Worcester daily spy., 1861-10-02

mother and the young daughters watched
patiently beside the dying. tather And still
he lived
Nothing awakens the sympathy of the Eng.
lish people for the poor so much as frost.
Misery, want, wretchedness, crime, but too
often pass unnoticed, uncared for. A thous.
and miserable dwellings may be without wa
ter in the most intense beat OF summer and
nobody cares about it. A thousand mo may
be, each one, pest house, from the diIt and
filth accumulated in it ; nobody thinks about
it. Bat come trOst-iceicles from the win
dow panes, snow in the streets, snow in the
darkened air--and every kind heart is awak
ened for the sorrows OF the poor. | do not
say they are not sorrows; but l say that tar
greater ones pass unregarded- scarcely
drop of water to cleanse the body in summer,
nor breath OF pure air to refresh the body
when weary with work, are evils as great and
greater than the most intense frost. rhe one
however, reaches even the comfortable houses
of the middling classes, and therefore awakens
their sympathy Tor the poor the others do
not. But to return to my story.
With the long continuance of the bitter
trOsts came the unusual gifts of the wealthy
the coal tickets, the blanket tickets, the soup
tickets. 1t reached the ears Of the poor moth
er that some Of the latter were being given
away in her neighborhood so she went out to
try to get one. No person could tell her where
to go to; and she was lingering sorrowtully
about the streets, when she saw a boy with a
tin eau i'll his hand. From him she learned
le had got his ticket from the wife If a mis-
sionary in the neighborloud. So to the mis-.
sonary's wife she went The ticket was Civ
en-, and another, and another, as she came
again. The missionarys wife was touched
with her sad story, and told her husband when
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believe such tale. AT length the poor moth
er came one day when tie missionary waa
within 'NOw | will go home with her" he
said, "and see whether these things are true"
She led him through many street and wind.
ing aue, until at last they came TO place call.
ed s. Walk. Having reached the house.
he still followed the woman through long
narrow passage. and, entering back room on
the ground floor, found every thing as the
m ther had depicted it. The door was gone,
the window was gone the CRATE was gone
there was nothing but the bare walls and the
floor, except a little straw in one corner where
the sick man was lying, with 4 saucer placed
at Il little distance beside hin-''like a dog"
shudderingly thought the missionary.
He stopped down to whisper the words eff
hope and comlort-hope for the soul, through
Jesus Christ; hope for the body, ii he would
but consent TO so into the work house he
would not, the missionary urged, recover while
lying there Moved by his kindness and his
reaSonings, the sick man yielded tardy as.
sent He would suffer imself, he promised,
to be taken to the work house
The missionary called again. The door was
set up aud closed all was silent in the de.
serted room. A ncighbor came out "He was
moved to the work house. SIT. This was
good news in the work house he might posi-
bly, recover. Gle is dead, sir" she added !;
che died soon after he was taken in.'
lie is dead-gone to stand in his lot at the
end OF the days, when both andlard and ten
ant shall appear before God.-lSorroDs Of the
Streets.