Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-29
Touching Incident.

ONE consistent. earnest follower of
Christ in a family, a school, or COM
munity, is a continual blessing. The
influence and example of such pres
| ence, though they may not always win
great numbers to good, will prevent
many from worse evil.
Among the pupils of q fashionable
female boarding-school there was one
Christian girl. OF all the noble work
she did there in her quiet way, and all
the results of her fidelity and pleasant
usefulness, Heaven alone keeps the
record. We only know that she was
instrumental in turning a single class
mate. gay young lady. from one Of
frivolous pleasure TO a life of earnest
religious devotion.
That young lady, when her school
days were over, went back to a home
where she was beloved and INDUCED,
but where not a member of the family
felt the least religious sympathy with
her, or understood at all the new de-
votion and the nobler motives that con-
tro!led her. ~
| Unable to consent to the destiny
which her parents had marked out for
to become a leader in gay circles,
and shine star In fashionable society
she now found her greatest delight
in helping the unhappy, and in unset
fish labors for such as poverty and sin
had shut up in darkness. i"
She asked her old Sunday-school
Superintendent to give her class to
teach, but he had not heard of the
change in her, and treated the appli-
cation of the once trihing girl as an
| irreverent jest. of.s sa
The next Sabbath she led into the
school poor little street boy, and
gained permission to begin class by
herself. That boy was delighted with
his new privilege, became warmly at
| tached to his teacher, and rapidly
drank in the truths he heard.
But his parents were angry that he
attended the Sunday School, and his
father whipped him to make him stay
away. Finding that he must get his
Sunday teaching at such a price, with
pathetic quaintness, the little fellow
begged to know If he could not be AZ
lowed to take the whipping sabbath
morning, and then go to school after
wards. and not have it to think of.
At this singular putting of the case.
the father relented little, and instead
Of threatening, promised him reward
if he would attend the Sunday School
no more. He was required to reddle
apples all the week lie, should have
the money for all he sold on Saturday
afternoons.
Hoping for no better terms from his
father, the boy now undertook to
make terms with his teacher. His
time was his own sconditir nally) on
Saturday afternoons. He asked the
young lady if he might come to her
then and be taught, instead of on Sun
days She willingly consented, and
this arrangement continued for some
time, to the profit and pleasure OF both.
Finally a terrible accident happened
to the little hoy He was at the depot
one day supplying apple through the
car windows to the passengers on IA
train, when his foot slipped as the cars
started forward, and he fell under the
wheels, and had both his legs cut off.
"Shall live to get h0mer' he whis-
pered to the surgeon who attended him.
"No, my poor lad, you are dying
now"
"Then tell 'em that ] died Chris
tian," and he expired. - Yos1th's Com
p0nion.
SIN is never overcome by looking at
it, but by looking away from it to Him
who bore our sins on the cross. The
heart is never won back 70 God by
thinking we ought to love Him, but
by learning what He is--al worthy Of
our love. - ErcitaDqe.
WHAT can be more foolish than TO
think that all this rare fabric OF
heaven and earth could come by
chance, when all the skill Of art is not
able to make an oyster.-Jereny
ioBior
lin 1873 the number Of white pu-
pills in tile Georgia schools was lo5, 900;
black, 5O.3 $50 The amount paid by
the state was 929l,3l9; the amount
,t'l by the State and by towns, S435,-