The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-05-11

interest In their clerks except during
business hours. If they fulfilled their
duties during business hours that was all
that was required of them. A few weeks
passed on in this manner when great
temptation came to Fred. He had been
playing and losing for some time and
was short with his accounts He must
get even again. 1t was an hour of weak
ness and the tempter took advantage of
1T. You have the combination of the
safe-take out some of the money and
play tonight. Luck always changes.
You will certainly be the winner. You
can put the money back and nobody will
ever know it." This was what the
tempter was whispering to him when he
was riding in the horse-cars to his up
town boarding house.
AS he opened the door of his room the
mat Kitty had made for him had been
displaced by careless feet He stopped
down and arranged it. While he was
smoothing down the corners some
thoughts which had been fugitives for
some time came to him. "What was
1T Kitty told me the night left home
about kreside saints and door-mats?"
He sat down and recalled the converse
ton. Yes, remember now" he said.
Kitty told me about the temptations
there are in a city, and told me how
many stitches of love and good wishes
she had wrought in her work. Kitty
believes me still to be the soul of honor.
She thanked me so kindly in her letter
for the elegant ring l sent her, but she
wrote that she valued the one 1 gave her
the night she promised to be my wife,
very much more, and could not remove
1T from'her finger because of the many
pleasant membranes connected with
it. She wrote that she hoped 1 would
not buy her any more such expensive
presents for they would be out of keeping
with her plain surroundings" While he
was busy with these thoughts the sup
per bell rang. He ate very light sup
per, and came back to his room to get
his over-coat and hat. But as he at
tempted to cross the threshold, his feet
were stayed upon the loving stitches and
good wishes his pure and true Kitty had
interviewer for him. With his hand
upon the door-knob, he cried from The
depths of his Utmost soul, 40, my Father
IN heaven, lead me not in to temptation,
deliver me from evil" Was Kitty pray
ing for him? Yes, he remembered that
she wrote in her last letter, how she al
ways prayed for him when the day was
over and the darkness began to gather.
If Kitty knew what he had been doing
would she still continue to love him I?
No one but the Lord and the tempted
one knew the struggles of that hour.
With Gods help Fred Bewley resolved
to break off the evil habit, to make up
his arrears and start anew.
The wedding was put eff year longer
than it otherwise would have been, and
when he told Kitty the whole story, and
wonderful influence that door. mat had
over him, and how in the hour of tempta-
ton the Lord delivered him, she said:
Dear, dear Fred, what's done we
partly may compute but know not what's
resisted l never wore that ring Some
how, when l put it on my finger, it
looked SO much out of place l Immediately
withdrew it."
Let us sell it for what we can get and
give it to the poor. 1t will be an i'll
omen to keep in our happy little home, E"
said her husband
"That would be too much like steal
ing pig, and in Gods name, giving the
trotters to the poor exclaimed Kitty.
" I'll tell you, Fred, try to find out the
men you won the money from and return
it to them"
"That would be hard matter, replied
her husband Zone of them died by
his own hand six months ago
80, Fred, said Kitty, as she wound
her loving arms around his neck, chow
good and merciful our Father in heaven
was that he helped in that trying hour
of temptation. l was praying for you
then, for remember the circumstances
we'll"
Fred always called Kitty his Preside
Saint, and well did she merit the appel
lation, as the years passed along in which
she proved herself true and faithful
wife. But what became of the ring? It
was hidden in a secret drawer of the desk
in Fred's office for few years, when an
incident in an evening paper attracted
that &c" tleman's notice.
10 the Charitable People of this City
At No. 81, Avon St., in the basement
there is a family in great restitution.
One child died of starvation this morning.
The husband and father is lying very III
of consumption. We hope the charitable
ladies of the city will Investigate this
case Immediately. The name of the man
Is Unity Ouiln "