The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-05-06

Her husband and Margaret laus het
as Judge Knox gravely laid his finger
on her wrist, placed her in scat, ane
drawing her chair to the table took u,
a pen, arranged a sheet of paper, ans
declared there was no time to lose.
"We shall begin in the usual way,
suppose" he remarked, as ho wrote
II, Mrs. Zelia Kendon, being of infirn
health but sound mind, do, &c. We
will make a rough draft. You give
and bequeath what?
"Oh my husband to the black eyed
widow Who pities him so much for hav.
ing silly wife; and my children to
Maggie here, who will save them from
all the dragons. There, if you will let
her come now and help me sort these
worstcds, will tell you all the rest
some other time"
"But we shall dispute the soundness
of mind, the will will not be valid. and
the widow may lose her Legacy if you
take her away from her work on such
pretense," said her husband.
ooh, it's only for minute if. the
Judge will excuse US; and the widow
will attend to the legacy! Never you
fear !"
Margaret longed for solitude or an
hour Of converse with the piano, and
readily took the opportunity to escape
any further serious conversation. Her
own personal wants had been forced
upon her though ght by the generous Of
fer of Windermere; and tho revelations
he had made Of his past life were mat
ters of grave consideration. She did
not think Of the possibility of marriage
without love, yet the knowledge that
she might be united once more to the
loved ones at home, might be able to
provide for them or Place them in po-
sitions of independence, awakened all
her suppressed yearnings for the loving
voices aud caressing arms so lost in dis
tance. Her heart would bound at
thought of an early reunion; and it
was an effort to crush back its longings
and turn to the weary years of study
and toll, of watching and waiting -
Then the view of the pitfalls of sin
amid which she walked, made her re-
coil from contact with a world so dark
with mystery. On her return from
the worsted consultation she was glad
to find the library vacant, and tor the
remainder of the week dreamed over
rather than studied her books and man.
uscrips.
Amongst the new mysteries which
surrounded her, DR.. Dreaming was not
the least; and as the next Sabbath was
one on which her own pastor was ab-
sent, she resolved to hear him preach.
When the family met at dinner, Judge
Kendon said:
$50 it appears you have been guilty
Of occasional hearing this morning?
have consorted with heretics of tho
most heterodox stamp. Do you not
fear that for this,
"You will have to STAN,
which being interpreted, means that
you may be called upon to give salts
faction to the Church for hearing one
preach who refuses to subscribe to your
creed 2"
II may be ccnsorcd," she replied;
"but wished so much to understand
what torce or eloquence there can be
in the preaching Of a man who appear
ed to be SO bigoted and arrogant, tina:
he can be so popular"
"Wcll, and have you solved tho
problem ?"
"No; unless his power is that of the
ancient oracles, mystery. The rcasan-
try Of ireland are fascinated by the
Latin church service; and the great
majority of DR.. Drcaming's hearers
must be, more or less drawn by slmi-
lar feeling. I have never heard any
thing like his sermon. This is Palm
Sunday, and his subject was Christ
riding into Jerusalem: He told US the
news Of the past week, and several an
ecdotes; gave us short treatise on the
philosophers Of Theogonies and Simoni-
ades, the Pythagoreans and Aristotle
argued that society was paramount to
individuals, and the end and aim for
which all things are and were created.
At least thus I understood him but
his sentences are long, and twist out
and in and round about. He uses a
great many odd long words. His
style is cross between Peter Cart
wright and Carlyle; and people think
he is saying something very profound
because they never heard anything
like it; but came very near violating
the proprieties."
"How SO 2"
"He kept my attention on the strain
trying to understand him; aud in de.
scrihing that entrance into Jerusalem
he spoke at length Of the Savior, some.
what as a dramatist would describe 9
hero and his surroundings, and rounded
up by saying, And he, having studied
the signs of the times, knew that the
crisis of his fate was approaching y"
The sentence was spoken in such 9
cold Methodical way, that the words
seemed to strike my brain and before
could recover I had half risen and
opened my mouth to cry out, my Lord
and my Cod There is something
frightful in thus representing Christ as
merely a far-seeing man. No wonder
DR.. Dreaming looks so cold and cynica
with such a chilling unsatisfactor,
faith"
"Ab, you bigots!" exclaimed th,
Judge. "You condemn his faith a.
lacking force. He condemns yours al
wanting in political restraints, and hold'
that an already accom- plished atoncmen
IS an invitation to sin. We all condem,
the Church of Rome for the sale of In
du]gences, yet our present License sys
tenn is identical in principle, and phil
osopb,cally it is not easy to separate
between the Calvinistic code which
holds that the sins of the elect, pas
present and future aro secure Of par
don, aud extending an assurance 0
that pardon through the agency of tn
church by verbal and general teachings