Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-05-05
Volume XXXVIII.---No. AZ.

ter with the man. apart from his pro-
fesslon. If he feels that his nature is
sufficient unto itself, and that he can
live and do best service without a
woman's love and sympathy, he is right
to remain unmarried There is no
/ law for this--t the heart must decide %
Her voice faltered dt the last and she
turned away.
| That night he thought over her
words. Was he sufficient unto him
self? On the contrary was he not
better and stronger when in her pres
ence If the best and noblest in her
nature walked into life at one Gimp e
of her pure soul, would it not grow
into greater and higher excellence with
close and constant companionship?
He took out his mothers picture
and looked at it long and lovingly
Something told him that his father
had been a better man for her love.
"There is no law for this-the heart
must decide" These were her words.
He put his reason against his heart,
and fought hard battle. Reason
told him that his mind, unfettered by
earthly cares and affections, could ex-
plore storehouse after storehouse in
intellectual Kingdoms, and rising on
the wings Of spiritual knowledge al
most the feet of Jehovah. But the
heart whispered that the soul, expand
ed and glorified by human love, and
made holy by human suffering and
human grief. could feel the touch of
Divine fingers reaching down after it,
and itself drawn up and laid close to
the very heart Of Christ.
The next evening he went to her
and taking her hand said: "Agnes,
my heart has decided-it cannot live
without you. VIII you come?
She drew away from him and stam-
mered, But | can't am going to
be Sister of Mercy, and you are 60
ing to be"
No, | am mott am going to be
your husband and you are going to be
my wife. We have both been folly
struck; looking away off yondsr for
our destinies, when here they lie right
ut our feet
Drawing her toward him he pleaded
for her love with all the eloquence OF
his Southern nature, and breaking
down the barriers that her foolish
heart had raised to defend itself,
he made her listen.
He told her how all his life he had
never known the love of a mother or
sister, and that one half of his heart
had been locked until she turned the
key that he felt now it was not good
for man to live alone-a wiser than
We had ordained it otherwise-and that
if she would come to him his whole
life would be better and purer.
AT last the breath of the storm had
moved the ocean of her heart from its
calm, and now only the hand that
raised the storm could lull it to rest
again. She felt this and after feeble
struggle meekly laid her weakness on
his strength.
On her wedding day she showed
him piece of wild thyme that his
hand had crushed against the wall
that evening on top of the mission
1t had lain between the leaves Of her
prayer book ever since.
So after all it was his coffee brown
eyes that won him his wife. They
first found her heart, and claiming ii
By right of discovery, would not let it
go.
The sweet sisters Of the convent
wept over their lost lamb as over one
gone astray in strange pastures. But
the mother thanked God that her
daughter had found her heart, and
with it a woman's highest holiest
mission.
Two shall be born the whole wide world apart
And speak in different tongues and have no
thought
Each of the Others being, and 40 heed.
And these o er unknown seas to unknown ltuds
Shall cross, escaping wreck det,i ing death
And. all unconsciously, shape every act
And bend each wondering step to this one end
That one day out of darkness they shall meet
And read life 5 meaning in each others eyes.
= sr Orleans Times Democrat,