Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-20

my hand. lie graspcd it cScitedly and
said, "Sit down, Mr. Talmage, right
there" I sat down. He said: 'sLast
night saw my mother, who has bcen
dead for twenty years, and she sat just
where you sit now. 1t was no dream. I
was wide awake. There was no dclusion
in the matter. / saw her just as plainly
as sec you. Wife, / wish you world
take these strings off of me. Thereears
| strings sLun all around my body. wish
you would take them off of me-" I saw
1t was delirium.
'Oh," replied his wife, smy dear, there
is nothing there, there is nothing there"
He went on, and said; "Just where you
sin. Mr.. Talmage, Fay mother sat- She
said to me, Henry, do wish you would
do better 1 got out of bed, put my arms
aronmd her, and said: Mother, l want
to do better. 1 have Been trying to do
betteE. Went you heIpmc to do better?
/! You used to- help me- N0mistake about
| it, no delusion. saw her-the cap, and
the apron. and the spectacles, just as
she used to look twenty years ago; but 1
! do wish you would take these strings
away. ,Ehey annoy me so. Ican hardly
talk. Won't you take them sway?" L
| knelt down and prayed, conscious of the
fact that he did not realize what was
| suS my. ASOo utS- L SdIus G1SsOu-OJ, 1
hope you will, be better soony''' He said,
''Good-by, gpod-by."
That night his soul went. to, JE,e God
who gave it! Arrangements were made
! for the obsequies:. Some saYa' s+Don't
| bring him inthe oianrch; he was toO dis
solute.' "Oh.'' / said, ''brng him. He
was a good friend Of nsine while hcwas
alive, and shall' stand by him now that
he is dead. Bring: hinp to the church,
AS sat in thepulpit and saw his, body
coming up throughthe' aisle felt as ii
could weep tears of blood. told the
people that day: s.This man had his
virtues, and good!,nany of them. He
had his faults and'a:good many of them,
but if there is any man in this audience
who is without SIN let him cast tho first
pulpit sat that little, child, rosy, sweet
faced, as beautiful as any little child
that sat at your table, this morning,
warrant you. She' looked up wistfulty,
not knowing the fill sorrows Of an
orphan child. OH her countensnoe
haunts me to-day like some sweet face
looking upon us through a;herrid dream.
On the other side of the pealbit were the
men who had destroyed, him. There
they sat, hard visaged, some of them
pale from exhausting disease, some Of
them flushed until it seemed as If the
fires of iniquity famed. through the
checks and cracked the lips. They were.
the men who had done the" work. They
I were the men who had bound him hand
and foot. They had kindled' the fires.
, They had poured the wormwood' and
gall into that orphans cup. Did
they weep? No. Did they, sigh re-
| pentingly? No. Did they say, ssWhat a.
y pity that such a brave man, should be
[ slain?" No, no; not one bloated hand
r was lifted to wipe a tear from bloated
check. They sat and looked. at the
a coffin like vutures gazing at the carcass
Y of lamb whose heart they hadl ripped
e out! cried in their ears as plainly asI
. could, ''There is God and d., Judgment
c day!'' Did they tremble? Oh, no, not
$ They went back from the house of God,
e and that night, though their. victim lay
y in lakewood cemetery, was: toldnthat
" they blasphemed, and they drank, and
ir they gambled, and there was not one
Of less customer in all the houses Of i'll
10 EQUITY. This destroyed man was a, Sam
he son in physical strength, but Delia}
sheared him, and the Philistines> of, his
1T companionship dug his eyes out and threw
le him into the prison of evil. habits. But
h in the hour of his death he rose up and
7? took hold of the two pillarda curses Of
N God against drunkenness and, unclean
N ness, and threw himself forward. unti
Is down upon him and his companions.the1c
Is came the thunders of an eternal eatas-
r. trophe.
lef Again, any amusement that gives-yon
l. distaste for domestic life is bad. How
n many bright domestic circles have been
q father went off, the mother went, off,
y the child went off. There are to-day the
le fragments before me of blasted house.
e holds. Oh, if you have wandered Away.
u I would like to charm you back by. the
81 sound Of that one. word, 'hOme." DO
s you not know that you have bot, little
more time to give to- domestic .We}fare2
L Do you not see, father, that your children
&c are soon to go out into the world, and
IS all the influence for good. you are to
% have over them you must have now?
% Death will break in on Your conjugal re-
:: lations, and alas! if. you have to stand
n over the grave of one who persisted from
u your neglect!
p saw hayward husband standing, at
IS the deathbed of his Christian, wife,, and
r. saw her point to airing on her. finger and
~ heard her say to her husband edo. You
u see that ring?" He replied, eyes, Lsee
y, , it, ''Well,'' said she, edo you remem
!. Der who put it Thereof eyes," said he
10 81 put it there and all the past seemed
u to rush upon him.. BY the memory OF
J. that day when, in the presence Of mer
and angels, you promised. to, be faithful
30 in Joy and sorrow, and in sickness and TX
20 health; by the memory of those pleasan,
% hours when you sat together in you,
4. new home talking OF a. bright future, by
10 the cradle and the joyful hour when ont
- life was spared and another given; b!
I. that sick bed, when the little one ifte<
y up the hands and called for help, an.
+ you knew he must. die, oand h
e put one arm around each. of your neck
70 and brought you very near together il
re- that dying kiss; by the little grave il
AZ Greenwood that you neHar think OF with
IL cat rush Of tears; by the Bible, where
amidst stories. of heavenly Fove, is tn
70 brief but expressive record Of births sn'
~ deaths; by, the neglects of the past, AM
r. by the agoaies of tho fntune;, by . judg
y, ment day, when husbands and wives
ae parents and childran, in immorts
NV | prouns will stand to he caught m i