The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-01-06
at 60 s.ol7 TEE
Student and Stranger.

I'm tnree years snalt oe ORDAINED ana
have charge Of parish, and then can sup
port you. Much as would wish to make
you my wife now, love you too fondly to
wed you to the privation and poverty which
| would have to struggle with. Il
at is such pity, Charles, you did not
read law. Father would then, as he says,
have taken you into his Office and made you
his Junior partner, and you would go soon
become rich. He does not dislike you, but
he wished our engagement broken off, be-
cause he says I'VE shall always be poor, as
but few clergymen are supported as they |
ought to be-" ....... |
81 would not abandon my studies and my
hopes in the ministry for untold gold, Mary"
wered the young man, his fine dark eyes
lighting up with the bri'liancy of inspiration.
I'll know my friends say | have sacrificed
myself and my hopes by becoming candiA
date for orders; but it is no sacrifice have
made in my own view. But if, with being
disinherited by my father, ! lose you also.
dear Mary, it will then become indeed sac
rifce !"
al will be true to you, Charles" answered
Mary. Silks.
"This believe, because I know you 80
well. Then, now we part, ond ouf engage
thett terminates until graduate from Nash
otah Seminary, for so unyielding are their
. regulations, that they receive no one therein
who Is bound by any matrimonial engage
meDt. If. one thus bound enters there, he
mist bfcdk off his engagement" .a--
"But only outwardly. Charles, will we
be disengoged. In heart we are still be-
trothed -
"In heart, yes, but rot in word. with
this embrace we rsledse each other from our
mutual VOWS :"
, There was moments pause The voice
Of Mary wps frs, heardj trembling with emo
tion. t
"You will write to me, Chnr!es?'
"No, Mary. There is permitted no ror
respondPnce with any one bit relatives. sis
ters OF mother. We part for three yeaFs. u
The young man who thus parted from the
doughler of the Hon. Mr.. Carey, was the
son Of Il wealthy and avaricious merchant
Who intended his only son, Charles, shoblt
have made a sensation in the fashionable
n world as millionaire, and mnrry advah
d tageously. He heard OF his prediction fo
y the church with disgust and anger. But, af
e ter many arguments and long continued eff
forts to change his mind, he disinherilet
him, hoping thereby TO bring him to his sen
= ses. But the resoute and conscientiou
: Charles remained firm. At Nashotsh, Wis
: consin, he could be received, and pursue hi
studies without expense. His greatest grie
: was the necessity of giving up his engage
It ment, and holding no correspondence will
t Mary Carey for three years.
: AT Nashotah he Jared with the poorest
tie suffered every prvation, and the student
there are trained to privations, while thos
p they are preparing 10 serve roll in luxury
g Charles wardrobe wore out the first yeal
l. and he found that the livery of patches an
20 thread bare cloth which had excited hi
y smile when he first beheld the students g
l. about in it, had to be worn by himself. A
b. one time, among thitly.six divinity students
l. there was but one decent coat, and whe
any one had to 60 to the next town to bu
il stationery or necessaries, this was worn b
IN him, until nearly every student had worn
le through the year!
=, The necessities OF this noble band some
% how (not by their own HANDY got bruited il
% to q secular paper, and came before the eye
70 of Mary. The next week q trunk was di
- patched all the way from Philadelphia, whel
- she resided, to Nashotah, directed in feigl
ed hand to
" "Mr. Charles Eardley."
It safely reached him, but had not none
to pay for its carriage from Milwaukee. fort
~ miles, to the college. Not oil the spaI
| mUHey VI tuo etuuehIS SiuopSu eoRoth'
60 could reach the amount of the carriers bi
- three dollars and quarter In such
~ school were trained the ministry of II
:" church in the West. So they had booI
u, and bread and fish, they rejoiced that th'
~ had the opportunity to prepare for Il
~ preaching OF the Gospel, even at such sa
,"' rfces. ....e....
/. When the trunk was unlocked by Charlie
the whole crowd of his fellow.students sto
around with curiosity, for when had truI
:. ever come to Nashotah before
ill At it's multifarious contents they set up
~. general sheut. There were new suits
at. clothes, shirts, vests, warm stockings, fla
be- nels, gay dressing gown, and every varie
us, of clothing. with little jars OF jelly fruit,
iu a large iced-cskel There were, besidt
ks books rare and heedful. Never had Nash
,ys tab beheld such sight before. The you
he men were excited into a degree Of hilaric
amazement that made them. forget for
time The pravity Of theological students.
TOu Charles, bewiidered, wondered from VIII,
wo It cane, unpscked the whole trunk. and
bur every one handle and see for himselE
ext ga new coat and pants I" said q veg