Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-05
The IuRdel and his pg!as ghita.

tercst. 1t is extracted from Mrs M6Inl
tosh's "Charms and Counter Charms" - =
Eustop Hasting, their father, iSa6 infdels
, The ehild's disease was scarlet Fever
Ten days and nights of ever deepening
gloom had passed, and in the,silcnt night,
having insisted that Evelyn; who had her
self symptoms of illagss through the day,
should retire to bed, Eiston HASTINGS sat
alone watching with tightening heart the
disturbed sleep of the little Eve 1t was
near midnight when that troubled sleep
was broken. The child turnod.from side
tosidc dneasily, and looked somewhat villa
ly around her. - '-,' S' 'f -
"What is the matterwith' my darling?"
asked Euston Hastings, in tones of melting
tenderness '-{ l-t ~'@~',,'- ,,..s.s
"Nhcre's mamma2 Eye want mamma
to say "0ur Futherp'' ( c'I's frt ...y 50
Eustoh Hastings had often contemplated
the beautiful picture of his child kneGling
with claspcd hands beside her mother, to
lisp her evening prayer, or since her ilI-
ness forbade her rising from her bed of
Evelyn knoeliUg beside IL, taking those
claspcd hands in hers, and listening to Ewes
softly mtrrmured words Well he knew,
therefore, what was meant by Ewes simple
phrase; "To say.Our Fathcr?"a -. r.'
Mamma is asleep" he said "'when she
awakes, | will call her" ,55'-' S -
''No--no---papa E o asleep then '''s's
81 will call her at once, then, darling"
and he would have moved, but the little
hand waslain on him to arrest him.
"No, don't wake poor mamma papa,
say Our Father for Eve
"Wiil Eve say it to papa! Speak; then,
my darling" he said, finding that though
the hands were cldsped and the sweet eyes
dcvoutly closed, Eve remained silent.
:, "No--Eve too sick, papa---Eve, cam
talkso muchA'papa kneel down and say,
Our Father, like mamma did last night
won't you, papa?"
lluston Hastings could not resist that
pleading voice, and knceling, he laid his
hand over the claspcd ones ofhis child, and
for the first time since he had murmured it
with childish earnestness, in, his mothers
ear, his lips gave ptteranco to that hallowcd
form OF prayer which was given to man by
q divine feachcr. AZ such an hour, under
such circumstances, it could not be uttered
carelesslyj Enston Hastings understood its
solemn import-t-itsa recognition of Gods
sovercignty--its surrender of all things to
Him. He understood it, we suy-butShe
tremblea at it. His iufdolity was annihii
lated but he believed as tho unrcconciled
believe, and his heart almost stood still with
fear while "Thy will be done on earth even
as it is in heaven" fell slowly from his lips.
Soothed by his compliance, Eve became
still, and seemed to sleep, but only few
inmates. Suddenly, ina louder yoico tll n
hadb bcardwi the,ro for. days,
she exclaimed, "Papa-papa-see there
up there, papd!" = -
Her own eyes were fixed upward, on the
ceiling as it seemed to Euston Hastings,
for'to him nothing else while smile oil 10Y
played on her lips, and her arms were
stretched upward as to some celestial yisitaht,
''EYc coming she cried again "Takc
EYe.' "Will Eve leave pspa?' cried Eus-
tom Hastings, while uuconsciously he pass,
ed his arm over her, as If dreading that she
would really be borne from him.. =
'@Nyith lfcr eyes fixed upward, aud ex-
pending her last, strength in an effort to
rise from the bed. Eve muFluared in bro.
ken tones, "Papa come too -.-mamma-r-
srandpa--little brother--dear papa.", = y
hThe last'wOrd could have been 'distin.
giished. .dnlyby the Intensely listening ear
of,love. Itended in a sigh; and. Euston
Hastings felt, even while he stir clasped
her cheruP form, and gazcd nponihcr sweet
ly smiling face, that ,his Eve had indeed
left him forever. That she had ceased to
exist, with the Eelpembranee of that last
scene full IN his mind, he Could not be.
lieye. Hcnceforth heaven with its angels,
tae'mInlstering spirits of the Most High,
was rcality;it was tie habitation of his
IGyej and his own heart beat lonSindly for
it. tHis.pfoud, stern, unbending patt,re
had been taught to 'tremble at the decree
Of fIlIittpg who raleth over tic arfi6tiiicss Of
heayep, and among, the inhabitants of the
Garth The Beingapd Naturoupon which
he had hitherto speculatedas grand abstrac.
ticnsti become 81 orie4 -:saspeakab!y interes-
ting facts. Would He contend with him
ipwTath B Woald sHGauatci, ffou, him one
by one the blessings of his liGc,s crushing
the impioas heart which had feviled His
attributes and denied his existence ?-ror
was heihdeed $50 long suffering so .i,,IEen.
teous in mercy" that, he would prove Syen
to; him that,llis might was the might of a
Sayi6uF?',-l AZ NfStiu see ,@1s 6ss~ =
Such were his thoas6ts al with Stilldoa.
eeptrated agony he tnrned from, the, .g,qrye
Of his eherishehesild to Satch beside the
sufering Evelyn She had taken the terri,
pie 1iseasa from her little Eve, and isy for
mary days insensibie 10 her 6sell dabfeers bf
her husband agony. But God was ner-
cifulS and her husbahdand fatbeS received
her back "a. from fha oel.,vA nh. baast