The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-07-07

heaven. When the psalm ceased, an
echo like q spirits voice was heard dying
away high up among the magnificent
architecture of the cliffs. and once more
might be noticed in the silence the re-
viving voice of the waterfall.
Just then II large stone fell from the
top of the cliff into the pool, a loud
voice was heard, and u plaid hung over
on the point Of Il shepherds staff. Their
watchful sentinel had deserted danger,
and this was II warning. Forthwith the
congregation rose. There were paths
dangerous to Impractical feet along the
lodges of the rocks leading up to several
caves and places of concealment. The
more active and young assisted the elder
more especially the old pastor and the
women with the nfants-and many min
utes had not elapsed till not a living
creature was visible in the channel of
the stream, but all of them hidden. or
nearly so in the clefts and caverns.
The shepherd who had given the alarm
had lain down again in his plaid instant
ly on the greensward upon the summit
of these precipices. A party of soldiers
We're Immediately upon him and de-
manded what signals he had been max
ing and to whom, when one of them,
looking over the edge of the cliff, ex-
claimed: "Sec, see! Humphrey, we have
caught the whole tabernacle OF the Lord
i'll a net at last. There they arc priis-
ing God among the one of the river
Mouss. These arc the Garland craigs.
BY my souls salvation, u noble cathe-
dral!'
Filing the lying sentinel over the
cliffs. Here is II cantiIlg Covenanter for
you, deceiving honest soldiers Oh the
very Sabbath day. Over with him-out
of the gallery into the pit" But the
shepherd had vanished like a shadow,
and mixing with the tall green broom
and bushes was making his unseen way
toward wood. "Satan has saved his
servant, but come, my lads-follow me.
| know the way down into the bed of
the stream and the steps up to Wallace's
cave. They are called the 'Kittlc Nine
Stancs.' The hunts up. Well be all
in at the death. Halloo-my boys
halloo!'
The soldiers dashed down II less pre-
cipitous part of the wooded banks a lit
tie below the "craigs' ard hurried up
the channel. But when they reached
the altar where the old gray haired min
lister had been seen standing, and the
rocks that had been covered with people,
all was silent and sOlitary-not a crea-
ture was to be seen.
Here's q Bible dropped by some of
Them cried u soldier, and with his foot
he spun it away into the pool. "A bon
meta bonnet" cried another. 'now for
the pretty sanctified face that rolled its
demuro eyes below it," But after a few
jcsts and oatls the soldiers stood still,
eying with a kind of mysterious dread
the black and silent walls of the rock
that hemmed them in, and hearing only
the small voice Of the stream that sent "a
~profounder stiffness through the heart of
that majestic solitude.
Curse these cowardly C~ovenanters!
What if they tumble down upon our
heads pieces of rock from their hiding
place? Advance? Or retreat?' There
was no reply, for n slight fear was upon
every man. Musket Or bayonet could be
of little use TO men obliged to Chamber
mp rocks along slender paths, leading
they knew not where. and they were
aware that armed men nowadays wor-
shipped Gol-men Of iron hearts, who
feared not the glitter Of the soldiers
arms. neither barrel nor bayonct-men
Of long stride. firm step and broad chest,
who on the open iinld would have over
.lz..,, A.. ,..1,1,l IL, $780,, 1890,
first aud foremost IL Il city had to be
taken by storm.
AS the soldiers We're standing together
irrcsolute, u noise came upon their ears
like distant thunder, but even more ap-
palling. and Il light current of air, as if
propelled by it. passed whispering along
the sweetbricrs. and the broom, and the
trcsses of the birch trees. 1t came deep
ening and rolling and roaring on, and
the very Garland craigs shook to their
foundation rs if in an earthquake.
''The Lord have mercy upon us-what
is this;" And down fell many of the
miserable wrctchcs on their knees and
some on their faces upon the sharp point
ed rocks. Now, it was like the sound of
many myriads of chaliots rolling on
their iron axlcs down the stony channel
of the torrent. The old gray haired
minister issued from the mouth of Wal
lace's cave and said, with Il loud voice,
THE Lord God terrible reigneth."
y waterspour had burst up among the
moorlands, and the river in its power
was at hand. There it came-tumbling
along into that long reach Of cliffs, and
in IA moment filled it with n mass Of
waves. Huge, agitated clouds of foam
rode on the surface of a blood red tor
rent. An army must have been swep
off by that food. The soldiers perishei
in a momentum high up in the cliffs,
above the sweep Of destruction, were
the Covenanters-men, women and chill
dren uttering prayers to God, unheard
by themselves, in that raging thunder
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Life
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