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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1882)
CMÌttsTTA^t ÎÎÎîÜALD 1* I smile of assurance, a wave'of sister’s would be a fit comparison. The - J -* little sunburned hand, tffid the fam seat could hardly contain her; she BY MARY LOUISE BEECHER. bobbed around like a canary bird. ily were ready for the exercises. The Old Sexton Graduation night in a city we : ■—*— I — began to — read storv — "Oh'Oh! See Mary’s posies!?1 HATTIE A, COOLST. ■** -— -T-— the whole ~~— will call it.since wemustcallit from the simple [>retfy<Til;s”s'onnfe One day, in the sunny stillness .something- and can’t give it its real stage; the story of hfcrd work and were looking at her, even the < Which hung o'er the village dead, name. Such a crowd of people! petty sacrifices that ..‘the daughter Judge’s family turned their heads I found the old sexton sitting Such a heavy flower-laden atmos might come to this night. It made a little. But her eyes were fixed By a grave like a flower-bed. phere 1 Just as I began to grow’ im the faded calico and old - winter intently on Mary until the Judge I have made the graves for this village patient, watching for the appearance clothing look differently, somehow. came back to his chair, when she — Oping on fifty years ; and, Miss, turned and fairly beamed on him.______ ..... J. l»avd-witnessed- maayaburial-,'-'-“- ... £d-.^uJLiuAvliiier..ajid...i4»xueu„yauj^ „ .L^Lthn.Ld.l^Unck,..auJ.naw..onn. men trying to appreciate the digni after another of the girls and boys He liked it; in fact, tried to "smile” But never a one like this. ' ty of thenoccasion, a woman and came forward, took part, and re and came nearer it than I supposed “ Sometimes with a long procession little girl were ushered into the seat tired with .a share of applause. 1 he could. I knew then how it I have seen the dead one borne, When the next would be some poor in front of me. Nothing very re became tired after awhile, and came to happen. lie had been mortal markable in that, to be sure, but 1 turned again tn my neighbors watching this little tragedy as well With scarcely a fiiend to mourn . forgot to watch the coming of the Like me, the little gill had grown as I, only that he had turned it in-, ** Men grayhaired and bowed have come, graduates just as soon as my neigh weary waiting for sister, and was* to a comedy. ’Somehow that stem bringing, bors were seated. Perhaps it was eyeing the elegant dresses in front old Judge looked differently to me With footsteps solemn and slow, and has looked differently ever One old like themselves, to be left here their dress which first took my at of her with all the child-look of tention. It was so plain, especially wonder and adthi ration. And then since. When of a summer morning Deep under the drifts of snow. I meet him strolling towards the “ They have brought me the beautiful the mothers. She wore a thick the flowers I How her little freck * maiden j winter dress and bonnet, very old- led face broadened into a smile as city I forget the pompous manner, fashioned and much worn. The she-took in their beautiful colors and ren ember that under the dia Laid out in her bridal dress, # And the whitest of flowers dropped there little girl’s dress, starched and iron Then, with a sudden thought; she mond studs is a kindly shot which As a lover's last caress. ed for the occasion, the short peeves turned toward her own _iustic once rtsponded- to a child’s sorrow. . “I have buried the tiniest coffins, ~ ’ of which, outgrown, she kept pull Ijouquet, which all this while she- —Vhrietirtn Union. r————————— When, somehow, I felt that I hid ing down over her brown arms. had held unconsciously in a tight A Trusty Boy. The sweetest hopes of a life-time But what I noticed more than clasp. The poor little (lowers were Under each qoffin-hd. ,.,I. once visited a public school. these was the chubby hand of the drooping with thirst. All the smite I have wept as the dark earth parted At recess a little fellow came up little girl, which'field a bouquet of went away. There was a quick The husband away from the wife ; and spbke to the teacher. As he And shuddered when motherless chil wild flowers—field daisies and glance at the row of ladies and bou turned to go down the platform, bright yellow butter-cups—tied to quets, at the stage, and then at her dren . the master said : ‘J This boy I can Went back to their cheerless life. gether with a little bit of blue rib own butter cups and daisies and trust ; he has never failed me.” I “ Yes ; I dig