The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-18
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saints and martyrn, yet they lifted
her j ignoraht and wwiIetched soul out
Of and above itself into that "ampler
ether and diviaee air" where the
dead rest and tho wicked cease from
troubling. She rested herself in
piteous weakness, against strength
that hid. suffered and overcome.
WHO dan ~, that the pitifnl Faith.
er who onda parted with HH Only
Son did not minister to her weakness
with divinest sympathy, even through
her mistakes, and help the poor soul
that in her own sorrow .ssvsr forgot
to ply With al torgiveness for the
dead hther who had been 50 hard to
her?
After III, who does: not pray for
tie dead? Not peahaps, the biirSieda, Il l.
for it is not tha alone ~ho .ats dead
to love, to pity, to forsivena., to M
taral affection, to all the voices Of
tender appeal from the. pask T. III
The possibilities Of tic future: -, 81;
truly, W send up agonies; of prayer
for hopeless subjects, and then sneer
At prayer for those who still live in
love and loving, in sacred remem.
brance, in hopeful faith. So Mary
Ann told her heads hourly, dreamed,
waked, wept, and dreamed aage,.iin' again, ill
through the long, weary voyage,
growing thinner and paler ill the
time. The full red lips settled now
into . sad proud curve, while her
eyes deepened into: = dark and fathom-
les sor91ow that made the heart ache
to behold.
!: But at last land Drew rear, and,
after vexing delays, Mary Ann and
her box were get ashore, andshsniade
her way to her old lodeipfp, ia orasrI
with keen feminine instinct, tofieshsr
het dress and make herself tidy:be'
fore che went to Dan. Bot abe did
net go to him. The Old: 1odliiau
who kept the house met her a& ths
door with wrin1ing hands and vocif
esous lamentatien. =.
:|"Oh, il It yezself 1 SEQ, alaana1
Oh, murthsr, mutherl ov all th<
black days, an me till It! Oh, u
poor crature, il it 10 the hospittlt
we've beenr'
The parched lips ahaped : hoarse
half.uttered "No."
Small blame tosye, thin; IN it,
no use if ye wor, for it's two xee1
sin I seen in the paper wid me owl
eyea, an you on say at tho toime, IN
his name, Christi'n name an III, :ou
. bould as maybe in it; an; ;he bur
led without the rights, I behave, 1t IL
m not : bit ov : stone, ayther.. In
tould, owin' to havin' no hinds up
pear whin they advertoised hin
III the paper. An sure if It wasn'
Two weeks ould whin I seen it I'd ha
gone mesek to tho praste. But Their
now, what can = lone woman dol Oh
honeyr'
For Mary Ann, growing whittier an.
whittier through this flow of talk; Ia!
back in her chair; with livid lips an,
| glasiy eye; stunned in soul and body
totally unable to take in The dreadful
2fact that'yet dinned itself in her Ell
With slow, dull iteration. Dan va
,deed. The old woman tried all be
dmple a1t. to awaken her to = sens
Of the situation. . -.
"0b, woman alive, can't 70 shed
tear for hint an maybe him roasti1
Iin pureatory this bliasid mint, glos
lbe to God! Haven't 70 the Va
j prayer to spake for him, an he u
ion1d man: an the childhers' 1sther
l. AihoArss shrek burst from pot
MARY AIMS lips as Mn. Kiermdi
named the children. The world ree
ell all about her. She was alone
chaos. Fatigue, anguish, despai
i overlook her. She fell senseless (
the floor; and the shiPfsver, whit
had lurked in her system > week:
more, and bean kept at. bay by Il
Eeager. determined soul that kept b
J. Fwesk body up tosits tax, now aase,
!, ,fea itself. Six weeks she ny in II,
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