Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-01-24
Miscellany.
Prom the AppletOn's Journal.
Luther BraltIe.

properly the curate, OF the Church OF
Our Saviour, in the prosperous city-par-
ish of D., was a man In false position.
lie was a clergyman by profession,
and in precisely the same sense that his
brother was a lawyer and bis cousin
physician. These two personages, having
had the fortune to be his seniors, selected
their various pursuits, and left their re-
lative no option. Therefore, he studied
for the ministry with the assiduity Of
faithful and a gratiul man, He had no
obstacle TO surmouui; no poverty, no irail-
ties OF the flesh. no commencement: all
was pleasant, serene and comfortable. lie
went on from stage TO stage of his studies
with neither haste nor tardiness, and COM
pleted them with full sense Of their
doctrinal beauties. He secured an ex-
celent education in all the more remote
legends and histories Of his Church, and
he stored his mind with all the ancient
lore of symbols and architecture. He
was accurate and exact; aud when he
first entered upon his duties, the good
rector found himself in possession Of a
treasure
After more time had elapsed, the rec
tor congratulated himself again aud again.
for the curate manifested as much skill
and completeness in his duties as parish
officer as he had in his scholarship. His
labors in this capacity were complex,
multilarious, and very often extremely
difficult, but still he fulfilled them with a
). shrcwduess and care which were nearly
! perfect.
I His tact was almost sublime. His vig-
;, or always calm, was strong aud well d.
h rected He was anything but an enthus-
y last, but he reused his poor into state
: of religious fervor by the consistency and
i business of his acts of charity, which he
n never failed to ascrlbe to the mercy Of
r God. No man ever died happier than he
It who expired under the words and glance
of Brattle. No one ever assuaged u grief
- so fully, or chcered dependency so quick
l. ly, or rou, ed to action a lagging spirit
}. with so much practical encouragement, as
. he And yet it was remarked that he
never shed a tear or stepped foot beyond
his territory. Within it he was beloved,
n adored, worshipped; the most trifiine
J. want, if it lay within his province, was as
d strictly filled as the greatest. lie reduc.
IS ed number OF the recipients Of charity
e oue-half by finding labor for the others
C he brought the two social extremes Of the
O church face to face, to the benefit Of
$. both he reorganized feeble Sabbath
s. school, and made it flourish; he preached
a or lectured on Wednesday evenings in his
is elegant stone chapel, and drew an eager
2f audience and here he made the most oi
r his ine figure, his full sentences, and his
10 good elocution. He calmed dissensons
Il with his persuasive arguments aud en-
n couraged a mild liberality. He fitted up
st room for hospital, so that the poor
B.. sick might have proper treatment and
], good air He labored to have all the
le church seats free for the afternoon ser.
r vices, and, in spite Of general opposition
D. at first, finally succeeded, No difficulty
perpexity, or work, served to prevent
o. his alta a;nment OF an object he was dog
81 ged, not elastic; persistent, but not OBJ
30 % trusive. He moved over his little scenC
50 50 with great effect, impressing everything
20 with the weight of his goodness, arousins
10 all with the force Of his example, yet
90 seeming totally unconscious Of the value
90 S9 of his presence. He appeared to be OBJ
so livious of his own superior worth; 10 bt
IS Ignorant and unmindful of his own grea
SO merit.
90 The resaon was this All he did wa
60 the result of education, habit, early in
% 7S struction, and not of the spirit Of Christ
y y He felt no estacy, no divine spur; he wa
rs man Of duty.
50 Within, he was uutried. Without. h
SO was as fair and strong as some species o
80 trees whose, trunks grow up about a pitt
90 Of sponge.
90 Had fortune SO directed him, he wou!t
90 have been as perfect an civil engineer a
20 20 he was curate. He would have school
90 ed himself in mathematics as fully as h
90 did in charities; his land surveys woult
90 have been completed with as little soul a
rs now entered into his conduct of the ser
900 go vices or his study of the deficiencies 9
10 his parish.
10 Nothing had ever tested his mora
So strength he had achieved a reputation
without single trial Of his soul; but il
= the second year of his presence in tn
place he met with great disaster.
At first the matter was trivial and or
dinary enough He simply wished to Civ
a valuable ring to the rector's daughter
to whom he was engaged to be married
He found himself unable to afford it by
considerable sum. 1t was at this poin
& that he should have banished the matte
y forever, but he dallied with it, and j
took possession of him. He passed tn
first stage in that devils sequence-ab
horrence, endurance, and adoption, ant
slipped out of the influence of eommo
honesty. He denied himself the privileg
of forgetting, and the question of how I
his desire was to be satified soon present
ed itself. That it was to be satisfied wa
settled in his weak mind; the mode wa
i, now his plerplexity. ''yl q
One plan occurred to him was rejecte'
because it would involve the exposure Q
his poverty, another would be iuconvet
ls lent, another would be undigniied, an
G other would cause d questions, anothe
would cripple him for many months; b
81 rejected them all over aud over again, an
became more familiar with the picture (