Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1868-10-02
Special PrOYldences.

Inc Aollo" wig ohiu'ihS o'oiy J, AoH Law"
tits Journal. is, perhaps, as conclusive in re-
gard to especial providences," as the argu-
ments generally advanced in their favor:
Some Irish reapers, bound for England,
passing us, I asked whether it. was true
that, on their return from the expedition,
the people of one vicinity would intrust their
collective gains to one man to bring over ?
80, no" said he, 'don't believe it. It is
hard trusting any one in this world" The
reaper then related the following story:
A priest, going along the road one Sun
day, saw boy in very ragged dress, sit
ting dangling his feet in the water Of brook
that ran by it..
"Well, my boy" said the good father.
"what makes you sit there to-day, and why
don't you 60 to the chapel ~
cit is because am not just fit to be seen
there, because Of the raggedness Of my
clothes, said the boy.
"And who are your parents, and what
are they doing, that they don't see you bet
ter clad and going to the chapel on Sunday? ?"
Il can't exactly say" replied the boy,
what they may be doing just now, because
they have been dead some years, and get
along as well as 1 can without them"
X X X x 4 X
"Wcll, my boy" said the priest, ''did
you follow my advice, and do you now go to
the chapel 2" '4e
"Ah bless your reverence, that / did,
indeed, and wish had seen you years before
[ did, for it was the best day of my life when
[ did see you"
elbow was that p asked the priest
"Why, God bless your reverence! got
up early in the morning, as you advised me,
and went away to the chapel, and as did
not want to be seen, slipped in quietly and
got behind the door, and began to say my
prayers; and, sure enough, it was just as
your reverence said it would be-Providence
was after dropping something in my way d.
rectly. When [ first went in, there was no.
body there but presently there came blind
man, and he put his head into the chapel and
said, is any body here ? and when nobody
answered for I kept quite still, for I would
see what Providence would be after-the
blind man entered and made his way to a
seat, and began saying his prayers. And
presently another blind man came and put
his head in and said, is anybody here p
And the first blind man answered and said /,
There is nobody but me, and | am blind.
And with that the second blind man entered
and made his way to the first blind man, and
sat down by his side, and they began to talk.
And one blind man asked the other how
long he had been blind, and he said eighteen
years.
Eighteen years! that is a long time /;
why you must have saved power Of money
in all that time"
Nay" replied the first man, mot so
much as you would think. Bad has been
my best luck. I have only saved G10, and
have it stitched into my cap, here, that no.
body may steal it,"
"'And with that, your reverence, said
the boy, I saw all that your reverence had
said was the truth, and that Providence had
dropped something in way Immediately
So up and went softly to the men, and
took each his cap away out Of his hand, and
made for the door. But oh the two blind
men they were astonished, and they seized
each other by the throat, and one said, ooh !!
ye thief of the world, but ye have stolen my
cap and my money and to it they went like
furies, and when the people came into the
chapel they found them rolling on the floor
together, and screaming that one had robbed
the other, and the other had robbed the one !;
but no caps nor money were there to be seen.
and then both men we're more astonished
than ever. But I was by that time far
across the fields, blessing your reverence for
the true words ye had said to me for, true
enough, Providence had dropped something
in my way all at once. And now, your
reverence sees that dress as decently as
any boy of them all, and 60 to the chapel
every Sunday and often [ bless the day
that met your reverence as did,"