The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1899-11-11

dreamed about the star; and he dream
ed that, lying where he was, he saw a
train, of people taken up that sparkling
road by angels. And the star, opening
showed him great world of light
where many more such angels waited
to receive them.
All those angels, who were waiting,
turned their beaming eyes upon the
people who were carried up into the
star; and some came out from the long
rows in which they stood, and fell upon
the peoples necks, and kissed them
tenderly, and went away with them
down avenues of light, and were SO hap
Ply in their company that lying in his
bed he wept for joy.
| But there were many angels who did
not go with them, and among them one
he knew. The patient face that once
had laid upon the bed was glorified and
radiant, but his heart found out his sis
ter among all the host.
His sisters angel fingered near the
entrance of the star, and said to the
leader among those who had brought
the people thither:
"Is my brother Gomez"
And he said "No."
She was turning hopefully away,
when the child stretched out his arms,
and cried, 30, sister, I am here! Take
mel" and then she turned her beaming
eyes upon him, and it was night; and
the star was shining in the room, MAX
ing long rays down toward him as he
saw it through his tears.
From that hour forth, the child look
ed out upon the star as on the home he
was to go to, when his time should
come; and he thought that he did not
belong to the earth alone, but to the
star, too, because of his sisters angel
gone before.
There was baby born to be broth
er to the child; and while he was so lit
tie that he never yet had spoken a
word, he stretched his tiny form out on
his bed, and died.
Again the child dreamed of the open
star, and of the company of angels, and
train of people, and the rows of angels
with Il eiS baa.aaiR ayes all t,,H;saa Up
on those peoples faces.
Said his sisters angel to the leader:
SIS my brother Gomez"
And he said, mot that one but an
other.
AS the child beheld his brothers. an
gel in his arms, he cried, 80, sister, I
am here! Take mel" And she turned
and smiled upon him, and the star was
shining.
He grew to be young man, and was
busy at his books when an old servant
came to him and said:
''Thy mother is no more. bring her
blessing on her darling son!"
Again at night he saw the star, and
all that former company. Said his sis
ter's angel to the leader:
SIS my brother Gomez"
And he said ''Thy mother!"
A mighty cry of joy went forth
through all the stars, because the moth
err was reunited to her two children.
And he stretched out his arms and
cried, 30 mother, sister and brother |
am here! Take me!'' And they an
swered him, Not yet," and the star
was shining.
He grew to be man, whose hair was
turning gray, and he was sitting in his
chair by his Preside, heavy with grief
and with his face believed with tears,
when the star opened once again.
Said his sisters angel to the leader:
is my brother Gomez"
And he said, Nay, but his maiden
daughter"
And the man who had been the child
saw his daughter, newly lost to him, a
celestial creature among those three,
and he said, "My daughters head is
on my sisters bosom, and her arm is
around my mothers neck, and at her
feet there is the baby of old time, and l
can bear the parting from her, God be
praised"
i And the star was shining.
Thus the thild came to be an old man,
and his once smooth face was wrinkled,
and his steps were slow and feeble, and
his back was bent. And one night as
he lay upon his bed, his children stand
ing around, he CRIED as he had cried
so long ago:
81 see the start"
They whispered to one another. SIZE
, is dying"
And he said, 81 am. My age is fall
ing from me like garment and move
toward the star as a child. And 0, my
father, now would thank Thee that II
has so often opened, to receive those
dear ones who await me'
And the star was shining; and II
, shines upon his grave.