The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-03-26
MADE OR MARRIED.
ny JESSIE ToTHERGILI,
Author Of "One OF Three" Probation" "Th.
Wellhelds," Etc,
CHAPTER XXI.-CoNrrNuEp.

CHAPTER XXI.-CosTISuEp.
''lt seems to me, said Mabelle, that
all the master mariners who ever lived
have been shipwrecked, and died, and
got buried here"
Then into the church, where the light
streamed softly in on the eastern side,
and the homely service was carried on,
and the homely sermon preached after
ward. The two girlsSat on bench in
the background, near the door, with
Hermann between them; and Mabelle.
who was next the porch, could see the
sea, in a shining silver expanse, spread
beneath and before her, as far as the
eye could reach.
There is something in the quiet beauty
OF a church service on summer Sun
day evening in a country place which
Is touching and pathetic, one hardly
knows why. The three young hearts
were perhaps overladen with happiness
with the joy of living and breathing
amid so much beauty, and with great,
bright hopes for the future, as young
hearts will be. BE that as il may, a
silence and gravity settled over them
all, and Ma6elle found her eyes dim
with tears once or twice during the
course OF the simple, noble liturgy.
The sermon over, they all rose, and
the last hymn was given out Mabelle
felt q strange little shiver as she opened
the book, and read; ''For those at sea. "
What had made the clergyman choose
that hymn, for such an evening, with
the sea outside, like o great, heaving
sheet of glassP was II simply as re-
minder that "in the midst OF life we
are in deathP" or to recall the storms
which had ragged in days gone by to
prepare for those which must rage In
days to come, despite the exquisite
calmness of tonight For. thought
Mabelle, as the solemn notes began,
was not the churchyard full of the
graves of those who had perished at sea
-"master mariners" simple seamen.
mothers and children who had drowned
together, and been found and picked up,
clasped fast in each others armsp
The first verse had been sung; the
last lines Of 1t were sounding solemnly:
"oh, hear US when we CRY 10 Thee,
For thosein peril on the sea r.
Suddenly there flashed subtly upon
her mind the remembrance Of Philip.
Supposing ne were in any peril by sea
or landl
IF It had not been for u.s." she
thought; "if he had never met us he
would have been safe at home In En-
gland now, at this very moment" And
still the chant went on, and still she
sang, with an eagerness and fervor
which lent strength to her voice:
''Most Holy Spirit, who dldst brood .
Upon the chaos dark and rude.
ana bid Its angry tumult cease,
hnd give for wild confusion, peace
Oh, hear us when We CRY TO Thee,
For those In peril on the seal"
Hwas with q heart full TO overflow
ing OF reasonless fear and excitement
that, when the hymn was over, she
dropped upon her knees, and covered
upiher face with her hands while the
benodiction was being given. az
As they went home they were much
more silent than they had been when
they came. Hermann drew Grace's |
arm through his To helpIiierpp a steep |
hill. and Grace, as II TO say 10 ,Mabelle: !
''Yoh, tool you shall notVbe left out in |
the cold," clasped her friends hand In
hsrs The cleaning was falling, the