The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-04-06
LINK THE SEVENTH. / Continucd)
RELIGION AND PIETY.
u-INTO THE MAELsTRoM.

u.--INTo THE MAELsTRoM.
/ Here the couple brought up, and afte
/ q little chaffering with the landlady, whC
I gave way, however, as soon as she haC
caught sight of the young girls face
| they agreed to take a room in the attiS
/ at eight shillings a week. The man pu
I down his bag, and went out to buy a few
necessaries; the girl, casting off her hat
threw herself on the miserable bed, anC
sobbed violently. Six months Of sinfu
vagrancy had not yet hardened her.
my Godl" she said-"my God bavt
mercy upon mel
But the more she wrung her hands
and wept, the more terrible and hope
less seemed her despair.
IL can not 90 back-I can not 60 on /
she cried, passionately. 20 merciful
Godl why don't you strike me dead
Why have you deserted me2 Is there
no hope-no repentanceP
Mrs. Perkins slipped into the room.
"Why, why-whats the matter, dear p
she said, holding her candle to look at
the beautiful disordered face, flushed
with weeping. You are beauty
"Will you 60 away. pleaseT said the
girl, Immediately, sitting up with dignity
and wiping her eyes. "Who asked you
to come hereT The woman was quick.
She saw this was no common country
girl.
"Oh, beg your pardon, miss only
heard you going on so terrible, miss.
Can't get you something, pleaseY
mo, thank you. No one can do me
any good"
The landlady saw an opening.
"Yes. dear. they can. Such a sweet,
beautiful creature as you needn't lie here
crying and sobbing enough to break her
heart. Cheer up, my dear. You're in
London now and don't know what luck s
in store for you. I'll bring you some.
thing directly that II do you good"
The everlasting comforter-the solace
the girl was already learning fast, fast, to
fly to as the only one left to her. Here,
in superciliously pious England, we have
built wall of brass between innocence
and undiscovered guilt on side, and dis.
covered sin upon the other. And, more
over, by our most Christian and moral
practice, the errors once detected shall
have q ten-fold greater Nervousness and
q hundred-fold greater penalty if they be
of a man. o most just, most equitable,
most polite. most consistent, and most
Christlike nation, which is less forgiving
even than the Judge of heaven and
earth
The man at length returned with can.
dies, food, and bottle Of rum. He
looked at his companion, askance and
troubled.
Nelly, dear" he said. you've been
crying again"
III shall never have done"
"What is the user said the man, sad
ly, and breathing painfully, as if strug
Cling with some strong feeling within
"What is the good of it now? All
wish could believe the old heather:
amos ubi decldimus
Quo Plus Kneas quo dives Tullus ct ANGUS,
Pulvis ct umbra sumus!"
| As he said these words a slight flash o
old University memory seemed to ami
mate him. Then he relapsed into {
| gloomy dependency.
But no-throw it to the devil anC
have done with it.
at is done, aud done forever she
said; nothing can undo it. Oh dear
: Oh dear ! shall kill myselfp
And the full passion of her sorrow
burst forth again. The man at first wal
cowed by the strength of it; but hS
opened his bottle and drank, and was re
vived. Then he mixed some rum with
water and offered it to her
She forced it down her throat Agair
/ say, to a hopeless outcast from love OF
sympathy, what other respite and ne
penthe" is there for the sensitive con
science? The man had skillfully ingra
tiated this idea into her mind. His owl
soul was wrung with the deadly anguish
of remorse; and her consciencestricker
agony was pain he desired, for his owl
sake as we'll as for hers, to deaden 81
for that night she managed to driv'
away the "Blue-Devils." But they wer,
coming back in real earnest for her com
panion. He finished the bottle tina
night The next morning he lay veal
and trembling in bed, and sent for an
other And after that the real Blue
Devils, who had been dogging him loni
time, fastened on their prey.
There is no use in prolonging the stor.
of the miserable strife. doctor cam
and ordered him to the hospital, and tn
poor girl saw him carried away, alter
nately praying and blaspheming-rC
peating the Church service, and the
pouring out curses and indecency.
was thus he died.