The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-12-04
NOr BEYOND TIE POWER OF LOVE.
From the New York Tribune.


Mr.. Cough, in one OF his recent lectures. pro
ceedeG 10 reiute the idea that drnnkards are 81
far hrues as to be beyond the power of Chris
tian love, saying: " No, they are not brutes
have labtred for eighteen years among them
and have never found brute. l have had
men to swear at NE !; 1 have had men dance
around me as if possessed of devil, and spi,
DIS loan IN my face, but never found a man
that would give up. 1t may take a long time
10 reach his manhood. but he is not brute.
mink 1t Is Charles Dickens who SAYS, Away
up great many pair OF stairs, in d very re-
uio,e corner, easily passed by. there is door
anu Oh that door is written. Woman. And
~ III lie heart OF the vilest outcsst. away up a
great M"1y pairs OF stairs, in remote corner
easily passed by, there is door upon which is
written, Nam
Here is or business-to find that door, Ii
may take long time but begin and knock
Don get tired' but remembering Gods long
suffering Tor US, md keep knocking long time
II need De. Don get weary il there is no an
swer remember LIN whose locks were Wet
WIN the dew. huock on-just try it-YoU try
IL ana just so sure, by 'nd by, viii the Quiy-
ering iip and starting tear tell you have been
hnochiig at 'he heart OF nan, and not OF a
brute. Ii is because these poor M-etches are men.
once picked up man in the Market nlace
They said, He is brute-let him a.onei'
took him home with me, and kept the hrute''
foul,eon DAYS and nights through his delirl.m
and he nearly frightened my wife out of hei
wits, one night chasing her all about the house
with boot in his hand. But she recovered heI
wits, and he recovered his
He said to me: "You wouldn't think had q
wife and child, would you."
We'll, shouldn't"
Il have, and-God bless her little heart
my little Mary is as pretty little thing as ever
stepped" said the brute"
asked, ''Where do you lives'
Two miles from here
When did you see them last: 2"
Two years ago"
Then he told his sad story. l said, .'You
must go back again"
Il can't go back. My wife is better withou,
me. have struck her, kicked her, aud abused
her. Can l 60 backs'
Invent with him to the house. knocked at the
door, and the wife opened it,
lis this Mrs. Ribhardson?'
"Yes, sir"
''Well this is Mr. Richardson; and Mr.. Rich
ardson, this is Mrs. Richardson. Now come
into the house."
They went in. The wife sat on one side OF
the room, and the brute" on the other.
waited to see who would speak first, aud it was
the woman. But before she spoke she fidgetted
a goo deal. She pulled up her apron until
she gat hold OF hem, and then she pulled i,
all down again. Then she folded it up close
and jerked it out through her fingers an inch
at time, and then she spread it all down
again and then she looked all around the
room, and said, Well, William"
The brute' said, - Well. Mary"
He had large handkerchief around his neck
and his wife said, You had better take the
handkerchief off, William; you'll need it when
you go out"
He began to tumble about it the knot wa:
large enough; he could have united it if ht
liked; but he said, Will you unite it, Nary
She worked away at it, but her fingers were
too clumsy, too, and she could not get it of.
While thus occupied their eyes met. Th'
love-light was not all quenched. She opened
her arms gently and she fell into them.
II you had seen those white arms clasped
about his neck. and he. sobbing on her breast
and the child looking in wonder. first at one
and then at the other, you would have said
" 1t is not BRUTE but a man, with a great
big, warm heart in his bosom"