Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-12-08
titude is demanded than was exhibited by
Lady Jane Grey or Mary, queen OF Scots.

z WON III VINO nave IiiIca ON lHt great stcfl-
flee, and who are urged forward by all the
) voices of grace that sound from the Billie
and all the notes of victory that speak
from the sky? Many years ago the Forfar-
, shire steamer started from Hull bound for
Dundee. After the vessel had been out a
little while the winds began TO rave and
pillows rise until a tempest was upon them.
The vessel leaked, and the fires went ont,
, and though the sails were hoisted fore and
aft she went speeding toward the breakers.
She struck with her bows foremost on the
rock. The vessel parted. Amid the whirl-
wind and the darkness all were lost but
nine. These chung to the wreck on the
beach.
Sleeping that night in Longstone light
house was girl of gentle spirit and come
ly countenance. AS the morning dawns /
see that girl standing amid the spray and
tumult of contending elements looking
through "a glass upon the wreck and the
nine wretched sufferers. She proposes to
her father to take boat and put out across
the wild sea to rescue them The father
says: ut cannot be donel just look at the
tumbling surf" But she persisted, and
with her father bounds into the boat
Though never accustomed TO plying the
oar, she takes one and her father the other.
Steady nowl Pull away Pull awayl
The sea tossed up the boat as though it
were bubble but amid the foam and the
wrath of the sea the wreck was reached,
the exhausted people picked up and saved.
Humane societies rendered their thanks.
Wealth poured into the lap Of the poor
girl. Visitors from all lands came TO look
on her sweet face, and when soon after she
launched forth on dark sea, and Death
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mighty men sat down in tears in Alnwick |
castle to think they never again might see
the face of Grace Darling.
No such deeds of daring will probably be |
asked of you, but hear you not the howl OF |
that awful storm of trouble and sin that |
hath tossed ten thousand shivered hulks |
into the breakersg Know you not that the |
whole earth is strewn with the ship /
wrecked-that there are wounds to be I
healed. and broken hearts 10 be bound. and /
drowning souls to be rescuedg Some have |
gone down, and you come too late, but 9TH
ers are clinging TO the wreck are shivering /
with the cold, are stranglng in the wave,
are crying to you for deliVerance viii you
not, oar in hand, put out today from the
lighthouse?
When the last ships timber shall have
been rent, and the last Longstone beacon
shall have been Numbered down in the
hurricane, and the last tempest shall have
folded its wings, and the sea itself shall
have been licked up by the tongue of all
consuming fire, the crowns OF eternal re
ward shall be kindling into brighter glory
on the brow of the faithful. And Christ
pointing TO the inebriate that You re-
formed, and the dying sinner whom you
taught TO pray, and the outcast whom you
pointed to God for shelter, will say: You
did it to them You did it to mel"
ENDURANCE OF MATERNAL LOVE
Again, the scene Of the text impresses
upon us the strength of maternal attach
ment Not many men would have had
courage or endurance for the awful mis-
sion of Rizpah To dare the rage of wild
beasts, and sit from May TO October I'M
sheltered and TO watch the corpses Of I'M
buried children, was a work that nothing
but the maternal heart could have accom-
plished. 1t needed more strength than %
stand before opened batteries or to walk u
calmness the deck Of laundering steamer
There is no emotion so completely un-
selfish as maternal affection. Conjugal
love expects the return of many kindnessos
and attentions Filial love expects pa-
rental care or is helped by the memory OF
past watchfulness. But the strength Of q
mothers love is entirely independent Of the
past and the future, and is, of all emotions
the purest. The child has done nothing i'm
the past to earn Kindness and in the future
II may grow up TO maltreat it's parent; but
still from the mothers heart there goes
forth Understandable affection.
Abuse cannot offend il; neglect cannot
chill il; time cannot eiface IL; death cannot
destroy it. For harsh words it has gentle
Gliding; for the blow it has beneficent
ministry; for neglect it has increasing
watchfulness. 1t weeps a. the prison door !
over the incarcerated proliga, and pleads (
for pardon at the governors feet, and i
forced away by compassionate friends from I
witnessing the struggles of the gallows. I
Other lights 90 out, but this burns on
without eNtinguishment, as in gloom i
struck night you may see single star I
one of Gods pickets-with cleaning bavo- /
net of light guarding the outposts Of
heaven. !
The marchioness Of Spadara, when the |
earthquake at Messina occurred, was car S
ried out insensible from the falling houses T
On coming To her senses she found that s
her infant had not been rescued. She went
back and persisted in the ruins Illustration
OF ten thousand mothers who in as many
different ways have sacrificed themselves y
for their children =
Oh, despise not mothers love! II here. 9
tofore you have been negligent Of such IA f
one and You still have opportunity for rep 5
aration, make haste If you could only 1
just look in for an hours visit to her. /,
you would rouse up in the aged one a whole h
world Of hlissful memories. What If She a
does sit without talking muchs She watched r
you for many months when you knew h
not how 10 talk at all. What if she has o
many ailments 10 tell aboutf During III. a
teen years you ran to her with every little r,
scratch and bruise, and she doctored your q
little finger as carefully as a surgeon would i,
bind the worst fracture q
You say she is childish now. wonder a
If she ever saw you when you were child. W
lsh. You have no patience TO walk with h
her on the street, she moves so slowly. /
wonder If she remembers the time when
you were glad enough to 20 slowly. You