Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-22

and the hair; should sacrifice an evening
week for her sake; should patiently,
almost imperceptibly, incline her toward a
higher, more womanly creed-in short, be
always ready with the word 6tly spoken
for this unattractive, provoking and yet
worthy girl-no words ofpraise are strong
enough. To give money is easy; to give
thought aud time, and sacrifice prejudice
and pIeasanter company for an Indifferent
an and the Christian"
"Oh!" murmured Mrs. Larche.
When 1 have always detested the girl,
and turned her into ridicule; and only
last night, when Jane said she was sorry
for her, and that she should invite her
here occasionally, and try to be of some
use to her, told her on all such occasions
to give me warning, as [ did not
choose to see too much of Miss Stubbs.
1t never occurred to me that l owed her
any duty"
Still without reply, the angel advanced
to the third item.
:. Mrs. Richie has long been ill. Before
uOA il!uOoo QUO WdS q uuOs oLOVJ VOhAoH'
You would observe her hair and her color
and her waist. You would also observe
that no lady saluted her, aud that your
wife or your daughter, or whatever lady
hung on your arm, meeting her for the
first time, surveyed her with marked and
instant distaste. Nothing was absolutely
known against Mrs. Richie. She lived
quietly with her husband and children.
But it was one of those ca-es where, al
though nothing discreditable was known,
every one was firmly convinced that there
was great deal to be known if one chose
| to take the trouble to unearth it.
But Mrs. Richie has now been i'll for
weeks. Her husband looks sleepless and
anxious. There is trouble with the SER
wants, as is apt to be the case when the
head of the house is ill., The little child
rem, playing about, look unkem2t and
| forlorn. Mr.. Larche passes them every
afternoon on his way home, and Mr..
Larche has a tender heart for children.
He saw little Nanny crying, and scratched
with the gravel where she had fallen, and
lutte Molly, only two years older, trying
to comfort her and play the mother, and
dashed mist from his eyes and muttered
something about bitterly good women
| Mr.. Larche is not what is called serious
He declares that his wife, who is notable
woman in the Church, does the piety for
the family. But he ventures on occasion
al hints about Mrs. Richie, as that the
Richie family must be in sad trouble, now
that there is no one to nurse the invalid,
or watch the children or that 'RIche,
po fellow, looks almost worn out.
"To tell the truth, it is not only that
his sympathies have been reused: he has
something at stake. There is a principle
of opposition strongly developed in MIR.
Larche. He is not the man to accept a
creed because his fathers believed 1t be-
fore him, or because it is the fashion.
And we'll was it that Mrs. Larche, asking
herself what her Lord and Master would
once to Mrs. R,che on hearing of her con-
dition, comtorted the children, reassured
| the servants, sent over whole meals ready
cooked soothed the sick woman, and re-
lieved Mr.. Richie, worn out between busi-
ness and nursing, of the strain on body and
nerves. For, seeing that, Mr.. Larche now
declared his beiief In the Inspiration OF
Christianity for he argued, if there is
God, and just God, then He mus
love all His creatures as His children
spite of differences of color, manner anC
language, and all mankind are brothers
And if that be so Christians could no
dare to wave aside lost and erring broth
er or sister, as the naughty Brahmin, il
the pride of his purity, motions away the
pariah from his road for Christians mus
believe, if they believe at all, that Chris
died for this lost man or woman a'so
There is in him not only our own blooC
and a common humanity, but something o
God, and they dare not d'spise what had
anything of God in it, and that God still
loves. This is what | have waited for
for many philosopher and heather Greco
has inculatedl purity and self-denial
but God alone could inspire humanity
with a love for what is fallen and inferior
Hitherto | have recognized my wile'
virtues, but dispised her prejudices, hel
cACiuSltG udS, uCk iOduiuOoo w JuuHC
| have hated the thought that religion sit.
safe and satisfied while believing thai
millions were perishing before its eye
finally and forever; and if my wife hac
refused to play the Samaritan to this WON
an, half dead by the roadside, shoulc
have refused, once for all, a religion tha
consisted in a pew, Church, Sunday
School, genuaection in the creed, on'
hundred dollars year to missions, anc
the sewing society. When Gods children
cry to HIM for bread, He could neve
send them such stones as these
q say again that it was we'll that Mrs
Larche listened to the Teachings of he
Lord. Facts. not dead principles, arr
what are wanted by earnest, thinking mel
like Larche, and a thousand sermon
could never have carried the conviction
that did that one act of selt-denying
womanly charity"
Mrs. Larche was. very pale just now
She had told her husband that Eornln,
" that she could not comprehend his inter
est in Mrs. Richie, for her part. Whe
any respectable woman was ill he showe
no such sympathy, and he must excuse heI
Sae could not compromise herself by enter
!. ing house like Mrs. Riches. 1t wou
make her i'll to touch the woman. LIE
i her husband, if he was her husband, brin
sone person who would be congenial t
s her to nurse her and to look after hl
!, Children"
r Apparently unheeding, the angel mad
a finsl item.
Amy one occupying an exceptional o
a professional position is very much at th
n same disadvantage as on the stage. A
= her neghbors have decided coneeptio
r about he way in which she should pla
j. her PAT, and are ready with criticism