Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-23

understood. Her Amos. naked body re
vealed her love. Many t ar was shed,
many an exclamation expressive of adwi-
ration and affection was uttered, from en-
thusiastic, sorrowing Highland hearts,
when on that evening the aged pastor
gathered the villagers in the deserted
house of mourning, and b. prayer and faith
erly exhortation sought to improve, for
their souls good, an event SO sorrowfll.
More than half a century passed away
That aged and flithfal pastor was long
dead, though his memory still fingered in
many retired glen. His son, whose locks
were white with age, was preaching to a
congregation of Higblauders in Que Of our
great cities. Il twas communion Sabbath.
The sutjact Of his discourse was the love
Of Christ. In illustrating the se.f-sacrii.
/ cGg nature ot 'that love which seeke,h
not her OWL" be narrated the above sto-
ry of the Highland widow, whom be had
himself known ia bis boyhooi. And be
asked, az that child is n0w alive, what
would you thiuk Of his heart if he did not
cherish an affection for his mothers men,
DRY, and if the sight of her p5or taitorsi
cloak, which she bad wrapped around him
in order to save his life at the cost Of her
own, did not ell him with love and grat;-
,ude too deep for words? Yet what
hearts have you, my hearers, if over these
memorials of the Sivior's slcrifce Of
himself, you do not feel tbem glow with
deeper love, and adoring gratitude p
A few days after this, 4 message was
sent, by a dying mau, requesting to see
this clergyman. The request was speedily
complied with. The sick man seized the
munster BY the hands and gazing intently
on bis fac, said, "You 60 not know, you
eau not recoguize me. But know you,
and knew your father before you.
have been wanderer in many lands. l
have visited every quarter of the globe,
aud fought and bled tor my king and coun-
try. | came to this town a few weeks ago
in bad health Last Sabbath, l entered
your church, the church of my couuirymen,
where | coaid once more hear, in the Ian
guage of my youth aud Of my heart, the
Gospel preached. | heard you tell the
story of the widow aud her son."
Here the voice of the old soldier falter- /
ed, bis emotion almost chokei his utter
auce; but recovering himself 70. a mo,
meDt, be cried 81 am that SON. aud
burst into food of ttass. "Yes," he
continued, Il an that sou! Never, never
did | forge fhat mothers love. Wen
Nigh you ask what i heart should mine
have been If she had been forgotten by
me. Though ueveg saw her, dear to me
is her memory; and my only desire now
is, TO lay my bones beside hers in the old
church yard among the hills. But, sir,
what breaks my heart, aud covers me with
shame, is this until now never saw, with
the eyes OF tue soul, the love Of my Sa-
Vior in giving himself FOX me, poor, lost,
bel! deserving sinner. confess it
confess ~ be cried, looking up to hoa-
rep, his eyes streaming with tears; and,
pressing the minister's hand close to
MS breast he added at was God who
made You tell that story. Praise be to
His holy name that my dear mother has
lot died in vain, and that the prayers
which | was told she used to offer for me ,
iave been at last answered for the love ,
# my mother has been blessed BY the Ho- ,
y Spirit in making me see as never saw t
,efore, the love of the Savior. l see it, | 7
,elieve it ; | have found deliveranee in old I
ge, where | found it in my childhood, in c
be clef, of the rock, but it is the Rock OF a
lges!' c
Aud, clasping his hands, he repeated d
With intense fervor "Can a mother for a
et her sucking child, that she should uos t
ave compassion on the sou of her wouibY
yes, they may forget; yet will | not for Il
ct Thee w-ReC. Norman " N'Le0d, RID. q
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