The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-02-25

Fob Of despair So is that sympathy with sorrow is
innate the Irish nature. "Non ignore mall inserts
ssccurrers diso But not to those who have suffered
alone should human sympathy be familiar What lnan
forse his future, when he too may need
the assistance Of his fellow man. What nation 80 great
that the reach Of vcissnde assure to
itself any fixed term OF power. There Is manifest
destiny The future Of US all nations as well as mem =
ruins. Ruins OF empires cities, palaces wharyes, that
once were splendid, and are now silent and desoate
cumber earth and Why did these things pefishY
BY what accident error crime OF government, or
governed, their decline brought about2 Wherein
lay the secret Of their strength How was II lost
Who knows2 We speculate about these things now ana
philosophical But did any among them feel the
warning symptoms that told him Of his counrys doom
Did any thought of coming danger cross the mind 81 te
Assyran King he sat him down to his last carouse
And when the phantom hand wrote its awful sentence,
in letters of fire. on the wall, who OF all his wise men,
that tembed and grew PALE could tell what the pofOen
meanty And so with us. too, in this tmperai cltv
Spite Of all its opulence and splendor and grace ana
fair hopes what man how long these things are
to last? This all men must know that soon Or late al
things decay and perish and all men and all commn-
mites, time Ia their career, need the help
from Others which they themselves have either freely
given selishly withheld. But however thai be, gem
erosity never hurt man or nation Mapnanimty Il the
truest policy, and mercy can win more lasting victories
than sword In these stormy days of ours, the Cahohc
Church has been at its post has strven TO do its duty on
and disciplined ministers have been at hand and men
who bad heard OF the grand old creed of christendom
only from it's deiamers, have learned 70 know y aud
respect II In its works or charity ana oroau
and liberal beneyolence. / heard few days
from southern man story ILLUSTRATIVE OF tns III
Southern hospital during the war confederate SOL
der laydyng By his side sat priest vanly endeavor-
ing to raise his thoughts to the new world he was 50
to enter The poor fellow understood nothing
about IL; he had heard or tho simplest truths Of
religion They had not taught him these things where
be came FROM ssBut I'll tell you what. stranger, said
he; sthough never heard OF them hings-ol hell. and
heaven and purgatory-I heard of angels aud know
one too" The priest was silent with assonislment
edo you that gal down therc-therc
moving about around them beds that gal with the big
fhnra
ANGEL and he pointed to Sister OF Charity near by.
'Now, STRANGER said he II don't know yon. or what
white bonnet just call her here and whatever she saws
is right and true. go that II you like" And 80 the
Sister of Charity sat also by his sde and as she babe
him. he consented to believe, and thus his life ebbed
away and perhaps who knows. the angel face he met
beyond the dark river bore gloried resemblance to
that of the .gal with the big white bonnet. F"
Wen, you ladies can't All be 'gas with big white bon
nets and perhaps, don't carl be- Female tastes
that subject apt vary. But you perform some
lock would have his pound OF flesh, and refused to abae
one iot OF what was nominated IN the bond ron re-
member how cloquentiy the young doctor OF Rome
pleaded to him, and strove TO soften mis- heart.
The quality Of mercy is not strained;
Upon tie place beneath; it is twice blessed;
Il besseth him that gives and him }, n. thai takes;
The throned monarch better than his crown; .
His sceptre shows the iorcc Of temporal power,
Wherein doth Sit The dread and fear Of kings.
But IS above this sceptred sway
And earthly power doth then show likest Ged's
When mercy justice.
Therefore though justice be thy plea, consider this
That in the course Of nsce none OF us should see sal
prayer doth all render the deeds
of mercy.
All fair young Roman Doctor of Laws, gentle lady Of
Belmont masquerading it for pas,ime but growing into
serious earnest in the Of danger and warming
with all fire and eloquence and tenderness of her
womans nature in her struggle 10 set pity and mercy
in that uncongenia heart, had we among our modern
women sch heads such hearts could they plead
she did for mercy, for charity and reconciliation the
wounds of civil dscord would soon be healed and the
light of peace and Union shine forth again over
this racked and tortured land. Sisters be kind
at least to your sisters in the South and
your household niluencethe realm of woman's
dominon-sofen and elevate natures less line than
your own; and thus the Of sorrow as dark
and dreary tempest tossed the light may shine
again. the light which Of old shed its on the Lake
of Gaee and ued its TO rest; the light that for
nineteen hundred years. all their clouds and Storm
has never been wholly extngushed sometimes dmmed
and nckering but ever renewed, the pure and steady
light in which all the rnys b nded and commingled
II Christian charity and mercy and faith and hope.