The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-20


the rocks like a ship fun winged. shiver-
ing on the breakers used TO aduOn-
ish him ] would say: Now, / wish
you would quit these bad habits, and
become a Christian 30 - he would
reply, Il would like; / would like to;
but have gone 50 far I don't think
there is any way back In his mo
meuts of repentance Ae would go
home and take his little girl
OF eight years, and embrace
her convulsively, and cover her with
adOrumeats. and streW around her
pictures and toys, and everything that
could make her happy; and then as
though bounded by an evil spirit, he
would 60 out to the enhaming cup and
the house OF shame, like fool to the
correction of the stocks I was sum-
mOned to his death bed. fastened
entered the room found him, to my
surprise. lying in full every day dress
on the top of the couch / put out my
hand He grasped 1t excitsdly, and
said: ''Sit down, Mr.. Ta1mage, right
there 1 sat down He said: Last
night 1 saw my mother, who has been
I dead twenty years, and she sat where
yOu sit now It was no dream. was
wide awake There was no delu-
sion in the matter. I saw her
just as plainly as see you.
/ Wife, 1 wish You would take these
strings of of me. There are strings
strung all around my body. 1 wish you
( would take them or OF me- I saw it
/ was delirium co. replied his wife.
! there is nothing there, there is nothing
/ there" He went on and said: Just
! where YOU sit. Mr.. Talmage. nv mother
/ sat She said to me Henry, do wish
/ you would do better got out of bed,
| put my arms around her and said:
/ Mother, I want to do better. I have
/ been trying to do better. Won't you
| help me to do better? You used to help
me- No mistake about 1t, no delusiOn
I saw her, the cap and the apron and
the sPectacles, just as she used to look
| twenty years ago, but I do wish you
! would take these strings away. They
annoy me So 1 can hardly talk Won't
you take them avay?"
kneIt down and prayed, conscious OF
the fact that he did not realize what
was saying. I got up. I said: Good
by, I hope you will be better soon. -
He said: +'GOOd-by, gOOd-by." That
night his. soul went to the God who
gave it Arrangements We're made fol-
the Obsequies. Some said: Don
bring him IN the church He was too
dissOlute. - 20, I said, bring him in
he was good friend of mine while he
was alive, and shall stand by him
now that he is dead Bring him to tbs
church.
As sat in the pulpit and saw hi.
body coming up through the aisle I fel
as if I could weep tears of blood I told
the people that day: This man had hi
virtues and a good many of them Blu
If there is any man in this audience
who IS without sin. let him cast the IRIS
stone at this coffin lid" On one side o
the pulpit sat the little child, rosy
sweet faced, as beautiful as any littI
child that sat at your table this morn
] I
wistfuny, not knowing the full sorrow
of an orphan child. On the other sid
of the pulpit We're the men who ha
destroyed him. Did they weep? Nc
Did they sigh rePentingly? No. Di
! they say: What a pity that such
{ brave man should be slain?" No, nc
not one bloated hand was LITE
to wipe tear from a bloated cheek
. They sat and looked at the coffin Xix
I yultures gazing at the carcass of a lam
whose heart they had ripped Quit
: cried in their ears as plainly as coulC
: There is a God and a judgment day!
Did they trem Bile? O no, no. The
> went back from the house of God, an
that night, though their victim lay /
= lakewood cemetery, I am told that the
; bIasphemed and they drank and the
y gambled, and there was not one les
u customer in all the houses of iniquity.
Again Any amusement that give
you q distaste for domestic life IS bas
;, How many bright domestic circles hay
> been broken up by sinful amusement
The father went or, the mother wei
= of, the child went off There are L
h day the fragments before me of blaste
= households o, If you have wandere
- away, I would like to charm you BAG
n by the sound OF that one word home
saw q Maynard husband standiu
# at the death bed Of his Christian Wit
! and saw her point to a ring on h
d finger, and heard her say to her hu
n band, DO you see that ring2' He r
I. piled, Yes. 1 see it, ''Well, said sh
"a do you remember who put It there
,e Yes said ne, u put 1t there and q
p the past seemed to rush upon him
Is the memory Of that day when. in Il
~ presence Of men and angels, you PROF
" ised to be faithful IN joy and sOrrOy
y and in sickness and in healths by Il
memory of those pleasant hours whs
Won sat GCgueTnaF IN vrsFsT- new home IA