Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-04-04
ii few moments anxiously; aud

then, suddenly recoecting his helpless
blind boy, he went with one or TWO neigh
bors TO bring him to his desola,e home.
Henry was where he had left him, bowed
| down, silent, moriOnless. The fathers look
grew fixed and earnest, as he drew nigh -
He strobe hasily over the heaps of timber
and ruin, stopped to Ilt his child, and uttered
a cry of horror. The lower limbs OF the poor
blind boy were wedged fas; between two
heavy beans of the demolished bridge, and
he had taluted with excess of agony. Wild
and almost superhunan were the efforts
with which the father sIrove 10 relieve his
enid from situation so horrible but II was
| not till his friends came with axe and hatciIet
with canner heads aud steadier hands, To hi,
assistance, thai the sufferer was extricated.
IL was "A night OF grief aud agony beneath
The roof of William Haileck. The remains
OF the fair. gentle and pions Mary lay stretch
ed on her own little bed in one room, and
| 10 The next, father, morher brothers, and
sisters hung weeping around The couch OF
the suffering Henry. Acute. indeed, were
The pains with which II pleased God 10 visit
the youthful SAINT; and saint-like indeed
was The resignation with which those pains
were borne. But about midnight his agonies
were suddenly calmed, and hope duttered for
momenI IN the heavy heats OF those who
loved him. 1t was but for a moment. The
physician announcei thai the process of NOR
tihcation had tegun, aud deaIIi was drawing
| nigh. All al once the voice OF the blind boy
was heard, calling his mother in a faint but
calm voice. She came 10 hls bedside, and
he took hold OF her hand. Then he asked
tor his father, brothers, and sisters. They all
came. he touched each, and said, Mary is
not here
No one spoke, but he felt his mothers
hand quiyer III his
Mary is drowned said he; God has taken
her. 10 be an angel. Do not sob. mother, be-
Cause she aud are 10 he SO much happier
Than we ever could he on eorth Lei me
tell you Of what Mary and | were talking
this very morning, and you will all see that
God has kindly called Us away at the very
time when we were most willing, perhaps
most fit, to die
Then he told them briefly all that had
passed that day, and, after NONE o 4 $ puuse,
added,
Father and mother | thank God for tax :
ing me away so Young and so too d'3 Mary.
You will he saved much tronlle, and much
care; and we shall find no temptation, no
sin where we are going. Mary will never
suffer pam and sickness agnin; aud !, the
poor blind boy, that never saw even your dear
face, mother, shall behold God. Nv eyes
will be opened. and shall go from a world
OF darkness into n world of light. Promise
me, all OF you. that you will not sill down and
mourn for me when | am dead hut will ol,>
serve how wise and good il was that Mary
and should both die sn young. have been
n happy boy. God gave you a sick child
and blind one to try your patience and vir-
tue, and You have borne The lrial well. You
have been very kind 10 us both you never
J SAID harsh thing 10 your blind boy. We
have Just lived long enough to Try your sub
mission. bur not long enough to be heavy
| burden all your lives 10 you ; and now God
has taken us away, Just as we could have
wished, together, aud a the best of times to
dle-the best for YOU the best for US. Some
times il rs hard TO see why things should be
as they are hut this is an easy matter 10 un-
! derstand. l am sure il is right. and am
happy"
Henry Halleck never spoke again bur his
last words had brealhed comfort INFO the
hearts of his parents, which dwell there en-
duringly with his memory.
! He fingered till morning. The frs; red
beams OF that sun he had never seen, fell on
his pale features and sighiless eyes. He
ielt his mother drawing open ;he curtain Of
the little window at his bedside that she
might behold his face more plainly. With
a faint smile on his lips. he turned towards
| her; 1t became fixed, and with a short spasm,
/ his innocrnr spirit passed sudderI, and
peacefully into the world he had painted TO
| know.
Death had al last come under the roof of
| William Halleck, and summoned The Young.
fair, and good but he had come in visible
kindness.
| When the dspensation is dark. dreadful
and mysterious, latent good is still there
and the true Christian seeks FOR i-and It
he finds it not, still adores without doubling