Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-04-11
From the Southern Field and Fireside.

From the Southern Field and Fireside.
Dew Drops-A Sketch.
What if the little dew should say.
SO small a drop as
Can ne er refresh those thirsty fields
III larry in the sky?
What if the shining beam of noon.
should in its fountain stay,
Because its feeble light alone,
Cannot create a day?
Doth not each dew-drop help to make
The cool, refreshing shower
ana every ray of light to form
And Deautify the Hover?
60 thou and strive to do thy share:
One talent less than thine.
improved with steady zeal and care.
Would gain rewards divine,
A Smate requires no effort and as fhe dew
orop to the whitening, thirsty blossoms, SO is
a sweet smile to the disconsolate and weary
hearted A living smile How poaoerful its
enect! Have you never drawn a timid little
chlld to you by a gentle smile IT'S natures
nrst lesson that a satisfied, happy heart is
""ttheo IN SmliesZa sad one, bathed in tears.
face answereth face in water. so the beart
OF mar to man." Did you never feel your
lieaIt pound with pleasure as your mothers
smile oeamed with joy upon you? What
words a mothers smile conyeyst What a.
proval; what encouragement what consp-
iatlon! lis a precious dew drop. rich and
lasting, whose influence is silent vet omnino-
tent Gentle words are often as refreshing
as the shower that greeted Ahab in his chariot
Ihere was in a Northern city, a little lad
the sole support of a feeble, widowed mother
ana little helpless sisters. By dint of econo-
my and labor he earned a few cents. and with
these purchased a few oranges. hoping to gain
a lew more coppers by his trade. so as to mr.
chase some medicine for one of his sisters who
was in a dying state.
Standing at the wharf as a magnificent
steamer landed, he timidly approached one of
the passengers, offering his little all for pur-
chase. The gentleman, impatient, thrust
MIN aside, with a don't trouble me-" upset
ting his tray, and away the oranges rolled in
70 the sea, and down, down they went, too
lar Tor ms feeble grasp to rescue. 1t was too
much. That pale, dying face seemed to be
rejected IN the glistening waves, and the
quiverlng lip, the sinking pulse, the needed
physic, all rose before him, and, hislittle heart
s"elllng with tears, he turned aside, that
strangers might not see him weep. But a
nooie heart had witnessed the scene, and
turning to the lad with a smile. he said
ZONE my boy, don't stop to grieve over your
lost fortune, pluck up courage, begin again p
ne gave him money, the physic was bought,
Forgotten, but the kind word was remembered
and making it his watch-word, it gained him
princety fortune.
"A word spoken in season, how rood it isl
w hat would that noble man of God. hudson
have done without the smiles and gentle
words OF his selfsaerificing wife. How gent
ly she poured heavenly balm on his feyered
soul, and with that blessed gift of God. her
woman's smile, did more to smoothe his rug
ged pathway than could have been done nv
innumerable hattering tongues uttering the
praise of his noble deeds. And when he
wrapped this noble wife in her winding sheet.
and laid her beneath the Hopia tree, methinks
tnat the tears of regret shed in memory of her
virtues, her purity and excellence, could thew
nave been gathered one by one and crystalized
INTO diamonds, would have hung in glitterinp
gariands around the walls of that Burman
nome, making it sparkle with their e~ffulgent
rays.
Yield not to despair and disappointment.
The dew drop has its mission, andso has eve
ry creature on the habitable globe. A smile
a gentle word, a little tract thrown here and
there, are dew drops, rich in blessing, all pow-
eriul IN influence. 'Let us then be up and
DONG. Would that from every spear of
grass and every leafy bough from every
stately tree, and every opening flower, there
might be hung garlands of these glistening
drops, beautiful emblems of the thousand lit.
tie acts unthought of at the time, perhaps I'M
remembered, which in reality make up the
great sum of human happiness.
Grains make the mountains-minutes the
year-and DROPS THE OCEAN. EMNIE R