American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-08-02

heart that could not bear tie thought OF utter de-
graduation and wretchedness belang any one OF the
rational children OF God, implored and beseeched
the old man to comfort the sinner before them and
promise that the dark transaction OF guilt should
never leave the conceament OF their own three
hearts Did he not save the lives of two brothers
once who were drowning In that black messy loch,
when their own kindred, at work among the hay,
feared the deep sullen water. and all stood aloof
shuddering and shrieking, till Norman dams eapt
into their rescue, and drew them by the dripping
hair to the shore, and then lay down beside them on
the heather, as like to death as themselves? my
self saw it done / myself heard the mother call
down the blessings of God on Norman's head, and
then all the haymakers knelt down and prayed =
When you on the Sabbath, returned thanks to God
for that they were saved, Oh kind Sir, did you not
name, in the full kirk. him who, under Providence,
did deliver them from DEATH and who you said had
thus showed himself to be christian indeed May
his sin against me be forgotten for the sake Of those
two owning boys. and their mother who biesses
his name unto this day."
From few questions solemny asked, and SOL
|emny answered. the minister found that Norman
Adams ID been won by the beauty and loneliness OF
this poor orphan shepherdess, as he had sometimes
spoken to her when sitting on the hillside with her
flock, but that pride had prevented him from ever
thinking of her in marriage. 1t appeared that he
had also been falsely informed by youth whom
Mary dsliked for his brutal and gross manners, that
she was not the innocent girl that her seeming sim
Plicty denoted On returning from festive NEE
ting, where this AFFECT person had made many mean
insinuations against her virtue, Norman Adams met
her returning to her masters house, in the dusk of
the evening, the foot path leading through lone
y wood; and though his crime was OF the deepest
dye, it seemed to the minister 1.-THE religion OF mer
cy. that by repentance and belief in the atonement
perhaps hope Tor forgiveness al the throne OF God
81 warned you miserable man, OF the fatal nature
of sin, when frs. brought atroue over your coun
tenance and broke in upon the peaceful integrity Of
your life. Was not the silence Of the night often
TERRIBLE to you, when you were alone in the moors,
and the whisper OF your own conscience told you,
that every wicked thought was sarrilege to your
fathers dust Step by step. and almost impe cept
bly,, perhaps, did you advance upon the road that
eadeth to destruction, but look back nov, and what
a long dark journey have you taken, standing, as
you are on the brink OF everlasting death. Once
you were kind, gentle, generous manly, and free. but
you trusted to the deceitfulnes Of your own heart ;
you estranged yourselffrom the house of The God Of
your fathers, and what has your nature done for you
Iat last bu sunk you into wretch, savage, selfish
cruel, cowardly, and in good truth slave? A telon
are you, and forfeited he hangman's hands Look
n that poor innocent child and think what is man
without Coz. What would you give now, if the
last three years OF your eckless life had been past
IN dungeon dug deep into the earth with hunger
and thirst gnawing at your heart and bent down
under cart load of chains Yet lons NOT 50 ghastlv
for condemn you not utterly; nor, though knoO
you guilty. can know what gnod m yet be left
uncorrup'ed and unexlinguished in sour soul. Knee
not to me, MOI man tas,en not your eyes upo
me lift them upwards and then turn them IN upon
your own heart, for the dreadful reckoning is be-
tween it and God .
| Mary Simpson had now recovered all her strength
and she krell down by the side OF the vroaner Deep
was the pity she now felt for HIM who to her had
shown no pity; she did not refuse to lay her light
arm tendery upon his neck. Often had she pray.
ed to God to save his soul even among her ruefuI
snbs of shame in the solitary gens, and now that she
beheld his sin punished with remnrse than he
could bear, the orphan would have willingly died.
to avert from his PROSTATE head the wrath Of the
Almighty
| The old man wept at the sight OF so much inno--
lcence and so much guilt, kneeling together before
God, in strange union and fellowship OF CONNER
being With his own iatherly arms h. lifted up the
orphan from her knees, and said Muy Simpson,
my sweet and innocent Mary Simpson, for nnocen,
thou art, the elders will give thee token, that will
on Sabbath day, admit thee (not for the first time,
though so young) to the communion table Fear
/ not to approach ii look at me and on my face
when bless the elements, and be thou strong in
the strength Of the Lord Norman Adams, return
to your home Go into the chamber where you,
father died Let your knees wear out the part Of
the floor on which he kneeled It is somewhat
worn already you have seen the mark of your
fathers knees. Who knows, but that pardon and
peace may descend from Heaven even upon such
sinner as thou. On none such as thou have mine
eyes ever looked, in knowledge, among all those
who have lived and died under my care for threa
generations. But great is the unknown guilt that
may be hidden even in the churchyard OF small
quiet parish like this Dost thou feel as if Cod
forsaken? Or, Oh say it unto me canst thou, NJ Y
poor son, dare to hope for repentance"
THE pitlfnl tone of the old mans trennhl;nrn