St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-10-22


old together"
But this most touching cry would be
of no Use if it did not stand through all
the time to come ut once as Il safeguard
and an inspiration : IL safeguard against
some things that prevent lis from grow
ing old together. and an inspiration to
some that help us. 1t WAS il natural
longing Just then voicing itself ont of
their hearts. They felt sure they had
been made for each other. and while
they knew that time must turn the
raven Ia white, furrOw the brow. blanch
the bloom. bend them down with it,
burdens. and touch all their faculties
with lis wimtry fro>tS. if they should
live, still they wanted the good God to
deal them out an even measure, to-
gethcr. This seems to me to he the
binding word. together then as now.
i'll the autumn as in the spring. in TAX
ing aS i'll giving. until the silver cord
was looSed and they wert borne away
not far apart to the life to come.
But looking first at the most outward
thing of all, there was danger. if they
did not take care, that their PRAYER
would not and could not be answered.
They might both grow old that must
he as God ordained and they might
live together while life should last
that must he as they ordained but this
day might he, for all that. the end of
THEN equality in age. If he WAS one OF
those men whom We have all known,
whose body and soul is given over To
business. while she w:IS one of those
women who take life easy and run no
risks. he might he Il broken-dnwn old
man with Il great fortune, while she
WAS still Young enough to enjoy it: or
if he has Il secret vice, such us keeping
ice water on the sidchoard and il sam
ple-room in the closet. OF any of those
subtle and dangerous devils that are
always watching for IL chance to drag
man down. while she held her life
sweet and true. then long before thriI
silver wcddin" he might hc in his grave
or he iii Tor very little out of il. an old
man in mid-agc. feeling the warning
finger of paralysis in his shoulder, or
the bolts OF imtiammatnry rheumatism
in his marrow. Il broken man that she
has to care tnr like Il trrtful child.
OR. if she. poor woman. is beginning
this welded life ;I> 81 many of our girls
do. without the sturdy Wnmamhund of
the open an. with Il bloom on her
blessed face like that Nou see ON the
blossom in Il hot house. while he has
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