The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-09-01

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9 pects you TO speak Of this thing aud is su
o prised thsi you do not DO IL.
~ / shall do II st fitting season, said III
. C.rtsr. 10 tone which sflecinslly clcse
j. the subject
. After Miss Tracy had gone Margaret 81
!, rionsly eonsidsgsd tLm matter She isg
!. cied that John sometimes looked ~istfnll
! at her Bible. which Icy on the little tabI
I near ber bed. Couli Aunt Jane be fish,
e Would he like TO read and knesi With be
, 10 prsyi
q Msrssnt C4tor loved her husband an
. loved her God; but her love like her 10
da shssl. vas hidden carefully away. 4
} be produced only on great emergencies
, Her religion vas OF . kind which take
keen delight in q great theological sreu
! nett
Nothing could have been moro simple o
natural. when they we're fret married
thsu for here TO have put her Bible in BIZ
E usuurt sshHk bim w tesus W WI pet "
have drawn him down with her as Oh,
kuelt 10 pray. he would have been elat
to ueel aud find the Father that be uset
TO know when he was a child, Tor big viii,
ktred fellow that he was, be was but q boy
aud lonely boy, lt heart
But rs weeks passed into months aud
into years, il seemed impossible for her Ia
do this.
She put the thin g At last out OF her
thoughts, Life was long before them II
John should be i'll, or lose all bis money.
or any supreme moment like that should
arrive, she would bring her faith before
him with victorious effect. She would
show him then how q Christian could en-
dure and triumph. But the years logged
on prosperous and dull; no supreme mo-
ment came.
As time passed there cane between
them silence. not Of words, but OF thou
ghts and feelings. He probably did not
believe in love which was not demonstra'
tive. She had an older, more masculine
nature than his. People who knew John
we'll noticed a gradual change in him.
He had been q man full OF gentle enthui
sissms; q man who gave snd exacted much
kindness and affection. He had been PERI
bsps Jealous and upr asonable In this ex'
action; but he now grew sloalg indifferent
cold aud cynical to his friends. There wac
u wistful look 10 his eyes. like that OF
man who has lost sommething out OF life
which hs shall never find.
Occasionally be occupied seat 10 the
pew whloh Mrs Garter owned in the
church iu which she Was an energetic wori
ker, and sometimes, meeting the minister
atterwsrd. he disputed bis arguments
good humoredi ".
A most int resting man the rector eaid |
TO his lie one day. Full Of keen percep,
tions and senslbilitesl / wish we could |
draw him ITO the Church.
Why do you net bring the subject home
to him.
LIDO. 10 the pulpit. as directly as can
He /, a man who would require the tender
EST touch. II his wife has bsen laboring 10
vain all these years. what can do2
SO it happened, by these easy. natural
chances, that when John Calt,r last win
er fell i'll and came down to the edge Of
hat outer darkness which lies so near to
IS all, nobody had put into his hands the
amp which would have lighted his way.
Mrs. Carter nursed him skillfully. II
vss not in intelligence or energy that she
allied. But the time came when the con,
Iultipg physician, with the usual grave.
,entle formula. suggested that il there
we're any matters of moment which Mr..
carter should attend to2 His will, probsr
bly,?
That is done 1T is not thatl gssped
Margaret. But must speak to him. And
le does not hear. He lies there 10 that
Helpless stupor
1t is a phase Of the disease, madam, an
farming phase, to be candid.
Mrs Caitsr buried out OF the room.
| suppose said the family doctor, it is
lis religions condition than she ia Think
ng Of. To late to open up that subject to
'oor Carter. His braiu stopped work en-
our ago.
Miss Tracy who bad helped to nurse
Ohm, met Margaret In the hall.
What is i'll WHIT have they told you
he cried, seeing her face.
He Is dying, Don't touch me. sm not
ding TO fsint. | understand
She bad never been more keenly awake
r slve. The whole future yswned before
er-emp,y.
see it all now, she said, turning her
hastily face /, the door OF his chamber. ]
ee what Q lonely life he has had. He
ever knew how loved him. There was
ever any way for me to show 1t. II
asnt my fsuit that the chance did not Y
ONE. d
The two women went to the dying man q
nd we're left alone with him. He was ,
uuk 10 heavy stupor. a
lie is going, said Msrgsrei. and wb,i
as be to take with him yondr1 / bs.,
lven him nothing. :,
He reused at lss, q little and looked Q, i.
er with dulled tyes. b
il is ], John, /. Msrgsnt. You know
lat love you? have not shown you as n
ought. Obi for Gods sake say that you |,
nosl
His eyes closed drowsily.
Dou't reproseh yourself. my desr. %
I'D. in the gentle, hopeless tones she h
1ew 30 we'll. :,
Shall pray with Won? Oh. John. think :,