Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-09

wordy war the case was decided. Mr..
Hobart and his friends were fined,
Anthony Games was admonished
and Governor Winthrop acquitted of
all attempts to exceed his authority.
The stern old pastor was not salts.
fed He refused to pay the exacted
fine, protested against the right Of
government and finally was arrested
for characterization. He insisted on
being tried by jury, and itonly re
suited in second fine being imposed
upon him. to which he was obliged
| to submit.
He had had his say, but to what
purpOse2 He summed up the advan.
tages and disadvantages of his stub
born will and indiscretion. He had
indirectly injured an innocent man !;
he had opposed the laws of the col
ony; had rendered his niece unhap-
Ply, and had subjected himself to
singing modification in being after
ward advised, when accompanying
the elders to give advice upon public
affairs, TO retire from the court, the
governor giving as a reason that Mr..
Hobart was apt to oppose public
authority.
The pastor returned home with
this rebuke sounding drearily in his
| ears. To crown his vexation, An
thony Eames was in his home and
DOrothea was evidently preparing to
go out with him. The girl had alb
stained from all reproach, either by
word or behavior, to trouble the
humbled minister She went about
cheerfully, performing all the offices
that she had hitherto undertaken
with undated good will.
But it vexed him that she grew
pale, and that her beautifully fitting
dresses had grown all too wide for
her shrunken figure. Dorothea was
evidently failing, and he could not
conceal it from himself, although he
tried hard to do so, that he was the
means Of it. Even to her aunt-a
meek, timid woman. who had always
been overborne by the strong current
of her husbands unbroken will
even to her DOrothea never named
the name Of her lover When her
uncle left the house she received his
visits or went wherever he asked her
to go with him, their most frequent
visits being made at his mothers
| house.
But the greatest trial Of the minis
ter was to come IN the shape Of a
visit to Boston. One Of his friends,
who had upheld him in opposing the
| government, was to be married at
Boston, and was anxious to have Mr.
Hobart perform the ceremony. Will
ing to change the scene to one where
he would not be continually remind
| ed of the late occurrences, he went
there with more apparent cheerful
ness than he had felt for a long time
| He forgot for a time his annoy
ances, and was again the pleasant
and almost mirth loving minister
He was to stay over the Sabbath, and
his self respect seemed entirely re
stored when a Boston clergyman in
vited him to preach for him on that
| day. The world did not seem against
him after all. The Rev. Peter Ho
bart was yet something more than a
mere cipher He looked out his two
best sermons of which he had
brought perhaps a dozen or two, al
though not expecting an invitation
had gone to the extent of having his
hair cut by a Boston barber and had
| put on his new coat
Alas how worse than vain are
worldly honors. So thought the
minister OF bingham when he re-
ceived a hint that amounted TO a
command from the magistrates de
string him to forbear preaching in
Boston, "for this, among other rea-
sons-that his spirit had been discov-
cred to be adverse to our ecclesias-
teal and civil government, and he
was a bold man and would speak his
| mind I"
Such a repulse from such a source
| almost broke the minister's heart
Like Wolsey's, his high blown pride
at length broke under him" The
minister, as may be believed, went
home far more humble than he had
left it. Subdued to greater tender
ness than ever before he lost no time
in seeking Anthony Eames and re-
pairing his error toward him.
And DorOthea now felt the full
happiness Of having refrained from
vexing that spirit which her uncle
had unwisely manifested She knew
that although erring, the minister's
was a noble nature still, and when
his excuse was pleaded by so lovely
an intercessor, Anthony Eames was
not slow TO forgive.
When the spring came it smiled
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