The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15

the other soldiers and say, 'Unloose the
men,. The colonel nod his head and say
'Cnloose the men, Then the men are un.
loose, and they all go away, for Mathurir
tell them TO go.
Everybody is YER afraid becos of what
Mathurin do. Mathurtn ,he say TO the
soldiers, Lift him up and bring him il
the church They bring him up to the
steps of the altar. Mathurin look at the
man for awhile, and t seem as If he
cannot speak to him, but the colonel say
IL nave give you my word. Give me
comfort of the church before die He
| is in YER great pain, so Mathur:n he
! turn roun' to everybody dat stan by
and tell them to say the prayers for TIE
sick. Everybody get him down on his
knees and say the prayer; everybody say
Lord have mercy Spare him, oh
Lord, deliver him oh Lord from thy
wrath And Mathurin he pray all the
same as the priest, YER soft and gentle
! He pray on and on, and the face of the
English soldier it get YER quiet and still,
and the tear drop down his cheek: And
Just as Mathurin say at the last dat his
sins they are forgive, he die. Then
Mathurin, as he go away to take off his
robes. he say to himself. 'Misere mel
Deus, miserere mel Deusr
so dat is the ting that Mathurin do
TO save the patriots from the bullets.
Yer well, then men they go free, and
when the, governor at Quebec, he hear
the truth he say it is all right, Also the
English soldier die in peace and happy,
becoS he tink his sins are forgive. But
then there is Mathurin and his sin to
pretend he is prieSti The cure he come
back and there is a great troubled
'Alathurin he is YER quiet and still.
Nobody come near him in his house; no
body go. near to the school. But he sit
alone all day N him school and he work
on the blackboar' and he write on the
slate, but there IS no child come becos'
the cure has forbid anyone to speak TO
Ma thurin. Not till the next Sunday then
the cure send word for Mathurin 10 come
to the church. Mathurin come to the
steps OF the altar, then the cure say to
him:
'Mathurin, you have sin a great sin
If 1t was 200 years ago you would be put
TO death for dat Mathurin he say YER
soft, Dat IS no matter, 1 am ready to
die now | did it to save the fathers of
the children and the husbands of the
wives. | did il to make a poor sinner
happy as he go from the world. The
sin is mine,'
Then the cure he say, The men are
free that is good; the wives have their
husbands and the children their fathers.
Also the man who confess his sins-the
words of priest Of God. he is forgive.
The spirit of God it was upon him when
ne die. becos' you speak in the name of
the church But. for you. blasphemer,
VINO takes upon you the holy thing, you
shall suffer. For penance all your life
you shall teach a child no morer
All NJ lie Cure ne knew dat is the
greatest penance for the poor Mathurin.
every sunday for whole year Mathurin
come on his knees all the way to the
church. but the cure say, Not yet are
you forgive AT the end of the year
Mathurin he look so thin, so white. you
can blow through him. Every day he 90
to him school and write on the blackboar
ana mark on the slate and call the roll
OF the school. But there is no answer
Tor there IS no child. But all the time
the wives of the men dat have save
and the children, they pray for him. And
by and by all the village they pray for
HIM, they are so sorry.
II Is SO Tor two years, and then they
say that Mathurin he got TO die He
cannot come on his knees to the church.
and the men whose life he save, they
come to the cure and ask him TO take the
penace from Mathurin.
The cure say, Wait till next Sunday
SO. next Sunday Mathurin is carried to
the church-he is too weak to walk on
his knees The cure he stan at the
altar and he read a letter from the pope.
which say dat Mathurin his penance is
over and he is forgive; dat the pope him
self pray for Mathurin to save his soul!
SO Mathurin all at once he stan Up,
and his face it smile and smile, and he
cross, and he say, Lord. / am ready to
60 and he fall down, but the cure catch
him as he fall, and Mathurin say, The
ch,ldren-Iet them come TO me that 1
the children in the church they come
close TO him, and he sit up and smile at
them. and he say:
1t is the class in arithmetic Have
much is three times four? And then all
answer: Three time four is r. And he !
say May the L apostles pray for me-
Then he ask. Glass in geogTaDhy-bow
far is it roun' the world?' And thew
answer "24.000 miles He say, 'Good-it |
IS not so far to Godl The school is over
al the time he say, and that is only
all of DOOR Mathurin. He is dead
when the cure lay him down. after |
ne make the sign upon him, he kiss his /
face and say: Mathurin. now you DIRE a |
priest unto Godr +"
Mathurin. the master of the school, for I
whom the women and the children D-ay
IN the parish of Pontiac, though the I
years.
Buffalo Times: How singular it I
happened that Mrs. Delaware was able |
% ind proof that she had known her
husband in a previous reincarnation.
How did she discover it ?''