Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-11


% guessed he shouldn't WondeFif
gorkmen were there next Monday.
Then James SymOnd's blood ran
RELY once more; the man in the
the pointing up at his VIM
the question about the doctor
we're explained. Doctor Bent was
me Of the owners, and had hitherto
zone against any change.
Was ever man so relieved and
before ? Grateful tears would
come into his eyes, as he bent lower
over his work, and he made q swift,
but earnest, humble resolution that
very moment.
On that same afternoon, Mary,
in trying to find some new play
for Johnnie, had overturned
on the table, q box containing her
own little treasures, things which
had not seen the light for many a
year. Among these were some re-
ward-cards, with texts and notices,
which she read over as she took
them up, recalling the old time
when she had carried them home in
triumph, aud learned all that was
on them, before night. Now while
she was sewing again, and john
ME was playing with bright shells
and her own old cup-and- ball the
words kept running in his mothers
mind
"In honor prefering one another"
"Let nothing be done through strife
or vain glory but in lowpness Of
mind let each esteem other better
than himself" "Look not every
man on his own things Of Others"
"What does looking on the things
OF others mean p thought Mary
to herself.
Putting the verses together,
she could not help seeing that to
esteem others first, and to look not
on mans own things, were both
exhortations TO unSelfshness and
following out her attempt to get 1t
clear, she thought
at must mean that we should try
TO think how other people feel
about things, instead Of always
thinking how we feel. II is not
Just what we do to others that Is
good or evil, but II is seeing how
things look to them, that Is right.
Now If James saw things as l do
but be doesn't at all-and so he finds
fault" But then like q flash, came
the thought
"Do l see things as he does?"
and when she tried to put herself
in her husbands place, by remem-
bering little conversations they had
held, and little things she had heard
about his work and his companions,
with what she knew of herself, she
did not seem to see better how af-
fairs must look to him than she had
ever done before.
His time was not his own; he
must be punctual at his work, or
lose his place; their house, and
bread, and clothes, their very liv.
ing, depended on his promptness.
or course he wished to 60 neatly
dressed to his work; she would not
have him disgrace her or himself;
then his buttons must be looked to
in season, for when he put q gar
ment on there was no time for re-
pairs. Then he had wood to split
aud water to bring, after the days
work was over; so that bis time
was almost all spent out of the
house. She could manage many
things to suit herself; he must
please other people, and people
who didn't care for him as she did
and then she felt that her husband
might have a hundred cares and
p~erpleKities which she did not
know. So for half an hour Mary
had really been looking not at her
own interest, but away from II, at
the interests Of another. That half
hour put a new aspect On the whole
range Of her affairs.
Two days later, Mr.. Symonds
was splitting wood while his wife
was getting breakfast; everything
seemed determined to stop by the
way james came In hungry and
cold to fluid his wife nervously try.
ing TO make the kettle boil, to finish
setting the table, and quiet the
iretting baby all at once and Just
at that moment Johnnie had man
aged to knock down a dish to
break 1t IN twenty pieces against
the stove hearth. Mary looked IN
in mute despair, as her husband
came in, expecting a storm, and
feeling that there was enough to
raise one but a cherry voice cried
Out,-
"Pick up the pieces, my boy"
and she saw James catch up the
baby, tossing her and quieting her
in q minute. The fire burned, the
kettle boiled, and breakfast was
quickly on the table. Mary had
not spoken a word, for wonder:
but her husband, looking up quick.
ly as she handed him his cup of
saw tears shining in her
eyes, and he knew that they were
tears of joy.
What a reward for a minute,s
self.cOntrOll
These two never talked matters
over, or told each other what had
changed their minds ten 10 II
they had, the peace had been broken
1t was fairly concluded. But
they practiced the lesson which
they had received.
Though each person Is to consider
interests Of others, be Ia NOT
upon to make the others see
his interest in return. The moral
Of this is not that persons should be
iind at home lest some calamitv
,vertake their families, and thew
suffer remorse. Il