Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-29
GOING TO SLEEP.
misttllanQ.
LOVING AND PATIENT.
BY T. $. ARTHU X.

.A faithful wife, tender mother, q true
friend. the life of our departed sister was
beautiful. She had trial, pain, suffering
IN. common lot of all; but there was THIS
difference between our sister and many
others-ip trials, pains and suherlnSs'
she was. always loving and patient:
And with these words, the minister
,l,sed his eulorv. His voice was earnest,
ard there was Il low tremor OF leellnS IN
;s tones. He had known this faithful
wife. this tender mother, this true irend
we'll and therefore he had uttered no
mere commonplace, rs he stood, uncoN-
cred by the r,i,ve around which were gath
cred the weeping mourners.
Loving and patient said one to
another, rs they walked slowly amid the
Hnwer-coy.red Tomb stones, on their way
nut from the cemetery. .'Yes, she was
,Il thnt few So loving, few SO patient"
And few with more need of patience
was replied. "rhry speak of home mar
rvrs sometimes. | think she WAS one
The loving heart asks for love IN return
and if it receives not this i"od to no"rlsh
! it's life in sufficient measure, 1t droopS.
wastes, dies. SO Gid our precious TREND
"Yuu think so?'
IL am sure oft. >,
| "Mr. Carson was not an uhh''i "''i'
ole did not treat her with the brutality
of nm iunorant French peasant, but Tor All
that, he is none less :he guilty OF having
diminished, by years. the period OIL her
earthly existence. >,
.'rhen it was an unconGenial marriage
said the other.
ga mild way Of speaking truth. an
swered the friend. Yes, It was, thihK
wholly unconyenial for her. lie was
+ probably, us we'll satisfied with any woman
She ministered to his selfish plea sureS
and was, as we have just heard, loving
,, and patient. 1t was all right, so lar as
his enjoyments were concerned' as 10
her, life, think, was one long martyrooh
of the heart. But 1T Is over llo"' "'o DIN
=. sleeps we'll"
Nad so they talked, as they went ou
from the place of graves.
.Iovin,, and natient.' The bereaveC
= husband carried the words home with him
% They had fallen upon his ears with new
meaning, as applied to his wife, and CAV
to his mind a certain new perception AS T.
her character. "a faithful wife, tende
- mother. true friend These were tn
minister's s words also, and they were SOUND
" inc still in his ears. How singularly ele
> waited had become, all NJ once. Mr.. Carson
ideal of his wife. Her character stoo
:, ont with a new distinctness. "Shc ha
o trial, pain, suffering" Alas! and TIN
was true also-true to the bereaved hu'
1t band in a way never before appreclatad'
nr Back TO his home returned Mr.. Carson
= and gathered his motherless chlldre
or or around him How very, very desolate /
felt. What pressure there was upon h
sr bosom-what an aching void within.
Lowing and patient" The brief sci
) tence found an involuntary repetition
: his mind. He kept saying 1t over, uni
II II memory began to draw pictures Of the pas
pt Let us transfer ono of these pictures
: canvas. Here it is Mr.. Carson gaze
upon it until it gave him the heart-ache
Id. They had been married over yea
10 10; when Mrs. Carson, who had not seen h
. mother during that period, asked to ''g
- home" s. distance Of some two hundrt
:. mile, and make short visit. Since n
ur' marriage she had not visited the dear o
- place, though her heart kept going back
- its loved ones yearningly all the while
sr' Il don't see how that is possible, a
at, swered her husband, coldly, and IN e.
,nJ dent surprise Mt the request. on cal
y 90 alone, and for me TO leave my ouslne
nop is out of the question.
Tears came instantly to the solt bio
eyes Of the young wife.
,-,,. al have not seen my mother since
me came from home"
',m 'Is, Down, down through years came
Nc., MIR. Carson the voice of his wife, as
- trembled on this sentence MOI SID
- shade of its tender sadness was go
All All And now it fell upon sensitive cars !
per, searched into all lis meanings Bu' WI
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