Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-09-08

i; was red hot, and she could not retain it-a
quarter of a dollar. Emma takes care that it
shall not touch the mites The physician
goes often to the parsonage with his saddlebags.
lie says with sigh he will give money, but
he fears from Mr. Dunning's looks, he shall be-
fore the winter is through have to give large
bill of something else. Emma hears him with
shudder,--and shuts his gate softly as IL she
felt already the connection with death. She
grows more resoluto in her mission, at when
and the end of tho third day. she changes the
small bills into large ones, she says with a smile
Only in two places have ! been refused, one
was Deacon Jones, and one was Mr. Thornton.
'Mr Thornton likeshs brandy better than his
pastor, and all his money goes for that you
might have known it,
Il did not mean that any one should feel neg
lecied, and have called every where. think
Mr. Dunning would be delighted il he only
knew with how many expressions Of good will,
this present is accompanied
I And you must take it to him this evening,
and tell him, Emma
This was the hardest task Of ALL and Emma
positively declined it, She would send the
] luIct WIN a Hbltf Noulu Wy W 1dN al III
that. And so she did, and they came like an
gels of mercy, this peoples gift, and these ten
der words, into the dreary study. Il maiiered
not that the summer air still scorched and with
cred that The sermon was not FINISHED, and the
nerves were weary, and the heart faint. Thou
hast delivered, and honored me : who would
not abide under the shadow Of the Almighty
Vacation Years ago, they were ma actually
many, but they seemed ages 10 the s'eni man,
a vacation meant rest, was he once again to
know the meaning Of tina, word he Ieyer ex-
pecied TO until he wandered through the green
pastures, along the still waters : but here, &C.
iually here, it was like dream and he took
his portmanteau in his hand, as he had in col.
lege days, and as he went through the village
on his way 10 his native home, TO see his old
mother, and try among childhood scenes, iC
bring back childhood freshness, and elasticity
his people crowded TO their doors,-no ont
knew ore,-how mnch they had loved an,
respected him there had been no oppor,uni
ty TO test the hold hs had taken upon thei
hearts. Not kind word that he had eve
spoken. not an earnest prayer that he had offer
ed within their own home not word Of sym
paihy, when they were sad or in aiIliction, bu
came 10 mind now, and some blessed him audi
bly, as be passed. Yes, God had watched owe
him, and now delighted to honor. The see
thai seemed to him to have been broadcast, Go
had taken from his hand and dropped into man
! a stony heart, and now, as with the follnes
and beauty Of midsummer all around him, an
, his peoples love and respec, being like sunligt
over the landscape, be drew every hour ne'
! health and strength from his journeys. Th
old smile came back to his lips. His frame, s
t weak. that at first it refused all effort, gre'
I strong and manlike again, and when he cam
: within sight Of his paternal home, his heai
D leaped up to sec his mother as warmly we
comes him as when he was a boy.
: Emma, on the morning Of his leaving Stra
a ford, from behind the nearly-closed blinds {
a her room, had also watched him pass. Th
: was the result Of her first social effort for goo
: her first, bot not her last. She was frai
4; delicate girl, but she became a pillar in III
1 church. She dated the development & strength
d ening Of her Christian character from this pi
= riod. She had learned one of lile's great le
: sons--iha, religion is not vital so long as il
}, selfish, and that the treasure must be used,
be returned tenfold.
z Old Mrs Thompson and old Mr. Sawyer pas
ed to their long sleep. The good deacon gre
T old, and manfestly untitled for the wants Of Il
+ awakened church. Young men, across whol
f. faces the minister could sweep the chords
G feeling with his master hand, filed their place
= and Stratford owed much to the new life gi
D N il hv ia nasforfs vaeafion