Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-02-07

| see the face on her agen: and thin and
theer | turned her out into the rain
and darkness. 1t war a cruel onnirv-
ing thing. But wur proud man thin.
zurr, as proud, | der believe. as Satan
hisself And l turned her out"
The good man paused, never raising
his eyes from the fire. and again wiped
| his face with the spotted handkerchief.
At length he resumed:
'Neighbors proved kinder 10 her
| than her own flesh and blood. Some
on them as found her next morning
| lying by the roadside, faint and drench-
| ed wiz brain, and a most dead. took
her in. And wiyin a wik Jess wur
| born. They did bring ME word of IL.
| l druv them away wiz curses and hard
words | said aid niyer wish to hev
news or tidings of the - agen. Ave.
Zurr, | did use that virry word. God
| forgive me, l did use that virry word.
But not many days wur passed afore r
had to heer of my child agen. She wur
| found drowned in the floods. and wur
fetched to identify her / shall Eiver for.
git how she looked. She war beautiful.
zurr; my little myde wur always beautiful.
But in the hirst and peace of death shq
wur more beautiful ner ever she had bin
before. She wur a smiling. zurr. wiz her
lips a little parted; aye she wur smiling
virry sweetly. Ii wur the smile Of one in
trouble as hev found an unexpected
friend.
II did begin to ask myself then. zurr,
what her unexpected friend must think of
me- And a grit fear came over me-a
| fear that hev chung about me liver since.
Fur / know as we'll as II Almighty God
hisself had told me that his hand is heavy
! upon me day and night-day ana night.
And 20 will continue, zurr. until l die. Not
that l hev been visited worse nit so bad
as many neighbours. Times hev ruled
hard Of late. And there's power OF
small warmers, like me, as hoy vailed and
drifted into the house. But / hev strug-
gled through and paid my way-paid my
way. I've had TO scrape and pinch and
wight for livery ha'porth; but / hev done
IL. zurr. And tbs summat to hev lived.
the dree on us. and hev kept paid up, on
thirteen acre and YOUR cow In that re-,
spect, as you may say, the Almighty heV
niver stricken me he hev stricken ser
many. And there's Polly-she'm a good
little myde to her OLD Granddaughter; and
Jess, If he be a incoming. caddlng lad.
will. he might hev took to drinking or
swearing. or worse. Aye ayel l aint
been visited by the Almighty I'm my family
or business. or nowt Of that. There's them
as might hold I've even been vavored
But, zurr, I knows, all one for that. as
the A'mghty's face les stiddy sit against
me, and that I shall sit feel the heft OF
my Makers hand
Come Gomez said the rector, you
must not give away TO those morbid feel
ings, my old friend. | do not doubt that
God has forgiven you long ago For YOU
have repented sorely-have you not?-aud
made what amends you could by your
kindness to her child?"
lhave opg. teio.. cemh Nib hrdlu taolnm
"Aminds. zurr? Ahl There be no maxi
ing aminds to the did. Onkindness to tho
living may be- washed and milted away
during their life; but arter they are gone.
that can niver be. Wur you liver in Child
der caves, zurr?"
Eyes, Mr.. Noad, often"
AYE Then you hev seen them things
! they call stally tights. They's Purified
now. zurr, and virm as brock. They wur
all soft and &c Iashy once. and any myde
might hev hicked EN- away wiz a duster.
| But to-day a mason and a A cheesl
would hay summat TO do wiz EN-. That's
what onkindness .-T'he lid is like-,ll.. .l II
and fixed and pi'eTo tA~----si|
1T is good fo,csridS5 be humble and not
to forget our past sins" said the rector.
but it is not wise or right. my friend.
always TO be brooding over them Re-
member. God Is merclful You say your
self that he has prospered you I'm busl-
| ness: that"
! "Prospered?' interrupted the old farm-
! CT. We'll. yis: I suppose I must call 10
! 'prospered.' Worry year-v0rty long year
-hev I spent in this same little warm.
and each of those vorty year hey been a
year Of anxious struggle and uncertainty;
grinding wiki by wick TO scrape the hrint:
always put to it for wood and clothes and
vuel: sldum a month gone hy but wot va
wur druv up to our last ha'pcnny; and
scarcely daring 10 look The vuturc I'm tho
vace. Not that I'm gruubing. TO hov
/ struggled on at all is moro than I've de-
served from The Amilhty. But 10 hey
! bin n weary. weary life. zlrr and
I hreckon he hcv meant it 10 Do 20. And T
J hreckon. too that he hey held his hand
up and delayed 10 smite me-. hecos no
knows that a punishment ivcr Ner hong-
! ing over IS zureiy the hviest punishment
Of all to bear"
Before leaving him tnat evening the
rector used every effort 10 console and
cheer the old farmer. without, however,
producing much effect for The Old farmer
| was I'm morbid nervous condition. I'm
! which reason and announcement was