The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-04-16
FREMONT. SANDUSKY COUNTY, OHIO; FRIDAY. APRIL 6 1862
THE GOODBYE.
sGeofge-George r


WE'LL wh8t's wanting now z
The young husband turned back the doc
knob, and there was impsiience in his ton'
= and annoyance on his brow, as be answered
his Wife's call.
j Nothing papa, only baby and vant tC
Il kiss you good bye aud she came toward
him. the little, graceful, sEeet-voiced woman,
| with her baby IN her arms, and he'd up the
soft face to his cheeks, and the little one
oroEed, and thrust up its dimpled hands,
and clutched the short, thick locks triumph
antly.
'Oh, baby, you rogue, you'd like TO pull
out handful Of papa's hair, wouldn't you
noFf laughed the merchant, in a tone so
unlike his former one that you would not
have recOgniz d it, and be leaned down ard
kissed the small fragrant lips over and over
Now, it's my turn, papa, and Mrs. VIII
/ liams smo0thed away the rumplt d hair, and
kissed her Husbands forehead, and as he
went out Of the house that morning new
tsOftness and peace had erased the troubled
look from the mans face. And that day it
was appointed to George Williams to pass
! through sharp and fearful temptation.
| He was in the midst Of commercial crisis
and some Of his heaviest debtors bad failed
that week, and now ten thousand dollars was
+, due, and there was no way to raise the sum
unlsss-
! he held the pen irrssolutely in his shrink
ing hand. The veins we're swollen into great
/ blue cords on his orshsad, and the breath
came thick and + ct betyixt his hot lips a
few scrolls Of that pen, a solitary name at
the bottom, and The young merchant could
secure ten thousand dollars, and his business
credit would be safe. There was no sort Of
doubt, too, but be could raise tha money
within few days, and thus secure himself
from all scOvery, and the pressi0g circum-
stances Of the case certainly allowed some
limits in fuaneiering. So whispered the
tempter as be walked up and down the soul
of George Williams, always softeuiog down
the word forgery into some false name,
which totally changed to his perceptions the
moral complexion Of The deed be was about
to commit
The young meacbant's eyes glared all
around the Office, but there was none near
MIN then; he dipped bis pen with kiEd Of
desperate eagerness into the tall porcelain |
and he drew it along the paper,
when suddenly his hand paused, struck BY /
the thOught-the memory Of his Wife's kiss |
that morning. He saw her as he saw her /
last standing in the door, the baby in Ter 1
arms her sweet face full Of motherlY tender /
in parting; the voice Of the tempter passed /
away under the rush of holier emotions
which blurred the mans eyes; he dashed /
down the pen.
Mary Msryl you have saved your hus-
band; sink or swim will not do the deed;
should blush for shame to meet your eyes
and our baby's tonight, if l carried the
burning consciousness in my soul, although
no man ever did OF would know it. Mary,
my little wife, you won't know it, but that
good bye kiss Of yours this morning saved
your husband from this great SIM
George Williams did not sink. 1t was a
hard struggle, but the storm passed by with
out falling on him as il did on many others
and Mary, his wife, never knew that she
had saved her husband from a sin which, in
her eyes worse than death.
The good we have done we shall know,
not here, but hereafter and the best and
.ruest lives are those which streW all the
years with the sweet aromas Of loving and
deeds.
As the water lilies take root, and grow
ilently amid the slime and mud in the low
waters, until the midsummer they open their
creamy vases to the soft persuasions of the
iuBsbi6e, and lay in snowy hotillas on the
,osOms of the streams, the glory and ideali-
.ation Of all flowers, so amid the loWiands Of
ife, among It's shadows and mists, have we
llsoio SOW, day by day our small seeds Of
Ientle aud generous deeds, not knowing
Vheu they take root, or expecting to behold
heir unfolding into blossoms on the river of
ime.
20, 5esgho sigh to set your lives with the
rabasques of great and noble deeds, who
ant for broader horizons and higher oppor- I.
1nities, God has appointed you a work
There you are
Every day lifts up its white cbaiiee out of j
be night, and is held down to you through
j its solemn, silent footed hour for those
nsH labors Of love, whose true significance
I'd relations We shall only understand in
tarnityc
And 10 this small daily labor lies much Of
romsn's work, and her sweet home in I
uences fall like the Sunshine on the even
lR dew, upon the characters around her.
She may little comprehend Whist a silent q
'yce Of healing, restraining, and periods of :
nrest and despondency may fill many hours
-ith shadows, which would be illumi1 ased 5
18th joy and thanksgiving, If she could
1ly know as she is known o
But the pictures Of lives are locked up in 9
ie eternal gallery, and angels hold the keys; {
I'd when GOd's voice speaks the word, the 1
noFs shall be op3ned, and when We go in
e shall behold and understand.