The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-09-10
you. AndloOk, here is your favorite dish,'

lyou. And look, here is your favorite dish,
= irewoying Reever as she spoke,
If ION haye y
Il cannot Henry"
Irritated by her refusal, he again placed thu
room restlessly, while little Arthur Crept clost
to his mother and whispered
81 have the gold piece my grandfather gave
me, mamma. Shall | give that to poor fatheri
Perhaps it will make him well "
''NO, dearest; money would make him worse.
Do,not say that you have any"
But the whisper had been partially over
heard, and Henry turned to his boy.
"HaVe you any money, Arthur? Give it to
me. will bring it to you again
The child hesitated He looked at his
mother for direction, but she was unable to
help him. At length he said
Il cannot give you the money, father, be-
cause mamma says it would make you worse.
She knows the best. One day l eat some
raisins when she told me not to, and they
made me sick. When you are quite well, l
will give YOU all my money"
Unaffected by the simplicity and sweetness
Of the answer, the father replied, angrily:
"What nonsense you have put into the
child's head, Helen. Give me the money,
at once, Arthur command you to do So"
The child still fingered, and e1asperated by
his delay, the infuriated man raised his hand
to strike, but Helen sprang forward, aud
throwing herself upon her kness before him,
flung her arms around the boy, cxclaiming-
"No, Henry,-not that for the love Of hea-
ven strike not our innocent bOyl Sever not
the on Y tie which now binds us together"
But her appeal was lost upon one whose
better feelings slumbered too deep for an
earthly voice to awaken them.
His wrath turned upon her, and the blow
intended for the child would fallen upon the
devoted wife and mother, had not the voice OF
God Himself, arrested the uplifted arm.
A flash OF lightning so vivid that the eyes
involuntarily closed before it, followed or
rather accompanied by q deafening, peal Of
thunder, and the crash Of part of the house
death like silence which often succeeds this
concussion of the elements.
In the middle Of the room stood the husband
with his arm still raised over the lovley beings
who knelt awe struck and motionless at his
feet, all unhurt in the midst Of the destruction
that surrounded them. Fragments OF glass,
piles of mortar, aud large spIinters Of wood,
gave fearful evidence Of the mighty power
around them.
The arm of the guilty one was still raised,
| but no longer in insane wrath. The whole ex-
preston of his countanance had changed-his
soul bowed before his Creator and Father
and tho first sound which aroused Helen from
the temporary suspension Of her faculties
which had followed that fearful crash, was the
deep full tones Of her husbands voice, which
thrilled to her heart as in days of old, uttering
fervent prayers and thanksgivings for theil
miraculous preservation from a sudden ant
dreadful death.
Instantly her arms were twined around him
her head rested upon his bosom, and by thu
side of their child they kneeled, while Henry
solemnly vowed that the cup Of intoxicatiOI
should never again be raisedto his lips; anC
with a full sense of his own weakness, earnest
ly and humbly prayed to the Only Source o.
Strength.
The VOW thus registered was never broken.