushel of dough-nuts, twenty pies,
and over a.buahel of ginger-cakes, good, bad, and
indifferent, besides a variety otother matters, which,
being of no use to the owners, were of pule higher
value to the minister, or of any of his family. Bat
there Were no clothes for the children, no bonnet
for Mrs. Edwards, no shoes for the feet that scarce
ly had a covering. There were piles of fresh meat
and poultry, instead, that could not be eaten ; and
which it would be a crying ofience to sell, Four-
Ulm Of this would have to be given away, to keep
it from wolfing. •
Amid all this abundance of good thin 7, the min
ister at thoughtful, while his good wife looked on
so grierow4y disappointed, that she could not
keep back her tears.
The day foil - wing was the Sabbath. A more
self satisfied congrepurar had not assembled in the
Bute church for a long time. There was a simile
of pleasure and self-approval on 'nearly every face,
as the minister entered and ascended the ridpit.—
Ilts family did not come in with him. This was
unusual; and many, who noticed that the mint
tees pew was empty, wondered at the muse.
There was more than usual gravity in the voice
and air of Mr' Edwaris, as be read the servaus.—
Many wondered what it could mean, and feltebill
ed by something about the minister that was not
clearly understood. When be took hietest, which
was in these words : " The laborer is * , worthy of i
ha hire;' it was with an emphasis tbat Ply
enough showed him to bare something more thee
etdiaazy on his mind. The sermon was abort, and,
for the mart part, penal in its bearing—
a I propose," said the preacher,. in concimion,
"to make a single, brief, practical appricatiou of
my test. ft is this : When you hits a sniaister,
pay Lam, oar sad out, a fair living aalaiy, don't
starve him on three bandied dolts% and then b
ath him on a beggarly donation visit once a Teas."
There was .a buzzing, in the hive as may mason
ably inferred, at this; and the people who came is
the morning in a maw eseelitret and sell-compla
cent stais of naiad, went - home from attach with
their faefings down to zam. Words, sechas, ma.
repros," aengtatefid," "shame," 44 isaaWmg,"
and the like, were beard is an &MOM:
la the 'team; three or four of die leading
members called upon Mr Edwards for an explain.
Lion of his strange conduct_ Ile let them with
the utmost composure; and when they opened
the subject of their t isit, he noseereithy inviting
them to walk with him into an adjoining room.—
There they found the entire results, save two loads-
Of wood. of the aonatiott visit.
" Here," said he, after he had closed the door,
"are poultry and fresh meats enough for a dozen
families as large again_as mine ; Isere are cider
(that I do . not drink.) and pietism,- and ineserve.:
nets, apple•britter, biefitears,gioves, and. fifty
, tzLe :.
less things beside, u;hlle ITWitife has to stay away
from church but omit of a bonnet sus} shoes, *ad
my children can not be made decent enough to
appear in the house of God"
The minister paused Those whom be a, dress.
ed looked at each other widia crest fallen air.
"Simply take a report of what you have iteen to
those Who think themselves agt7Tre,l,•' raid Mr
Eclrrards. as he opened the door a,•vain and passed,
with his %i-itors. into the parlor. " Tell them, if
they think the laborer is worthy of his hire, to pay
him in a direct. way, 'and without grugging. Do
nation 'i-its anti parties are little less than outra
ges upon the feeling of the minister and his family,
and I, for one, will have nothing more to do with
them. If you like me well enough to give me an
i'r.ilepenclant support, I will remain web you. If
not. say so atone, and I trill remove to another
The Rev Mr Edwards is s!ill in the old parish,
and is paid, in, money ; a salary that he finds equal
to the conalortable maintenance of his family. His
congregation is quite as self-satisfied as in the time
of donation visits and .arties t and the minister a
great deal mare so. The plain speech of an trade
pendent man, though it dir-tut b and wound the self.
love of many, is alt:tally pmdoctire of goal. It ,
mas so iii this case. and would be FO n a hundred
of similar cases, rl those who are wronged as he
was, would speak out as plainly wtat is in their
minds.
CHARITY
A poor wayfaribg man of grief
Hath often crossed me on my way.
Who sued so humbly for relief
That I could verer answer "nay,"
I bad Dot power to smk his Dame.
Wither he wcpt. or whence he came;
Yet there teas something in has eye,
That woo my love, I know not. why.
Once when my scanty meal was spread.
He enterea—.not a word he spate ;
Jost 'perishing for want of bread;
I give him all; be blessed it, brake
And ate,—but rare me part again—
Nine was an Angers portion then ;
For while I sped with eager haste,
That crust was manna to en) taste.
I spied him where a fountain burst,
Clean from a rock--his •trensth wag e
The heedless water mocked his thirf.t—
He beard it—saw it hurrying on;
I ran to raise the sneerer op;
Thrice from the stream be drained my cup,
Dipt, and returned it running o'er;
I thank, and never thirsted Enure.
