The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1867-02-22

mothers native valley in New England.
She had been first buried m little guard
, ed enclosure, but a few steps from their
, own door. but twice her remains had been
8 disturbed by the natives, from the belief
that the missionaries were accustomed TO
bury treasurerS in the graves OF their
,, dead.
The thought Of the night when, a few
years before, she awoke from bed of
pam in the midst of severe storm of
wind and rain, startled by having dreamed
that the little form had been for the second
time removed from It's resting-place, and
so anxious, from some umaccountable i'm
preston, that it must he true, that her
husband, more to calm her fears than that
he felt that it could be neelful, went with
an English friend 10 the grave, found it
reopened, and securing the remains, kept
them secreted III a place of safety until
they could be conveyed to America The
three, sweet in their lives, and so widely
separated in death, no doubt shared their
pure joys. together, where harps of gold
are wakcned TO sweetest praise. And two
still We're left. She wept not for the three
safely folded by the Good Shepherd; but,
as one after another had been taken, the
parents had decided that the two remain
ing ones could not he brought up in India,
and it was but a few months since this
mother, now looking indeed 50 desolate,
had returned from America alone, leaving
her little boy and girl in Christian homes
in New England, where. too, she had
taken the remains of her first born. The
tca-set, tingcrworn, and partly broken,
whose place the new Patna TOYS now &C.
cupied. had gone with Lizzie to America :;
and Wilic's ivory balls and Chinese puz-
zles were no more scattered over the mat
ting Of their empty play room.
These scarlet toys formed the link i'll
the chain which went from the mother
heart across the Atlantic with electric
speed, and Joined her heart TO two little
orphaned ones on the other side She
was thinking ot, the last goodbye, the last
PRAYER in which she had knelt by her sob
bin. children 10 plead with the Father of
us all. that lie would. in very deed. be
Their Father and hd stay in the great trial
whose depth OF bitterness yet remained 10
be proved She WAS thinking OF the ans
wcr 10 that praver-,hc new strength that
came into her heart. litiin" her into sun
light of peace she had not believed she
could feel She was thinking of the long
vova.c-the heart alone on the wide sea-
divided painfully between the children left
behind and the husband, and home, and
heathcn children awaiting her i'll India
the safe rciurn-thc glad and Vet sad
meeting with her beloved husband, who
looked beyond her. when greeting her re-
turn.aS If he should see two little forms to
share their mothers welcome. 1t was u
picture OF the past which gives uS one ot
those glimp>eS into real missionary life. that
dry statistics. hurriedly "iven. fail 10 open
before lis.
, Soon other thoughts seemed clIa>in"
away the vision. The fears were brushed
back, the toys put into a drawer, ont OF
simht. and leaving the window, the mother
crossed the room. and gcntlv opening Il
door in one corner, revealed Il pleasant
study. where sat Il gentleman bending
earnestly over Il volume Oh the table be-
fore him. Piles OF papers anl books lay
near. but the work ON which liz thoughts
We're intcntly tiNel was a lar"c manuscript
a copy OF the New Testament. which he
WAS trin>lating into the As>amcse langu-
age work he had commenced nearly
seven years before. and which. three wears
after, Tin 1870 waS completed, and given
:, to an eager and waiting people.
1T is enough" She said. .iving words
to the conclusion of her long rcverie-'.hi>
more than pays for all. have TO come
:. to YOU yet Tor strength she said cheer
fully. as she laid her hand on the nearly
completed work.
You have been thinking again." he
said pleasantly; ''Ind then came here for
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