Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30

with myself and no other, it occurred to
me that among the brethren of my own
communion | might be heard Not
knowing of any church committee, /
asked the privilege of such an interview
in the parlors of those who had always
been our mutual friends Mr.. and Mrs.
Ovington then learned for the first time
that the committee would meet that
night, and advised me to see those gen
tlemen as perhaps the COOLEST persons |
could select This I accordingly did.
There alone | pleaded the cause of my
husband and nv children, the result be
ing that their hearts were moved in SYM
pathy for my family, a feeling their pas
tor had shared for years and for which
he was now suffering. On going home |
found my husband reading in bed. |
told him where / had been and that did
not conceal anything from him, as his
habit was from me. He asked who the
gentlemen were. He said no more, rose,
dressed himself, and babe me good-by
forever
5. The midnight following l was awak-
ened by my husband standing by my bed
side. In very tender, kind voice he
said he wished to see me.
rose instantly, followed him to his
room and, sitting on the bedside, he
drew me into his lap. He was proud
OF me, loved me so that nothing
ever gave him such real peace and
satisfaction as to hear me well spoken
OF" At that meeting, from member of
the committee, he had learned that he
had been mistaken as to my motive in
seeing the committee, and had fastened
to assure me that he had been thoroughly
Wretched since his rash treatment Of me
the night before, etc. Then and there we
c0Venanted sacredly our hearts and lives,
| most utterly renewing the trust in the
one human heart | loved. The next day
how happy we were. Theodore wrote
statement to present to the committee
when they should call upon him, to all
OF which | heartily acceded This docu-
ment, God knows, was a true history of
this affair, completely yindicating my
honor and the honor of my pastor. In the
afternoon he left me to show it to his
friends. He returned home early
in the evening, passing the happiest
hours had known for years, assuring
me that there was no rest for him away
from me. So in grateful love to the dear
Father ! slept. oh, that the end had
then come; would not then have re-
ceived the cruel blow (which made a
woman mad outright"
The next morning he called upon Mr.
and Mrs. OVington, and there, with a
shocking bravadO, began wicked TRADE,
adding, with oaths and violence, the
shameful SANDERS against Mr.. Beecher
of which | now believe him to be the
author. This fearful scene | learned
VI In, t1n Oft 6a oh cd
his invitation from the committee to meet
them that evening; | did not show my hurt
but carried it heavily within, but calmly
without, all night till early morning.
Reflection upon this scene at Mr.. Owing
tons convinced me that, Notwithstanding
my husbands recent profession to me,
his former spirit was unchanged, that his
declarations of repentance and affection
were only for the purpose of gaining my
assistance to accomplish his ends in his
warfare upon Beecher.
In the light of these conclusions my
duty appeared plain. / rose quietly, and,
having dressed, reused him only to say:
step by your side. The end has indeed
come
He followed me to Mrs. Owing
tons to breakfast, saying that
was unduly excited, and that
he had been misrepresented, perhaps,
but leaving me as determined as
before. How to account for the change
which twenty-fOur hours have been ca
pable of working in his mind then fixed
for many years past, l leave for the
eternities, with their mysteries, to reveal.
That he is an unreliable and unsafe
guide, whose idea of truth-loving is
self-loving, it is my misfortune, in this
late, sad hour, to discover.
ELIZABETH r. Triton.
BROOKLYN. July %, 1874.