Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1841-03-25

monds ana can you. can YOU look sad. with
the blessed sun thus shining foil upon YOU this
glorious morning. q he te upon YOU Let
the sunshine reach your heart SEQ how tho
water is sparkling and loaping with Joy and
the trees 10 thcir new holiday giccu, and tho
birds chiuupping from the house tops every
thing foil OF hope, yet you are sad Take tho
sunshine a. happy omen. ! prophesy frpm
Il that the clouds are passing away and that
prosl er,ty shall come 10 US loaded like a cas-.
lied elephant with lacks of rupees and sacks
OF goli-dusL'
Look a, your type, dearest said the hus.
band with n mourntu smile
Black clouds were gathering over the scene,
and one OF our April showers began to ps,iet
down
Bc ii my type replied the wife DO !,
my type Cnhehever, look +"
Even while she spoke, the sun, gathering up
= thousand rays OF beaming light, painted
with them that glorious bow in the heavens
which hath ever been a covenant OF promise,
Tho husband took the little hand OF his wife
within his own. You are the better preach
en- ho said, and what is more, the better
practiset. You know for these last three
months, have gone daily forth 10 seek our
daily bread, have offered myself AZ literary
laborot, as hitcling scribe, as anything and
everything that might not utterly disgrace my
sacred functions, and you know that as often
as have gone with hope, ! have returned
with disappointment. Nevertheless. at thy
word will 90 forth once more
If there were fate said Helen, you
know tina, Queen Elizabeth thought that por-
severance might force Fate TO change her
mind bnt there is something better than fate
! there is Providence
The Reverend Benjamin Blythe once more
| donned his rusty black coat, and once more
/ brushed his beaverless hat, and once more
drew on his well mended gloves. and once
more sailed forth IN search Of tho laboreIs
/ hire.
! My dear reader, il you happen ever TO havo
had wife and half dozen children, who
| happen 20 have good appeiites, while you hap
pen TO have purse quite unpollu,ed with FL
| thy lucre IN your possession capable OF being
transmitted either into bread or gold, YOU may
be just able to guess at the very comfortable
! tone OF mind upon which our poor hero sailed
| forth upon this fororn hope expedition. What
mockeiy To the poor man IL the luxury OF
/ the rch The rolling equlpage. the ertra,a-
giant attire, the pampered menals, the luxuri-
Gus dwellings, the shops all arranged to tempt
self indulgence, glitterlng trinkcts, costly IL
quors, and thousand shapes OF fancilul con-
iections made TO entIce the eve as well appo-
tite--all these are snares to envy for the hun
CRY
Sorely tried tina, A ril morning was the Rev
BENJAMIN Blythe. l,scemed to him as II eve
~ body to whom he applied, every body to
whom he spoke, had got one malady, an ossi-
iicatlon OF the heart; amllady that affects the
voice, the gestures, the mien, Of every crea-
ture under the infection. The Reverend Ben
Jamln Blythe pitled every body he saw, but
most OF all ne piicd himself
In fact the Reverend Benjamin Blythe be.
gan to think that some curious fatality Of dis
ease prevailed over every creature with whom
he spoke some were Athlete with indness,
some with deafness, some with dumbncs..
some with loss OF memory, for even his form
er friends did not sec him when he went up to
them. did not hear him when he spoke to them.
did not answer when they heard him, did not
remember him when they saw him and 80
with the upheaped measures Of fifty several
and separate dsappolntments IN his heart.
with mind worn out by anxiety, and a body
sinking with fatigue and want Of sustenance
our poor hero turned his steps homeward,
An, home word that should thrill the heart
and 1t did thrill the heart Of our unfortunate
hero, when he thought Of turning his steps
thitherward and carrying the great burden Of
his disappointment that load seemed more
than he could carry there; 50 he made a dead
stop in the middle Of the street, and despair a,
that moment seemed to have bound up his
faculties.
Just a, this juncture the large folding doors
OF LOFTY gloomy looking mansion opened and
young man who seemed to move like har-
lequln, came flying down a flight Of about a
dozen steps, which has,v mode Of perambula-
ton brought his quicker than thought into lux
Imposition with the Rev. Benjamin Blyth.-
Now il seemed that the first impulse Of loco
motion would have impelled the harlequinadc
10 have leaped over him IN the abundance Of
hi. bodily agility, but Just as this feat seemed
To be on the point 81 accomplishment, the ac-
tor stopped short, and with a slight dancing
stap drew up eKclaimng An, is that youi
What, in the name Of iun, are you looking so
miserable about"
The reverend penllemln tried to smile Il
might AS well ask you why you are booking
so gay. ! hope YOU have as solid cause for
F, conientmcnt as ! have for gloom
Gloon how hate the word Why, you
solemo sensible people never do any thing bot
look miserable Miserable in the morning
from expectancy; miserable at night from re-
msmIauce. Miserable one dly because il
is 100 hot; miserable another, because {, Is too
cold. Miserable when you are well, Tor fear
you shall be 90, aud miserable when YOU are
, M FOR fear you shall never be we'll
, There are, SAID Blythe, many zeal Cause,
I Of sorrow in this world
And many popd causes NJ mrih Why.
. could laugh only al the sunshine because II
, seems smiling az me, and a smile from any
I thing that can smile, always sells me laugh
: ing. laugh 10 see people look ike 80 man,
a lord Glums and lady Lacadaiscals Why, 4
! | only look Al you, must laugh foryo hav,
pulled out your face into such an onormoui
. length. such an elongaion of forehead an,
fro.e and rhtu thas-hz b., - f-vCp .,s