The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-12-03

kissed away qusckly, thea u - preclsel.
the strongest naa Who 10 10 fall SO I
happened that two hours after such an eA
perisscs Harrison Fisher. heavy hearted
stepped upon The sastsrn bound train. III
vas honest and conscientious. aud hss
realized that be had never loved Irene. al
most while telling bsr that he did. II,
tried 70 think over the matter. Their
vsra;ssvsral rides and calls, aud be had
frsqusatly urged her. in = paternsl way
not 70 soospt sttantions from indiscrimi
nAts stranssra BAIL and shs Vas to b.
his villa. And be. Who had oonsecrated
his liis 10 ths highest aad most exalted
end. must b. dragged down fiom the be-
ginning By vile. who could only be Z
weight Il best
He recalled gentleman Of his youthful
acquaintance, Who had besn the victim ol
. college iniAtuation. He remember the
hArrasssd. anxious expression. with which
the husband bad endured every remark by
kis islssios VIA. And such an expert
sncs. bereft Of oil infatuation, was to be
bis, and be Was TO he minister Of the
gospel.
His evening prayer was an all night ago
ny. Lord" be moaned. II must have
exalted the creature above the Creator
and preached my miserable self instead Of
Thee. Mine eyes we're blinded to my sin.
Forgive me. / pray. The punishment i
not heavy ~ l deserve. bnt obi Lord, let
II be any thing but this. anything but my
whole life dsbased and brought down.
He grosned at the thought. "Oh. Lord.
Why are al the girls such fools. be cried,
and struck bis eyes dercely that he might
not see too plainly that pathetic droop Of
the head.
They said At the seminary that his sue
cess had been wonderful. and that his
summers work had wrought marvellous
good to himself.
He had never shown any special facility
in the languages. but he attacked sup
Elementary course 10 Hebrew. with vic :
lsnce that made the professors consider
him in connection with vacancy in one
OF the mission colleges.
He wrote . note TO Irene telling OF his
safe arrival, to which sho responded with
q letter which was better than his fears.
She answered to his second letter, which
was several weeks on the way, told him
that Hillsdsle was blockaded by snow, and
that the railway trains had ceased running
for the winter. He read newspaper ac-
souuts OF the isolation Of that line OF Da-
kota towns, and thought With grim salts
faction, that at least, the Objectionable
drummers would be left out. In April
this letter reached him.
3 Hillsdale. March 2Sth.
Dear Mr. Fisher: Il hate awfnlly to
write you this letter, but Isuppose I ought
10 tell yon that Tn married.
TN swfully sorry. bgt really the block
age was dreadful - IL lasted 10 long that
thiDgs began TO give out--wc had only
hrown sugar the last two weeks. Well.
we did everything W. could to kill time.
In town here IL was dug out, but we could
only go four or FIVE blocks.
We danced all the time at first. but we
got awful tired Of that, and oil at once,
every body took to getting married; every
body 10 town that could get married, did.
Lots OF them eloped from their houses to
the minister's, and then went home and
got forgiven; but l was bound TO have .
regular party. He is : Mr.. Taylor. May.
be you remember him. He is real nice
and his folks live in Chicago, and he is
going to take me there sometime. I've
always wanted to 60 to real city.
You will be glad to know that your
church is going to lay corner stone, as
soon as planting is done Well have four
churches this simmer, Baptist, Metho.
dist, Congregational aud Campbellite.
There is some talk OF the three Covanter's 3
families coming here. and il they do they
ssy they'll have church. A United
Pres byisrian has given five hundred dol
lars toward church. IL anybody'll raise
the Fest, so you see we're getting better
never go to church now, it makes me
feel 80 wicked
II it hadn't been for the blockade
would have waited but shut up here 18th
out ever seeing anybody was too dreadful
Yours. Irene Ta,lo
Harrison Fisher prayed that Irene light
he happy, that the husband might be
good to her. al the blessings within bis
power Of imagination, he invoked upon
her.
For himself, lie gave thanksgiving for
deliyerance and wrote letter to Irene, SO
freely iorgiving Ia tone that she was more
than satisfied. slmost dissatisfied indeed.
He went to India in the summer. and
has since written back. that be prefers to
preach TO heather rather than Christians,
and that be finds himself better adapted
10 the foreign than the home missionary
field. = Independent
How Bruia Ragged Busz Saw.
Taking about funny thugs. saiJ big,