Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-09-29
SITTING IN SUNSHINE.

g To sit in sunshine, calm and sweet,
is an excellent thing Tor al invalid
These words met the eyes OF stephen
Strongway rs he glanced over the pages
of book taken at random from the Ia
bic in his wite's psrlor.
"'To sit in the sunshine calm and
sweet that would be beautiful exist
ence indeed, taken only in II physical
sense, while to sit all the time in mental
sunshine"
MIR. Strongway dropped his head upon
hand, and sigh stole almost uncon-
sciously from his ip, at the thought.
He wa- worthy Of his name-a strong
man, mentally and physically, and with
all strong mans impatienee of, not to
say contempt Tor, weakness in whatever
form.
Mrs. Strongway was delicate croa-
ture--loviug, trusttul and timid She
WAS overwhelmed by her husbands con
tempt OF weakness, and shrank from er-
hibiting her affection towards him, and
she and her children dropped under the
chill which the shadow of his stateliness
constantly kept upon their home.
But now Alicia, his wife was ill-dy-
ing and his thoughts were turned to
softer strains, and the sentence. ITO sit
in sunshine calm and sweet is an excel
lent thiug tor an invalid" struck home
60 bis inmo,t soul His wife had never
bad any sunshine Of home, or OF love, in
which to bask, but he resolved that it
should be 81 no longer.
Aiicia's early home at the sea side was
for SAFE and ii she wished it, he would
purchase the old house as a Summer re.
t'eat in future years for herself and child
rem.
In future years ? Nay, what had the
sober faced doctor told hum only that We
Iy day? He dashed the tears inpatient
" from his eyes. The doctor must be
mistaken. Alcia could live. 1t was not
too late to repair the ravages his coldpe,s
had mado. Even as he thought thi, IL
hollow cough struck upon hl, enr, aud
hi. wio Gro, sed the hall and euteled the
parlor.
Alicia" he said. lyon are very ill.,"
She looked at him and her soft brown
eyes filled with tcnrs.
"Yes, Stephen"
"Our doctor has been with me to-day.
l!e toid me that you are-dy ing"
"Ies, stephen"
AID the brown ewes looked Qto his
wi-ttuIly, as if asking, "Do you care %
"You know this, A icia ?"
81 have known it 10, some tme-long
before he di-covered it, Stephen"
The question was on his lips now
"Do you care, Alicia %
The soft eyes filled once more.
SO, Stephen, dread to leave you and
our dear children. love you. | mny
say it without offending you. now that
you know nm DYING
"God forgive me-" he cred. "Hsve
|, then, been SO unkind that you feared
to tell me Of your love till now :"
'Iou have not been unkind, Stephen -
she fastened to say "OnIy-I think
men do not quite understand woman'-
heart sometimes. Ii Is SO necessary for
rs to love and be loved, and to show that
love, stephen, and 30 have it shown,
that"
THAT see it all, my darling, ard now
know exactly how great the mischief il,
and how 1t has been done" said her hus-
band, cla,ping her to his heart. For
give me, my darling. We will 60 at
once from here to your old home, whore
we first knew and loved each other, and
| will see il can not bring the lost roses
back to those cheeks, and the lost Iight TO
those brown eyes. Kiss me, Alicia, and
you shall sit in sunshine calm and ,weet'
in future, if have the power to bring it
around your path"
i He kept hi, word. And did Alicia
die? On the contrary, she di-graced the
physician forever by growing strong and
we'll, and healthy aud happy in the calm,
sweet sunshine of her husbands love. 1t
never wsued again And she and her
children have lost all their fear OF him in
this strangely altered state of things,
while all who have business dealings with
him of late can scarcely recognize the
n,,ra sf.rp su1 haugltv man
"Io 1t in sunshine calm aud sweet'' is
indeed good for nvsIid-it is good for
ali. Reader, if in that blessed heart sun
shine you sit to-day, thsnk heaven hum
bly, for the git; for some there are on
whose darkest path no ray OF sunshine,
no glance Of true affection ever falls.
NEAR Laomiuister, in England, few