The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-15
MODERN SACRIFICE.
4laptsd from Tanity Fair.

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SONS than one-it is singularly refreshing
:. r,aat with an instance of ideal chivalric
ors and yet curious pessimistic love,
-,,i,a in keeping with the morbid self analy-
n. IT the present time.
nh story is as follows, but as the family
o. ,Fbon the story refers are living to-day,
" nav for the sake of the narration, de-
1.-The them under the name OF Belvedere,
not a very long remove from their own
patronymic
II happened that both Mr.. and Mrs.
paIvedere died while their son. an only
q Mia was quite a mere boy The estate
,as carefully nursed through his minority,
and as he grew up to manhood the young
Yellow found himself il the euviable posi-
n t,on OF being able TO indulge his every de-
5re He was thoroughly independent,
bassed with health and strength, the ca
0acitv for enjoyment and the means where
With 10 crafty it. He had been prodigal
n torrofusion at Yale, aud when thrown into
tbe whirl Of New York life, and among the
csv camaraderie of Bohemia, he led life
tOnce reckless and extravagant.
n While plenty accepted Guy Belvedere as
good fellow and went the pace with him,
there we're not wanting some few others
who, knowing the young mans character,
stroye to keep him in some kind Of check
INIT vet again and again the society that
was good for him palled upon him. and he
sjgnahzed his eman 'ipation from 1t every
t,me bv some act of extravaganza more pro-
nonpced than before. Thus he plunged into
The vortex Of pleasure and was swept into
the depths of dissipation; anon. into the
froths Of urlviality.
Suddenly, in the strange way that these
inexplcable things do occur, he experienced
complete change of sentiment. An over
yBbelmlng disgust for what he had pre-
viously imagined life of complete happi-
ness filed his mind-the bought kisses Of
pleasure, the hollow protestations of schem-
ers and the furnished honor Of friends
W hat was be doing with his life? The query
came upon him like a great REM rseful
question as he walked home alone one morn
ing when the dawn was breaking in a sky
of Jasper, and the great city, with its
1nyriad toilers, was hushed in an impressive
silence: the calm before the storm of never
ending daily labor.
Guy Belvedere not only renowned his
former associctes, his boon companions and
their friends, but he burned his ships behind
him, iuasmuch as he departed from his
luxurious chambers, with all their fashion
A able environments, selected a quieter place
Il and then, with all his old and unimpaire6
energy, threw himself heart and SOIL into
tne most searching theological questions of
the day. and finally took orders
So far did he synpathize with Rome and
her ancient beliefs that he embraced the
most pronounced high church doctrine, con-
Ederlng celibacy, above all things, to be an
essential attribute of the priesthood; and
also believing devoutly, and, indeed, insist
ing upon, confession being q tenet of his
creed. 1t is not too much to say that at
tlis date much of his spiritual telief was
largely influenced by the writings of a late
eminent cardinal, and though Belvedere re-
NAMED member of the Episcopal priest
hood, still it was as one of its most high
church doctrin alres.
With great capacity for work and the
ardent stimulus of apostleship urging him
On he was offered and gladly accepted a
parish in the most degraded of slums. Down
INTO its noisome deus, into poverty and
amid squalor, went this brave man, carry
ing such comfort as he could, receiving
doubtful blessings from some and direct
curses from others, but ever sustained by
fearlesSness and good faith, till, at last, by
years Of patient effort. by TIE help of a
strong will, by untiring industry aud perse-
veIance that nothing could shake,
there slowly grew up around
this devout worker happier results
and, SO far as may be. some mitigation of
the sordid misery and vice-and this rather
than any new religion-in the parish that
he had chosen for the scene of his labors.
There is no doubt that he was happy in
this, his chosen vocation, until by that
mysterious law of nature-that affinity Of
souls, of which Goethe has 50 eloquently
written-he met and fell as completely and
entirely IN love a S any uuconvertei lay
man. in spite Of his asceticism, his all-nb-
sorbing pursuits, his life that he lived for
others and never FOR himself.
Possessing as he did a sensitively refined
Dature, combined with strong will he was
oil the more hopelessly borne upon the tide
ola powerful passion. The lady in the case
was Miss Dareth. a girl also of high spir-
ltuGl tension, who had abandoned her
sphere of fashionable frivolity, her life of
pleasure and pleasant society, in order to
devote herself to the poor of New York. 1t
was impossible to belong in that poor quar-
ter Of the great city without hearing of Guy
belvedere and now and again a fragment
OF his reckless past, which only served to
enhance the self-denial of the present He
had been of her world, was kin with her in
che aesthetic delight of all things beautiful,
was now in unison with her soul in all things
Infinite, and so they meta strong. self
reliant man and young, beautiful woman,
touched to her heart by the nobility of the
man before her,
Sometimes the similarity of their work
brought them together for days. sometimes
lor weeks they were apart; yet always with
strange PRESIDENT feeling that they were
moving toward each other again, and ever
experiencing that indiscribabe content
Inent when IN the presence of each other.
hlS actions breathed his love, though his
ilps never uttered the passion that bound
MIN, and she. bearing his creed of celibaoy
nearing it and dreading-yet hoped and
hoped on. Once with an infinite tender.
ness, may be to ease his own sore heart,
lougn with the intention of dispell-
ing the pain he felt he occasaioned
oy his silence, he strove to explain how
much he considered celibacy a necessity
lGr him in the life he had chosen,
WITH Its high aims and aspirations. And
le woman listened quietly, though she de-
yected through the mist of words tho mans
craving love, and that comforted her
Tough she wept herself to sleep that night
Iernaps the torture was too great, and
le'haps 1t was that which nerved her to
Strange resolve later.
;, o1e determined TO appeal from the man,
sus over, to the priest, the director and con-
toler Oh troubled hearts; and 50, resisting the
10" arguments against it, she carried her
Case before him 'in confession" and in that
'aIR,a9lclty asked his advice.
WIN answering honesty in the beliefs
=. ne mad adopted the man stuffed the prompt
sS OF nature, and in the supreme self
aoAeRaton of his priesthood he decided
'sslHst his own happiness.
G, auIine Dareth heard and accepted his
Lay Lay with bowed head and the silence Of