.Stripped, wounded. beaten ni h to death,
I found him by the bigt, tway rude ;
I roused his pulse—brought back ha breath,
Retired his spirit, and supplied.
Wine, oil, freshment—be was healed—
! bad my-self a wound concealed :
But from that hour forgot the Smart,
And peace bound up my broken heart.
Mowroostrar.
Pcsri.—Keep pushing: if you run :wants* a snow
bank or a rail genre don't go bort, but past) forward
or to one side, and go on l b is of no use to cry
and lament; it will not help the maner to the least
Tears never. leaped a stream or dug through a Wolin
taut. Pawls ever, and keep pushing, and your for
tune is half made, and yoar immortality secured.
irr A elergi, cmo, who reading to his congrega
tion a chapter in Genesi., found the last sentence
ou the page to be: "And the Lord gave unto edam
a wife." Turning over two leaves together, be
found written, and read in audible voice, and
she was pitched without and within" He had
unhapi/y got into the middle of a clea*nami of
Noah's Ark.
A Frenchman, rho eras eshtbiting genes sacred
reins, and other curiosities, produeed moon other
thing, a sword, which he as..-tied his visitors liras
de sword dst Baalem had when he would kill de
ass." A Tartanr remarked that Baskin bad no
wad, bon only limbed for one Vet well—dis
is de nee he wsbed for.l
a 4 see," said a yooag lady, wooed - Tea to one of
the fanny papaws, "that some booksellers adveetis•
ed blank declaration for sale. I wish I could gal
one."
" Corby r' asked the mother.
"Because ,Sr. E. is too modest to ask me to mar
ry him ; and perhaps if I could fill a blank decker
tion with its gnestione, be would eign
Ido declare, Sal . you dew look pretty end to
eat,"
MA Warms, ain't I eating as fiats 1 eas,n
replied Sal, with her month fall-
At a meat terapentace catabolic* at Newmar
ket, Termamee, a Mlle lad appealed in the proces
NO bearing a gag ea which , was =cubed the fol
lowing:
" Alfa right she Daddy's saber?
A maa very mac* usassicsaid was sent to " du
rance " Why dil'at you bail him out!'
asked a bps:oder. "Boy Arm oritr eaciaisised
the semi "yea caddis pm" his eat
lisest,place your silis the hands of a ottsmot,
relying solely co his honor; for you may have so
casiot' to regret your lofty.
""Wert, Nimrod,-boor king wets the &Ahem of
Israel in the waiderneisin
" Till they I=4 their way est."
• " Who was east into the Firth Sea!''
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walked out with mite, (thee elborthrei 7.eagi die:
• . junior.) and .at (town cm the bench by the Wit of
The lotion: benntiful nod touching !ketch wr the - si , e4ta. T he e/r „ .ves /44/e/. /he sly
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copy froni the .I,,itrtwl rf 'Colitiverct
t no diuurbed tis . bur the soft voice of
I have worshipped blue eyes, and there is no r 3
dianee ira heavenly as that Mirk+ glaams from
them. But black are more bee ildering ; ati.l.
when a widow of melancholy falls over the time
bead. it softens their beauty, hile it does not dire
them. • -
-* * If ion rillYt7o ore' rtowld 'a zlea
in jite,_Mrs Islaridsau4: willeiv ; shaded nook„
will point out to you the very spot where yeapsiges
them . 61°0 alindeberiell, ors whiett main-times I
have Men the fiff girl-4 a%; rite ot sitting , Ind by
w/alth k9t l P!! ! 1 a 4 "1.1 1 .0t-•74e,egiti... The cottage - der the hill is occupied by strangers, arid its broad
ball and large oxime• MA' ring to the Iseetter of
those tit knew mat lier whose gentle spiiit haunts
their very chambers.
She was beautiful as a dream. N ever rrus.ho•
her Forehead shaded by mice trtkses; never were
'.tresses so glorious as those. If I tell yon that 1
loved Sarah D—, you a-i 1 cal: me an enthosiast,
and asentre my admiration to
. my passion. I did
love her, but only as a boy worships a being very
tar above him. I used to Meat tier feet on- the
grass, and gate into her lace, and watch the play
of Fier exquisite features. It was there I learned
at first bow high. and pure, and worshipful human
ity may be. * * *
She was young and beautiful. What need to
add that the was hared. Surely I need not 'add
that she loved, for such as she live Un affection,
and die for lack of it. Her fa her devoted his tor
trine and his life to her; and she was heiress to a
large estate. As- might be ex peeted, she Lad aurn--4
berless suitors of every rank and variety. I can
not now remember all of them, although I then
kept the run of them tolerably well. But, oI all
there were only two that appeared to have any
prospect of success : and the village gossips were
occupied in discussing then retail% e rirartees.
