The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-22


Old Aunt Ruthy was there, but
Aunt Ruthy's husband" had paid the
penalty Of painful cleanliness by dying
Of cholera.
DR.. Ross was there, and he enter
tanned all who would listen by re-
counting his early prophecy that Lit
tie Joe was Giving double life, land
would some day come to his senses;
and by philosophizing upon Joe's cure
in the Internal Regions,
And dozen or twenty old-timc
fricnds-mcn and women-were there,
besides few young men and maidens,
anxious SO witness ceremony in which
each hoped, ere long, to play a part,
as principal.
But 1.-THE star of that goodly COM
panic was Vivette Molier. Self-con-
trolled, unsclfish and striving to make
others happy; ready of speech, with
pleasant words for all, she won the
goodwill OF old and young alike, Fad
even drew words of praise from Aunt
Ruthy. who declared her mice enough
for her own parlor, without spot or
blemish."
When the minister had called attcn-
ton to the now publicly renewed mar
riage vows of Joseph and Mary Gust.
he departed somewhat from his usual
course, to deliver a homily on the
marriage state.
Dearly beloved friends" said he,
God has never before permitted me
to illustrate genuirc marriage with
such living example of what
IL is. Here the fires of love
burn bright, as they burned
thirty-five years ago. Here is
the heathenish phrase of honeymoon
made meaningless by lifetime of con-
nubial love, ever fresh as in the hour
Of first alliance. Each has lived for the
other, seeking to win, and willing to be
won, with all the freshness and all the
dclicacy of loves young dream. May
God continue to bless you, Joseph with
Mary, and you, Mary, with your loving
husband, as he has ever blessed you in
the past-giving you son without
the pains of maternity, and lifting
that son from mental darkness by his
own swift agent that flashes in the
thunder-cloud. ] pronounce you hus-
band and wife forever. Amen"
There were tears in many eyes as
that deep amen came up from the
heart of the minister, and tho low
echoing amens that were heard in re-
spouse came also from the heart.
And yet Father Burky, like the
other, guests had known only the
INF of
so easily assumed and apt to deceive
They should have known the inner
life, where there are no masks and no
malse-bclieves. They should have
known Joseph and Mary on the
threshold of married life, in pow
erty, in sickness, in long watchings at
the bed of pain, without ncighbors
and without counsel; in the forest
cabin, with savages proving round; in
tho lonely waiting at home by the one
for the other absent, making surveys
for future empire; in the alternate
wrestlings w. tn aguc, and the long
struggle with miasma; in storm and
cold, and mutual support, when none
bnt God could see.
And under the nurturing care of
such hearts as these, no mystery that
Little Joe" had grown to manhood to
illustrate the loving household, which
made him one of its members, from
very excess Of loving kindness.
The company remained late. talking
Of early days, or gossiping in the bright
sunshine of youth, as each should num-
Der the years.
On their way to the home of Vivcttc,
the affianced couple arranged that Gust
was, on the first favorable opportunity,
30 make formal application to Molier
for his daughters hand in marriage.
II - consented, well; If he refused,
they could wait. But, neither life,
nor death, nor angels, should separate
them in heart-herc or hereafter.
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