The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-10-04

fot tss " paw fof what ne has hOneSfIl
drunk ; and | might as well have thcn
as any one else. NY money paid 70
them. and in the course Of the eyenin,
went into your till. II is very hard II
with all my labor. | can't turn an no
nest penny in a bargain sometimes
without being child. as If | we're a ba
by
- am soreiv beset," murlnured Ma
thew. closing the book with hasty yio
ienee sorely beset; the gain on ons
side. the sin on the other; and she
goads me. and puts things in the wors,
light; never was man so beset.r he re.
peated helplessly; and he said truly
ne was"beset"-by infrnsiiy ofpurposs
that mean, feeble, pitiful illustrator ol
50 many good and glorious intentions.
IL IS at once blessed aud won.
deriul thing how the little grain OF
"gooa seed" will spring up aud increase
Iii the soil be at all productive. how
u viii fructify. A great stone may
be placed right over it, and vet the
shoot will forth-sideways. perhaps,
after long. noiseless struggle amid
the weight of earth-a white, slender
thing, like Bit Of thread that falls
from the clipping scissors Of little
needless maid. creeps up. twists itself
round the stone. little. pale, meek
thing. tending upwards becoming a
delicate green in the wooing sunlight
strengthening in the morning, when
birds are singing-at mid day, when
man is toiling-at night, while men
are sleeping. uafa IL pushes ayay the
sfone, aud osershadows its inauspicious
birthplace with strength and beauty!.
Yes! where good seed has been sown,
there is always hope that. one day or
other, it will. despite snares and pitt
falls, despite scorn and bitterness, de-
spite evil report, despite temptations,
despite those .wcarying backslidings
which give the wicked and the idle
scoilers ground Tor rcjoicing-sooner
or later it will iructify!
All homage to the good seed all
homage to the good sower!
And who sowed the good seed in the
heart Of Mathew Hownleya Truly, it.
would be hard to tell. Perhaps some
sower, intent on doing his Masters
busincss-perhaps some hand uncon.
scious oi the wealth IL dropped--per-
haps young child. brimful Of love,
and faith, and trust in the bright world
around-perhaps some gentle woman,
whose knowledge was an inspiration
rather than an acquirement--perhaps a
bold, true preacher of THE WORD, strip
ping the sinner Of the robeshat covered
his deformity, and holding up his che.
rished sins as warnings to the world |;
perhaps it was one of Watts hymns,
learned at his nurses knee (for Mathew
and Martha had endured the unsympa-
thizing neglect of motherless child
hood a little line, never to be forgot.
ten--a whisper, soft, low, enduring--I
comfort in trouble, a stronghold in |
danger, refuge from despair. Oh,
what worlds wealth is there in sim.
Pile line of childhood's poetry! Mar.
tha herself often quoted the Busy Bee
but her bee had no wings; it could
muck in the wax, but not fly for the
honey. As to Mathew, wherever the
seed had come from, there, at all events,
i was. struggling but existing biding
its time to burst forth, to bud, and to
and to bear fruit!
The exposure concerning the sugar
tongs made Mathew So angry, that
Martha wished she had never had any
hing to do with them; but instead Of
lsoiding the fault, she simply resolved
n her own mind never again to let
Mathew know any Of her little trans
.ctions in the way Of buying or barter,
hat was all
Mathew, all that day. continued more
thoughtful and silent than usual, which
is sister considered bad sign; he
vas reserved to his customers nav,
iorse-he told woman she should not
i've gin to her infant at his bar, and
osltlvely refused. the following Sun /
ay. to open his house at all. Martha l
sked him if he was mad. He replied: q
MOI" be was "regaining his senses" 4
hen Martha thought it best to let him {
lone--he had been "worse"-that is, i
ccording 10 her reading of the word, '
worse before-taken the "dumps" Il
the same way. but recovered, and |,
Dne back to his business "like a d
Ian." n
Peter Croft, unable to pay up his
core, managed, nevertheless, to pay v
,r what he drank. For a whole week Ii
lartha would not listen to his propo- a
lis Tor payment Gin kind;" even his
lies last shawl could not tempt her, v
Iough Martha confessed it was beau B
!, and what possible use could Mrs. "
eter have for it now it was SO outl
character with her destitution. She Il
'ard no more Of it, so probably the
retched.husband disposed Of it else il