Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-01

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body, these seli.denials Of my vocation, give |
mo no trouble. | have one great soul-aiflic. |
ton, and that is what YOU reproacb me for
lack ing namely, the longing to love and to
ne loved. Aud that trial you laid upon me
the first time | saw your face and heard your
words in your mothers house ON the wissa.
hickon. oh, 1abea, You are not like the
rest! You arc not like the rest Even when
You go wrong, II i not like the rest. 1t II
the vision oi the life might have led with
such woman ~ YOU that troubles my
dreams in the nighttime, when, across the
imraSsahle gull of my irrevocabe vow,
have stretched out my hands In entreaty to
This declaration changed instantly the
color of Taboa's thoughts of life baniel
Scheihlc and his little love scrawis seemed
70 ,n,, her sTo i"',y spirit pitts as nothing. now
thrown upon her by the love of the
great master whose spirit had evoked Eph.
rata, aud whose genius uttered itself in
angelic harmones. She loathed the little life
that now opened before her. There seemed
nothing In heaven or earth so desirable ~ to
possess the esteem OF friedsam, Rut she
stood silent and condemned.
"l have had one comfort" proceeded
Brother friedsam after while. "When
have perceived your strength OF character,
when ! have heard your exquisite voice ut
terng the melodies with which l am in
| spred, have thought my work was sweeter
because labea shared it, and ! have hoped
| that you would yet more and more share 1t
as years and discipline should ripen your
spirit
The director felt faint; he sat down and
| looked deeCtedly into the corner of the room
| tRrthest away from where Tabea stood. He
| reused himself In few moments, and turned
| about again, 10 find Taboa kneeling ON the
| tlagStOnCS before him.
| I" have denied the Lord ~ she moaued,
| for her Judgment had now come completely
| round to Friedsam's standpoint. His con-
| demnauun seemed bitteror than death.
" Brother Friedsam, | have denied the
| Lord ~
Friedsam regarded the kneeling figure for
| moment, and then lie reached out his
| hands, solennly placing them on her head
| with motherly tenderness, while a tremor
| went through his frame
| "Ihou. dear child, shalt do thy first work
| over again, he said. ''rhou shalt TAX q new
| VOW, and when thou art converted then shalt
| thou, likePeter, strengthen the others" And
Withdrawing his hands, he said al will
| pay for you, Tabea, every night of my liie
! when hear the cock crow"
VIu.
Tabea rose up slowly and went out at the
door, walking no longer like "a Hoicaylier,
but like one IN trance, Dimly she saw the
sisters standing without the door of sharon
there was TheCla, with haltamused face,
and there was Persida, curious rs ever
there were Sister Petronella and Sister Blan.
dina and others and behind all the
straight tall form of austere Jael. without
|
rected her steps to the group at the door OF
| Sharon.
"No' no come, dear Tabea" 1t was the
voice OF Daniel Scheible, whose existence she
had almost forgotten.
"Poor Daniel !" she said pausing and look
ing nj him with pity.
"pon't say 'Poor Daniel but come"
| "POor boy y said Tabea.
| avon are hsWitchcd,n - he cried, seizing heI
and drawing her away. al knew Frieds an
| would put a charm on EOu.'
She absently allowed him TO lead her few
steps then, with another look full of tender
| pity and regret at his agitated face, she OK
tricated herself from his embrace, and
walked rapidly to the door. Quckoning lei
steps To- escape his pursuing grasp, she
| pushed through the group of sisters aud tlet
along the hallway, and up the stairs closing
the door of her cell and fastening down tn,
latch.
Scheibe, sure that she was under some
evil spell, rushed after her, shook himsel
loose from the grip of Sister Jael, whC
sought To stop him, and reached the door o
Tabea's cell. But all his knocking brought
not one word of answer, aud after while
Brother Jabez came in, and led the poor fell
| low out To the great grief of Sister Persida
who in heart ih)ught 1t a pity 10 spoil a wed
ding.
The sisters who came to call Tahea to sup
| per that evening also failed to elicit any re
sponse. Late in the night, when she had bs
| CtILit talhl ditt httIh inc Growing Oh "A
cock, and her heart was deeply touched al
the thought that FriedsaIn, the reveret
| Friedsam, now more than ever the be
; loved OF her soul, WAS at that momen
. | going to prayer Tor the disc pie who had
broken her vow. She rose from her bench
and fell on her knees and il she
| mistOok the mingled feelings of penitonce
and human passion for pure devotion, sh;
made the cOmmOnest mistake OF enthusi
astic spirits.
But she was not left long to doubt tina
Friedsam had remembered her; by the time
that the cock had CrOwed the second time
the sound of the monastery bell, the rope o
which hung Just by Friedsam's bedside, brok
abruptly into the death-iike stiffness, calling
the monks and nuns OF Ephrata to y solemn
nght-seryce, Tabea ielt sure that Frieds an
had called tie meeting at this moment by
way Gi assuring her of his remembrance.
Daniel Scheihle, who had wandered bacl
, 10 the neighbOThuod in the aimlessneSs of dis
, appointment heard the monastery bell wax
lDg all the reverberitiOnS OF the forest, ant
saw light after light twinkle from the little
square windows of Bethany and Sharon
then he saw the monks and nuns come on
of Bethany and Sharon, each carrying q smal
paper lantern as they fastened to Zion. Tn,
bell ceased, and Zion, which before had beer
wrapped in night, shOne with light from
) every window, and there rose upon the 81
lence the voices Of the choruses chanting al
anuphonal song and discOnsolate Scheibl,
cursed Friedsam and Ephrata, and went OF
into outer darkness.
NJ.
! When the first strOphe had been sun,
! : below and the sweet voiced sisters caught uJ
, the antistrophe, Brother Friedsam, sitting
in the midst, listened with painful attention
vainly trying to detect the sound of Tabeai
, voice. But when the second strophe ha,
, been sung, and the sisters began their secon,
: response, "A thrill of excitement went through
all as the long silent voice of Sister Tabe
, rose distinctly above all, with even more @
: its old feryOr and expression.
. And the next Saturday, tor the seventh da
| was the Ephrata Sabbath, Tabea took a new
: : solemn, and lrreyocable vow and from tina
, time until tho day of her death she was calle
Sister Anasiasa-the name signifying tina
: she had been re-est tiblished. What source
OF consolation AnasLasia had the rest neye
| OWNED. How should they guess that along
side her religious fery or human love gre'
ethereally like an air-plant?