The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-12-12

had a wife. and several children blessed
his home-four interesting little tots.
One of them had grown to be a boy
some twelve years old; while a daughter
two years younger was another who
wondered why papa moved around SO
much. And her papa told her hat the
lowly Nazarine had said, "if any man
man will come after me, let him deny
himself, take up his cross and follow me-
The salary had never been large 10
| clothe and feed the family, and buy some
little trinkets once in a while to make
the dingy parsonage look brighter with
in, kept the purse we'll nigh empty.
For a year past-ffty-two Sundays,
save one when he was at conference, the
preacher had addressed mis- congregation
both morning and evening. The prayers
were fervent, they came from a heart
which was warm and good and kind; the
sermon was the result of study and
thought, for the preacher was more than
an ordinary thinker. He was not elo-
~ouent, but he was honest, and what he
said carried conviction to many hearts
and the soul-cries from his pulpit had
snatched many brands from the burning,
and made miserable wretches happy
filled them with that happiness and hope
which only a genuinely transformed
soul experiences and enjoys.
The little boy and little girl had formed
acouaintances. In their little world and
at their little playhouse came compan'
ions, and the friendships grew and the
children were happy, and the mother had
her neighbors and friends and she liked
the town, and she did 80 hope, as the
children did, that she might remain there
at least a year or two longer. But con
ference met. And on the last day when
the appointments were announced the
preacher found that he would be given
another charges smaller town-mean-
ing q smaller salary he would be obliged
to pack up his little household gods,
some little tricks with the varnish OIL
here and there where careless freight
4 agents had handled them many times be-
fore: a table which was the wife's we'd
ding present from some ~friend-the
drawer had been broken and a leg was
split three years before, but that must
, make another journey too; the children
must be torn away from their little
friends-a love the purest on earth--for
a child's love is pure-it is p~assionless,
genuine, XXX warranted love-must be
rudely brushed away, for children will
! forget in other scenes, and yet remember
all their lives the little incidents of child
l hood and regretfully look back to those
happy, 1eeting hours!
So thought the preacher when he
heard his warrant" read. But he
smiled. There was light in his eye, and
happiness in his heart. II will deny
myself-take up my cross and follow
him" And the wife She read TIN
e news. She cast a backward glance
mentally only, and knew too well wha
g it all meant again. But she did not raj
lie out against the fate which to the world,
vs. seems most unkind. She kissed he
children and commenced to arrange TO
re the packing up-for the departure, TO
new fields and new faces. And she wa
cheerful. When her husband came int
the yard he heard her singing:
ID Happy day, oh, happy day,
N When JESUS washed my sins away.
He taught me how to watch and pray
And live rejoicing every day"
re And
re The door opened.
"Wife" said he that evening, when
was coming home, several travelling me
: were on the train-twO were in the sea
just behind me, and they were talkin
= about preachers and The conference
One of them said that he was one lin
told that had it not been for the marti,
music which led the armies to face she
-. aud shell, those soldiers would nevt
have rem~ained-but would have deserte
the field of battle. The gentlemen il