Holly Springs gazette., 1845-08-09

door was open, and peeping in. he saw an
aged woman. apparently IN the last stage o.
sdisease. while Eden Eden was propping
the dying >perso with pillows
-God-WiI. bless you for this said the
sufferer feebiy. L know what you gave up
10 come hither. | sent for Miss Isabel
! Warner, whom | nursed when a child;
and then kenw there was no one who
would sacrifice their days pleasure for me
except you. Miss Ellen. But Heaven will
reward you for IT,
Say nothing of it. but compose yourself.
replied the sweet girl. Il only did my
duty
/ 'Ahi dntv. duty-but that is it.-Who
/ does their duty
4 The young heir listened to no more. for
/ he did not wish tt be seen. He had heard
enough. lie noiselessly glided away, and
entering his skiff began TO row up the lake.
! After while he stopped and looked at the
! log bin he had left behind
Aud it was 10 seclude herself In that
miserable hut he said TO watch over The
couch ola poor dying woman that she VOL
u nIarily gave up the anticipated pleasures
ofths day. And have been calling her
1 Purilanical for l..
From thatday Harry Connor loved Ellen
next met, TO her refusing to ate nd the pic
mic, but he strove. by the gentle kindness
of his manner, to repay for any regret she
might have fe3t Ellen scarcely knew what
20 make OF this altered demeanor. There
was something so kind in his lone, Sd res.
pecttul in his look, something SO different
from any thing she had before seen, her
heart trembled with happiness.-She had
resolved to treat Harry SO coldly that he
would abandon her society; for she knew
absence from the beloved object to be the
only cure for unrequ;ted affection. But
now she hesitated. A sweet hope began
10 draw on her. Could he really mean to
give up the beautiful and br liant Isabel for
ter2 His intentions were not long secret.
{ The more Harry saw Of Ellen the more he
congratulated himself on MS escape from
! Isabel. Ths vary piety oil our heroine, GA
which at first he had looked with disap-
proval, now became new attraction; for
however men. in the giddy maze ofgaiety
| NAV afec, contempt for the Cnris.ian, they
, | al vays, In their more serious moments
wish for wife who shall be truly plous.--
Harry now found, moreover. that there wa:
a vast difference between false, ostenta
t tious Christianity aud the pure religion
which Ellen practlced so unobtruSiVe
+, ly.
! And are you really going to marry FL
e len Eden! SAID one OF his friends 10 him.
i / hear every where she Is a cantIng re
ligionlStF
j 4 am about to marry her, he replyed.-
Y w hat you mean by a cantlng rel'glonist
/ do not exactly know, but Ellen, howeve
5 pious she may be, has nothing 20 can't
'She teaches Sundy school.
tb
e wise2 Surely to devote three hours ever
- Sabbath, 10 the gratulious mental and m9'
% Al Instruction of others.s seli-denyihg 'as
- worthy OK all praise; and you VIII agre
with me that lime thus occupied IS spen
., more beneficiaily than In dressing Tor
As ball room
! lam a stranger, here and know nothln
a or Miss Eden,' said his friend with som
embarrassment. Excuse me for what
81 s,ii. am sure | would rather have 2
m Gus wife than an infiiel one.'
=. There YOU are right, and it is that co
. victlon which has made me seek Ellen I
~ a companion. am only 100 happy tn
she loves me. | am unworthy of one
- good and pure. Believe me. my de
= Frank, the best thing man can do Is
OF choose a woman with strong. religious fe'
mos. RecoIect the wife is to be the mot
int er of YOUR children your own consol
er in DAYS of oftroub!e-the guide, who ever
nd vour side with sweet smiles and ange
no words, is to win you up TO heaven. "
Pc youId man be without a woman!
i, how dreadful to see an irreiigious fema
,as one without any hopes or affections exec
In. for rthis world, who is thinking coniinua
,er of oavetv and vain show, and who p
me han. ooes off to a ball when chlld or D
ng band is lying aiih osl at .ne p'tn ,hn,ab,s |,
with no one by TO turn theiF lhouShs
ted better word.
he i never considered the subject so $
re- ously bef,re, sad his friend, grasping
and hand Blu feel that you are igh.
,nts Yes said Harry. and even lhhaei'
= strange as it may seetn-pfeief cou
had an,ioas wife before one who mocks al
i in ligion. -. .h
nc n that true love and religion are so 1n'lh
lion lvi connected. Reverence is a piot
Of EN- a,tin bo.h too will seek
i to like Miss Eden With these words
orti- parted a, T
were Married within month OF ihls
ben versa,ion. and happier couple 10 W
lives The husband, like his uncle.
,r.,d bseome n consistent christian, and ch
on. through the gentle persuasions OF his
he Their house Is always open 10 innt
-. oa;a,y cbeerfulness has her abode Il
he and ali in our village. low and high,
re- them.
',vers A word on Isabel before we cio'
n the From the day OF li4e plc>nic. she saw
80 ;af7oencs over the young heir wa: