The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-03-19
the. duties Of their position were tho

Ono argued that these !.y principal,
At home, in living the nurse and .t.y Of
the declining years Of father and motb
er, the companion and counsellor of
brothers, and that love to our F.ther in
Heaven is best shown BY honorine our
parents on earth. The other held that
as prayer is the breath Of The world.
which must fall into ehaes without Il
aud so many people neglect it. it le.
,v"es @ necessary that sonao devote their
.n0,e ), time to this duty, and 50 be M
tne "a lungs of the race. Their diattsnc.
Of Of: opinion was i'reoooeil.ble; but tssir
friendship m never falt.red, and m;..
kenDsy's last visit before eoi.e ;ato ot''. .
close et' convent, in cincinu.ti, ", to
Minerva, when, With prayer, .ad te,,
they parted, each to pursue her separate
road to blessed Immortality.
0"e nao another friend on whom had
devoI'ed the double duty on filing the
place of both parents to an onlv cb;ld-
OF winning bread and baking it-aud
to her her steady exhortation Vas. st.v
with your child. Engage in no emnlov.
"cns that will leave her to the care Of
others: 1t is better che and YOU.
should have only the necessaries Of 1fa
while she can come to you, at auv mo.
ment, with her sorrows and find avm-
pathy, while you guard her spirit fion.
wounds Of neglect or unkindness and
taints of sin, than to have fame and
FORTUNE, and leave this your highest
duty undone.
When reminded Of the fields <txhite
unto harvest and the fevness Of the
'aborers-of the wrong and outrage
with which earth is filed, and the duty
Of taking place in the ranks of th.t
army which is invading the kingdom
of darkness she would reply.
"1f God had appointed you to .
duty which would call you from home,
He would not have sent you child.
No one can .fll your place to her in
your hourly care of her, but som. one
else can do that other work."
With this strong sense Of th. oblias-
ton Of home duties, she 30 eutviaed
herself into the lives Of her younser
brothers that her influence Vas "A ever.
present motive to larger and uobler
thoughts and actions. She had that
family pride which is an incentive to
honorable exertion, a an oath is a
added obligation to the imperative duty
of truthtulness. Yet she was 4 favor
'te with the poor; and none was 80
humble or debased that she had not,
for him, kindly greeting. When
child, she was my pupil; when 70
man, MY friend and con6dant. For
more than decade of long, dark years
her friendship has been as true aud
steady as that of the North Star to the
hunted slave. When my path vas
darkest that lamp shonc the brightest,
and no cloud ever hoated in between.
Sometimes, for weeks together, I occu.
pied second bed in her room, and she
never laid her head upon her pillow
until kneeling she had committed sll
her cares to Him who carsth f. us
Her bed faced a window Of ~hic:, the
blind was always open and the curtain
drawn back.
When I spoke of the injury this
might do her eyes, she said:
II cannot sleep otherwise. I must
see the stars. I always wake ia the
night to look at them. They seem to
be Gods eyes watching me, and l look
down into my soul to see what they
have seen all day."
So pervaded was her life with the
sense of the all-seeing eye, and the all.
hearing ear, that | think she never
spoke word for which she need have
blushed if her earthly father had been
her unseen auditor. She has said to
me often, :'Now rest until after dinner
and then tell me ~hat you know"
This was not demand for news, but
for any new thought of, or insight into
any of che mysteries Of the life that
now is, or of that which is to come
and [ have never met any ole who
would so quickly detect . beautiful
thought in mass Of rubbish. She
was SO entirely at home in the eontcm-
plation of the sublime truths of religion,
that gloom or sadness, which are born
Of strangeuess, had no connection tith
them in her mind. When it vas t4tims
to dance none Joined more m>rrily in
the cotillion, aud her sabbath school
scholars could never have learned from
her that laughing vas . sin. With
her strong love Of life, aud capacity 70,
enjoyment. and With her convictions
that she was destined to long yea, Of
labor, she yielded to the dslwion Of
hope common to consumptives, 1nd
long after he. physicians had ceased 10
hope, confidently expected to recover;
but when she knew that she v.s cslld,
sh, put aside her pleasant life, With .
little show 0, regret as she might have
done a festive garment. When 1As
came to Jordan it had ovsrhoved its
banks, aud for thirty-six hours she
struggled in the dark waters without
murmur. then said: