The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-12
0RNNG sTAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY JULY H. 1874

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Yes, Mr.. Delville," she went ON, returning
J sne look with one holding the might and glor,
OF truth, land prayer answered from abov,
: .ransforms the soul, and flls human life will
holiness and power. arms it against earth
worst assaults, and leads it to hesven!"
While she spoke, he drew within his owl
mind CONTRAST. the purport whereof the
reaoer may guess, and she--sho created q
climax to her innocent and unworldIy dream
truth"
linen the good heart gushed forth in the
words My child, God keep you untouched
ny the usual dreams of women. God preserve
you from the snares of wealth Your presence
in my house is blessing.n
III.
ABOUT i've years later one auspiceus night.
the Delville mansion was brilliantly illumi-
mated; was decorated with evergreens and
e1otics; was finging wide it's doors to bevies
OF Isir women and brave men - was filed
| "itn sounds OF music and sights of beauty
society was talking great deal about the we'd
olng' In fact had been talking for weeks.
| many were the fables of the brides trousseau.
presents, SELF, etc., but far more ingeniously
multiplied than these were the stories of the
bridegroom who had appeared suddenly and
unneraided, and carried off the heiress under
inc eyes OF sooiety's very choicest wife.seekers!
10 get at the truth, therefore was not q very
easy matter, but such is the aim of the present
cnFonicier OF an incomplete sketch of q rarely
complete life 30, dear reader, let us enter the
DaaZing mansion, and in o room removed from
hurry or noise, listen to three, who tell each
other the tale.
says the first, Mr.. Delville, roster than ever,
with hair and beard whittier than ever, but |
though not less jolly in aspect, owning a GER
tain dignity of mien, acquired since last We
saw him:
My dear Frank, you take away with Won
the light of our home. God bless You in the |
possession! Sir, FIVE years ago, was o wretch
wlthou religion, drifting on in an aimIess life
unworthy OF man, my home without comfort, !
my heart desolate. She came, and without |
any fuss, sir, without any flourish of trumpets
ABOUT it, transformed my home, transformed
my life, made Christian out of me, sir, saved
my soul. God bless her."
linen says the second, Mrs. Delville, with
face scanned and SCARED, but far more besuti a
full than in the past, because a woman's
awakened soul shines forth from her eyes, and
on her brow sits truth:
"And from me, Frank, you take my good
angel. For she came and found me O con-
temptible creature, with petty feelings and
mean aims, wife that forgot all the holiest
ooties for fashion and folly. treated her
snamefully, heapng indignities upon her, and
striving to force her from my house by petty
persecution. She strove against all to win me
70 the right, but held out and kept on in my
course. Then she prayed to God to
send something into my life by which her lofty
'nd would be attained. He granted her PRAYER.
was attacked with the most loath some form, of
man-pox, and when the whole Of my beloved s
world fed from me, when servants and friends
eft me, she remained by my sick bed, and 8
,ursed me with the tenderness and patience of
saint. i arose from that bed con verted to
ler view OF woman's mission. My home is
'aradlse, my dear husband happy, our wealth
leToted to the good of others, and when we Z
're dead and gone, the beautiful church of st. RI
agnes shall be q monument of our belief in
he Catholic faithl Dear Frank, we have kent
nese stories for wedding gifts. God bless You q
n them"
ihen the third, whom these two call Frank, t.
ne bridegroom, young man with clear, open q
row and honest eye, stoops reverently over Q,
or hand and kissed it. And says he, in n o,
oice that trembles with emotion even the
'ost manly heart need never blush to betray:
And l, my friends, take away my guiding Y
lar OF life, for before she came to you, I lay
pom sick bed, threatened with total blind
esq., and rebellious against the God who Wis., " "
ed me 80. I was poor and friendless in the
ouse of those poorer than myself. In her =:
emile charity, she came to visit them, and
clip their needs They brought her to the bed
here l suffered almost disappearing. She r
lily spoke few words of pity and faith, but
icy made me feel that God saw while / was
Ind, and that need not throw away life
zen If blind for all time. They reminded me
my manhood, and reused it, On that sick
ID made resolutions which afterwards put
to practice. Contrary to all hope, my sight
as preserved, and then became a man in