The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-26

20 tell il TO You, my dear children, just 3
heard 1t In q voyage of exploration an
discovery on the coast Of Africa, landin
on little island, near that which is men
TONED on the charts by the name of Fer
nando 20 and Annobon, some missionari
met on rock, not far from the sbore.
cross rudely constructed, and all around
% the attitude of prayer, q group of negrs
Ths1 ssrs directed directed BY = white child
we're recitiDg in bad Spanish the Angelica,
sanitation or Hail Mary Great was thS
surprise of the Catholic missionaries "a
neet In those regions, where they thought
ene lGea OF the cross was unknown, an altar
ra.sea 10 the cross. On seeing those good
priests wearing their soutanes, the child
cried out in Spanish: PriestsY here are
priests! and all the little negroes turned
towards the missionaries. The latter ap-
preached the child aud asked him to con-
duct them to the house of his parents. !" ID
nave none," answered the child, sadly
hen ne told how, being cast on that shore
by shipwreck, he was separated from his|
parents, whom he never saw again. Picked
up ny some negroes, who had brought bim]
up with their children, he had taught the
iatter the prayer his mother taught him toI
say morning and night on his knees, andI
eney came all together to kneel before that
cross: They are, then, Christians" del
manded the missionaries. Christians III
repeated the child, much amazed; az can
not tell you; they see me kneel down and
t9ey do the same. They repeat the words
OF tne prayer have taught them but do
not understand their language. Still have
taught them to make the sign of the cross.
|and they never fail to do it when they pass
|oefore the crOss.n "And the cross-whoH
raised itf" cit was I remembered
|1nose mad seen in my own country from
poor child could not restrain his tears and
|sighs. The missionaries asked his name
me remembered neither his own name nor|
|tlat OF MS country neither did he know
tne name OF the shipwrecked vessel One
tnlng only he had not forgotten: his Hail
i :. a. wen, my dear friends, when will
u % tnat little missionaries such as this
charming little child of which have told
you may be found amongst your
Two PIcTUREs.-A little boy brought me
Two pictures which he thought were very
[unny. One was round face, with openI
mouth, wrlnkled cheeks, and eyes so fullf
u fun, you could not look at it without
aughing. The other was as cross and
sowing as a face could be, and read ia,
he little boy what the man who put them
n this book said about the two faces. The1
aces were just alike, only in one the
Ghyh'ng muscles had pulled up the cornersl
u the mouth, and puckered up the cheeks
mo eyes In all sorts of funny dimples, while
n the other the cross muscles had drawn u
own the mouth, pouted out the under lin. i
nd wrlnkled up the eyebrows. And every
ace In the world has these two sets of /,
auscles the ugly, little, cross ones, that
an spoil the p!easantestf face in a twinkling p
no the laughing ones, that we all like to5R
ee used. There is another thing about it, ID
nd that is, that after a while our faces ret
rawn into one shape or the other. so that
people that would really like toI .
'Ok pleasant, have to carry cross facesI VI
lth them all their lives. When 1 was al
lild there was an old man who used to bel :
constant terror to all us little folks Wei &
tt our, play and ran to hide if we saw him p
'ming and once, when the pig got out OIL
s pen and went racing through the gar II
ID, IN spite of all that could DO done to
i've him back, little girl, not six years
d, said eagerly: So
~ know how to make him 20 back I, sts
Eli him old Mr.. Smith is coming" IAN
How should you like that, little folks I'll e. III,
D be cross enough to frighten the pipsl!3sp.
ok into their pens: Look out sharp fork MS Ms
ose little, cross muscles then, and don't BE,
them get control of your faces s an'
Word TO BoYs.-My young friend. Sd,
you ever know-can you call to mind pre-
,ngle case OF person, who, having his H Hse1
ie In the streets, fin billiard saloons A
.und hotels, or in any form of dissipationM n
Idleness, to succeed in an eminent de- E3sD
re in any enterprise Look over YOUR, -
III IflendS ana aLqualntanceS and nOteES
ir course. Do you find upon examina-M T
n that those who to-day are men of in 9a md
ance and honor were not the youths wboEs,nt
de the most valuable time, turning it to-. II
vi account, and on the other hand do youlH MAC &C
find those who stood at the corners@ A
II cigar or pipe in their mouths wenfE ~
m bad to worse, from worse to ruin 9M "a
lily must the answer be made-oh tbatEa-
7ere not so-they have failed. viii youE
profit by the experience of others Con
that way. Never be idle. Every mo-% A.
ut of your time is golden one, use il rs IA
h.; improve the mind; fix your eyes opE
lie noble object; be men. The call ISL
men, will You not be one of that mum Der
, can say " am man." Fl
HE BoYs AND THE NUT.-Two bovsF nj
Q once playing under a tree, when n Rr
fell from it on the grass. One of them Br
ted it up. The other boy said, " 1t isI Sill
nut, for saw it fall.' "No, it ia and
g." said the other, "for picked it I'D. -
then large boy came along and said
hat are you disputing about ~ The
3 boys told lam. "Give it to me. 81 Boo
he, 81 will decide your quarrel forI
So he cracked the nut, and gave one
to one boy, saying, " This is for you, ION &C
use you saw the nut fall" He them
, the other half shell to the second bow.
ng, "This is yours, because you pickedI
he nut" Then putting the kernel into mys
wn mouth, said, " And this is for nv =
BILE in cracking it." What do Won I've
( of the third boy Z
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