The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-22

the earliest imprint, which to many count
next to their Bibles.
Yet | Judged it to be nightly insult
able reading for one SO afflicted as ne;
therefore, as the right of mine Office was
| dieected him to lay 1t aside and turn TO
suitable passages OF Scripture. And In
especial | counseled him to mediate
upon the mystical meaning OF certain
verses in the Canticles and in Ezekiel,
upon which ] had preached with great
comfort to myself for one year in my last
pastoral charge. i was proceeding TO ex-
pound some of these to him when he
broke out upon me in way that was
certainly not we'll becoming in man OF
his years and profession.
"Tut, tutt' he said "ye are over much
given, Mr.. Bell, to speak upon matters ye
have small understanding OF. j hnd
more egg-meat in page OF honest
Burton than all the songs OF King Solo
mon-who TO my mind might have en-
ployed himself bettcrp
lyon speak as carnal man, and not
as an elder, Sir james, i said to him,
for was ever firm with him; "know
you not that these things are to be In
terpreted after the spirit2'
"Bide We, Master Bell, till ye ken
something about 1t, said he; "till ye
are man with family and no comfort
In them-your home perpetual braWl,
your sons either dogs that bite or ours
that snap-your wife perpetually peevish
of countenance, acid of tongue-will you
then bide IL all meekly as stranger tyke
that claps its tail between legs and sour
| ries down the public way when Other
messans yelp j ken you ministers, es-
pecially the younger sort OF you that have
rolled Tests and Indulgenes,' like sweet
morsels, under your tongues; we would
take il upon you TO prescribe for death
wounds from your experience OF the
aching of your own little fingers"
Now during my life, which, after all,
has been but 40 years, j have found great
benefit in knowing when to forbear
speech and when TO joke aside and let
the angry jaw go by. This did at this
present, knowing that like scent of rose
| water and balm after a shower in June so
| the pleasant countenance of my friend
| would again be turned upon me.
And so il proved, for I'm little he
| turned his eyes uopn me, having shut his
| book.
81 pray you pardon me, good friend, +"
| he said; "my black choler hath infected
| my heart, and my ill-tempers break out
most readily on them that love the
| most.
With that he put forth his hand to me,
| and, being OF an easy heart, | took IL in
mine and was affected to tears. SO our
friendship was made up OF new, and that
never TO be broken up any more. He
was silent long season, but at the last
he found his speech.
"Mr. Bell" said he, 81 will be plain
with you, for plainness Is best among
friends. / have too long let my heart
| know its own bitterness. l will no longer
make stranger Of you. II is not my
debts, as many think, that trouble me;
for since these Englishmen, cloth
weavers and merchants, Umphray Spur
! way and his folk have come out Of York
| shire, they have put me in a good and
easy way OF life. II Is that have no com
fort i'm my family My wife loves me
not. but cries out upon me continually
that ! am hard To the children. My el.
dest you have seen pursue me 10 the
death; and now my younger, TO whom
had conveyed my estate, having dis.
herished my son Philip, Is become even
as the other. And this Is the more bit
ter to me, because that my heart and my
hope were set upon him. Now his brother
who is the most debauched man in foui
countries. has SO infected John that o
late he has oftimes come home I'm drink
even as the other. Tell me, was ever man
| so driven by his ownR'
Then ! counseled him TO try II ther,
was not yet some hope OF winning hh
| heart.
81 will come with you," I said to en-
courage him. "and II may bo that hi
heart may &c moved by my advice Cs