Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-04-10
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ANGELvIsITs.
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BY T. s. ARTHUR.

golden with their sunny smiles. Oftner
they come disguised in sober -hued vest
ments, lips grief-curyed, and eyes heavy,
as with weeping. But come to us when
and how they ever will, it is ever in love.
Daily they are about our paths, though
we perceive them not with our dull bod
ily senses; nor even recognize their
presence by the finer instincts of our
spirits, for l"of the earth earthly" as we
are, and with affections clinging to the
earth, we have neither eyes nor ears for
the inner sight and inner voices that are
for the pure in heart. Yes, they are
about our, daily paths, smoothing and
making them Aowery when they may;
but oftner piling up obstructions and
making them rough and thorny. ..3
ssRough and thornyl Piling up OBJ
sffuctionsl We hear from the lips of
some life-weary sufferer. ais this a
work for angels?'
Beautiful the way seemed before you,
in the bright morning of early woman
hood, heart-sick and life-weary once; and
as your eyes went far onward. how many
lovely vistas opened, showing blessed ar
cadias in the smiling distancel To gain
them you felt was to gain heaven; and
onward you pressed with eager footsteps.
You did not gain them! For awhile the
path was even, and the fragrance of a
hundred blossoms delighted your senses.
But all at once your feet were wounded
there were sharp distractions in way;
then thick clouds and darkness were be-
fore you, hiding the lovely Eden. Still,
you sought to pass onward, though the
way was rough, and the sunny vistas,
opening to the land Of promise, hidden
from your straining vision. Then a
mountain arose suddenly, whose rocky
sleeps you could not climb. Despair
was in your heart; and in the bitterness
of your disappointment you called your
self one Knocked of God. gtzgst
1t was not SO, precious immoral! Not
so, pilgrim to better land than the ar
-cadia of your maiden dreams! At the
very foot of that inaccessible mountain,
a narrow path at length became visible;
and though it looked rough and had no
green margin beautiful with flowers,
there was an emotion of thankfulness in
your heart for even this way of escape,
for. alreadya a mortal dread had seized
upon your spirits. With hurrying foot
steps you entered this new way, and the
hope that itiwould. quickly lead around
the mountain, and bring the sunny land
again in view, repressed the fear that
else had been paralyzing.
It was the hand Of an angel which led
you into that new way, and kept your
heart from fainting. Narrow, rough and
howerless though it proved, it was bet
ter way than that along which you were
passing with such buoyant steps-for il
bentkeavenward And think life weary
one!-do you not feel !. that you are
nearer heaven now than when the sun OF
this world shone from an unclouded sky
above the path of pleasure and prosper,
ity! Think, and answer to yourself the
question. ,sss.-st .ai
A heart-stricken mother sat grievine
for the loss Of her youngest born, the
sweetest and loveliest of her precious
grieying and refusing to be com
forted There had been loving sympa
thy, gentle remonstranees, and piou'
teaching from the lips of the minister
who had year before touched the fore
head Of her babe with the waters of bap
tism, but all availed not-the foun
tain of tears. stayed not its waters, mol
was the murmuring voice hushed in he
rebellious spirit. At length one came
to her who had known like sorrow, anc
whose heart had, even like hers, beer
bowed into the very dust. She took int
her own soft hand the passive hand o
the mourner, which gave not back
sign A little while she held it, clasp
ing her fingers in gentle pressure; thel
in voice whose tender modulations wen
vibrating to the inmost of her spirit, sh
said: ~ = asas -t.iei 90
aYou had an angel visit last night.
An angel visit! What did the word
signify2 .sza.s ag;l - ~
"Only year has passed since I had
like visit" continued the friend. "I di,
not recognize the heavenly messenge
when she came, for my eyes we're too full
of tears to see her radiant form; she cam
and went, bearing on her bosom as sh
passed upward to the regions of eterna
sunshiney the spirit of my lovely boy!
The hand of the mourner answered t
the light pressure Of that in which j
lay. - : = - Z -. - --g
'That night" went on the comforter
81 saw in a dream call it dream, bu
regard it as revolutionary translate
one among the blessed in the uppe
kingdom of our Father. He was in tn
arms of the angel mother, whose love fo
him it was plain to see was wise and ter
der, surprising all my own deep afee