The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-07

prostrate in ashes. implores its help. One
night the subject of the sermon Was tire for-
giveness of irjuries. Magnificent theme!
Holy and sublime beyond all others! The |
earnest preacher knew how TO improve it, and
the believing people how to understand it.
At the conclusion, tie good missionary knelt |
before the crucifx, and with fervent zeal and
ardent charity promised the Lord OF mercv, IN |
the name of tina. multitude kneeling at his
feet, that on the succeeding night there should
not be in the temple single hard and unre-
conciled heart A burst of EXPLANATIONS and
tears confirmed the promise of the devoted
apostle.
The day which followed was one of peace
and love, according to the spirit of the evan
gel. The most deeply rooted enmities were
etfded the most irreconcilable foes embraced
each other in the streets {; the angels in heaven
had cause for rejoicing.
| Pedro went to see Anna. Terrible to the
unhappy man was the entering into th at house
! He approached Anna and embraced her in
| silence. The sfl lcted mother shook, and tried
! in vain to overcome her emotion. But when
Pedro turned toward Elvira, she stood
! wringiug her thin hands, worn to a shadow
and bathed in tears--when lie pressed to his
paternal heart her whom he had looked upon
and loved as a daughter, all his grief broke
forth in the cry: D aughter. daughter. you
and loved Lim!'
Rita, also, went to Anna's, to beg for that
W hich Pedro went to carry. When she found
herself in the presence of the mother-n-law
she had outraged, she fell upon her knees
81" she exclaimed, beating her breast :" have
been the cause of ALL i have not come to ask
a forgiveness l do not deserve, but to beg of
YOU to reprimand without cursipg me-" When
she turned to Elvira, it was not enough to re-
, main on her knees, she bent her face to the
floor moaning amidst her sobs, " Since you are
:. an angel, forgive"
s Maria supported her PROSTATE child, and
J, implored Anna with her looks aud tears. Anrs
and Elvira, without a word of reprosch, raiset
9 and embraced her who had done so much t.
: injure them striving all she could from tha
!, day to reauimate her, for she was the mos
IT wretched of the three, because the guilty one
is All the people looked with charity upon tn
g woman who had sincerely and publicly re
t, pented, for although the society called cult
10 waited finds in religious demonstration anothe
cause for vituperatiop, adding to the condeu
O. nation of faults, which it never forgets, til
reproach of hypocrisy upon those who turn
K God, the people, more generous and more jus
d: honor the open evidence of penitence and Ia
h initiation. Therefore, when they saw RI
eg abasc herself and weep, their indignation w
If exchanged for compassion, and the epith
ire "infamous,' for the ptiful words "Po
8 1 child"
it This was because the common people, thouI
they know not what philanthropy means, k nc
WE'LL because religion teaches them, what
he Christian Charity.
Nu CHAPTER XVII.
To Perico the life into which he found hi
~ self drawn by necessity, and by the vigoro
inf uence Diego exercised over him, one
misery Diego also had been drawn int
" life of crime by a terrible misfortune h
having entered, be adopted it warr
does his iron armor, without needing eth
ich its hardness or it's oppressive weight. Peri
bile followed his wicked companions while he
be- tested them. He was like the silver fish
lv some peaceful inland lake which, caught
nv some fatal current, is carried away into I
bitte r and restless waters of the sea, where
lost agonizes without the power to escape.
,pse times, when q crime was committed I'M
,me his eye s, he wished in his despair alton to
cen his torrents at once, by giving himself ul
was Justice but shame, and want of energy
his overcome it, held him back The others ha
the him, and surnamed him 1.-THE Sad" bnt
but was sustained by Diego's powerful protecti
ii to Diego felt attracted toward the man VIII
With life he had saved, and who was, he felt &
and honest. For the rough and austere Di
cca- was of q strong and noble nature that had
and yet descended to the lowest grade of e
nigh which is hatred of the good.
In of their raids, when the band
said approached Tas Ventas, near Aocsz a spy
pirit rived in breathess haste from Utrera, tell
them that company of mountain sold
does had just left the latter place in the direct
of Tas Ventss, informed of their whereabc
by some travellers they had lately pillaged
1 am They made haste to take refuge in an o
good grove, but had hardly entered it when
lem were surprised by troop of cavalry. d.
do p ly contest then commenced, sustained by Il
men men, who were fighting for their lives
terrible bravery.
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