Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
IIarry's Victory.

ooh, dear, / wish hadn't touched it, |
do wish had left it on the top shelf of the
cupboard where it was What will Aunt
Martha say ?"
"You needn't tell her, and she'll never
suspect once il was you who broke it."
Harry started as if some real voice had
spoken TO him, and looked eagerly about
the room to learn from whence the voice
came.
"That sounded so much like Joe Simon's
voice, when he wanted me TO tell mother a
story last summer when he and | went fish
ing together"
But Harry remembered now that Joe
Simons was several miles from Aunt Mar
thas, and it certainly could not have been
he.
This very afternoon Aunt Martha had
gone to a neighbor's on an Grand and 1T
Harry as sole occupant of the house for an
hour or more. The time seemed very long,
and az Harry sat rocking back and forth in
the sitting-room, his eyes chance to see this
quaint old China candlestck. Now, Harry
had some curiosity (though you know boys
| do not get credit for such degree of that
element as girls), still he wanted very much
10 see that candlestick, but of course never
once thought of breaking it, when all of a
sudden, as he lifted it to put it back on the
shelf, down ii came with crash, and was
| broken in several pieces.
1t was then the voice suggested, "You
needn't tell gather up the pieces and throw
| them away where no one will see them: Won
are going home tomorrow anyhow, and your
aunt will never miss it, or notice its being
gone before that time; besides Aunt Martha
will think it very meddlesome in you to
search about so when she is away."
Harrys heart beat louder and more rap
idly as he thought of the probability of
Aunt Martha's favor by his meddling, and
the suggestions OF the tempter were in
fair way to win, when another voice, not
nearly so bold, but firm and gentle, as that
of his own dear mother, seemed to saw.
Harry Wilton, would you, could YOU, tell a
lie about breaking the candlestick ~
"a lie Oh, dear didn't think about
its being lie,' cried Harry, nervousy
al, I'd tell if she asked me- but if she
didn't
Harry stood hesitating moment, and the
first voice spoke out holder than ever,
Harry Wilton, you're a regular chicken
hearted little simpleton TO own up that you
broke it, when no one knows it and then
If your aunt gets very vexed with you, she'll
never like you or trust you again"
"Do right whatever comes of it," said the
second voice, more impressively than ever /;
and Harry said
eyes, III tell Aunt Martha all about it
it's right, I'm sure, and I'll do it,
The first voice left off speaking, as the
tempter always does when the right has
fairly won the field and Harry's heart beat
lighter for having obeyed that inward mon
itor, conscience, which, you know, is said to
be the " voice of God, among u.s.
He told Aunt Martha Just how it hap
pened, and also of the two voices speaking
so plainly that it seemed as if some one
must be near him. She freely forgave Harry,
and explained to him about the two voices ;
of how they always speak TO us when ques-
tons of right and wrong comes up for deci-
son and she added Harry, I'm so glad
to know that you were enabled to obey the
good voice; may you ever be thus faithful,
my boy and remember that the least victory
won on the side of right is always worth all
it costs, and that
q Each victory will help you
Some other to win -