Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-01

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us both, perhaps"
He looked pleased. "Do you then
believe that there is sympathy-although
often unrecognized-- existing between
people of certain temperaments That
mind acts upon and influences mind ?"
"Yes, l believe it without knowing
why, and it puzzles me inexpressibly."
"Thank you for acknowledging it. /
think many people believe as much, but
for fear of being thought foolish or tran
scendental they will not admit it. am
an enthusiast upon the subject, and fond
of experiments. Now, will you make
compact with me which we shall neither
of US mention to third person We are
entire strangers; l do not know your
name, nor you mine will you promise
me not to try in any way to ascertain
my residence or identity, and l will pre-
serve the same silence in regard TO you.
We are opposites in looks and in temper
: ament, / believe. We have some points
of interest in common, our admiration
for Tennyson, for instance. | shall new
er read his poems without thought of
you; and | believe your mind will in
the same way revert to me, although you
must not invest me in your Imagination
with all the virtues of Sir Galahad We
will each pray for the other at our daily
morning and evening devotions, and trust
to our own minds to actuate us-by that
higher knowledge which is not instinct
as to our future meetings. And fully
believe that somewhere in the golden fu-
ture' our life-paths, which have crossed
each other this morning, will meet and
flow on in the same channel
81 promise" said Laura, and added
in tone of real regret, Il am sorry, but
here is the post office, and if you do not
hasten you will lose the train"
Many thanks, he said, earnestly, rails
ing his hat and bowling low in adeu and
each went their separate way, but with a
new interest at heart, which they would
carry to the end.
A curious beginning TO curious ac.
quaintance. Parkhurst was young
minister, handsome, talented, and just
starting in life under auspicious circum.
stances. Hope and faith were predom-
inant traits in his character, and he went
ON his way as confident that the beauti.
ful girl with whom he had just parted
would some day be his wife as though
they had been formally betrothed. He
had never been particularly fond of the
ladies, or she loved all mai is, but none
in special" and this fair, radiant face
with pure spiritual light and grace
shining through, which far transcribed
any mere physical beauty, was the one
to whom his spirit cried like Peleas
"Where? o where? l love thee, tho
know thee not"
Laura was a lovely, maginativeyouna
person, possessing strong intellect and
a taste for studying into and ponderipg
upon all kinds of things, seen and unseen
OF course this meeting and compact with
an entire stranger took strong hold of hei
Y Imagination, particularly as the stranger
chanced to be one of the handsomest and
most impressive men she had seen. Al
: though minister's daughter, she was nc
: more religious than the generality Of
girls. She had never been given to read
ing the Bible very attentively, or to spend
2 ing much time at her private devctions,
Q thinking that if she was reasonably reg.
2 ular at family prayers, that was all
!, that was required of her. But to
d night "On the Heights" was laid aside
!. while she read of Cbrist's undying love
0 and kneeling prayed with passionate
tears, not only for her unknown friend
: but for forgivness that she had neglected
S her childhood's prayers until led in thi:
i way to seek the Throne of Grace. This
new religious impulse was continued with
: a deeper devotional feeling and increas
i ing interest, as if inspired, as she fully
believed she was, by stronger mind
: Her reading TOOK an entirely different
turn. One by one the fashionable pub
t ications of the day were dropped-somt
r of which she had been in the habit Of
o surreptitiously borrowing and reading
J gave way to magazines of higher grade
), As the summer days heightened, a desire
grew into her heart, she hardly knew
L when or how, to attend the commence
e ment exercises at Amherst, Mass. She
had friends there who had often invited
b her to visit them, but she had never done
e so; now she was possessed to go, hel
d mind was wholly engrossed with the idea
d and she went on Saturday Cor the whole
j of the following anniversary week.
$ Sabbath afternoon, while seated in
> the crowded gallery of the old church
J listening to the grand opening hymn
which preceded President Stearns' elo
Is quent Baccalaureate sermon, she became