The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-12-20
The Hidden Trensnro.


The Hidden Treasure.
There died recently, in the great city
of Lyons, a poor widow, who had been ,
so fortunate as to become possessed of .
great treasure in her old age. Her
parents we're very poor, her husband .
had nothing but his industry to depend /.
on; MS long, however, as he was able to
work they honestly gained their daily |
bread though they were never able to .
put anything by for a rainy dav. But
when the old man died leaving his poor
widow childIess and infrm, want enter
ed her desolate dwelling as an armed
man. She sold everything but what
was indispensable, and removed to
miserable garrett, to spend the remain
der Of her days. She was not entirely
without some feeling Of dependence up
on the God Of the futherless and the wild
ow, but she was a poor Catholic, and
knew much more about saints and
. guardian angels than Of Jesus Christ
and what Tie has done for us.
One day, as she was sitting alone in
her comfortless, haIf-empty room, it
struck her that there was a singular ont.
line on the beams Of tho wall. Tie
walls had been white washed hut she
thought it looked as if there had beon
4 a square opening in one of them. which
had been carefully closed with n kind
|of door She examined it more closely.
and the thought occurred to her. "Pcr-
haps there is some treasure there" for
she remembered MS n child the fearful
days Of the Revolution. when M prop
ortv was safe from the men of liberty
Perhaps some rich man had concealed
his treasure there from their rapacitv
who had himself fallen a victim to the
Revolution before he had time to re.
move it. And perhaps one Of the saints
to whom she daily prayed, had preserved
. it there to sweeton the evening Of hen
, days. She tapped with her finger, anC
@ the boards returned hollow sound
2 With beating heart she tried to remove
the square door. and soon succeeded
without much difficulty; but alas! in
l stead Of the gold and silver she hopcC
G to see, she behcld a damp, dirty. mould,
old book! Tn her disappointment, sh,
$ was ready to fix in the boards again, anc
e leave the book to mould and crumbl
a away; but secret impulse induced he
to take it out and see if there were an,
70 bank notes or valuable papers in it; bu
70 no, nothing but book, a moudy book
When she had recovered from he
- voXation, she began to wonder wha
- book it could be that some one had hid
o den away so carefully. 1t must surely b
something extraordinary. So she wipet
e it clean, and set herself to read. He
eyes fell upon the words. "Therefor
d | say unto you, take no thought fO
IS your life, what ye shall eat and what Y
y shall drink, nor yet for your body, wha
5, ye shall put on. Is not the life NOR
than meat, and the body more than raj
I ment? Behold the fowls of the all
D they SOW not, neither do they reap; no
e gather into barns, yet your hcavenl
Il Father teedcth them. Are We not muc
y better than they?' And the word
Is that she read appeared so sweet an
a precious that she read on and on durin
l. the whole day, and far into the nigh
almost forgetting to cat or sleep. TIL
y next morning she sat down again (
read the damp old book, the words o
y, which made an ever deepening impress
Ie ion on her soul. She began to see tn,
ID size had indeed found a treasure, an
n. an invaluable one. Her little chambC
Or no longer looked so desoIate; her foo,
e which had so often seemed to her III
~ bread Of tears now appeared more lik
D. bread from heaven; and her solitude WI
m relieved by the presence of the gre
King, from whose book of gracious wore
streams of blessedncss flowed.
She had the book cleaned and boun
40 and twas to her as meat and drink, /
., day and by night until she was pc
"a mittod to close her eyes and enter in
/, the joy Of her Lord She related tn
!, history, in the latter days Of her pi
y grimage, to beloved pastor in Lyon
~ in whose hands the blessed hook is no,
- 1t is Anecdotes edition Of the New Te
:" lament, of the time of the IIuguon
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