Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-11-13

me tell you beautiful romance tina
ended in tragedy.
why She Did Not Marry.
Do you see that sad faced young wo
man with the gray hairs just appear
Ing amid her brown locks? Who is she
Miss So-and-so," you answer. "Why
did she not marryT' ooh, / guess be
cause she did not wish to marry" you
answer. Oh, yes, she did want to mar
~. She does not want to marry now
because her heart is broken. MANY
years ago young man met her and
laid siege to her heart. She gave to
him the warm affections of her youth.
You think she has a sweet face now.
Aye. she was beautiful then. Her
cheeks were as red as the roses. Her
eyes were as blue as the sky. Her
laugh was as the merry chimes of the
village bela. The young man wanted
the wedding set at once. Her father
was taken sick. He could not find en-
ployment This young girl said: mo. I
cannot marry now. must stay home
and help to keep the home for my par
ents and the children" He pleaded.
but she firmly COMPRISED her lips and
said mot now. Wait for me a few
years and 1 am yours" He would not
wait. Within two years he stood at the
marriage altar, but not with her. "Mrs.
Grundy'' talked for a few days about
a broken engagement, but she said
nothing. No one saw her weep. She
never complained-that is, as far as
any one else has known. Whether she
wept in her room at night behind the
her alabaster box of ointment Of spike
nard very precious upon her ia
theirs and mothers heads. She sacri-
feed her own life for her parents lives
Fathers and mothers, have not our
daughters always been willing to sacri-
flee themselves for you? IT'S true per-
haps they have not had to sacrifice the
love Of some young man, as the heroine
Of this story have told you had to do.
But in every way have not your sweet
faced daughters been willing to sacri-
fee for you? Why, for years their
lives have been spent in trying to
please you. Let us beware that as we
grow older we do not, as some parents,
become more and more selfish. When
our girls want to go with young folks
do not shut them up as in a nunnery,
and when the time comes for them to
mate, if that time does come, in Gods
good way let us be willing to let an
other step in and share that love, as
the mothers of our wives were willing
that their daughters should give us
their love. All, yes, we have had good
mothers, good wives, good sisters and,
thank God, good daughters!
But | cannot close without mentio1~
ing one other bearer of the al~odsler
box who has come into y0dr me- one
may have. been an-aunt or grand
mother or. as it was with me, dear,
affectimate Christian woman about
sixty years of age. In all probability,
she came to you in crisis. You may
have gone to her for sympathy; YEA
may have gone to her for spiritualor
material help, and she never failed fou.
Cannot you see her now? l ca.
can remember just how she ooked
when | first met her. She gaS me
saint of my Chicago church. one was.
one who always lived toluo good.
When sickness came into 81 nome sue
was always there. OuPOdOleS were
her babies. our troubles6Tere her trou-
bles. our ioys were helJoys. 1t was
dark. stormy day, thsGood Friday be-
fore easter of 1907 that 1 last saw
her 7 had been est visiting my sick
father. She came4o"n u welcome ilie
home. She wa always thinking OF
others. never Sout herself. 1t was
biting temnstuous day, and she
oorcb+ cold Pneumonia stabbed her
limos IN le week she was dead, and
in two weks my father was dead. i
scanned As though the sorrow of set
nome 1Ias too great to bear. Auent,
todaI as the memories of thosebefore
lov1g Christian women aEhere are
U, where do they lead US They have
hey pleading for us tey have Have.
given to US the beaSsto leadds to that
they not done all INA at Iest meet and
pace where w /er JeAIC oSo1A
where we shall IFother, father, friend,
Son, husbapare breaking their ala
thy loved oof ointment of spikenard
baster bo11s over you in the presence
very g/their King Will you not look
of id greet their Saviour as your
yfer? Heaven will never be a per-
set heaven to them unless they shall
leet you there. Will you let their sac
fees lead you to Christ, that in his
resence you may dwell with them for
yer? Aye, their alabaster boxes of
intment of spikenard very precious !,
-ould not be too costly if by that sac
fee they could win your immortal
ouls for eternal companionship in .
eaven. Truly they have done for US
II they could to bring about that glo-
ous contamination.
copyright, 1905. by Louis Klopsch.1
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