The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-15
Morning Star and Catholic essen ger.
WEW OhLEAy. ,iuNDAy OCTOBER Is 1876.
essen ger.
JUVENILE C0LUmN.
TEE LAST CHILDREN; OR THE BEAUTIFUL
MIDNIGHT.
81 HATuKR YABER.


wind, rs it swept over the great Brazilian
forest. And the tail palm tree tren bled
and waved their green fans to get all the
seas GOODNESS which came in the breeze
and their teathery domes swung to and fro,
like ships rocking at aochor.
Lilalpa, death must be very beautiful"
said Oniato, 81 for death is Gods night J"
"Ah, Ouiato!' replied Lilalpa; "but light
is more beautiful than darkness"
dearest sister, you must not say 40,
! answered Oniato darkness is more beau
tifnl than light we see God better IN the
\ darkness
"Why have your thoughts been 80 often
wandering on God lately, my dearest bro
ther," said Lilalpa. "God God lit is n
beautiful word, and makes a strange stir
in my heart. Where is GOdf Who Is
al know not, Lilalrn; but when things
make a stir In our heaEte, they must be
real things There must be God J"
Ah, Ouiato, SEQ why you love the
darkness-irls because it makes you think
more of God. Beautiful darkness it feels
like bome.'
sob, yes, Lls'pa; aud when have
listened to ito missionaries reasoning with
my father, have sometimes thought that
light was really darkness, and darknes
really light"
Indeed, the night was beautiful, jnst such
night as would be likely Ia make children
talk likeangeIs. l wonder how much they
understand OF what they were saying to
each other7
They wandered on they were lost in the
forest. The bonghs met a buve their heads,
like the roof of cathedral They heard
the wild beasts arguing with each other,
complalniDgiy rather than eavagely. DC
casionally there was silence, and they
thought they heard the earth breathe /; but
just az they were going to make certain of
1t, some night bird from a lofty branch
n .lx,w
song into the ears Of the ancient night
Every now and then they saw the stars
&ghtlpg in The sky-so Lilalpa thought
but 1t was only the tossing of the branches
which KEEP showing and hiding the stars
There were many sights and sounds in that
wood which the children did not under
stand. But they felt them all, ard some
how, when they felt rhem, they whispered
to themselves" God! GID #! We erj,y
the day time /; we feel the night time. In
day time God sees u; n TIE night time
we see God. On earth, 10 see G I'd means tn
seeing"
Why had these children left home
They will never return to it. The end of
the world VIII come in al hour, aud they
Will die in theswateTs OF the wood, ard
having been really dead before, will make
Themselves alive by dying.
SOB, LiiaIpa ia not this very solemn
aark, how the wind murmurs! 1t haze q
voice like that of our dead, pale faced
mother. Lilal pa /! l sometimes see nv
mother, when sleep But listen to the
wind. 1t sings az if it were unhappy
Perhaps the wind lie Godl |"
But If it was God, Oniato, is would
NOT be unhappy"
"Oh, Lilalpa more and more 1 ask
who 10 G0df We have NO God. We are not
like the Christians with white faces, such as
come TO ns, aud sucn as they say were
kings in this land thousands of years ago
They have n God whom they love How
grand the ruins of their churches are! Oar
mother was white faced, they say, and che
too, had a God aud loved him. LiIalpa l
must have God, fit is only to have some
body TO love"
Lilalpa burst into tears.
Dearest L,lalpa!" said Oniato, lyon
know love y0u you know what mean"
Oh. yea, bTorhe,;" replied L'ialpu, a.!
am not unhappy. l q" know what you
mean, for teei the same myself and vet
l love y0u, Oh, SD much ~
And OnIat0 threw ma arms Tnund her !
and said: We will fud God Tonight"
ana a star shOne into LIalpa's fearful |
eyes On, sometimes tie STATS seem aim Ost |
10 speak by their nbinit.g
an ODlato, wish our father would |
not onFh those white faced priests in the |
nres OF the snake empIes. Even nov "
Zee ms to me- IA If the VIVID was f1Ii Of tho
sound of th"ee signs aud murnu1s which
they make in the fire."
And yet, LtIalpa, they are not like the |
murmuTe of pain aud anger"
No! that is the strange thing"
"Lilaipa l cannot breathe in nv IA
there palace. have ehticed you here on |
purpose. Let us find Gsd. If not, let us |
live in the forest and die here, lik es flowers
het ne seek the white. faced man of God,
whom my father drove Into the forest to.
gay to die of hunger, or to he eaten by tho
Wild beasts. have hidden a task of wine,
md him."
"oniatO. shall we ask thoSe dear stars to
lead us 20 hrmf"
No, Lilalps, his God will know beet
WHere he is. To be sure the eyes of the
seaTs seem to be every where. But think
"e nao better pray to his God instead."
OnIat" see! the ear h is on feet"
LiIaIpa it Is only the fire flies. Let
u us follow them. They the living stars
V Sa che wood. Perhaps God has cent them
ss SSu 9s So they followed the Ere flee