Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-25

violin and looking spoke the hunger" There
was pitifu meaning in the brevity of his appeal
Come with me and eat" said
He made picked
along with me- saying in low If 1t for his own
study the peculiar conditions of bis mind He was quite six feet
tall and the dust of the road him. but know gentle
man when see him. and he that big bag sung
with strap his shoulder.
Far to travelY' inquired.
He stopped moment his hand his beard; then he
stopped to pick flower and having crushed the petals looked
into the sky.
Then be took out of his pocket letter which he to
1t written by minister of the Church Of England and
dated at Lexington, Ky. 1t read as follows:
ITO Whom 1t May Concernn the OF Christ be kind to
this mans calamity befalen wreck
Is without friend home. have written
to many places about him. and accounts of his nrmy and n
believe him to he northern soldier probably the unfortunate
relic battle n
"a neighbor found him brought him
hence the hope Of controlling his genius and turning TO
impossible For number years the
parish has supported
abroad with his VIOLIN stopping to play when
wherever the spirit moves him have an idea that be NAV
part permitted
to eoh him Off praying that
and lead him to his people and that those he meets
for his wonderful gift He Is harmless
disposed and in his playing there voices of heaven
beg of you therefore give poor child
of God If he will accent brother
remembering promises of Holy Writ"
He lay upon the sofa slept
until far down Then he woke rubbing
said Hunger" read his wishes and took him
where he washed and shortly supper
in hurriedly and without speaking
he of the windows. humming hymn
had made mind to take him to play for that
the church. and when carried his violin
understood and along without urging
beside quietly the rosum In the church basement There
about the doors who crowded in after and
the full After and few playful
whose applause of his
gave saving humor introduced master Of the violin
He sat rock his head bent forward
lifted his eyes finished he made l felt a little
when brought the violin and laid lap
the bow and felt its white bridge of hair
dropped it on the sounding roof of his instrument
Presently the bow lay on the strings and for moment
idle phrases choosing Its way Then it
feet horse in Left Behind am man of
experience misery and have some wit to
temps noored had brought the music of the
into the house PRAYER and was belpess like in
trance hoped something better foowsomethnc
and solemn Sister Perkins given
me look and walked with deadly swish of gown
it the sacred walls of the old basement
ringing and reels Storms OF praise PRAYER
and mourning shaken their 6bers for half century but
It was left profane them with unhoy There
Dore those to whom 1t memories of
tho conviction of the day Of mourning the
hrd IN her beauty holy mperishable hopes The
crowd was breaking half got INV fne
lust the stopped Deacon Harper had risen and
gave him. but the good deacon had scarcely begun say
inc fiat he hoped would keep their when the
his oath shot
u 111nrr,bler r Dsgusngr' "Shamefuw were words ,h
os above the their retreat Some men bnn
back down from the rostrum but most had women
With them and literally dragged 10 the few that
waited made apology and was shortly alone the
omtho of nv confusion reeled looking the denth
of my folly despair My poor minstrel tuned the strings
and went out of the churchyar he came
with me- his violin There the began
play. hear now the tremuous wang of that silver
string as it sang the still night:
Ie, Issna3 me 'GG'5 ;s IbS Of soson as sG% ny
could see the shining his moonlight
have hoard with grand primitive eIoquence
when the love Of God them wns
voice that spoke for humanity The song Of
Mendessohn followed, and the twenysecond. me
than others
the night sat messy tomb forgetful ny
under the spell of the player AT thought
Of him. he began
Now. have n knowledge of music and
have great masters
the violin and know the effects phraslng TINT
peculiar charm Of each In any ever
heard believe could tell his lust could have