Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-08


Phillip" 1t was thus he announced b
determination. al am going to send you
sea with Captain Ellis. It's my last hope
Steadily bent, as you are, on evil, 1 can D
longer suffer you TO remain at heme- Th
boy who begins by robbing his neighbor's gar
den, is in great danger of ending his caree
upon the gallows. To save you, if possible
from fate like this. I now send you to sea-"
Very sternly, very harshly, amost angrily
was this said. Not the smallest impress:o
did it seem to make upon the boy, who steo,
with his eyes cast down, an image OF sfubberl
self-will and persistent rebellion.
With still DEEPER denunciation did the faith
er speak, striving in this way to shock th,
feelings of his ohid and exort signs of repen
tance. But it was the hammer and the anvil
blow and rebound. Very fFerent was th,
mothers efforts with the child. Tearfully sb,
pleaded with him-earnestly she besought bin
to ask bis fathers forgiveness for the evil b
had done. But Phillip said
"No, mother. would rather 60 TO sea-
| Father don't love me, he don't care for me-
He hates me, believe"
philip! Philip Don't speak in thai
way of your father. He noes love you; and
it is only for your good that be is going tC
send you tO sea. Oh, how could you do sc
wicked thing ?"
Tears were in the mothers eyes. But the
boy had shown something of the fathers stern
spirit him, and showed no weakness.
1T isn't any worse than he did when he was
boy" was his answer.
"Philip!"
"Well, it isn't; for hcard Mr. Wright tell
Mr.. Freeman that father and he robbed orch
ards and hens nests; and did worse things
than that when they were boys"
Poor Mrs. Browning was silent. Well
did she remember how wild boy Jonas
Browning was; and how, when she was lit
tie girl, she had heard all manner of evil laid
10 his charge.
Very uncXpectedly-at least TO Mr.. Brown
ing-the minister called in on the evening Of
the troubled day. After seme general cenver-
sation with fam IL, he asked to have few
words with he aeon alone.
is it true, Mr.. Browning. he said, after
they had +, tired TO an adjoining room, "that
you are going to 5, nd Philip to sea p
" Too true replied the lsther soberly. AT
has been a rel te against just authority; and
though have revcr relaxed discipline through
the weakness of atural feelings, yet resist
aice his grown with his growth, and strength
ened with his strength until duty requires me
to use desperate remedy for a dpspe rate dis
ease. 1t is painful trial but the path tf
duly is the only path of safety. What we see
to be right we must execnto with unhinching
courage. I cannot look buck and accuse nv
self Of any n, g'ect Cf duty townrls this hey.
through weakness Of the feyh. From the be-
ginning. have made chedience tie law Of my
household, and sufIi'red no deviation therefroiu
to 90 unpuuishrd.'
Duty," said Il e mini, ter, /" has twin sis
ter
He spoEe in charged voice, AMI with a
manner that arrested the attention of Deacon
Browning, who looked at him with glance of
inquiry.
"She is lovely and gentle, as he is hard and
unyieldng."
The Deacon still locked cnrious
When the twin sister of dairy is away from
his side, he loses more than half his influence !;
but III her beautiful presence, he gains dig
MY dEu llOAFT tIldt H1dhS HIS IHtCtIliS laws
of life TO all who hear them. The stubborn
heart melts, the iron will is subdued; the spirit
of evil shrinlls away from the human soul"
There was pause.
The name Of that twin sister is kindness
The eyes OF Deacon Browning fell away
from the ministers countenance, AMI dropped
until they rested upon the floor. Conviction
flashed upon his heart. He had always been
stern in executing the Iaw-but never kind
HAS that beautiful twin sister stood ever
bv the side of duty ?-has love been in that
law Deacon Browning?
Side bv side with the minister stood Duty
and Kindnpss-the firm, unshrinking brother.
and the mild, loving sis,cr-and SO his word
had power to reach the deacons heart, with
out giving offence TO pride.
Kindness is weak, yielding, ard indulgent,
and forgives when punishment is the only hope
of salvation" said Deacon Browning. little
recov, ring himself from the emotions of self
condemnation.
~Onlv when she sirays from the side of du-
ty," replied the minister. "Duty and kind
ners must always act together"
Much more, and to the same purpose, was
urged by the minister. who mace but brie'
visit. and then withdrew, that his admonit ions
might work the desired effect.
When Deacon Browning came in from the
front door Of the house, after parting with the
minister, he drew up chair TO the table in
the family sitting-room, and, almost involunta-
rily, opened the large family Bible. His feel
ings were much soitened towards his boy
who, with his head upon bis breast. sat a lit
tie apart from his mother. The attitude was
not SO much indicative of stubborn self will
as suffering. Deacon Browning thought he
would read chapter aloud. and so drew the
holy book closer, and bent his face down over
it Mrs. Browning observing the movement,
waited for him 10 begin. The Deacon clear
ed his throat twice. But his voice did not
take up the words that were in his eyes and
in his heart. How ceu'd they?
'As father prtieth his children"
Had there been divine pity in the heart
of Deacon Browning for his rebeIlious and
unhappy boy? Nay-had not there not been
wrath instead?
From hundred places in the mind of Dca
con Browning there seemed to come the echo
of these words, and they had meaning in
them never perceived before. He closed the
book and remained in deep thought but in
stern COZ flict with himself Kindness was
striving to gain her place by the side OF duty;
and cold, hard imperious Duty, who had SO
,leng rnled without q rival m tie mind of Dea-
con Browning, kept all the while avering his
countenance from that of his twin sister. who
had been so long an exiled wanderer. At
last she was successful. The stern brother
yielded, and cFasped to his bosom the sister
he had lost.
From that instant new thoughts, new views,
new 1,urE1nsss reinnsd in The mind of Deacnn