New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-12
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1t was Christmas morning Winter had set in
with December. and snow had been lying on the
ground for most of the month The whole coun-
try lay white and quiet. The sun rose this morn.
ing IN n cloudless sky and made promise of
splendid day. The gladstone bells We're heard
ringing out from distant villages there was a
nurnur of music in the air which called forth
respondent music in the heart The roads were
beaten hard, yet, untouched by any sulIying
thaw, We're almost as dazzling pure as the fields
around. Through the clear, keen air went along
lines of wild fowl, seeking yet unfro2en streams
i'll this pinching time The very rocks, tanned
by severity, came into the gardens, and appealed
to the compassion Of man.
AS the morning advanced. n fresh peal of bells
from the different churches, called forth multi
t'plcs of people wrapped in oyercoat and cloak
with warm gloves. and ttlrs and muifs and there
were happy families Of old and young NEEDING
to other happy families, and exchanging the old
| congratulations Of merry Christmas and
happy New Year Som the pealng bells rose
III their kndling energy to a perfect sougli and
jubilee of Sonn't then sinking in trenluous ca
dencc, suddenly ceased, and the congregation of
the people found themselves face to face with each
other and with God.
In two churches in Lincolnshire safe two men,
each thinking of the other; each known to the
world as the others bitter enemy; each regard
ing the other as the most vindictive and dishonest
Of men These men did not live in the same
town. The one safe in his parish church in
Waintleet the other beneath that noble tower SO
oddly termed Boston Stump He who safe in
Boston was ruined man: he WHO safe in Vain
fleet had ruined him. The one had been pros
porous and happy, and might have said. with
many such man before him, . What can move
me-" But all this had been changed as by
witchcratt. The man of Wainheet had dra agged
him down in n long and desperate struggle The
happiness Of his home had been destroyed his
good name stained as by the inky waters of Ere
bus his triends-all those fast triends-estrang-
ell from him They regarded him as IL base and
unftrling hypocritc
Thus safe this man, listening to the words Of
the collect: & Almighty God who hast given
us Thy only begotten Son. to take our nature
upon Him, and at this time to be born of a pure.
Virgin. grant that we, being regenerate and
made Thy children by adoption and grace, may
daily he renewed by the Holy Spirit through the
same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, and the same spirit, ever
One God world without end, Amen !" There
was solemn m,lrlnur of * Amen Amen p aud
the man also uttered the g Amen" with his Inns
hut it was not i'll his heart. On tllat heart safe
the sense OF hugest injuries, AMI burned tie bit
telness of interest resentment. Wherever he
he looked, lie saw only faces which Wore the
meek air Of devotion, yet those people had done
him the toulest wrong; Lad refused to listen to
his most earnest nIn9dinos. had combined with
Ills foes to ,lishono, and min him T onr yoa,.l
Of integrity had not weighed one straw in the
balance with them against the artful assertions
of his foes
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saw those who haJ eaten at lie t,hIn
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