all parts from their anxious and affectionate these little services he performed kindly many a blessing was fervently the good word and the prayer we could afford as they said to the that the world an him for sake o the that hasn t the o the mother the mother s hand near him the about the middle of the third year h more thrown upon the general people the three farmers with whom he for the preceding six months t as did many others of that class which in try most nearly to tne of england the little purse he had placed in the hands of the kind exhausted a season of famine sickness i distress had set in and the master on that he was without money became savage in short the boy s difficulties � young boy boy in toes � ta � the poor scholar sing degree even and his grown who usually interposed in his behalf when became excessive in him had e school and now the prospect before him was nd cheerless indeed for a few months longer er he struggled on meeting every difficulty endurance from his very boyhood he the of religion and was d by a strong spirit he trusted in nd worshipped him night and morning with a heart his crisis he was certainly an object of pity which for some time before had been he had replaced by a cast off coat and a present from his friend the abandoned him this worthy young not afford him money for as he had but a year with which to clothe a horse and pay rent it was hardly to be id that his benevolence could be extensive in n to this famine and disease raged violence in the parish so that the upon his of hundreds who lay huddled r in cold in out houses and even behind were incessant as well as heart the r of that took place daily in the was awful nothing could be seen but by groups of ragged and creatures hollow eyes gleamed forth the the wretched were the number of that lay on the public where attended by the nearest relatives of the d they had been placed for the purpose of ng charity � were greater than ever had been by the oldest was the state of the parish when our poor complained one day in school of severe illness ly symptoms of the prevailing were own and on examining more c j a u it waa clear that torn s poor scholar of the people he had got � had caught it heavy load of the favor the are particularly apprehensive of moment it had bi discovered that v his avoided him with a of terror scarcely and the was delighted at any however that afford a for driving the yon out of the school take said he every thing to you out of my establishment you were always a plague me but now more so that ever be quick for yourself somewhere else do you to my into an hospital and i into as president go off you wild f and wherever you find a com spot to do it in the poor boy silently and with difficulty collected his books and on his i looked to his as if ho had said of yon will afford me a place where to lay my head all however kept aloof from him caught the ana the they knew had swept the people away in vast numbers at length he spoke is there any boy among yon he inquired who will bring me home you know i am a stranger an far from my own god help me this was followed l y a profound silence not out of those who had so often him or would on any other occasion share their bed mid their last morsel with him would even touch his person much less allow him when thus ed t take shelter under thi ir roof such are the of selfishness when it ia opposed only by the force those natural qualities that are not elevated ii sense of duty clear and profound views of truth it is one thing to perform a kind action constitutional impulse and another to perform it ii fixed duty perhaps to that impulse on finding himself avoided like a the poor scholar of old silently left the school and walked on at knowing whither he should ultimately direct he thought of his friend the priest but between him and his place of abode was r he felt than his illness would permit him to he walked on therefore in such a state of y as can scarcely be conceived much less his head ached excessively an intense pain like death pangs through his lower back and his face was flushed and his head giddy in he proceeded without money or friends ut a house to shelter him or a bed on which to r from his own relations and with the prospect under circumstances peculiarly dreadful him he on however the earth as under him the heavens he ht streaming with fire and the earth indistinct home the paradise of the absent � the heaven of the affections � with all its and blessed sympathies rushed upon his his father s deep but quiet kindness his s love his brothers all that they een to him � these with their thousand associations started into life before him again gain but he was now ill and the mother � the enduring sense of that mother s love placed and strongest and tenderest in the far group which his imagination forth other he exclaimed � on mother why � why ever lave you mother the son you loved is without a kind word lonely and neglected in a re land oh my own mother why did i ever our j conflict between his illness and 