The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-01
STORY OF CATHARINE GAUNT.
MRS. TnTONS MENTOR.
Are Their Cases Parallel 1?

Are Their Cases Parallel I?
Mrs. Tilton, writing from Schoharle
To her husband under the date Of June
30, 1871, saws: "TO-day through the
ministry of Gatharine Gaunt-a charac-
ter of tiction-my eyes have been opened
for the first time in my experience ;" that
! clearly see my sin.
BLESS God with me for Catherine
Gaunt." Let us look at the history OF
the relation subsiSting between Catherine
Gaunt and her priest, Brother Leonard,
and see what there is Of paralIcIism
between it and the history of Mrs. Til
tons relation with Bcechcr.
THE STORY OF CATHARINE.
Kate Gaunt was Catholic, her
husband Protestant. Kate was Il rclig-
ious'enthusiast, 80 was eryoung conteN'or,
Father Leonard. Kate shared his en-
thusiasm, and looked upon him as sort
of duplicate of Christ. The nearncsS Of
intercourse, whence, by his own religion,
Hates husband was excluded, led to. the
growth ofattachment in the hearts OF both.
There never was any impurity between
them, but II great Jealousy being pro-
duced in Griffith and great trouble
in the family. Kate gave the priest
money to go away. The husbands suS-
picions were excited by designing
servant. He saw the mOney-giving,
mistook the whole affair, gave the priest
a sound drubbng and left his wife.
He returned some time after, and AN
explanation was had through the inter
ventiOn of Hates new cOnfeSsor. good,
old fashioned father, not progressive but
strictly orthodox and from the c1plana-
ton between husband and wife, the
reader must evolve for himself the effect
of Kate Gaunt experiences on Elizabeth
Tilton. and conclude what we may OF
the nature and extent of resemblance IN
the offenses of Father Leonard and
Henry Ward Beecher.
CATHARINE sINTRODUCTIoS TO LEONARD
4 dav or two aftcrward he Father
Francis, brought his successor t. the
house: man so remarkable that Mrs.
(iuunt almost started at first sight of him.
This Brother Leonard looked
and moved like being who had come
down from some higher sphere to pay
the world very little visit and be KIND
and patient with it all the time.
THE EFFECT OF LEONARD SERMON on
CATHARINE.
The very next Sunday morning she
went and heard Leonard preach. His
first sermon was an era III her life.
After twenty years of pulpit proSers Their"
suddenly rose before her a scared orator;
IN orator born; blest with that divine
and thrilling eloquence that no heart
can really resist He prcpared'hls great
theme with art ut first but. once warm,
il carried In away, md his hearers went
with him like 40 many strawS on the
food. and in heererciSe of this great Slit
the whole man seems TRANSPORTED; abroad
he was a languid. rather sl"uchlng priest
but once in the pulpit. hi
f,,pre rose and swellcd majc~tcall!.
and seemed to fly over them all Ike II
guardian angels; his salIow cheek
burned his great Italian eyes shot black
lightning at the impenitent, and melted
inrtfablv when he soothed the sorr"wiuI'
Mrs.
Gaunt sat thrilled, enraptured, melted
She hung upon his words; and when
they ceased. she still sat motlOnlcsS, spell
bound; 10th to believe that accents 50
divine could really come 10 All emf
Even whilst all the rest were dispensing
she sat quite still and closed her eyes
For her soul was too high-strung now 10
endure the chit chat that she knew would
attack her on her road home. And hy
thi. means she came hot and undllutcd
TO her husband; she laid her white hand
ON his shoulder and said: "O,GrIttlth,
have heard the voice of God.
The grave has given lis back 1t. iauII
in the church'S need; and | have heard
him this day We'll hu'
nv dear. consider" said Griffith, "who
ever heard If comparing a living man 10
st. PAUL. for preaching? Why h. was n"
apostle. for one thing, and there are no
anostI.s now-a-davs." THAT
is true. said the lady, thoughtfully, "hut
he sent one man to sleep that 'rr Know
of. Catch Brother Leonard sending
any man to sleep
ARD.
so Leonard soon discovered he had a
great listener in Mrs. Cathrinc Gaunti
she was always there whenever he preach
ed. and her rapt attention never Ragged
Her gray eyes never left his face, being
uhturned, the full orbs came out in all
their grandeur. and seemed an angel :
come down from hesven to hear him;
for. indeed. to very dark man. a. Leon
ard was. the gentle radiance Of true
Saxon beauty seems always more ar less
sngelie.
Bv degrees this face became a help to
the orator In preaching h" looked
sometimes to it for sympathy; and, lo! 1t
WAS sure to he melted with sympathy.
Was he led on 10 higher or deeper
thoughts than most of his congregation
could understand he looked To this face
To understand him, and was besmlng
with intelligence.
From help and al encouragement
it became comfort and II delight I"
him.
On leaving the pulpit and cooling. he
remembered its owner was n" angel. but
woman of the world, and had put to
him frivolous questions.
NE Is SUBJECT TO FITS OF DEPRESSION.
Leonard, in truth. was one of those
high-strung men who pay for their
periods of religious rapture by hours of
melancholy. This oscillation of the
spirits in extraordinary men appears TO be