The Columbus journal., 1879-02-05
OUR TRAVELLED PARSoN.
BY WILL CARLTON.

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lands across the ocean;
Wrapped some pocket money in it-whaI
we thought would easy do him
And appointed me committeeman to &C
and take IL to him.
found him In his study, looking rather
worse than ever,
And told him 'twss decided that his
flock and he should sever.
Then his eyes grew wide with wonder,
and il seemed almost TO blind 'em,
And some tears looked out O. the win
dow, with some otht re close behind
'em.
Then i handed him ,he ticket, with a
little bow of defer ence,
And he studied quite a little ere he got
his proper reference;
And then the tears that waited, great
unmanageable creatures,
Let themselves quite out o. the window,
and came climbing down his features.
Iwish you could ha' seen him, coming
back all fresh and glowing;
His clothes so worn and seedy, and face
so fat and knowing;
] wish you could have heard him when
he prayed for us who sent him,
And paid us back twice over all the
money we hac lent him.
Twas a feast to all believers, twas u
blight on contradiction,
To hear one just from Calvary talk about
the crucihXiOn;
Twas a damper on those fellows who
pretended they could doubt it,
To have a man who'd been there stand
and fell them all ahout il
Paul maybe beat our pastor in the Bible
knots unrayelling,
And establishing new churches, but he
couldn't touch him travelling,
Nor in his journeys pick up half the gen.
eral information;
But then he hadn't the railroads, and the
steamboat navigation.
And every foot OF scripture whose loca-
tion used to stump us,
Was now regularly laid out, with the
different points of compass.
When he undertook a picture, he quite
natural would draw it;
He would paint it out so honest that it
seemed as fyou saw it.
An the way he chiselled Europe-oh,
the way he scampered through il!
Not mountain lodged his climbing, not
a city butt he knew it;
There wasn't any subject to explain in
all creation
But he could go to Europe and bring back
an illustration.
So we crowded out to hear him, much
instructed and delighted;
Twas a picture show, a lecture and q
sermon all united;
And my wife would wipe her glasses,
and serenely pat her Testment,
And whisper, THAT 'ere ticket was 3
very good investment
Now after six months travel we W ere
most of us all ready
To settle down a little, SOS to live more
staid and steady;
To deyelope home resources, with no
foreign cares to fret us,
Using homemade faith more frequent;
but the parson wouldn't let us.
To view the self-same scenery time and
time again he'd call us,
Over rivers, plains, and mountains he
would any minute haul us;
He slighted our home SORROWS, and our
spirits aches add ailing,
To get the cargoes ready for his reg'lar
Sunday sailing.
He would take us of touring in all
spiritual weather,
Till at last got h1nesick like, AMI seI-
sick altogether;
And Il wish to all that's PEACEFUL said
one free expressioned brother,
"That the Lord had made one ont'nent,
and then never made anotherl
Sometimes, indeed, he'd take US into
sweet familiar places,
And pull along quite steady in the good
old Gospel traces;
But soon my wife would shudder just as
ifa chill had got her,
Whisper, oh, my goodness gracious J
he's a-taken to the waterr
And IL wasn't the same old comfort
when he called around to see us,
On a branch Of foreign travel he was
sure at last to tree us,
All unconscious Of his error, he would
sweetly patronize us,
And with Oft repeated stories still en-
deayor to surprise us.
And the sinners got TO laughing, and
To ask him. Would he kindly once
more settle down am ong US!
Didn't he think that more home produce
would improve our souls digestions
They appointed me committeeman to
go and ask the questions.
found him in his garden, trim an
buoyant as a father;
He pressed my hand, exclaiming, This
Is quite italian weather.
How il minds me of the evenings when,
your distant hearts caressing,
Upon my benefactors / invoked the
Heavenly blessingr'
Invent and told the brothers, NO can
not bear TO grieve him.
He's so hSppy in his exile, it's the pro-
per place to leave him.
i took that journey 70 him, and right
bitterly L rue il,
But cannot take il from him: il you
want TO, 60 and do it,
Now 4 new restraint entirely seemed
next Sunday 10 infold him,
And he looked so hurt and humbled that
! knew some one had told him.
subdued like was his manner, and some
tones were hardly vocal;
But every word he uttered was pre-
eminently local.
The sermon sounded awkard, and we
awkard felt who heard il,
Twas a grief to see him hedge il, twas q
pain 70 hear him word il.
"when 1 was in" WAS may be half a
dozen times repeated,
But that sentence seemed to scare him.
and was always uncompleted.
As weeks went on his old smile would
occasionally brighten.
But the voice was growing feeble, and
the face began to whiten;
He would look of TO the eastward, with
listful, weary, signing,
And twas whispered that our pastor in
aforeign land was dying.
vi.
The coffin lay mid garlands smiling as IL
they knew us:
The patient face within il preached a