Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-08-26

were friends in youth, bitter enemies in
manhood; why, it matters not now and
here. We were their only children, and
in spite of commands and prohibitions,
we were playmates as children, friends
at school, and lovers in after years We
loved truly, and yet Mary would not
marry me while her father lived She
was his all, she said, and he was old,
and she could not leave him. Years
sped on. Sped? They dragged YEARLY
and heavily; heavily dragged, for her
and for me; but release came at last
her father died"
The old lady wiped away tear as she
murmured:
Dear father he was very kind in
all else p
May he rest in peace p replied her
husband. "He lived in this house." he
continued, land was deemed wealthy !;
yet he left his orphan penniless, but free
to become my bride, and we were mar
ried. | lived with nv father, also, aud
there l took my wife, but we met only
ASPhouOuSoJ eOOlu uuu CuIStS. NOJ one
hour did we remain beneath his roof,
but went forth together, strong in our
faith in each others love, and pricing
nothing else. But love is neither meat,
drink nor clothes, and the children of
wealth can lily endure what the children
of poverty call comforts. | tried to Ia
Dor; | did labor, and yet we suffered
much. We knew nought of economy
but the name, and my earnings were
scanty. Experience is hard master,
you know. These were sad days, as
well as dark. God gave us children to
brighten the darkness, and, Mary, dear
wife, twas God that gathered them in
his arms"
And now tears stood in those eyes,
undimmed by years, and the old lady
softly sobbed. The listener was not I'M
moved. IL
Necessity obliged me to accept an
offer of situation in distant city and
extreme poverty deprived me of the So
ciety of her who had made poverty en-
durable. l left her in Haverhill with a
kind old aunt of mine, and went forth
alone and dispirited to earn a mainte-
nance for US two. / asked no more of
fortune. but this little seemed denied
me. Scarcely had three months elapsed
before sickness Frustrated me, and when
| was at length convalescent, how wretch
ed was my position my situation
gone, my little earnings gone, my strength
gone, and almost gone my faith in Him
who 'doeth all things WELL With three
dollars in my pocket, and those borrowed,
| returned to my wife. / rode as far as
my means allowed, and then l thought
to walk the remaining twenty miles. after
a nights rest and sleep. But l over
rated my strength at nightfall, with
scarcely half the distance accomplished,
I sank exhausted in the snow. 1t was
cold, frosty night; the bitter, biting
wind seemed to reach my very vitals,
(for my purse afforded me no overcoat, }
and l prayed to God for my wife; and
for myself despaired A boy of some
fifteen years"
huVW JOu DOW5 oil
the night" said Moses 81 slept enough
the sweeter that night to fully repay me.
Please say no moro Of that, but, if you
will, continue the story-I am much in
terested."
Kou took me to my wife. There
awaited me letter from my father. He
was on his dcath-bed, and desired to see
me. reached my childhood's home in
time to receive my fathers pardon and
dying blessing; and his last act was to
call for Goals, and therein to burn the
will which disinherited his only SON.
Sweet as it was to receive my fathers
pardon, sweeter yet was it to give my
wife, not only the Injuries of her former
life, but also restore to her the home Of
her fathers But for you, had ! even
survived that fearful night, had been
too late for either"
The old lady arose, and laying her
trembling hands on the head Of Moses,
said:
d" May the blessing of the aged pre-
vail nightly with God for you, as the
bread you cast upon the waters has nour-
ished us."-Bu6alo Republic.