Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-04-03
Not Beyond the Power of Love.


Mr. Cough, in one of bis recent lectures.
proceeded to confute the idea that drunkardS
are so far brutes as TO be beyond the power
of Christian love, saying: NO. they are not
brutes | have labored for eighteen years
among them, and have never found brute.
have had men to swear at me | have had
man dance around me as If possessed OF
devil aud spit his foam in my face but
! never found man that would give up. 1t
may take long time to reach his manhood,
but he is not brute ! think it is Charles
Dickens who says, Away up a great many
pair of stairs, in very remote corner, easily
passed by, there is a door, and on that door
is written Woman"' And so in the heart
of the vilest outcast, away mp great many
pairs of stairs, in remote corner easily pass
ed by, there is door upon which is written,
"man."
Here is our busness-to find that door. 1t
may take long time but begin anc knock
| Don't get tired; bus remember Gods long Sut-
tering for Us, and keep knocking long time
! if need be- Don't get weary if there is no an
swer remember Hin whose locks were wet
with the dew. Knock on-just try it-YoU
! try it and just SO sure, by aud by, will the
! quvering lip and starting tears tell you, you
/ have been knocking at the heart of man,
and not brute 1t is because these poor
wretches are men, and not brutes, that We
have hopes for them.
! once picked up man 10 the market
, place. They said He is a brute--let him
alone" | took him home with me, and kept
! the brute" fourteen days and nights through
his delirum aud he nearly frightened my wife
out Of her wits, one night chasing her all about
| the house with a boot in his band. But she
recovered her wits and he recovered his.
He said to me " Yon wouldn't think
had wife and child, would you p
I Well, shouldn't"
"I have aud-God bless her little heart
my little Mary is as pretty little thing as
ever stepped" said the brute"
asked, 4" Where do you live p
Two miles from here"
| When did you see them last 2"
{ Two years ago"
Then he told me his sad story. ! said:-
" You must 60 back again"
- can go back My wife is better with
ont me. have struck her aud kicked her,
aud abused her Can go back again ?"
| went with him to his house. | knocked
at the door, and his wife opened it.
! Is this Mrs. Richardson y
Yes, sir"
Well, that is Mr. Richardson and, Mr.
! Richardson, this is Mrs. Richardson. Now
come into the house"
| They went in. The wife sat on side of the
room aud the brute" on the other | wait
ed to see who void speak first, and it was
the woman. But before she spoke she fdget-
ed good deal She pulled up her apron till
she got hold of hem, and then she palled it
all down again Then she folded it up close
and jerked it through her fingers an inch at a
time, and she spread it all down again and
then she looked all about the room aud then
said,
Well, William"
I" 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 20 out"
lie began to tumble about it, the knot was
large enough he could have united it it he
liked but be said will you unite it, Ma
ry 2"
She worked away at it, but her fingers
were too clumsy, too, ard she could not get
it off
While thus occupied their eyes met. The
love-light was not all queLched. She opened
her arm, gently and he fell into them.
If YOU had seen those white arms clasped
about bis neck, and he sobbng on her breast,
and the child looking in wonder first at one
aud then at the other, you would have said,
" 1t is not brute but man with great,
big, warm heart in his BOSOM"