The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-23


known her anywhere in the world, m.
darling |" Aud again the heaving bo
som, and the deep sigh, and the gushing
tear, told what feeble language could no
| utter.
"Six years she's had my husband
She's very wicked woman to take away
a poorawoman's husband, aud I've hae
no one to do for me, or get ne-a=bit o
food, or pay me ri,at, or anything and
1 told him-poor man I'D forgive him
ali, if he'd come back and live with me
again. But be told me I'd always be &
| fingin' it at him, and we'd never have Z
bit O. peace of our lives; but l told him
I'd never say one word about it as long
as we lived, if he'd come back to me
again, and take care O. me. 1t was SC
hard to do alone and he'd bring little
sissy back, and let me see hef once more.
And I'd do everything just as he wanted
me to 4; and, poor man I'd got him
back hadn't it been for that bad &oman!'
"But don't ye think ye could go and
find him before he dies, aud talk and
ray with him a word likeP I don't
want me poor husband to die like a
baste." -.-..--
"Yes, madam, I'll certainly try to
fad him, aud do what I can for him
Call here again two days from now, and
I'll tell you what can ascertain. From
the bottom of my heart [ pity you. l
hope you'll go to God for Lis help in
your extremity"
Indeed, Mr., wasn't it for that l
couldn't live, and all inc trouble like"
The New York pastor must Dot put
himself upon his dignity, and go only
where be is invited. His commission
from heaven does not bid him wait till
needy, guilty men search him out, and
ask what they must do to be saved but
he must ''go. into all the world and
preach the gospel to every crcature;"
he must "go out into the highways and
hedges" aud compel them to come in; he
must thrust himself into the abodes of
misery and death, and by all the means
God has placed at his command, with
his divine Master, "seek ard save that
which is lost" His errand of mercy
will sometimes bear him where he must
inhale the odors of literal putrefaction.
aud where moral pestilerce broods in
over its prey. He must press
on in his pursuit of the wild and erring,
to the very aver of death, and if posi-
BILE z rhe spi,it about to plunge to
hopeless ruin.
Go with ne. We are in the region
named by this suffering woman. L is
not, apparently, one of the vile quarters
of our guilty city. There are comfort
able residences all around. 1 cal; at the
grocery, aud ask, but can't find where
the man lives. 1 go to the other cor
ner, and the clerk knows him. I have
found the door. Enter with me. 1t is
q in the rear" A tall, decent, comfort
ably dressed woman. meets US. We ask
if Mr.. lives there She scrutinizes
US closely, but answers, eyes: he's very
sick" 1 informed her had heard of
his illness, and had called to See him
She disappears and soon returns, saying,
Walk in and see him" | step in, and
ilas, what spectacle is before me i
There lies a man but little more than
with the appearance of in
telligeuce, and much self. consideration,
struck down in the very zenith of his
oower-a living object of the Divine
lispleasure. An angry, bleeding tumor
rose from his face and neck, larger than
,n oranges and, Oh! what agony he en-
iured Smitten of God in the midst
Of his crimes, no outward heavings, no
number or quality of friends cah bribe
the fell disease, no surgeons skill arrest
its progress. Knawing upon the culver
ing fbres of life, eating asuuder delicate
blood vessels and shrinking nerves, it
seemed only to ask how long the suffer
ing of its miserable victim could be pro-
tracted I gazed at his agonized and
distorted features, and my heart sunk
within me. I thought of the tender
sympathy and deathiess love of his wife,
aud of his guilty desertion, and said,
"Oh the bitter wrong, and the unutter-
able misery of siu!" Surely "the way
of the transgressor is hard" Who could
1oubt that the avenging hand of Justice
had seized the culprit, while yet he was
to drag him to the bar before
which no bribes or pleadings can avail
had but little to speak at the time;
could not, need not, charge his crimes
lpon him. They were whispered in his
ar by every tongue of conscience, and
memory. and tortures, and fears. No
ccusing stranger need interfere with the
errible contest between poor vile
1orm. and an angry God! We spoke
emily with the dying man. Surgeons
ere expected in few hours to try the
,arful experiment of removing the tu-
Tor /; but to our mind there was no
ope. I spoke Of penitence and repa-
utio,s.a4 He assented, and seemed to en-
ure a neso pang, which he, and We, and
aEsI l.