Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-05-05

re cue, and weighing down the scale
with reason, balanced the whole and
gave finish and completeness to the
character
! Still, the longing to follow one
: clear aud steadfast ray of light and
walk by its beam only, renamed with
him, and grew into determination to
devote his life aud energies in the
service of the Master. After years of
patient study he joined the ministry
of the Episcopal church. To 90
among men and hope to find their real
and human side one must needs know
not one man but oh men. But to
reach the heart Of humanity-andt this
is to reach the heart of Chrlst-one
needs first to learn his own heart bit
BY bit. When every chord has been
sounded by the mad fingers of Passion,
and every string shaken by the pltlless
hands of Pam; when the whole being
! can cry ont from the depths OF its
agony that it knows itself, then he
can read by the light of this heaven
kiudIed torch all the broken words
and unfinished histories that bolt and
4 make illegible the heart-scrolls of
others; and reading them. through
falling tears, he will grow very, very
IpitifuI.
| Elliot St. George was good man and
sympathetic by nature, but his heart
was as vet "a sealed book to himself.
| When the first lesson came il fell with
the gathered force of years. \ sudden
cold, caught while nursing sick man,
IA few days destructive work oil IA
weakened coustitutlon-and one kind
Iy, vigorous heart was stilled forever,
land another walked from lis sleep never
10 b. quite still again.
! The dear father. diving, brrathed ont
in the last awful gasp lifetime OF
love and devotion, which. falling like
la beuediction gave the touch of grace
TO his finished work and made the son
! rise up from his knees nobler, if II
! sa'lder man Very desolate now
. and quite alone; except for his. old
!. nurse. he eagerly accepted call to
San Antonio. aud bidding farewell to
!, lallthe friends aud associations of youth
he leaves the old for the new, the
tried for the untr.ed.
Born IN the month of MAY. whose
! lehildren, the poets tell us. find sue
lcess in love. their richest inheritance
y and regarded in land where loved and
fare loved again with quick passionate
! cageFness, he was Vet, ut twenty eight,
proof against a womans smiles, and
|. iself-yow ed to celehacy. Had he been
\ wholly Catholic he would have been q
monk. As il was, since heaven had
yseparated him from all human loves
I by placing them on high. he deemed
/ il good To keep himself so separated
and live only unto others. Bat can
- - ~ s'.'--.. -! -
Own life Hnshareds
A, The Father hal indeed finished
I is WORK. but the temple He had
/ helped to rear Was not complete aud
g.. perfect yet. The key stone Of the
central arch was missing, and only Il
woman's hand. borne M by woman's
/ love. could reach the empty niche. aud
/ aiding that final touch crown the
ahole.
( While Elliot 81. George was dream
IIly living ont these wears of his early
manhood on the banks of the Mississip-
/ ri, another life was just rs uncon-
sciousIy fulfilling its. destiny in the
/ quaint old Spanish city Of San AUTO
no.
Agnes Brewing was one Of large
7 family. Coming between three older
and three Younger than herself, she
/ felt rs If she had been thrown in simp.
I iy rs ballast; and. not having much
expected of kcr, and herself expecting
less, she followed out the impulses Of
a rather dreamy, absorbed nature, and
nursed the many idle fancies that a
( purposeless life aud the Old World at
mosphere Of the city inspired, until she
reached the agr of twenty
Then she gal herrd up the tangled
ends III her thoughts and musings and
knotted them into one grand central
idea, round which all the Others crowd
ed and chung.
And this was TO make her one talent
ed.
She had seen her sisters marry aud
leave the old home: her brothers go
ont into the world to carve their for
tunes for themselves, and had often
wondered what WAS her share in the
great plans Of creation, and how and
when should she begin to work it out.
/ Visiting often the sweet Sisters of
much and curiously into their tender
} peaceful faces, she thought she found
: the answer, and with it the mission.
, Could there be any higher life than
this
! DAYS. and weeks. months and years
with all their full harvests Of hopes
: and regrets, smiles and tears, devoted
: to charitv-''the greatest of those
three while some women were con
tent TO make happy the two or three
! around one tireside. Her beneyoence
| extended over broader fields.
To carry the crumbs of Divine com
fort to hungry souls; to turn into
lighted paths some of the many stray
. ing feet around her; and TO humanize
g and make lovable the neglected hearts
that met her everywhere, seemed to her
: fuller of real Christ service than to
= bide in Il more narrower If happier
path.
r The Sisterhood of the Episcopal
. Church offered such Il field for labor,
and with the earnestness that was a
} part of herself, Agnes prepared to en-
| ter on her lite-duties.
AS she sits on the high gallery
steps this summer evening gazing