The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-03
LAaBERTvILIE, NJ wEDNEsDAY. MARCH 3, 1880.

y certain thrill in the tone and the little
CULVER of the eyelid told Mr.. Dyer's keen ear
and eye more than John Carter meant to tell
think a man sometimes ought to be more
thankful for his sin than for his goodness,
Jack. don't mean for his sin as a sin, but
for its use to his moral life, if he receives the
lesson rightly. How on earth are you going
to feel any sympathy with sinners if you have
not fallen Only God incarnate could do
that
But think of the suffering sin entails on
the sinner himself could you be thankful to
have dresdful wound inflicted upon you
Jos eph Dyer looked at his friend again,
with both eyes pitifnl and penetrating.
! My dear fellow, I've seen man heartily
glad of wound that made him helpless
simply because it kept him out of temptation J
and sinner whose conscience torments him
because of one great sin, will never commit
such auother.'
Here was Mr.. Carriers station, and as he
left the car he wruug his friends hand with
unnecessary fervor. ss
Poor Jack y said Mr.. Dyer to himself, lit
tie knowing how much he had done to help
the poor burden bearer.
1t CHANGED, as we fools say, that the next
week an acquaintance came into John Critters
Office a man about his age not a friend,
but person whom he constantly met as bust
ness men do meet each other. Mr.. Pierce was
ordinarily florid, prosperous man to1day
he was CHASTITY pale and looked twenty years
older than usual. tA
'Carter = said he, hoarsely, "can l speak
to you moment in private p ir8
John Carter turned the key in his office
door his clerk had gone to dinner.
Nobody will disturb us, Pierce what is
itq'
Mr.. Pierce groaned and turned his head
away, then be resolutely faced Mr. Carter.
It's no use l must tell. Carter, l want
$40, 900 have been a rascal | have spec
uated with money that didn't belong to ME,
and lost it tomorrow the girls guardian
will send for it. She is to be married. | don't
know why came to you but did | want
to borrow this money and save my wife and
children from disgrace, and myself from
prison.
LOU may ildNO ouiA VOhH OcAeSh' ~
almost seemed to have a ray of heavenly
light, this chance to help another man, anoth-
er sinner
Il don't ask without security / have made
ott mortgage on my house in It'll street,
IF borrowed anywhere but at our bank it
would be against me borrowing there would
be worse.'
| - ~, ho,1r Mr.
Carter's answer. Pierce sat down in chair
and looked at him with his heart in his eyes
but he could not speak /; the sudden relief ov-
empowered him.
Stay here till draw it. Mr.. Carter said,
and before the hour had passed the money
was in Jacob Pierce's pockets
Il can't thank you he said.
Don't try answered Mr.. Carter, smiling.
The year passed slowly away, and with it
much of John Carter's misery. He felt like
man on desert island who has suddenly
found companionship In the survivors of
another wreck. He met Mr.. Pierce continu-
ally, and hearty hand-shake or cordial
word always passed between them the bor-
rover, strange to say, felt no servitnde to the
lender, no dreadful weight of debt there was
something in Mr.. Carters whole air and man.
ner that set Pierce at his ease /; he felt sure
that his secret was safe as If in his own bosom.
The unconscious atmosphere of character is
one of the influences we make little account
of, yet it is weighty as gravitation, and inevi-
table as life.
1t was the day before Thanksgiving again
and there came to John Carter in his Office
note and enclosed to this effect
DEAR CARTER I'll have been lucky in
the recent rise in real estate and you will
find herein a certificate of deposit In Our
1 bank to the amonnt of your loan and inter-
est. want you to know that though never
pretended to be Christian, you have preach
ed me tho best sermon ever heard, and pref
] ty near converted me. God Bless you
J. PIERCE
John laid his head on his desk in a strange,
sweet, yet bitter amazement. Gould 1t be p
He, the sinner, and example for and of
| CHRIST /? Suddenly there swept across his
mind as with breath of divine power the de-
votion and aspiration Of David after his fall ;
the work of Peter, who before denied his
Lord the tender forgiveness held out with
such patient love to Thomas. He seemed to
hear the same dear gracious voice saying to
him : /" Reach hither thy finger and behold
my hand, reach hithet thy hand and thrust it
into my side, and be not faithless but believ-
ing ,f.,,s,
The blood of Christ cleanseth from all
SIM.
And like Thomas, his whole heart burned
within him, and his white lips whispered =
: My Lord and my God se,
The next day as his children were cluster
ing about him in the sunny parlor, and his
wife with the baby in her arms growing and
trying to reach the roses in her hair, stood
looking on, far loveler and fairer than IN her
beautiful girlhood, there was ring at the
door and the servant brought in basket Of
exquisite flowers directed to Mrs. Carter, and
ON the card was written A Thousand
thanks to help your Thanksgiving
II was pleasant mystery only to Sarah
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