Frank was the gayest,best hearted fellow
in the world, Und, had yon seeu hint on nis horse
by the side of Sarah D—, you would hare said
he was made for her, l so wild was his laugh run! so
joyous her response. ''Yet, had you been behind
the closed shutter of the window lb front .of the
large white house on the bull, as they rude by, and
had you there %watched the compressed lip, the
broad, calm forehead, the pale face, and speaking,
eye of Jpseph S—, as he saw them passing, you
would hive prayed to Gad that that lan girl laths
belong M that noble man, even a boy, then
prayed.:
God has answered my prayers. %Chen the long
way was travelled over, and the m t .lged and ildfi
colt steep srumoonted, when her fairy foot was
f! -
reased on the rock at the sonahnit of the b il l of
life, and her eyes gazed into the deep blue sky with
longing gaze, even there, beyond the blue, his out
stretched arms received her, add his embrace was
Heaven!
Go preach to blocks and stones, ye who believe
that love is of the clay! Go preach to the e dead,
ye who deny the immortality of the affeetione.- 7
Go reason with trees, or bills, or images of Wool,
of with your motionless, lifeless, icy souls, ye
who believe that, because there is no manyirkg
yonder, there shall be no embracing, or because
we may not use the gentle words " my wife," we
may not clasp these sanctified karma in oar own
holy arms! I 'tell you, man, that immortality
would be a glorious cheat, if with our clay died
our first affections. I tell you that annihilation
would be heaven, if I believed that when my head
at length tests on its coffmed pillow, and my lips
sink to the silence and repose of death, these lov
ing eves will never look into mine again, this-pure
clasp never be around my neck, this holy caress
never bless me more
But see bow I hasten in advance of my story.—
iknd yet, like Canning's knife-grinder, I remem
ber now that I have no story to tell, or at best it is
a simple history. .
She loved Joe. • His calm and earnest way of
loving her, won her whole soul. He did not say
much to bet in company, ner of her, but when
they were alone, or only some of the children near,
his low voice would be musical, and she sat en
tranced with its eloquesce. I have seen them
I seated on the bench by the side of the cream, and
have beard him lead her gentle soul step by step
with him from eat* to stars, and then from star to
star, until she seemed in be in beaten with him,
and Wen* to the praises of the angels.
I am unable to tell yon how it happened that Jo
seph S--- left his profession, (which bad been
law,) ead - eigeted the nueiruy, nor am I able to
state, tholgh I might sues at the tames operating'
in his own mind. The father of Saab 11— was
not a religious man, and, I am sorry to say, was
one of a small elan of men, who not only deny
the malts of our most holy creed, but take evmy
opportunity to cast ridicule on ua teachers. It was,
therefor*, with great pain that his daughter obsenr
-1 ed his coldness and /11.2enege to Joseph S—, and
she was not eurpris - ed, however much she was
`grieved, when an open rupture rendered the sus
pension of his visits at the house atandately 011016.
I any-
'they had never spoken of kica. Each *new
the meow of the ghee' &Section, and what need
then of words to tell it I It would hare hem but
the repetition of liackorred phnoes. And ye:
Nava is no mode in the world sa sweet as dime
time wards, " I We you," from the lips we love
to kiss. Da the Leber of oar ;made Mood bad
feared the exigence of some bond between them,
and peremptorily Tarim(' his dace:Milo beak it
if k did skim. •
fibs replied to ham, nelotiog the esimpletroth, anll
be drilled her to redoes ilticeolberraid to es 'or
spook. to Urn*. .
A mordh of Jeep= prim duo cre iron be ilia
aerceodid this command, doting wirst' day
ad net meet.
It waa on a :nanny night in Atquat thati she
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diA %vit.l at .abg the lice lops, made a pleasant
music and a e listened and were silent. 'The still
ness u 4.4 !woken by the voice of Jr-seph S---.
You wilt-pia log meill•-wertrierdiwee e ne. I
dare not attempt a ileserilkichi of it.' It was my first
lesson. to Leman eellering, anitt . heogh I have Septa •
eititFrtr...°"4l sl / 1 97: 1 4'0r Al'Oah.the-iftuti saw
eeteredaux soul and seared reed_
_scarrej a, •
feilfirtre DC nor do I be erebercever
!eV, More aemsy than those-tee felt sit they "acted
thr.t,nightya meet ter-more ea ettrjh.
e bo •t'ed his 4 4 to her aoraco4 std ftelAllor•
cd . thoeelemn trprd , • Fortteet.",
- She woke at that word, acid exclaimed, with
startling vehemence, z- No, no; there-is no such
•
word. Joe."
