The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-08-04
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BY MRS. H. b. STOWE.
From the Chrictian ITnion


Uniformed Mrs. Doldrums the first thing
ben she came down in the morning.
F - This is such q confounded, miserable,
lunsatisfying world said DR.. Doldrums
!" | wonder what it was made for-why
we are put in it, and what use there is
in the COMPOUNDED thing any way"
DIR. Doldrum did not swear, because he
was pious man, and a member Of
Exmouth church. Moreover, the night
before he and Mrs Doldrums had been
in the most edifying manner to the prayer
meeting, aud in the most charming frame
of mind had sung out of the Exmouth
hymn-book:-
s'Shall / be carried to the skies
On fiowery beds of ease,
While Others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas?
Sure l must fight il would reign,
Increase my courage, Lord;
Ill bear the cross, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word"
They were, in fact, about as good peo-
pie as the average, this DR.. and Mrs
Doldrums, IT, to put the thing itelligIbly,
about as good as you or /, dear reader.
When in the prayer meetings of Elk
mouth church, or under the vivid oratory
of its minister, their souls were often
waited in prayer and praise above all
things seen and temporal, and triumphed
in things unseen and eternal, and had
they been caught up just then and there
might have made "a very proper pair Of
angels.
A stranger going into the Exmouth
prayer meeting, and listening from time
to time % the things surg there, as with
the sound OF many waters, might suppose,
if all those things were true, there was,
indeed, for those favored individuals, no
need of trouble, no need of sorrow, no
need of care under the sun-that the
great unsearchable mystery of Hfe-for
them at least-was st last solved. An
inquirer who believed all that they pro-
fessed would say, " Here is a company of
the true philosophers. They have found
the Kalon-the true, solid, indestractlble
philosophers stone, which whose hath,
fears nothing, either in this life, or the
life to come"
The very evening before, Dr. and Mrs.
Doldrums. stvnding up in solid column
with all the Exmouth church, had sung
Head Of the church triumpha Mt,
We joyfuly adore Thee;
TIL Thou appear, Thy members here
Shall sing like those in glory.
Thou dost conduct Thy people
Through deserts of temp tation.
/ Nor will we fear, when Thou art near,
The fires Of tribulation
This world with Sin and Satan,
In vain our march opposes
By Thee we will break through them all,
And sing the song of Moses"
How bravely and joyously the words
had surged and rurg and billowed ON
the waves of hundreds of hearty Voices
the evening before, rs the members of
Exmouth church sang after John Bun
vans fashion
Justify and with good courage,
But this morning nevertheless DR..
Doldrums as aforesaid, declared that he
had the blues, and that he could hardly
see any use in living, and that he couldnt
see what such world was made for.
How came this great change? 1t is true
that DR.. Doidrums, ON going down this
morning, had picked up upon his door
step, an installment of the world and
the flesh" in the shape of the morning
papers, and looking therein, he saw that
the stock of the Great Interior Ground
Line Company was rapidly going down,
and DR.. Doldrums was large owner in
that company.
Now, it is also true that the good Doe
tor had been courageously singing, the
night before, that he must not expect 10
be carried to the skies ON fowery beds OF
ease. he had been rejoicing and tri-
umphing in the possession of a kind of
stock that could not fall in value, though
every bank and every corporation and
company in this world were sunk in the
sea and yet his hear appeared to sink
down to his very bouts at this news from
the Great Interior Ground Line Company
How was this? Were the passion and
earnestness of last nights prayer meet-
ing hypecriticaly
Not a bit Of it. They were as true, as
heartfelt and sincsre AZ anything you or |
ever felt in our lives,
Were those things sung last night still
true. Undoubtedly they were. If you
had faced the Doctor with the question
that very morning, he would have told
you that they We're.
What then, was the matter?
We can illustrate it by phenomenon
of every day occurrence, in the experience
OF a traveller in the Alps. At sunset YOU
may stand in your cottage door in Geneva
and see the whole of the Mount Blanc
range, together with the distant dazzling
rank and file of the Overland Alps,
lglistening like jewels, and looking like
cities built of gold and precious stones
topaz, ruby, and anne hyst. The next
morning you rise and look where the
dazzling vision was, and 10, there is
nothing there No colors, no glitter no
sheen, no mountrins, no glory-nothlng
but cool, dull, leaden, gray sky, that
seems firmly and honestly to bound the
horizon.
The wonderful vision may be thnn