The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-07-03
The Infiael and Dyiog child,


power, is the following passage. Euston
Hastings, the father, is an nlidel 4:
The chlId's disease was scarlet fever
Ten days and nights ofever deepening gloom
had passed, end in lbe silent night, having
insisted that Evelyn, who had herself shown
symptoms of illness through the day, should
retire TO bed, Euslon Hastings sat alone
watching with lightning heart the disturbed
sleep of the little Eve. Ii was near midnight
when that troubled sleep was broken. The
child turned from side to side nneasiIy, and
looked somewhat wildly around her.
what is the matter with my darIngr-
asked Eusion Hastings, in tones Of melting
tenderness.
Where's mamma?-Eve want mamma to
say. Our Father!'
Ensior Hastings had often contemplated
lie beautiful picture OF the child knee!ing
with clasped hands beside her mother, 10 lisD
her evening prayer, or since her illness, for
bade her rising from her bed, of Evelyn
kneeIing beside it, taking those cIasped
hands in hers, and listening to L e's softly
rnnrmured words, Well he knew, therefore,
what was meant by Ewes simple phrase
70 say Our Father
Mamma is asleep, he said, when she a.
wakes will call her'
'No-no--yapa Eve asleep lhen.'
will tell her at once, then. darling, and
he would have moved bu: the little hand was
4 laid on his 10 arrest him.
mo don't wake poor mamma, papa, say
Our Father! for Eve
'Wlll Eve say it 10 papa Speak then, nv
darling he added, finding, that though the
hands were clasped, and the sweet eyes de-.
voutly closed, Eve remained silent.
'No-Eve TOO sick, papa--Eve can't talk
SO much--papa, kneel down and say Our
Father, like mamma did last night on'l
you papa?
Euston Hastings could not resist that
pleading voice; and kneelng, he laid his
hand over The casped ones Of his child and
for The first time since be had murmured i'll
with childish earnestuess in his mother S ear, =,
his lips gave utterance to that halowed form
OF prayer which was given to man by D.
vine Teacher. Al such an hour, under such
circumstances it could not be uttered care
,essly; and Euston Hastings understood its
solemn import--its recognition of Gods SOW
lereigniy--ls surrender Of all things 10 him.
: lie underGtood it, we say--but lie trembed
at it. His infdeIity was annihiIated; but he
believed as the unreconcied believe, and his
l heart almost stood still with fear, while,
r 'Thy will be done on earth even as il is in
l heaven loI slowly from bis lips.
Sootbed by this compliance, Eve became
still, and seemed 10 sleep, but only for few
minutes. Suddenly in a louder voice than
had been heard within that room for davs,
she exclaimed,
Papa papa pnpa--see there--up there,
,papan
Her own eyes were fixed upward on the
ceiling, as it seemed to Euston Hastings, fot
to him nothing else was visible, while a
smile Of joy played on her lips, and her arms
we're stretched upward to somo celestial vis-
liant.
Eve comngH she cried again. '1'uke
d Eve!'
will Eve leave papar cried Eus;on Has,
ti1gs, while unconscIously he passed his arm
b over her, as j! dreading that she would real.
!, Iy be borne from him.
; With her eyes still fixed upward aid exs
r ipending her last strength in an effort to rise
h from the bed, Eve muttered in broken tones
Papa come oo-mamma-grandpa little
| brolher-dear papa
!, The last word could have been distinguish
ed only by the intensely listening ear of love
1t ended in sigh: and Euslon Hastings fe't
d even while lie cIasped her cherub form, and
+. gazed upon her sweetly smiling face, ha
$ his Eve had indeed left him forever. That
n she had ceased to exist, with the remem
s brance of that last scene full in his mind, he
h could not believe. lIencefolh heaven will
: its angels, the nlinlslering spirits of the Mos
High, was reality, it was the babilatlon oI
q his Eve, and his own heart went longngly
forth 10 it.. His proud, stern, unbending ma
7! lure had been taught to trembc at The de.
cree Of Him who ruleh over the armies o
e Heaven, and among The inhabitants of the
5, earth The Being and Nature upon which
he had hitherto speculated as grand absrac
$. ohs, became at once unspeakably interest,"
e IEg facts Would lie contend with him il
n wrath? Would lie snatch lr ON him one by
J, one the blessings Of bis life, crushing the
/" butes, and denied His existence? or was liz
Y indeed, $50 long suffering, SO 'plenteous il
i mercy that lie would prove even to him
hat His might was the might of Suvio1r9
< Such were his thoughts, as with still con
If cenuaIed agony, he turned frorl the grav
" Of his cherished child to watch beside tn
suffering Evelyn. She had taken the terri
,e bic disease from her little Eve, and lay 70
" many days insensibe TO her own danger o
k her husbands agony. But God was merci
full, and her husband and father received he
10 ba;k MS from lho grave. The heart whic
,r judgement had aroused, mercy melted.
m consciousness Of his own unworthiness G
Gods mercy IA fear that he could not b
d heard checked the cry which angus
ID would have extoueJ from Euston Hasting:
10 and the first real ulteunce from his heart I
III heaven, wns in the language Of thanksgiving
,o PoLITENEss IN PARA Disc Our poetic hi
lorans 60 back sometimes to first principle
for their facts, as will be seen by the follow
ing opigram:
~ When first the manly heart Of Adam felt
~ The power ofbeauty, Il began to melt,
ne And gazing on his rib, lie ialtered, Madam,
o. am your most obedient servant--Adam.
N.~~~~~>>~NNN~~Ol
sb Gen. LaIimer tells good joke about T.
es Fox Arden.
as Mr.. Arden stopped at the bridge toll hou'
y one day, and enquired:
ur GLOW much do you charge, sir?"
m "You may pass on, we don't charge pTeac