Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-06-22
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The InfideI and Dying Child,

III MISS MCINTOSH "tfiaTmS Htid
Cousiter Charms, Il book dF deep Interest
and grent POWER is Tie fblIdWttg passagr
Eusioh Hastings, the fther is ttn inf
dol
The chiId's disease was scarlet fcvef
Ten days and nights Of ever-deepening
gloon had pissed, mud in the silent night
having insisted Tint Evelyn who hod her
self hhoNn symptoms oi iIltass through
the day; 4l'cuId retire to bed. Etdon Hast
lngs sat aloiie watching with ii tightening
brearth the disturbed sleep Of the littA
Eve. It was near midnight when thut
troubled sledyse Was BROKER, The child
turiied from side to side iletsily, pnd
looking somewhat wildly around her
"Wl,at is the matter with my darling"
---aeked Eutton Hastings, in tone OF melta
ing tenderness,
Wbeie's ,hamna 7---Ityc want rtlntii'
ma TO say, 'Our Father"
Euston Hastings had often contemplated
the beautiful picture of his child kneeitg
with clasped hands beside her mother, to
lisp her evening prayer, or siice Her 'llncsa
forbade her rising from, her bed, OF Evelyn
kneeling beside it, taking those cIasped
hhnds ia hers, and listening to Ewes spltIy
mllmurcd words Wen he knew, therefore,
what was mcant by Eyes sin,PIc phrase;
10 say Oar Father.
"Mamnia isaaaeep," lie said, When
she awtlkes / will Call herr -
No-ano--4papa; Eve as'ttp then. "
II will tell lcf III once, darling and he
would have nsved. but the little hand wii3
laid on his TO arrest him.
1" No don't wake poor marf,ult papa,
say Oar T'hthdr for Eve,
"WiII Eve aay it to papa. Speak then,
my darling, hc added, finding tiat though
the hands were clnsped, and Tie sweet eyes
.devoutly closed, Eve remained silent,
No--Eve too sick, papa--IiVe cant
talk 50 much--papa, knoel down and say
Or Father, like mallna did last night
won't you papa"
Euston Hastings could not resist that
pleading voice; and knccling, he laid hia
hand over the claaped ones Of his child, aud
for tic ffst time since he had niurmnted ID
with childish carne&tuess in his mothers
car, his lips gave ntteranGe to that liHlowed
form elf prayer whidh wits given 10 nau
by a Divine Teacher At stici an hour.
under such circumstances, il could not bd
uttered carelessIy; and Etiston Hastings
understood its solemn inport--sits recogill-
ton Gods glity~-sits surrender e
all things to Him. Lie AntleystoOI it,
we say--1but he tremblcd at it. His inf
deity was anuihiatcd; but he believed,
as the unreconciIed believe, aud his heart
almost stood still with fear, while "Thy
will be done Oh earth even as it IN III
heaven y fell slowly from his lips,
Sootied by his compliance, I've bschma
still, and seemed to sleep buf only for h
few minutes. Suddenly in b louder voice
than had been heard within that room for
days, she exclaimed,
d" Papa - papa - p"pa----see tliere--'rp
there, papa" ..-...... .-
Her own eyes fixed upward on tie cell.
ing, ~ it seemed 10 Eliston Hastings, for
to him nothing else WIS visible, while Il
smile OF joy played on her lips, and her
arms were stretched upward to some ce.es.
tial vistant.
1--WE coming" she cried again. "J'ake
Eve"
win Eve leave papa cried Ension
Hastings, while unconse lisly. he passed
his arm over her, as if tkca0hng that she
would really be borne from him.
With Ills eyes still fTed upward, and ex-
pending her last strength in an effort to
rise from the bed Eve muttered in broken
tones, ..
Papa come too--rnamnia--grandpa---
little brothcr-dear papa--"
The last word could have been diss
tingaisl,ed only by the ihtenseiy-listenidg
car Of love. 1t ended in sigh; aitd
Euston Hastings felt, even while he still
clasped her chcrub form, and guzed upon
her sweetly smiling face that his Eve
had indeed left him forever. That size
had ceased 10 exist, with the remembrance
Jf that last scene full in his mind, he could
not believe. Hencefohh heaven with it's
angels, the ministcrng spirits of the Most
High, was reality; it was the fabitatlon
Of his Eve, and his own heart went long
mgIy forth to it, His proud, stern, uiis
besding nature had been tanglit TO trenbIe
at NE decree of linn who ruleth oVer
the 9srnies Of heaven, and among the IN
habitSsts Of the earth" The BENZ and
NaturSSupon which he had hitherto speca-
lated ~ grand distractions, became ut
once unsTfSakaby-interesting facts? Would
lie conteTSs with him i'll wrath, Would
Lie. snatch VSon him one Ivy one the bless
sings Of his Ne, crushing the impions heart
which had SSyiled His attributes, and
denied His exlSSenee? or was lie indeed,
so long sufFegsng, 80 pcnteotsf in
mercy, F" that fGSsould prove even 10 him
that~Iiis might was tic Night Of q,
Saviour!
Such weaa' his Sgoughts, az with still
concentrated a9ony,&he turned from the
grave Of his cl,erishea14lE ID te~seatalr be-
side the suffering IsselS She bad taken
the terrible dsfcase from fsar little Eve angl
lay for msffy days inselfGbIe to her oyl
danger or her husbands a2sdy 'Bnl ca
was mercifn', aud her lusbaiI andsEatiierS
received her back as from tbs&grave. Tie
heart which iud gment had aro,ssed, mercy
melted. Il consciousness Of hIs own ull~
wortiIincss Of Gods mercy--a fear llat
| he couLd not be hear,l--:iecked Nthe cry
which augui-il would have sxtofted from
Euston hastings; anl the first real urter@
auce from his heart 10 ileaven, wa iii tliu
languagc of..!jaa1 giving.