Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-06-02
The mothers Last Work.
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I:Yi VIRGINIA L. TOwNsENp.
1t was Just at night. fall, and the pleasant
April day was going over the distant hills,
and pausing, so it seemed, for moment, to
look into the window on that still, solemn
picture. There was four boys and two girls,
Just about your ages, little children, and
they all stood it the sadleSt place that little
children evercan about the death-bcd of the
mother.
She lay there, with her face growing cold-
er and whiter all the time, and the, drdls,
which tell US death is very near, gathering
slowly over her temples. LIer eyes wan
dered very tendorly eyor that little group,
resting, with all that fond anxiety which oaly
a dying mother can fully understand, on each
dearly beloved face. %
"AIy little children, mother must leave
you," murmurcd the white, quivcring lips !;
and t; en- the tears gathered slowly into the
dim eyes, androllcd over the cold checks.
Poor IL othcr. None but God and the an
gels could l9ok down into her loving, aching
heart, anu read the great agony of Sthat death
hour She l1okod off, into the future of
those little futhcrlcss children, and saw the
steep ways up which their tender feet must
climb, with no loving hands reached out to
them, no soft vJioes cheering them on when
the path grew duS, and they could not see
the light in the "boyond,"
My children My children 1t
was the great outcry of her mothers heart,
and God heard it, and He sent His angel to
comfort her.
% viii bo Father to the fathcrlcse."
were the precious words til rolled their sill
very sweetness into her soul, and new light
broke into her eyes, and beimcd radiuntly
over her white face
A prayer, her last one, broke from her
pailid lips; a great, solemn, triumphant
prayer, as, in the stropg arms of tho Faith
that even now did not desert her, she bore
these beloved ones to the Great Father, and
left them with Ills love.
The sobs of the little group thickcncd
around the bedside, for the mothers voice
grew very faint, as the prayer closed. She
called them to her, laid her thin, cold hand
on their heads, and blessed them very ten
.dcrly. Then she had gone up that shining
road, where the angels lead the redeemed.
Years, very many years have como and
gone, sinr" tlnt aeatli-bed scene, which the
quiet April sunset looked in upon. But
that mothers last prayer and blessing have
followed her children through all their after
life Ac ~
" 1t has kept mc from temptation, and de-
lirercd me from evil" said one of them,
man now in the morn of hislifc, honorcd and
esteemed oy all who know him.
'.In my borhood, in my youth, in hours of
peril and wJaeiess, when the wrong way look
ed very pleasant, and was tempted to walk
in it, | have felt that thin, shadowy hand mo
wing softly through my hair, and hesrd-nga
the faint, sweet blessing of my dying mother, !
calling down to me from the Heaven where
she is now, from the Heaven where hope to
meet her." "-10@ e .'a5'> +e'
Is not a toGcliins story Ihave toldiyou,
little children? and will you not lay it mp in
your hcatts, and always remember it. themo-
theirs last,work? > .-
She walks now among the shining meadow
lands of Heaven, whore the purple b 0 SONS
tremble to the sweet psalms of the angels and 4
the trees shake down their blessed bolsams on
hearts that will never more know darkness,
orsorrow, or tears. For these earth words are
never murdered by the glad voices of the
just made perfect" never syllabled in the
burning stanzas of the scraphs, never written
on the shining pages of that country over
whose mountains the night comes down for
ever. A
Az exchange paper tells of a lazy genius
up his way, who being asked, us ne lay sun
ming himself ON the grass, what was the
height Of his ambition, replied: "Tpl mar
~ rich widow that's got a bad cough ~
THREE Protestant ladies took shelter in
Catholic chapel in Ireland during storm.--
The priest, noticing and knowing Them, whis- !
pered to his attendant, MYhree Gbafrs for thc :
protestantlaaies." ahe sachistrv ;sn,stSS,.: -
Che priest, stood up and pt.oris ,47-.'ng
grsgation Three ch ,rs for tx tSe 2 ns con
,seeS aso, YAcsapon the congregation .irameS;
nyS.y Sod up, and gave thee hearty cheess
cnlle ttheiolergytpal aotaally stood dumb.
fophded. ikr ~. -e
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