The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-08-04

wish, and DIR. Doldrums gave another
twltc h at the bell, which brought down
not Biddy, but the bell-rope.
II hope you feel better now" SAID
Mrs. Doldrums, with sarcastic acrimony
" We shall have to have the bell-hanoer
now as we'll as the mason"
The upshot of the matter was that DR.
and Mrs. Doldrums separated that morn
ing in mood of mind thoroughly un-
comfortable
They were two perfectly sincere Chris.
tians, who would either of them have
gone to the stake for their religion, and
loved each other so truly that if need
were, either one of them would have
shed blood and laid down life for the
other, and yet the frame of mind in
which they parted for the day was Meth
er Christian nor loving.
The March winds, the blues, the smo-
ky chimney, the tidings of falling stocks,
had quite the victory over the splendid
Visions at last evenings prayer meeting
all the heavenly fragrance and aroma
were gone.
The Doctor was turning corner, going
to his business, when a feeble, piping
voice arrested him. He turned, and saw
the thin, wan face of poor Jerry, mis-
erablecrlpple, who, having lost both legs,
was compelled to scutf round the world
on much lower level than the majority
of his brethren. Jerry was pensioner
on the aims of the church, and constant
attendant at the prayer meetings.
wanted to thank you for what you
said to us last night at prayer meeting"
said Jerry. (" 1t made me happy allnight.
Oh, Doctor, what blessed thing 1t is to
be u Christian You made me realize it as
| never did before. You made me feel
that it's no matter what happens to US
here, so long as nothing can separate us
from the love of Christ. You see, Doctor.
| have such pains nights that can't
sleep much, and sometimes I've been kind
o tempted tomurmur; and then thinkin'
what poor cripple am, and kind o.
wishin things was with me as they used
to be, is great temptation but you
helped me get over it Oh, Doctor, I
wish had your faith"
The Doctor felt heartily ashamed of
himself
Jerry" he said, you don't know me !"
and the Doctor, sitting down by Jerry on
the steps of the Exmouth chapel, which
happened to be near by, made clean
breast of it, and told him all his frailty.
Well, Doctor" said Jerry, "you see
the difference between you and me is,
you've got so much more of this world.
Now ha'nt got anything I'm fallen so
low | can't go no lower, and this great
and precious promise is all have left.
and so it's all think of and the more
think of it the more it grows ON me.
Pm all alone, old and poor and crippled,
bit Christ gives me this great, glorious
hope, and nothing can take it away, and |
think of It day and night And, Doctor,
| really don't know but it's worth losing
ali, as have, just to know what it is !"
The Doctor pondered as he Went that
day on his business.
What If the words of Jerry were true ?
What if there were such a ioy, such a
glory possible in his Christian life, that
TO attain it would be worth all things :
Was there not One who spoke of a pearl
SO precious that man might sell all that
he had to be possessed of it? Why then
dldahe tremble or sh. er at even an init.
nation of uncertainty in his worldly
goods, when this great treasuse, this won
dertul JOY, was yet in his power-was yet
his own?
Is there truth in what have been
saying?" he said to himself. "Is there
anything in it? there is anything, is
there not everything, and should il not
be the thought that swallows up others ??
Then it struck him that the Bible Ger.
tainly was written in such a way that its
most glorious promises and most trium-
plant hopes were for people in trouble
Count it all JOY when we fall into divers
Affections seemed, as he remembered it,
to be about the tenor of the New Tesla.
ment. And yet" he said to himself
~ quake at the mere distant shadows OF
an affection, and am utterly unnamed
at The thought of losing treasures which
profess to believe of only secondary
value, while yet | have and hold the
glorious hope of treasure that is more
than Eeart can ask or think, and is eter.
nal"
Whether the Doctor succeeded in max
ing his future life square with his belief
is yetto be seen.
Two young men from the country call
ed in at a Detroit foundry few days ago,
to get piece of casting for some farm
machinery. The employees were absent