Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-19

had passed when the friends had assembled
20 perform the last sad rites to the dead.
The servants we're ali dressed 10 mourning,
that il, they wore Grape on the arm. All
wore black except Ada. She begged to be
allowed TO wear her white muslin, and said
no fashion OF black, could convince her that
black was not contrary to the christians
faith. If the ngels who watched the Saw
Tor in the Sepulchre, were not forbidden to
wear white, she could not be wrong in DONG
So She had been busy eli the morning
gathering flowers to decorate the dead She
literally covered the body with myrtle, tuoe
roses, aud lilies. She made oed OF
flowers on her breast, and placed her
withered hands on them. She was not
ebeerful hut calm She had not realized
the loss she had sustained; nor the vacant
chair at the table, or the sweet expression
that met her glance as she read the old
family Bible to her, or the low, calm amen
a she closed her prayer. Ii is we'll that
our sorrows come to us only by degrees,
that the heart may be fort fed to bear them;
for il all the weight Of bereavement should
fall with one blow we might sink under IT,.
When the funeral cortege left the house, it
was a sad sight to see the servants walking
q sprig Of myrtle in his hand. and when the
coffin was lowered to its resting place as
they passed BY each dropped his Offering
with q tear, for they loved the kind mistress
who had been 40 considerAte to them.
Ada visited Graudma's grave aud kept
fresh flowers on it, and planted vines and
immortelles on it. She soon turned her
attention 70 Anna and helped her on in hel
studies. Time that heals all the wounds o.
the heart began to perform its mercifu
work a; Field Place aud although Grand ms
was not forgotten she was not m0urned al
she had been ct the first.
CHAP. NJ.
While the sad scenes of the proceeding
chapter we're being enacted At Field Place
MISS Dale Was performing her good work a
the Institution. She had expected to hn'
there only the wreIched out-cssLs, the mos
abandoned, the lowest aud most ignorant c
the dregs of 9 great city. She had been eX
aiming the records vi the Institution 4
which we're entered the names OF arrival,
age, and place of nativity; together With N
questions, "Can you read aud wrne? WIS
religious denomination does your fA nlly b,
, long TOT Have you ever been member {
q Sabbath school? SC She was surprise
to hnd the names mostly written IN cles
=, hand, some of them even elegant, while OF
Of about nine hundred ony twenty seve
we're unable to write ut all aud made the
marks, She argued that there Vas hope Il
this class Of uniortupstes, and that Hol
good could be accom- plished by restorin
them to their friends thau by shutting the
out from society, only after time TO
: sent back TO the same life from which The
n had been rescued. Most of them we're n,
bad from choice but were the victims OF CT
= cumstances, and with all the pref udlcs
society against those who had been the VI
!, tins Of base men, there was h;iIe hope f
. them to live good life or gaia = live o
= in an honorable WAY. IL is true, too Iru
= that many mothers wbo have mSrriagesb
!. daughters, do not hesitate TO encourage a
: attentions of young men, rather fast W
!. had ruined the prospects and bliVhted q
: hopes of those fully The equals Of their ov
, children, II their doors could bs opened
" = golden key SO long As the world Sc
only the lengih Of the purse and does n
= regard the virtue and character Of those
=, whom they give their children in msrrlsg
so long will our Court, have TO record =
: comp ,tibility" as a reason for divorce )
Z ciety is at fault. argued Miss Dale, in win
/, Jog at the sins Of one and visiting the pa
4 ner of The same sin with w pArdonAhe p
ecutiop. Let the aBAthema be sd IN mister
10 al alike, and the mark Of Cain be plsc
on the brow Of each until men learn tn
virtue and good character are the on
passports to good society, and such RICH
. eous Judgment will be the first step towa
i, regeneration
THE END