Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-09-09

parsons exercise to cease, and The words
redolent of gorgeous imagery, died ava
in echoes from the adjacent crags.
"Now, the third and last demand is per
emptory. You are to promise that yo
will seek rel gion,day and night and neve
rest until you obtain it at the hands Of
merciful Redeemer.'
The fallen man looked at the declnin
sun and then at the parson and knew no
what to say, and the preacher raised hi
voice in song once more, and Ned knew
not what would come next.
iii do my BEST said he in q humbl,
voice.
Well, that's a man. said Stubblewortl
now getup and go down 10 the spring ant
wash your face, and tear up Tom Paine
testament, and turn your thoughts or
high
Ned rose with feelings he never expe-
rienced before and went TO obey the lava
tory injunctions Of the preacher when the
latter person mounted his horse. took Net
by the hand and said:
Snow keep your promise, and III keey
your counsel. Good evening, Mr.. Forge
lon-l'll look for you Tomorrow
And off he rode with the same impertu
rable coantenance, singing so loud as Il
scare the eagles from their eyre in The
overhangng rocks.
'Weli,' thought Ned, this is nice bust
ness. What would people say if they
knew Edward Forgeron was whipped be.
fore his own door in the gap, and that toe
by Methodist preacher.
But his musings were more in sorrow
than anger. His dsfgured contenance
was, of course, the subject Of numerous
questions that night. among his friends
to which he replied with a stern look they
we'll understood, and the vague remark
that he had met with an accident. o.
course, they never dreamed Of the cause.
Ned looked in the glass and compared hi.
BLACK eye from the recen, scuffle,' to the
rainbow blending every
COLOR into one. Or perhaps he never
read the story, and mu,tered to himself
Med Forgeron whipped by a methods
preacher
His dreams that night were of confus
ed and disagreeable nature; and walking
in the morning he had so indisiinc, memo
ny ofsomething unpleasant having occur
red. At first he could not recollect the
cause OF his feelings; but the bruises o
his lace and body soon calling them tc
mind. as his promise, he mounted his
horse ard went TO redeem it.
From that time his whole conduct man
ifested change Of feeling. The gossips
of the neighborhood observed il, and whis-
pered that Ned was silent, and had gone
10 meeting every Sunday since the acci
dent. They wond red greatly a, his burn
ing the books he used to eid SO much
Strange stories were circulating as to the
metamorphosis ot this jovaI. dl,e-dcvi
blacksmith into gloomy taciturn man
some supposed, very sagely, that a 'spr,
had enliced him into the mountains anc
misled him to a crag where he had ialler
and bruised his face. Others gave The
Prince OF darkness the credit C! the change
but none suspected the Methodist preach
er; and as the latter had no vanity to graf
ily, the secret remained with Ned. The
gloomy state o! mind continued until For
geron visited camp meeting. Rev Mr.
S;ubbleworlh preached sermon that seem
ed 10 enter his soul and relieve it Of bur
den; and the song of
How happy are they, who their saviour obey
was only half through when he felt like ;
new man. Forgeron was from that tim,
a shouting Methodist AT a love feast.
short time subsequent, he gave in his ex
perience, and revealed the mystery Of hi
convic ioa and conversion to his as.onshe
neghbors
The Rev. Mr.. Stubbleworth, who ha,
faithfully KEEP, the secre, until that tim
could not contain himself and longer, bu
gave vent to his feelings in convulsiv
peals of laughter, as the burning tears o
Joy coursed their way down his cheeks.
Yes, my brelhren,' said he, it is n fac,
did mall the grace into his belevin
soul, there is no doubt
The blacksmith Of the mountain pass
himself become soon after, a Methods
preacher.
| Be ECoNoMlCAL.-Savea all YOU can. 70
need not be poor forever. Who are The rich
Very generally they are those whose onl
capital at one and twenty was a fund of in
duslry and economy. They were not to
proud TO do any humble labor that brougt
cash into their pockeis-nor did they SUITE