The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-07-15

| that rushed upon AdelaS MIND as sns
read the terrible lines. No buman pow
or could now alleviate the keenness of hel
anguish, no earthly consolation pour the
healing balm into her torn and bleeding
heart.
Until now she lived in the hope that bel
her husband would one day return. and
give her the opportunity of proving hcl
great love; but now all hope died out o'
her heart, and she would surely have sunk
down beneath this accumulation of sor.
row had not the Father sustained her.
Two more sad. dreary years rolled by,
and then there came one who had been
the playmate of her childhood, and offer
ed her protection, and the heart that had
been hers ever since those juvenile years,
though he had judioiously Stunned her
presence during all her welded life. But
no, she had no love to bestow; it was all
all buried beneath the green sea wave,
never, never again to be awakened to q
new life.
Had her husband died natural death,
at home, where she would have had the
consolation of ad ministeriug to his dying
wants, and smoothing the dark passage
with words and Offices of love, time might
have healed the wound, and she might
have eventually bestowed upon her child.
hoods friend second love.
But mo'O the attempt to win her would
be worse than useless, and so, with the
assurance of her friendship, be left her,
feeling that never here could he be permit
ted to enjoy the companionship of her
whom he had so long loved.
A few weeks after this event, Adela
Raymond sat one evening in her little,
neat, and comfortable, but scantly y-fur-
ni,hed room, with her children around
1t was Saturday night, and the labor and
toll of the week bad been laid aside for
the higher duties of preparing the mind
for the Sabbath
A little table stood beside, upon which
lay the wellworn family Bible that her
mother bad bequeathed to her upon
ber death bed, with the solemn in
junction to peruse its sacred pages often,
that from them she might derive conso-
lation in any of the various trials and af.
fictions that beset life's changeful path
way.
Adela had just finished chapter, when
loud rap at the door started her to her
feet, and opening it haggard emaciatcd
man, ella d in coarse but clean garments,
stood before her.
"Adela, have you forgotten your erring
but repenant husband" and the arms of
the weary worn man we're stretched to-
wards her.
"William, my husband! God be prais-
ed!' and she sank fainting on his bosom.
The story is soon told. William Ray
mond, with three others, had clung to pie
ces of the wreck, and after two days suf-
fering on the raging sea, without food or
water, they we're foated to desoiate is
land, and there, for two years, had sus-
tanned life with fruits and roots, and such
fish and game as they could procure.--
Then they we're discovered by passing
vessel, their necessities attended to, and
they eventually arrived in England.
We will not attempt to describe the re.
joicings of the long estranged husband
and wife, that they were once more per-
mitted to unite here on earth; the imagin-
alton Of the reader can paint them in tru.
er golfers than the pen could portray.
1t was not until VIM. Raymond found
himself at the mercy of the waves, with
the prospect of speedy death before him,
that his heart softened towards his long.
neglected wife. But in those two days
while floating between life and death, be
had lived over bis ten years of welded
life, and in them be could find nothing
wrong with which to accuse her; con-
science true to its mission, constrained
him to acknowledge himself the guilty
3ne; and be there vowed that were his life
spared to return, the future should atone
or the past. And there, too on the bois-
'erous waves, be had called upon him who
alone is able to rescue from death; Him
whose pane had never before dwelt upon
ais lips, save with irreverance and profan-
ty; aud through those two dreary, DESC
ate years, he bad not forgotten often to
,all upon His sacred name, and impore
Divine assistance.
AID now there they sit-tbe past long
lgo forgiven, and now all forgotten, in
he blissful present.
Oh, never ascended more fervent
banksgiviDgs to heaven than were pour
d fourth from those two reunited hearts
n that eventful evening, and never
lappier, more loving pair travelled side by
ido to the end of lfe's journey.
William Raymond, now wholly cured
f bis thirst for the intoxicating beverage
ntered again upon his business ayoca-
ions of life, aud ere ten years had passed,
e, with his noble, manly boy, William
juu., as partner, became the
Eealtby owners of lare mercantile es-
ablisbment
And all through coming years, when.
yer any of those petty vexations and an
oyances which must sometimes unavoid.
biy intrude, even upon the happiest