Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-28

, forehead and temples with hor soft ibab
y hands,; Was it the caress or the words tha
quivcrcd his poor lips?'5 'on . n'a ',-a ~.
II cant bc good he said, 81 Sc
drunk."g .loD -g !9srad3 G,.lA oriy
4 'But you won't any morc."' 20 o. .'sS'o
She had n hand On, either check now
bloatea and tear stained as they we're coax
ing him with gentle touch, her sweet voict
and gentle smile, to be man once more
Could he be anything, anybody, if he tried
| he wondered, HE had thonght oft before
I but no one seemed to care which way he
went. i-But now his weak heart trembcd
and throbbcd in the battle How his poo,
head sank lower and lover upon Ills breast,
as if he would hide his face in very shame
from the little child. But lie could not turn
away from her Or from tbc storm within
him. ''' 70 ''i 'l''',-' '''. '''' ''.,''' 70 t''
| i"No, God helping me will not got drunk
again, he said, starting to his feet and then
staggering again from very weaknesses to the
ground. o.'.r D''..'.' .'.,i ''' '.. ~ .. g..
! WHO are you, little child2'' he asked,
looking up into her face. 40 sii .'p'r
81 am little Elsie Haynes. / live with
Aunt Lucy in the next house. Won't you
come in y t'.' ,t......'..
NO. he answered, shuddering. 45,
"Whcre do you live?"i b '.t, i.
81 live? Anywhere. I 'aecp in barns,
BY tie roadside. and under fences" -. -.
aa 90. dear, dear! Aunt Lucy shall fix you
a bed, | know she will Amt you sick ?"
He shook his head, and said he was used
to such care, lie did not work and he could
not have better. ..7.... ...f ... r
but won't you work for Uncle Haynes ?"
Come up and sco." .' "' 'Gi' l "
She held fast to his hand, coaxed him in
side the garden gate, and thon tried to pull
him up the smoothe path to the house. -
But no, he would not 60, he said hc. He
wouldn't want him. But still the child pied
with hin, and at last he walked by her side
up to the piazza, and seated himself upon
the steps, while Elsie went for her Uncle.
There was q strange expression of wonder
and surprise on the face Of good Mr. Haynes,
when little Elsie presented to him her prot
ege. Bob Hunter asking for work What
did it mean? He would not have heen
more surprised to have seen the dean of
score of years at his door asking for work.
"What can he do, Elsie p he asked.
80, anything, | guess. He can work in
the garden with you. and III carry you water
all day. - .....
For a moment Mr. Haynes hcsitatcd, then
he said putting his hand out to Bob.
you may try, and as long as you will
work, you may have work p .......,-
There was no small amount of wonder in
the village when it was rumorel that Bob
Hunter was at work for Mr.. Haynes. And
when, weeks AFTER he crcpt silly in among
his fellow men, well clad and sober, avoiding
steadily TIE places whore his ruin had well
nigh been wrought, some said that great
miracle had been wrought, that God himself
must have spoken to Bob Hunter, or he
would not have changed from darkness to
light. '.. I..... ."f ..a. .saa tt
All, miracle it was, indeed, wrought by
the dear mcrcifnl hand Of the one God Fa-
ther! His spirit breathed from the lips Of
one little child brought about the reformation
that none had ever hopd to see. And so
people wondered, forgetting that, if they
kept their hearts sweet and fresh in love and
truth, ''as little children" they, too, could
work out more ercriecss the ways of God.
And so little El,ie worked on, and Bob
Hunter looked up to the angel, blessing her
more and more as day by day he grew stron-
ger and better. Again, | repeat it, that it
seemed like a niircle9to the villagers, the
reformation of the poor inebriate. They
did not know how faithfully, like weak
child, he had been watched and tended II
they saw Elsie running to, aud fro from the,
fed dozen times day with pail of sweet
spring water, they did not think why it was
so. Or going up totle plain neat cham
Der Of Bob Hunter, and seeing a'waps there,
the freshest flowers the garden afforded and
the glass of cool water beside them on the
little table, they would not have needed so.
small Il sign, because to them it did not ap-
pear likely that God worked with such hum
BILE means ID, ''
She is little more than chila now, Elsie
Haynes. Sometimes as l sec her walking
about with Bob Hunter, by his side at church
listening attentively to his slightest wish
when see him man once more, the bcstial
@ok of the inebriate all gone from his face,
standing up strongand brave and true among
his fellows, and know now that he was saved
| say to myself that no woman need ask for
a richer fame than that which God and the
angels hold for her. And wonder, too,
sometimes if when she is woman, beauti-
full as she is and must always be, there can
ever be o conquest SO great and good as
this. o.,r..., ....,'.I. .,-,...si a.aali
All! yes The lion and the lamb shall
lie down tagether, and little child shall
lead them.' 70 Z 'H-Hst-- ''aH l1i'e |
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