•• shall not meet again on emits, my ,gernte
ow. And what Is earth!"
Her tall form grew more queenly, and her ihirk
eye dashed drviney, as she rose and exclaimed,
in clear and silvery tones:
it And what is earth I These thing" must end.
I will name a tryst, dear Joe ; and you shall keep
it. If you pass fine into the other land, wait tor
me on the bank ; and If I go hence before you, I
will linger on the other shore until yes. conk.—
Will you remember I' ,
l will live and die in this memory
She-liked her face to his, and her arms to his
neak. and they clan together in a lon and pas.
senate embrace. Their lips did not separate ; hot
were pressed close together : until he kit her form
cold. and her clasp relaxed, and he laid her gentle
loos,, on the seat, bowed over her a moment in
prayer. and was gone. I heardihirn Bay, aTake
care of her, and so I strove to recall the
life that had gone from her I*, anti cheeks, and
eyes. It came slowly, and she woke sinwly, and
she woke as we wake in the moraine after death
has entered ow charmed circle, with an oppress
ion on the brain, and a swimming, swollen sense
lessness of soot.
At length she remembered all; and raised her
self with a half-reticulated exclamation of agony,
broken by a sob
,; then fell on herknees by the
beach, and busted her face in het ,bands, and re=
mainel thee for nearly halfan how,
Wheirdre arose, her face was as the face of an
=VA. it wore LliaL WW2 exalted look until she
died.
I think she took cold that right; she was never
well afterward, and the next winter she pissed at
the South, returning in the spring very . fragile, but ,
very beautiful.
Joseph f. ll —•-• was sent abroad by one of the
Boards of Missions of the Chereh, list his health
faded, and he resigned hiscorranimiore while he
travelled duvergir the Eastern world. _
Three years fled with their usual swiftness. To'
Sarah D— they were very stow and paint*
years, yeLshe was happy in het quiet way, eat no
one dreamed of the strange tryst she legging
to keep oc the other side-of that dark river which
ram so shriek from, She grew feebler daily as
the seeneer and autumn advanced, and in Deede
ber she was evidently dying.
One day her mother had been oat of the hew,
perhaps :whin calls. She retained at evezing,
and, anion other incidents cf news which she had
learned, she- ieentioned to Sarah the death of her
old *end, Joseph S--.
The fair girt was reclining in her lamp arm
chair looking out through . the closed windows at
the wow ea the gmand, and the pure aseenSghe
which sleeted it. There was no surnhog emotion
visible as her mother mentioned the fact which to
her was the mast solemn yet most joyful sews the
wand weld give ; for now, how Mach nearer sus
their mestaig! I saw a smile dash across betakes
as joyful news reached her ear. I sew her
breheauf !see to feel the carers which I know she
felt! She was silent for marry tninews, and then
spoke in feeble yet very zowical accents, =4 I,
boyishly, wept stood! Then she smiled, and look
ed at me with &ger upraised, and said. " Wait a
lade while longer, dear g a d l e a, a ft a i a
moment, she said, a Mother is the snow very
deep I"
" Not very dear. Why did you ask T . '
" Because, if it were deep, - 1 thought it geoid be
ditimelt for aid 31r. Smith to find am kit in the
grave-yard. .re allthe teed-stones catered, moth
er!"
" What is the master, Sarah f What if-they are
covered I"
1 ,, Slather, dear, it is lawless to conceal it !rota
ourselves ; or from we another. Yea know, and
I quite as well, that lea dying. Rave no: wish
ed to live: rely for oats thing' I did not herg for
life, and I dreaded to meet death all slow! But
1 -note I shall not W trillion you eh:Unseen
when I am gene. Yes—gone, dear mother.
than net be twee any longer- rziochan will staid
here, acid I not be anywhere Rem it. Ism wales
her; and Whet ; and you wilt rise aa& walk Ante;
and visit, and ge in and ont,sand sleep, and sate
again, and so on day after day, and I - shall have
no pan any loner in your ewes sad joys—dear
mother;" and, asshe uttered the Inc two words,
she put her arms around her mother =eh, and
kissed her fondly, and sank hack into tee chair
again. I sat re her feet, watching her matchless
features_ A. smile was Naming serzerthensw
there, rem gone ; yet each time it:Rimed, it ha
-1 gored longer than before, until it. beam. fixed,
and so holy, so may holy, that I pew - bewildered
eall gamed, and 'a means tremor pawed through
my t*ldY•
The ben& of race was hosaktg
hticw: Her head was besot& a soy hiSsirraid,,
and away swap % few is-beakisit-hy the
side of hot pats whist temple, alai ciamtsbsojett
°posed I. It bang thus stittioshost Noblesse
distathad its moss ! She siertosooitogal
&Pep, i s acconspruated oi ales
God.
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