The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-08-10
it. There was only the triae of one killed, 1

Mr.. B was leaving the car in which
we were riding. He was so changed that
had not recognized him as the individual in
whose presence / spoke so lightly about one
killed and three wounded only few weeks
before"
"sad, isn't it ?" said the other, growing
serious.
avery sad. I'm told the mother hasn't left
her room since the terrible news was commu-
nicated. He was an only son."
THAT IS trouble was answered. allow
little do we think of what is really involved
when we run our eyes so carelessly, and often
half impatiently over these almost daily an
nouncements of one or two kiledSor wounded
in scout or picket skirmishing It comes to
US in Mr.. BIS case ~
A few weeks later.
"Did you see that face at the window 2"
asked friend with whom / was walking.
/ had observed the faee-that of a young
woman. 1t was visible for only an instant
but in that instant it had impressed me strong
ly, it was so white, so ghostly, so full of sad
ness and suffering.
!" Ye. saw it."
"There had been something more than bodi-
ly sickness. Pain that defes the leeeh's
skill
"The strong had strengthened her" so
said in my thought. "The burden was too
heavy for her own soul, and she hath laid it
upon Him. Her refuge is with the Com
forter.n
Often during the services my ewes turned
involuntarily towards the young lady, who had
awakened in me an interest little short Of fss-
cination. No more devout worsbipper sat
under the preachers ministrstion. She i'm
pressed me as one who had turned hopelessly
from earth, and now rested all with Heaven.
As | moved down one of the aisles, after
the benedction had been pronounced, the
siighly-bowed form of Mr.. B met my OBJ
servation. He was alone. Ny thought went
instantly to his wife sorrowing for her dead
son.
"This may have indeed proved toe heavy
q burden SO 1 thought. !" What fearful
weight to lay upon mothers heart !"
"Whatl' calculated, speaking half-aloud,
as a new conviction hsshed across my mind,
"djd that arrow strike there sIso?"
1t always touches me to see a face like
that" remarked my companion. Heartblight
in one so young-ah, it is sid How quickly
| the tender leaves shrink and fade when frost
drops down on spring blossom! Its life is
drawn from the sunshine, and fails when the
icy winds pass over it. In later years we have
more endurance. The heart is stronger to
| bear.
For long afterwards the same pale face and
sad eyes looked out upon me from carriage,
and their image and expression remainnd with
me as in picture for many days.
81 am haunted by that face" said l. as it
| glided PAST me on the street, the eyes resting
in mine for an instant. Was there not some
| thing of rebuke in then2 And yet they were
| to me the eyes of a stranger.
Unhappy one! sorrow has touched you
early with his blighting fingers" So 1 spoke
| with myself and walked on musing. Has love
| failed, or the shadow of death fallen over the
| threshold of one dearer than life2 All, is
| there not in the experience of one soul, tried
| in the fire, as thou assuredly hast been, pain
| enough to make our hearts shiver in the bare
| imagination? All, what q history is written
in face like thine, pale suffering stranger
How little of all this is imagined by the pass
ing crowd
Next saw that face in church. 1t was
| still pale and sad, and bore look of exhaus
ton, as from endured pain. But now there
was in it q softer expression-a touch of re-
signation blending with pious hope.
Mr.. B had paused by the pew-dool
from which the pale faced young woman wa;
stepping into the aisle, and taken her hand. !
did not see his face, but I noted a faint sac
smile on her lips. They passed out together
In the vestibule they fingered, and, in answer
to question, 1 heard Mr.. b say:
81 think she is little more like herself
Come and see her, won't you? It will do yor
both good.'
Tears sprung to her eyes. My own wer'
filing.
al will come" l saw her lips culver a
she thus answered, and then turned hastily
away.
Poor Alicel' said a voice near me.
Doesn't it make you sad TO see herr" wa
the response.
"Sad enough answered the first speaker.
"They had been for some time engaged ant
were to be married as soon as the war wa
over"
Her friends feared awhile for her reason.
AYES, and then for her life. But she
steadily regaining strength of body and minC
was glad to see her in church to-day. Sh
was always pure and good, and God will com
fort and sustain her.
, aMr B was in church also"
@Yes. Poor mani He really looE
broken"
j aThey say that Edwards mother hs
, scarcely been out of her room since the dresG
, full news came. Oh, / have pitied her {
> muchr'
The speaker passed on, and 1 heard 1
! more.
i "only one killed Hardly worth the co
Il of 8 telegramp
!. 1t seemed as if some rebuking spirit hs
thrown these words into my mind.
{ was shocked and sensible of acreeping shudd
along my nerves. Then my mind was crowd'
with myriad multiplication of the sorrow ar
Q pain which had followed that one death.
: year, almost, of war, with hundreds of thou
l. ands in battle array, and killing and woundir
q thing of daily occurrence-alss ala
:, What imagination can reach the fearful a
# gregate of woe2
it An Angelic slave Catcher.
: In Genesis forty.sixth chapter and min
J verse; we read:
L "And the angel of the Lord said-Retu