The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-26
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For The National Era.
HERMAN;
YOUNG KING q 7 Il GOD.
by K. FoxToN,
Author Of" Premices."
CHAPTER VII-Concluded.

therefore it should seem that BE would willingly
hess and comfort MS. When His Son, our
Ssviour-who was of course much more ike
His Father than any other person-was on
earth, he seems to have been what, if he had
been only a man, we might call q sympathizing,
kind. obliping man. He used his wonderful
power not only to show that he was really
Gods messenger, which he might have done by
severe and terrible miracles, such as calling
down fire from heaven on those who displeased
him, but 10 comfort the unhappy, cure the sick,
and raise the dead whom the living were crying
for"
al swow, wish he was back again. I'd see
him, or I'd know why, az wouldn't AZ him to
comfort me, an raise up that dog You see,
Stranger, Pm kinder soft along O. him, know,
but Pm thirty year old, as near as cen guess,
On I've been Twin alone in the bush or the pur-
rayra all my life pootty much, and he war ell
the dad, or nam, nor brother, nor child, as ever
had to car cuss for me an, now he's gone,
hsint had no heart to git another. had q
friend an q Ipjun sweetheart once, an they run
of together. When l cotched up with 'sm,
put ball or two through him, O. course, and
she hove herself into the river, 80 thar was q
end O. that. was youngster then, an twas
q hull year afore could git up my sperits an
for that long, skulked mostly, and KEEP out O.
everybody else's way. Tip was nothin but q
pup An jest little spell afore that thar cstas-
terphy, I'd spied him, with his black eyes
starting out of his head, astrikin out an fight
in like mad with the rapids, whar a pack O. lit
tie cusses had soused him in, to look at him
drownd. was 80 tickled to see his pluck, that
| stripped, an devised in arter him, an 6shed
him out, an wallopped 'em all round, and he
never forgot it; 80 when jest went out o sight
en- nowhere, like Willo'-wisp, he follered ar
ter, an nosed me out. l war beat out, layin
uni4r pslmetter, an dreamin sksery Dreams
| couldn't git shet On 'em them times so /
didn't snoozs no more nor l could help-sn up
he come, an reused me out, a-tumbln over me
an scourin my face An eyes with his tongue an
Squealin fer JOY. He was right smart of hun.
ter Already, an could alters cotch enough to eat
when he wanted, but he was jest as lean a. q
rail then. The little jackass didn't want nothin
else till he'd got me. had hard scratch on it,
an be was the only Twin soul as come s-niah
me to say, cheer up. He was sorry for me when
nobody else war, an now can't help bein sorry
for him. If them old times was only back,
or if | could see the Lord, nowadays, maybe
he'd consider the circumstances, and do sothin
for u.s."
You can see him little while hence, at
any rate"
"Whs' say?"
Before he went up, he left this word be-
hind for anybody who wanted him: If any
man serve me, let him follow me, and where /
am there shall also my servant be- If you will
serve him therefore in this world, you can see
him after you leave it."
"Spose he'd do anythin for SIGH miser BILE
BLACKBOARD ?'
Certainly. He came into the world on pur.
pose to look after and rescue miserable black
guards. do not think that good people need.
ed him so much. But if you want to over.
take him, / should advise you to follow him
without any more loss of time, and to take care
not to step out of his track for if you once lose
1t, you may never find it again"
Blast YER This was said, not for anger,
but for emphasis; AK pardon-but dyer s'pose
I've spent half my days in the bush, not to
know as much as that thar? Yer'll find
I'm pootty plaguey id good heft to hist,
I'm afesrd; but jest yer put me on his track,
if yer ken, an cotch me q losin on it'll"
Leave off swearing then, in the first place, "
said Herman, for the frat time laying down his
work, and raising his gaze to the mans face,
not so sternly, perhaps, but as firmly and fear.
lessly as a keeper does, who quells q lion,
"and drinking aud brawling."
There is great power sometimes in clear
soul, looking suddenly through q clear eye
Ine poor ruffsn felt it, and HE sank abashed
beneath it. "Who's bssu a psachin on me,
strannger2" said he, confused and hesitating, in
a lower tone.
Your own tongue, your own breath-ex-
cuse me-and your own knife. Come" con-
tinued Herman kindly, "you must not mind nv
knowing it. We are fellow-strugglers with sor.
row and sin. l have had my troubles, and
thought them pretty heavy ones but see now
that they we're scarcely to be compared with
yours; and God only knows how much more
severe than mine your temptations may have
been. Besides, we are strangers, and may
never come in each others way again, unles,
We meet up there; and he pointed up into thu
deep blue sky above them, looking as if he be
longed to it. 81 hope we shall, one of thes,
days, and that you will be able to tell me, then
that did something to help you up. You call
ed yourself miserable blackguard just now
and thought You did it as if you meant il, lk,
an honest open-hearted fellow, who wouldn'
Deiy himself at any rate for the better or tn,
worse. What then? If you pere blackguart
yesterday or this morning, is that any reason
you should be one this afternoon or to morrow
here, will give you this, to show you your
way" de took out his pocket New Testament
and with his pencil wrote most of the Ter
commandments in printing letters on the Hy
Leaf. you can read7
81 reckon"
All the directions, l think, that we need
are in this little book. The greatest saint, thai
the angels ever welcomed and rejoiced over in
heaven, could do no more than study and obey
them"
That all 2 A man might do that much
without hurting hisself, reckon"
NO doubt; if he's a manly, resolute man
sna knows how to keep his purpose in sight
ana run it down, and how. to face the difficult
ues within and without him, and put them
uo"n BY main force. Are you that sort o.
character