Evening journal., 1892-09-03

and what is earthly Of them be buried /.
Ia my grave and the spiritual go with /
me 10 my eternal state, rather than that
yen should put your skill to the proof in
my behalf"
"Ah,' replied Roger Chillingworth
with that quietness which, whether inn
posed or natural, marked all his deport
ment, lit is thus that young clergy
man is apt to speak Youthful men
not having taken a deep root. give ~
their hold Of life so easily And sanity
men, who walk with God on earth.
would fam be away TO walk with him
on the golden payements Of the New
Jerusalem
May" rojoined the young minister
putting his hand TO his heart, with a
flush Of pain fitting over his brow,
were worthier to walk there | could
be better content to toll here
Good men ever interpret themselves
too meanly," said the physician
In this manner the mysterious old
Roger Chillingworth became the med
ical adviser Of the Reverend Mr.. Dim
mesdale. AS not only the disease in
~ moved to look into the character and
qualities Of the patient, these two men
SO different in age came gradually to
spend much time together For the
sake Of the minister's health and to en-
able The leech TO gather plants with
healing balm in them, they took long
walks on the seashcre or Ia the forest
mingling various talk with the plash
and mui1nur Of tho waves, and the
solemn wind anthem among the tree
tops. Often, likewise, one was the guest
Of the other in his place Of study and
retirement
Thus Roger Chilhngworth scrudnized
his patient carefully, both rs he saw
him in his ordinary life. keeping an &C
custoiaed pathway in the range Of
thoughts familiar TO him, and as he ap
peared when thrown amid other moral
scenery, the novelty Of which might call
out something new to the surface of ms
character. He deemed it essential, IL
would SEEM TO know the man before
attempting 10 do him good. Wherever
there is a heart and an intellect the
1 diseases Of the physical frame are tinged
with the peculiarities Of these. Ia Ar.
/ thur Dimmesdale thought and magma
I ton were so active and sensibility SO
! intense that the bodily infrnity would
/ be likely to have its groundwork there
! So Roger Chillingworth-the man Of
skill the kind and friendly physician
strcve to 60 deep into his patients
bosom, delving among his principles
prying into his recollections and prob
ing everything with a cautious touch
like treasure seeker in a dark cavern
After time, at hint from Roger
I Chillingworth, the friends Of Mr. Dim
mesdale effected an arrangement by
which the two were lodged in the same
house, 50 that every ebb and flow Of the
minister's life tide might pass under the
eye of his anxious and attached physi-
cian. There was much joy throughout
thc town when this greatly desirable OBJ
ject was attained. II was held to be the
BEST possible measure for the young
clergyman's welfare unless, indeed, as
often urged by such rs felt authorized
20 do so, he had selected some one Of the
many blooming damsels, spiritually de-
voted to him, to become his devoted
wife This latter step, however, there
was no present prospect that Arthur
Dimmesdale would be prevailed upon to
take: he rejected all suggestions Of the
kind. as if priestly celibacy were one of
his articles of church discipline Doomed
BIZ his own choice. therefore, as Mr.
Dimmesdalo so evidently was, to eat his
unsavory morsel always at anothers
board and endure the lifelong chill
which must be his lot who seeks to warm
himself only at another's freside, it ti-u-
ly seemed that this sagacious, expert
enced benevolent old physician, with
his concord of paternal and reverental
love for the young pastor, was the very
man Of all mankind to be constantly
within reach Of his voice.
The new abode Of the two friends was
with pious widow Of good social rank,
who dwelt in a house covering pretty
nearly the site on which the venerable
structure of Kings chapel has since been
built. 1t had the graveyard, originally
Isaac Johnsans home field. on one side
aud SO was well adapted to call up serious
reflections suited to their respective en-
ployments. in both minister and man Of
physic The motherly care Of the good
widow assigned to Mr.. Dimmesdale d
front apartment, with a sunny exposure
/ and heavy window curtains to create Q
nooatide shadow when desirable. The
walls were hung around with tapestry
said 70 be from the Gobelin looms, and
at all events representing the Scriptura
story of David and Bathsheba. anc
Nathan tho Prophet, in colors still I'M
faded, but which made the fair woman
Of the scene almost as grimly picturesqu,
, as the woe denouncing seer.
Here the pale clergyman piled mp hi
library, rich with parchment bount
folios Of the fathers, and the lore O.
rabbis, ana monl5ish erudition. Of which
the Protestant divines, even while they
, vilifed and decried that class Of writers
! were yet constrained often to avail
themselves. on the other side Of thi
horse old Roger Chillingworth ar
! ranged his study and laboratory; no
such as a modern man Of science woul,
reckon even tolerably complete, bu
provided with distilling apparatus an,
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