The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09

house. Also in learning to operate your
sewing machine III way that you can
do work nicely and expeditiously; you
will find in it serious toll; and unless
you learn to feel reliance in Gods prom
ises to those who call on Him in all earn
estness you will be apt to fall by the
way, in view of the obstacles you must
encounter. You will have critical GUS
toners, those who are unreasonable,
and those who will fail to pay, but we
will hope for the best, assured that God
will make it all well for you in the end
Great, round tears were rolling down
the lovely cheek of the affrighted lady.
who listened to the predicted annoy
ances and trials through which she
would doubtless have to struggle in the
great battle for livelihood, which she
felt SO incapable of fighting; but she
resolved to be guided by the advice of
her friend, and to do the best she knew
how. AS soon, however, as Miss Ster-
ling left her alone with her children
again, who We're hanging around her
with their innumerable wants, and no
one to attend to them but herself, she
gave way to a violent fit of weeping,
which elected the greatest sympathy
from the little ones, and, after a while,
they coaxed her into more cheerful
frame of mind.
According to her promise, Miss Ster-
ling came next morning to stay with
the children while Mrs. Ramsay went to
the prison. She took basket of pro-
visions with her, and bouquet of
flowers, and, what was better to the
prisoner, cheerful face and hopeful
word, for Miss Sterling's presence had
again inspired her with new courage.
She found her husband troubled and
worn III his anxiety for her and his little
ones, and with his usual disregard for
his own comfort.
81 am going to keep boarding
house, and want you, dear, to come and
board with me Miss Sterling is going to
learn me to cook, and then L will try to
keep my house very tidy, i'll hopes 1 can
make pleasant home for class of very
good, religious kind of people, for Miss
Sterling is learning me to feel great
interest i'll religion, and believe, dear,
If we both put our trust in God, we will
come ont all right in the end"
SIS it my wife who is speaking to
me ?" asked the man behind the CRATE.
SIS the vain, thoughtless little Irma,
whom L have and still love SO dearly,
speaking to me of the interests of the
soul, as the Methodists say? All, Irma,
since have been shut up III these walls
L, too, have, for the first time, though
in a feeble way, called on God to protect
you and our children. l have not sup
posed He would forgive or bless me. and
have not asked it,
"Oh, then, my dear Burt, you have
done wrong. Only ask and 1t shall be
given you, Miss Sterling says, and L
know it is one of our Savior's promises.
But / must 90 home now. L cannot
expect her to stay all the forenoon with
the children. She will come to see you
tomorrow and bring you Bible.
THE greatest villains have way of
becoming very pious after getting III
here" said one of the keepers, who had
listened to a portion of the conversation
between Ramsay and his wife I" but
guess Ramsay was about as good as two
thirds of the Christians before he came
Say what they will, he is boss fellow. p"
"That's SO he is trump" said the
one addressed.
When, one day later, Miss Sterling
went to visit the prisoner, she found him
very willing to listen to all she had to
say on the subject that most interested
her, still he was 10th to believe there
was any hope for forgiveness in his case.
u beg that you will not feel i'll this
way" she said, "for
- While the lamp holds out to burn
The West sinner may return.
Study your Bible pray for the Holy
Spirit to descend upon you, and you will
be brought to believe in all Gods prom
ises. Meantime, you must repent of all
your evil deeds, resolving to live pure
and holy life hereafter; and, whether
mid prison walls or in the bosom of the
family you love so well, you will enjoy a
peace of mind the world cannot take
away"
us it really Burt Ramsay have been
talking to, asked Miss Sterling of her.
self, after leaving him "once the gay,
the fast, the fashionable, the respected
man of influence and means, whom
dared hardly approach, now humbly
listening with approval to my discourse,
through the iron gates of his prison
cell p? God grant that during his stay
there his heart may be wholly renewed.
and, when he again mingles with the
world, he may become known for his
good works.
Two months later he had his trial, and
was sentenced to State prison for ten
years at hard labor. This was fearful
sentence, but no one could say it was
unjust, and from the prisoner it elected
not murmur.
81 deserve it," he said, "and will
submit as patiently as can to my fate. I"
He had learned before this to trust in
a higher Power, and felt that God had
forgiven the crime for which he was so
long to suffer. After he was taken off
to the State prison and his wife could
not see him except at long intervals,
she would, only for the cheerful SYM
pathy of her friend, Miss Sterling, and
the trust she was also learning to put in
God, have become entirely disheartened.
But she went to work with will, before
long finding herself capable of attend
ing to the wants of three or four board
ers that she was fortunate enough to
procure, and at the end of six months
found that her income considerably ex.