The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-14
For the +. * M.-Household.
From the Judge"

Some one has given few death
scenes from Dickens that were indeed
mouruful and sad | have lately come
across one in a novelist equally dlstln-
ouished which | will give at the risk OF
wearving the Household. 1t Is found
in Thackerav's Pendennis. y Arthur
Pendennis. the hero of the story. has
returned to his home at Fair Oaks.
His mothers heart had been long grlev-
ed at some misconception OF his conduct.
On the night of his arrival they sat and
talked until the clock struck nine.
| Helen reminded him how. when he was
| a little boy. she used to 20 up to hls
! bedroom at that hour and hear him say
..Our Father And once more, oh,
once more. the young man fell down at
his mothers sacred knees and sObbed
ont the PRAYER which the Divine Tender
ness uttered for US. and which has been
echoed for twenty ages since by millions
of sinful and humbled men. And as he
snoke the last words of the supplication
tbe mother 5 head tell down on her boys
and her arms closed round HIM. ana To-
r.tber they repeated the words forever
and over. > and ssamen.' The sainted
woman was dead, the last emotion OF
her soul here was JOY to be henceiortll
: nncheckered and eternal What can
he more touching and simple?
/ like YOU. "Grandma, think Carlyle
was a great man. We cannot call ms
style easy nor can we pronounce his
writings as agreeable reading as any
: other first-class historian. But his Idea:
are sublime. In him everything IS new
he moves in strange world, ana lht
beings and phantoms OF his Inauguration
are like the beings and f:ncles OF ~
other mind. His vocabulary is hal
orioinal and words coined to expires
meaning. that his native tongue was IN
adeouate to express are scattered owe
every page of his writings. 1t Is in
nossihle to class him with any school {
rbilosophers his opinions and his idea
are all his own. He forms school b
himself. and the other giants OF the III
tellectual world are forced to stand o
in awe and view him in astonIshment a
d, leing not of their kind How rugSe
aud void of consolation is his conceI
5. t;on Of man! To him II an Is but
aick.ring and glimmerlng shadow thu
L,s its its substance IN an unknow
,.nrld He moved among these shadow
md the more he attempted to plert
Tho veil of obscurity that hung ov
their destiny. the more did It's MAJ
mystery darken and become obscu
,round him. Man was his chief stud.
Il of him he wrote and spoke, he pen
s. trated lis various DISCUSSES, and endea
, ored through all the changes OF his e
( ;stence to discover something OF ''dlvi
-. in his nature Where did his ph
oSonby lead him? What was his co
cmsion? Did he throw any light up
} ,hat mysterious being-the study OF
( lifatime? No, all about man he LETT
Z MYSTERIOUS as he found it. He can
} scribe him by nothing more intelligl'
( than figures and fancies. To him he
} "a soul, spirit. a divine apparitioI
< ..Around his mysterious ME there
,,nder all those wool-rags a garment
81 Ash (or of sense) and contectured
p the loom of Heaven To him mar
- Completely hidden and buried un
that strange garment, and this garm
according to Carlyle is ''sky-woven ;
81 for a Cod Time and space tn
r .'.,s nreat m abvsses which nothing can pc
trate or destroy he easily arnlhila