Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1843-02-03

waking with her eyes on the ground az
she sgain entered The kirk, yet Ooi fear
ing to liz them up TO heaven during The
PRAYER. Her sadness inspired a geDer'
al pity, she was excluded rom no house
she had 10 visit. no coarse comment, no
rlbald Jest accompanied the notice the
people took Of her baby, no lcrnIious
rustic presumed on her (rahly, for the
pale melancholy face Of the nursing mo.
lher. weeping az she sung the luaby'
forbade all such reproach-and an uni
Versa sentiment OF indignation drove
from the parish the beariless and IN
principIed seducer-if all had been
known, too weak word for his crime
who left thus 10 pine in orrow-aHd IN
shame far worse than sorrow = one, who,
until her unhappy fail, bad been held up
by every mother as sn example 10 her
daughters, Of sense and modssly and
The meek uopreIe0ding pieIy Of a Chris
tan faith!
Never once had she striven 10 cease
to love her betrayer, but she had s'rlVen
hard 10 forget him, and an BpPeased con
science had enabled her 10 do so--Io
think not Of him now that he be had de
serted her forever, Sometimes his in
age as we'll in love asi in wrath, passed
before the eye Of her heart. bot she cIo'
sed it in tears Of blood and the phantom
disappeared. Thus all the love toward
him that SLEPT, but was not dead, arose 10
yesrnings Of still more exceeding love
towards his child Round It's head was
gathered all hope Of comfort, Of peace, Of
reward. OF repentance. One of its smiles
was enough TO brighten up the darkness
of the lulure. At her breast on her
kDee-in its cradle, she regarded it with
a personal prayer. And this feeling i
was, with all her overwhelming tender
ness Of affection, all the invIgorating
power Of passion, that under the hand Of
God, bore her up and down that lear
(ul mountains brow and after the hour
of rescue and delvefance, stretched her
on the green swaTd like a corpse.
The rumor OF the miracle soon cir
cIed the mountains base, and a strange
story without names was told To the
wuodrangsr of Csirn forest by a way
faring wanderer' Anxious 10 know what
truth there was in il, he crossed the hill
and making his way through the sullen
!, crowd, went up on the emlneDce, and
beheld just recovering from her final
swoon, her whom he had so wickedly
I, ruined, and so basely deserted. Kisses
and groans and hooiing and fierce eye:
and cIenched hands, assaiied and threat
= ened him on every side.
His heart died within him. not in fear
but in remorsc. What worm he felt
himself TO be, and laiu he would have
e been 10 become a worm, that, 10 escape
all that united human scorn, ne might
have wriggled away in slime inlo some
hole OF the earth! But the meek eve o.
Hannah met his in perfect forgiveness
a tear Of pity. faint smile oi love- All
his better nature rose within him. al
!, his worse nature was queIed. Yes
!" good people you do right 10 cover me-
with scorn, But what Is your scorD Il
! The wrath OF God2 The Evil One ha
d often been with me in the woods; th'
!. same voice that once whispered me tt
murder her, but here am, not 10 ott5
retriburion, for that may not, will not
! must not be, guilt must not be mate will
y innocence. | deserve death, and an
} willing here, on this spot to deliver my
self into the hands OF Justice. AlleI
u Calder call on you to seize your Pris
" oner."
o The moral sense OF The people, whe
instructed by knowledge and enllgh'er
y ed by religion, what is it butlhs Volc
10 Of God? Their anger subsidized at ono
DO into stern satisfaction, and that 500
Ne sortened at sight Of her who, alone agu'
ST we'd, alone left nothing but tender 10
as giveness. into confused compassion t
OF The man who, bold and bad as he ho
Us besn, had undergone many solitary to
"a ments, and nearly fallen in his uncoT
W panione1 misery into The power oI Il
un Prince Of Darkness The o'd clergy
ne man, whom all reverenced, put the co
no trte mans hand into hers, whom
g swore to love and cherish all his day
'n' and ere summer was over, Hannah W
ra' The mistress Of a family, in house n
''e much inferior TO Manse Her molbf
en- not that her only daughters repula'i'
'or was freed from stain, bu; her nnocen
ng also proved, renewed her youth. Al
ne although the worthy school master, W
?" told me the lae so much hetter than
III have been able to repeat 1t, confess
er' that the woodranger never became alt
gether saint, though he became in d
NY time an elder Of the Kirk, gave his ch
ou drer a religious education, errlng on
wn in making 100 much of a pet OF his ell
mo es, born, whom even when grown up
no' manhood, he never called by any 9th
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