Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-01-01

This is the festival of All Saints, and
charming day it has been. The Catholic and
Episcopal churches have all been open, and
generally well attended, At Trinity Church,
after the morning service, an incident occur
red which, in some of the associations connec-
ted with it, is SO fraught with interest that
make no apology for describing it somewhat
particularly
Some years ago there lived in Boston a
young man, Of one of the best families in the
city, handsome, intelligent.;wel educated, of
agreeable manners and address. and exceed
ingly popular with all whp. knew him. Still
he was most generally known as fast"
young man, and noted for his extravagance
in the expenditure OF money, his disregard
for those conyentionalites of which society
requires the moralities all within its pale
The result of such career need not be des-
cribed as it is seen every day in great cities,
happeningin despite of the precepts of tine ju-
dicious and the warning examples Of the inn
prudent. The last chance that seemed to be
left for the reinstatement of the subject Of
our story in the good opinion Of his
friends, Of himself, and Of the the world,
was a voyage in some responsible capacity
that should test the sincerity Of his desire to
redeem himself
By the aid of friends he procured such an
opportunity, and left his native city as the
commander of merchant vessel, bound in a
long and somewhat hazardous voyage In the
the course Of it he found himself among the
Fejee Islands, and having occasion to go as
hore on one of them, he visited the rude dwell
ling of native chief who entertained him hos
pitably, and, as he was about to depart, re-
Guested him to pray to the Christians God
with and for that savage family.
Here was dilemma. Tho attitude and act
of prayer adlong been strange to the youth,
and he was not prepared for such request !;
and in default of his ability to comply withit,
tSe;.F F.ne .ohief (who had been probably visit
land tapgk by some wandering missiona-
~ who mad cahsallY landed on that island)
raised his. y9ce. .in prayer, while the native of
. chr1stiaa and:c;yliied land, himself unused
to devotion; 'S;iod by and listened Was
not this striking scene But mark the re-
suit Our young sailor returned to his
ship, and in due course of time, to bis
home. r..
Fastening to his brother, clergyman of
the Episcopalian church, residing in the neigh
borhood, he told him the story of the pray
er he heard put up by savage islander in
that far distant ocean, and confessed to him
that that prayer had been followed by an an
swering effect, in the conversion of him who
was so strangely called upon to listen to it,
He now desired to devote himself actively,
and in the most self sacrificing way, to the
cause of religion. Steadily adhering to his
purpose, he became candidate for orders in
the church, and an accepted missionary to
Africa, whittier he is about to 60 under the
auspices of the Foreign Missionary Commit
tee of the Protestant Episcopal Church. But
not alone.
The incident Of to-day, which referred to
in the commencement of my story, was the
following The services of the day being
finished, at Trinity Church, that superb and
spacious temple was almost Immediately FL
led to oyerfowing by crowd of expectant
spectators of most interesting scene
The clergyman alluded to in my narrative
came in and took his place in the chancel -
The front portals, of the church were
thrown open and bridal party entered and
advanced to the altar, where fair young bride
(the daughter of one of the officiatingminis-
ter's most respectable parishoners) was unit
ed in wedlock to the hero, (or is he not he
70 p of my narrative /; whose labors as mis-
sionary of Christianity she has devoted him
self to share. sb - ~ oe g