The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-03-01


over the cavern. He seized large lump of
! gold put ii on his shoulder, without waking
one of the demoniac crew. Ere he had gone
! fifty ellis he heard the COLLINS shouting after
him that he should keep his treasure forever.
Frightened at this, he threw it away and hur-
ried down the mountain (he fable gives no
particulars of his ascent or deSccnt,) and the
next day reached his humble home delighted
with his adventure, and made thereby the
strong magnet to the iron of all his ftllOw-vil
! layers.
When hans woke the neNtmQrning the heavy
bar of gold was on his shoulder. Bearing i
10 the Elbe, he sank it in the midnle of the
stream, but within twenty-four hours it came
| back to him, and from that time he sought to
get rid of it in vain He soon grew to be con
sidered as one accurSed. Men and women
| avoided and children fled from him. He be-
came Il solitary, and life lOathsome to him. He
wandered from place to place, but the story of
his doom followed him. Neither rest nor hope
was longer possible, and one morning he was
discovered dead IN the principal street of Baut-
zen, having cut his throat in despair. When
seen the night previous the bar OF gold was on
his shoulder, but the corpse was without il,
and everybody believed that the bar had re,
turned TO the gnOmes, who had allowed Hans
TO take it as a malediction for his curiosity and
! avarice.
| SCRIBNERs MONTHLY for March has five
finely illustrated articles, commencing with
Life in the New Diamond Digging,;" then
professor More and the Telegraph" followed
by Napoleon H." Folk Life in Germany
! By-Ways,' &c. DR.. Hollands Bonnicastle
grows in interest. Then we have several s;oris,
with essays, editorials, &c.
| In Arthur Bonnicastle, where Aunt Flick
| har
ton of a revival" in.Ncw England, and the
| following comment on it by one of the charac.
ters-NIr. Bradford-who encounters Mr.. Bed
| low, the reviyalist:
! At length he paused, and said Il suppose
| that is man old enough TO be father oi all
these young people ought to say frankly what
feel in regard to this subject do not be.
| lieve ii is right for ne 10 shut my mouth tigh.
upon my convictions Ny own measure OF
faith is small wish to God it were larger.
and am encouraged TO believe that it is slowly
strengthening | am perfectly aware that
lack peace in the exact proportion that lack
| faith; and SO does every man. no matter how
much he may qoast. Faith is the natural food
OF the soul-thc only natural and healthy atti-
tude of the soul. would 90 through anything
! 10 win II, but such men IL Grin>haw and Bed
| low cannot help me. They simply di,tres. and
disgust me. Their whole conception of Christ
ianity is cramped and mean and their method,
of operation are unwise and unworthy. know
! how Mr.. Grimshaw feels: he knows that reyi.
walls are in progress in the other churches, and
| sees that hi. own congregation i, attracted 10
their meetings. He finds i, impossible 10 keep
the tide from retiring from his church, and
feels the necessity OF doing something cX,raog.
binary 10 make it one OF the center, and re-
| ceivers of the new influence. He has been a.
! work faithfully, in his way, for wears. and de
sires to see the harvest which he has been Try
ing TO rear gathered il. so ne sends for Bed.
low Now | know all about these BedlOw re-
yvals. They come when he comes, and they
90 when he goes. His mustardseed sprouts q,
once, and grows into great tee which W ,h.
crs and dies rs soon as he ceases 10 breathe up
on it. | never knew an instance in which a
church that had been raised out of the mire by
his influence did not sink back into deeper
Indifference after he had left it, and that by Il
process which is just a. natural a, it j, ineyita.
be. An artificial excitement is ali artificial
exhaustion He breaks up and ruin, prccc,,c-
Of religious education that otherwise would
have gone on To perfection. He has one pro
cess for the imbrutcd the ignorant, the vicious
the stolid, the sensitive, the delicate, the weak
and the strong, the old and the young. | know
it is said that the spirit oi God i with him and
, | hope il is but one poor man like him doe
not monopolize the spirit OF God, hope; aoI
does that spirit refuse to stay where he j, no.;
No, it is Bedow-it- all BcIlow; and the iac
I that rvival got up under his influence Cease
, when he rctirc, proves TIA, il is all BcdloW
t and account, Tor the miserable snow ui lsvv
/. manently good results
+ The March AIEINE opens with 4 very effect
. i've coast scene Ate. the storm by Tayc7
nirr. The black and rugged cliff, are IN bow