Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-20

-. .ha cnlIeweJ he, mo,herf - no", mi
~ ,Lot occnried no Tho oId dosnoa Thore
- Lii, bus,le wbon sbo oa,n. .,d
n,anv ewes were bent ON her. a few from en-
riosiiy. mora from commiseratiop She SAT
mo,iopless in Inc corner of the sir. bor head
dronninu forward. and her ewes 6red nm the
I small hands that Law clasped in her Ian.
After the little party was settled a still.
ness crept over the house Won miobt have
heard a pin drop, or the rustic of a sill dress,
10 the extremity of that LARGE room. All at
once there arose a noise at the door opposite
the pulpit; it was but a ~footstep rinoinc on
The threshold stone, and vet the neonle iurn-
ed their heads and looked startled. as if
some,bing were about 10 hannen II was
onIv a handsome. hold looking vonpn man.
who walked up the aisle with a naughty
stem, and entered a pew on the opposite side
from that occupied by the mother and 6augh-
ter, and somewhat nearer the pulpit. A bat
terry of chances was levelled on him from The
galleries, but he looked carelessly up, and
even smiled when a young girl by whom he
seated himself, drew back with a look of in
dignation, 10 the farthest corner of the pew.
The old deacon looked up as these bold foot
steps broke the stiffness /; his thin cheek and
lip became deadly white, he crashed the
railing convulsively, half rose, and then fell
forward with his face on his hands, and re-
manned motlonless as before. Wei might
the wronged old gentleman Weld for a mo-
ment to the infirmities Of human nature even
in the house of God. That bold man who
thus audacionsly inlruded in his presence,
had crept like a serpent to his hearth-stone-
had made his name a byeword, and his
daughter, the child of his old age, a creature
for men to handy iests about. But for him,
that giil, now shrinking from the gaze of
her old friends, would have remained the
pride Of his home, an eve lamb in the church
of God. Through his wiles she had fallen
from the high place Of her religious trust,
and now, in the f~ullness of her penitence,
she had come forward TO confess her fault
and receive forgiveness of the church she had
dispraced.
The old deacon had lost his children. one
by one. ill this gentle GIRL alone was left to
him he had folded a love for her, his latest
born, in his inneTmost heart, till all uncon-
~sciously she had become 10 it an idol. The
old man thought it was 10 punish him that
God had permitted her to fall into tempta-
tions; he said so, beseechingly 10 the elders
of The church, when at her request, he call
ed them together, and made known her dis
grace, lie trled 10 take some oil the blame
upon himself; SAID mat ne had, perhaps, been
Tess lnpulgeh. man ne shoulu nave Deen'
and so her affections had been more easily
won from her nome and duiy-that ne lear-
ed ne had been a proud man-spirItuaiy
PROUD OUT now ne was more humble ana
.hat MS heavenly father nad allowed ,h'S
,ning IN ofuer 10 chas'eh NM me enc mao
DCGH OUtdl1tu Ht was d SlChtbtu OIu lldus
uu' coulu say Inc WIZ OF zoo oe uohe'
lhereiofe ne oesougnt MS pre'hteh not 10
cde' heI iott" 70 neI olsg'ace' oul 0 dcceP'
hef confession OF error ana repentance F; 10
De metci'uI ana receive heI PACK " we
Cnu,cn' ne "en' On 10 say ho" mummy
wv nau cIep' 10 n's ieet, anu piayeo nun "
aTts',I ne' : y ~ h ~ ILL., GGL, sp XXI nismf
un'1i ",s"t y" Pay y 49, ~" o",Gar
80 ne le,s "ei n '"eal "anus; lily e n;,t
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Willingly would ihe sympa'hiz'ng elders
have received The stray lamb again without
TURNER humiliation 10 Inc oroKen-hear'ed oid
man but II could not be. Inc ungodiy
were Wiling 10 WISH Inc SINS Of inul'iuua!S
on a whole community. Inc purity OF 'helr
Church must De pfesefVed-'he penalty
mus DC eAac'eu'
From the time Of the Church meeting, the
poor man bent himself earnestly 10 strength
en- his child's good purposes. He made no
complaint, and slrove to appear-nay 10 be
Resigned and cheerful; he still continued
to perform the office Of deacon, though the
erect gait and somewhat dignifed conscious
ness of worth that had formerly Distinguish
ed him, utterly disappeared. On each sue
ceeding Sabbath his brethren observed some
new prostration of strength. Day by day
his cheek grew dim-his voice hollow, and
his step more and more feeble. 1t was a
piteous sight-a man who had been remark
able for bearing his years so braveIy, NOV
ing through the aisles of that old meeting
house with downcast eyes, and shoulders
stopping as oenea'h q o"F'hen' Al last Inc