The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-22
A CHILD's DREAM OF a STAR.



OF the sky; they wondered at the depth oil
the bright waters; they wondered at the
goodness and power OF God, who made the
world lovely,
They used to say to one another some
times: "SuppOsing all the children on thu
earth were to die, would the flowers, aud
the water, and the sky be sorry| They
believed they would he sorry.
For" said they, 1.-THE buds are the chill
dren OF the flowers, and the little playful
streams that gambol down the hill side,
are the children Of the waters, and the
smallest bright specks, playing at hide
and seek, in the sky, all night, must surely
be the children Of the stars, and they
would all be grieved 10 see their play
mates, the children Of men, no more
There was one clear star that used to
come out in the sky before the rest, near
the church spire, above the graves. II
was larger and more beautiful, they
thought, than all the Others, and every
night they watched Tor it, standing hand
in-hand, ut the window. Whoever saw it
first cried out, " see the star" And often
they cried out both together, knowing So
we'll when it would rise and where. So
they grew to bc such friends with it, that,
before lying down in their beds, they look
ell out once again to bid it good night, and
when they were turning round to sleep,
they would say: "God bless the star"
But when she was still very young, Oh,
very, very, young, the sister dropped, and
came to he 81 weak that she could no
longer stand in the window at night, and
then the child looked sadly ont by him
self, and when he saw the star, turned
round to the patients pale face on the
bed, ~ SEQ the starw And then u smile
would come upon her face, and little
weak voice used to say: "God bless my
brother and the star {"
And 50 the time came, all too soon, when
the child looked out alone, and whom
there was no face on the bed, and when
there was little grave among the graves,
not there before, and when the star made
long rays down towards him, rs he saw
il though his tears.
Now these rays were 40 bright, and
they seemed to make such beautiful,
shining way from earth 10 heaven, that
when the child went To his solitary bed
he dreamed about the star, and dreamed
that living where he was he saw u train OF
people taken III that shining road bv an.
gels. And the star opening showed him
a great world Of light' where many more
such angels waited to receive them.
All these angels, who were waiting,
turned their bcaming ewes upon the
people who were carried up into the
star: and some came ont from the long
rows in which they stood, and fell npOn
derby, and went away with them down
avenues of light, and were 80 happy in
their company that lying in the bed he
wcpt for ioy.
But there were many angels who did
not 90 with them, and among them one
hc knew.
The patient face that had once lain
upon the bed was glorilicd and radiant,
but his heart found out his sister among
all the host.
Ills sisters angel fingered near the en-
trance of the star, and said to the leader
among those who had brought thp pcopIc
thithcr:
ws my brother Gomez
And he said: 40"
She was turning hopefully away, when
the child stretched out its arms and said;
"Oh, sister, am here Take me-!
And then she turned her benming eyes
upon him, and il was might, and the star
was shining into his room, making long
RAYS down toward him rs he saw il
through his tears.
From that hour forth the child looked
ont upon the star as on the home he was
to 20 to when hi4 time should come, and
he thought he did not belong to earth
Lonc, but to the star, too, because Of his
sisters angel gone before.
There was Il baby born To bc brother
to the child: and while he was 80 little
that he had never yet spoken n word, he
stretched his tiny form On the bed and
died.
Again the child dreamed oi the opened
star and Of the company Of angels, and
the train Of people, and all the rows Oi
angels with their beaming eyes all turned
upon those peoples faces.
Said his sister angel to the leader:
as my brother come"
And he said "Not that one but an.
other"
As the child bcIIcld his brothers angel
in her arma, he cried
ooh, sister, am here! Take met
And she turned and smiled upon him,
and the star waa shining.
lie grew to I've young man, and was
busy at his book, when an old servant
came to him and said
"Thy mother is no more. bring her
blessing on her darling son."
Again at night she saw the star, and all
the former company. Said his sisters
angel to the leader:
as my brother come"
And he said, "Thy mother"
4 mighty cry Of ioy went through all
the star, because the mother was reunited
TO her Two children, And he stretched
out his arms and cried
"Oh, mother. sister and brother, | am
here take me
And they answered, "Not yet and the
star WA shining.
lie grew to bea man whose hair was
turning gray, and he was sitting in his
chair 6v the frcsilc, heavy with grief
and with his face bcdcwcd with teara,
when the star opened once again.