Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-02-28
OUR TRAVELLED PARsOM

FoR tive ty years and over our god parsOn ba6
| been tOllng.
To chip the bad neat from our hearts and keep
! the good from spOi ing;
But finally be vilted down, and went to loOkinF
/ sicsly,
And the doctor said that something must be put
up for him quickly.
So We kind of dubbed together. each according
And bousht aeiicuIAr ticket in the lands across
| the ocean;
rappcd some IOcket-mOney in It what we
| thought would easy DO him
And appointed ne committee man to go and
take 1t 70 him.
found him in his study, looking rather worse
than ever.
And told him twas decided that his flock and he
Then his eyes grew wide with wonder and it
seemed almost to blind 'em;
And some tears lOOKed out o. window, with some
Oths n close behind EN-.
Then banded him the ticket, with little bow
And be studird quite little ere he got its proper
And then the tears that waited, great unmanage-
Let Ii. mseIves out o window, and came climb
ing down his features.
wish you could ha' seen him, coming back all
fresh ana glowing
BIS clothes 50 WOrn and seedy, and his face so
fat and knowing;
wish you could have heard hun when he prayed
for us who sent him,
And laid US back twice over all the money we
hTd lent him.
Twas feast to all believers, twas blight on
contradiction,
To hear one just from Calvary talk about the
Twas a daHper on chose fellows who pretended
they cpulI dOuot it,
10 have man WIN d been there stand and tell
them ali abUut 1t.
Paul maybe beat our pastor in the Bible knots
unravelnR
AID establishing new churches, but he couldn't
touch him travelling
Nor In his journeys pick up half the general in
But then lie hadn't the railroads, and the st>am-
bOat navigation.
And every foot of Scripture whose location used
to stump us
Was now regnlsrlY laid out, with the different
points of compass.
When he undertOnk a picture he ouite natural
would draw it;
BE would paint 1t out so honest that it seemed as
nyousaTit.
An the way he chiseIed Europe-oh. the wsy he
seampered thrDug., it,
Not mountain dodged his climbing, not a city
but be kneWit;
There wasn't any subject to explain in all Gre
alton,
But he could go to Europe and bring back an
illustration.
Sowe crowded out to hear him, much instructed
and delighted; - :
Twas picture-show lecture and a sermon.
And my wife would wipe her glasses, and serene
ly Pet her Iestment,
And whisper, Fiat ere ticket WRs very good
investment"
Now after six months travel We were most of
us all ready
To settle down little. SOS tO.live more staid and
steady;
To develop home resources, with no foreign cares
TO het Us,
Using home-made faith more frequent; but the
parsOn WOuidn let US.
To view the self-same scenery time and time |
Rcain he'd call us,
Oer uVers. plains and mountains be would any /
minute baul us;
He siiehted our home soEroNs. and our spirits'
TO get &c esTloea ready for his rsE'lAr Sunday
De egsL tase Is of a-tuusins IN All -Diritusl
Tin y q lsst got hOmesics liir - ssasiok al e
And wish to al tats p,,y7,,ISisS ;Si,;,,
. ffee-exp pre- eioaef -. '.aA1i
{ llitt the Ltrd hflIh burst to the beigh
asa twenty feet, now sinking int
8 furious whirlpool The sight wa
beautiful and terrible, and one coulC
i no longer doubt that the Maories haC
here chosen q fitting habitation 70
their gods; indeed, who but gods coulC
dwell in the spot so unnatural, so un
earthly? Good Words.