The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-26

word Jesus Christ left for you. He says,
! Every one of you, come to me- I made
you, and you are of great account to me-
That man over there in the fur cap, the
one in the gray blouse, and every feiIoao of
] you. He loved you so that he died to
! give you chance at your best. Why,
| He loves you more than wives, or chill
| dren, or mothers do, though He sees
right through you sees how cowardly
| and ungenerous you are. How you turn
! against Him because He calls you out of
a mixed world, instead of taking you up
! bodily and setting you in a Heaven.
! Though He sees how some of you shunt
off, and think of cutting your throats, or
jumping overheard, or in some way slip
ping service. How every one of you think
more of coming money and success out of
this life than of getting joyfully ready
| for the life just over there. One moment
of which is more of life than all the nights
| and mornings of this. You think some
| times that you are just made to dig, and
sweat, and suffer- and die. 1t isn't so.
| You were born to grow into perfect
manhood which will overcome. Blessed
is he which overcometh.'
$50 this is the word Jesus Christ left
you: Come to me, friend who is of
flesh, and knows it all; Let us bear the
heavy loads of this world together and
! let us overcome.
You see, the Lord of Glory, who went
through the world by the hard way, and
knows its the best way for you, after all,
makes you His comrades r' .-
These words were not much, but through
them the preachers martial soul touched
! the men. He lifted them on the keen,
magnetic points of his eyes When he
burst out again with his song about bear
ing the cross, their voices joined him
with mighty bass.
! He spread his hands over them, with
short, loving benediction, and leaped
down from the casl1 to shake hands all
through his congregation, and ask special
questions.
1t was dusk Tom could scarcely de-
fine the young apostles face; yet when
that ardent hand pressed his, he felt he
had found friend in the dark; he wrung
it !; wrung its fire and joy into his own
arm; lifted his forehead and squared his
shoulders; turned his back on the river,
went back to-Ada and failure.
whether hope and happiness are for
me or not, said Tom, "Ill get some good
out of life for somebody"
He stepped up his boarding house stairs
with a martial step. Hollow-eyed, his
hair damp with fog, you might have tax
en- him for warriors ghost.
He opened his chamber door, and step
ped just inside, seeing Ada bundled down
by the window. Wished with longing,
| strong as his manhood, that he could
make aoife of her. Then reproached
himself that he expected so much of a
| kitten. Resolved that he would make
the best and most of it, and not let her
fret him any more.
But the face which Ada turned to him
was not like any other face she had ever
shown him Now whether God did visit
that woman and breathe into her liv-
ing soul, know not. People have strange
mental changes. Hers might have been
growing for years, like the century plant
but it suddenly burst into flower
She got up and came to meet her hus-
band. As general thing Ada was not
demonstr tratiVe, though she expected a
certain amount of petting. She put her
hands on Toms elbows-she was too lit
tie to reach his shoulders-and looked in
to his eyes with long, steady, tender
look, which made the tears swell out to
his lashes, man though he was.
"Oh, my darlingP' breathed Ada, al
haven't ever been real wife to you"
Not another word. And without clam
or and effusion. Was it Ada, or an angel
in her body?
Tom sat down and drew her on his
shoulder. He heard her breathing close
to his ear in the dark; long-drawn
breaths; gurgling, sobbing breaths. And
ground her to him; pressed her almost
into his heart; his a0ite; who at last
knew the selfrenunciation of love.
Did she hold her husbands hands up
afterwards ? Did she divert him when
he failed, sparkle proudly into his eyes
when he succeeded? renounce new dress
es with continual Lenten humiliation ?
care little where they tented for the time
if Tom were not hampered for money
Did she take hold Loyalty with him, and
; give her king the glory when victory was
won ra
She did If you were to see that dear,
; stylish, charming little Mrs. Tom tod day,
t bewitching her husband, bewitching eve
ry man who approached her, with the
honest charm of an admirable woman
hood, you would believe it of her For
women can change themselves, though in
nine cases out of ten, they will not.
Therefore, the safest investment is in the
: woman who doesn't need changing r.
AS for my Tom, when he is on wave.
} top he's waving his hat to cheer those
: who aren't and when he is down in the
/ trough of the sea, he shuts his mouth
; tight and does his best,
} Life isn't rest, says Tom. shaking
sour-lool1ing crabs by the hand "but
with all its knocks, there's something
) royal in holding out courageously till the
| last, instead of just stifening and going
l down Glad l didn't. a....E #a saE