all the graves for- the vil- bon, the knot of which the little bit of blue ribbon. Such a pitying followed him with my eye, and lage, girl would tie and untie over and look..she gave, them and they dro'pp-- looked at him when he took his But this one I could not, MisB ; over again giving it little loving ed into her lap. Just here the seat at recess. He had a fine, open I’ve seen many and many a burial, pats. But just then there was a graduate in simple white was an But never one quite like this. manly face. I thought a good deal bustle just ahead of the little girl nounced, but the little figure before about thè master’s remark. What “ No ; it wasn’t grander, but sadder— and her mother, and a row of ele me heeded it not. The ch»n fell When I covered each damp, cold bed, a character had that boy earned ! gantly dressed ladies were seated. lower and lower on the waist of the 'Twas somebody else’s loved one— He had already gotten what would The Judge’s family. I remember faded calico. This, hid underground my dead. be worth more than a fortune. It f ed then that the Judge’s daughter The mother, all intent on the “ Since then, reading over the story would be a passport into the best was a graduate; and all those love- daughter reading, didn’t notice the Of the ‘ Man of sorrows ’ who wept, firm in the city, and, what is better, I feel as if a new meaning • ly flowers were for her. Such one at her side. I was watching into the confidence and respect of Had somehow into it crept.” dainty baskets and fragrant hot the drooping head so closely not the whole coinmuuity. I wonder . It is ever the same old lesson house bouquets! The Judge him one word of the essay did I hear. if the boys know how soon they are So hard for us all to learn ; self had an arm chair in the isle. I only knew that the little chin rated by other people. Every boy Yet it comes like a new revelation He was poising a basket of roses on wps beginning to quiver when To the heart of each one in bis turn. in the neighborhood is known, and his knee in a way peculiar to com there was a clapping which told (Bloomingdale, Mich.)— Stl. opinions are formed of him; be has - placent dignitaries. I couldn’t that the essay was finished. _ The a cnaracter either favorable or un help comparing his calm, self-satis mother turned to the child, and 1 Try. favorable. A boy of whom the fied face with the anxious one in heard her whisper a little excitedly, EV DORA WHEELER master can say, " I can trust him ; j winter bonnet. The music struck "Throw the Howers, Kittie,, now, he never failed’ mfe,” will never want — If your effort be the arrow up then, to the relief of uneasy you see ! ” But Kittie only shook And yonr will the bow, ones, and in came ^he row of white. her-’head, and I heard a little employment. The fidelity, prompt There is nothing to be learned Even the Judge showed the least smothered sob. Meanwhile, the ness and industry which he shows Which yon may not know. sign of interest, while the mothei sister had taken her seat. There at school are in demand everywhere. If the effort be but loyal He who is faithful in little will be and Httie sister watched the sta«'e o was a little awkward pause with faithful in much.— Bund of Hop« And the will be trne, with anxiety almost breathless. out Howers, and the exercises were Review. There is nothing to be done -* There she came—I knew her ri"ht Which you may not do. about to go on, when, to my com ■ o “Just taste that tea,” said old Draw the bow then, king of boyhood, away—next the white silk and plete surprise, the Judge raised his diamonds of the Judge’s daughter; dignified form, walked to the stage, Hyson to his better half, at the J Do, and will, and learn ; All that makes a happy manhood, _ a pretty face in a simple dress. I and himself handed up his basket supper table the other evening. You shall surely earn. saw her eyes run along the crowded, ■ of roses; with a blush of pleasure “ Well, there doesn’t seem to be --------- - —♦ e ♦---- --- ;--- ;--- tiers of seats with an almost con and astonishment the young girl anyUring the matter with it.'* I Believers may grieve the Spirit; un believers resist Him. The grieving fused expression until it ^lit on the received .theq||, whije the people can’t taste anything.” "Neither may be unconscious; the resisting is old bonnet, and then there was a cheered. As for Kittie, a sky full can I, and that’s what I’m growling always conscious.— Andrew Iionar. i little nod, an answering mother- of sunshine after a dark cloud Family Circle. I A Graduation Sketch
