Year: 1868

senior partner Of an Influential frtn OF
city laWyers-I think the happy faces
of the brother and sister whom he had
befriended made him feel happy; but
this l know that when he reached his
lonely chambers, they did not seem 50
lonely as usual, a fragrant memory
seemed to be present; a fraily fsiry-like
form seemed to move about them; and
when he fell asleep, ne dreamed that
light finger upon his elbow, and two
bright little eager eyes were gazing into
his.


Mr. Blenkinsopp went home happier.
He was a lone old man. He had
benevolent heart; but he was odd.
People thought him stern old man;
but they did not know Of the sweet
home he had bad when young, and how
in week the old home had been broken
up, and he had been sent to the care
Of stern old aunt, full Of precise kind
ness, and sharp, prudent, and saving
ways; they did not know of the up
hill fight be had endured, and yet how
he had forsaken many a pleasure and
many gain, that he might go home
and watch BY the side of his sick old
aunt, who had been the making Of him (;
still less did they know the story Of the
old Bible, which his aunt had read so
regularly to him when he was a lad,
and which he read so regularly to bis
aunt when she was an invalid; they
ibid not know Of that night when the
sternness of the aunt had forsaken her,
and the story of loving SayioPs death
had laid hold upon her heart, and be
learned to see that there was more
reality inithat word than he had ever
thought Of, and went to his room to
read and pray, but not to rest. They
did not know how the bright and happy
truth had at length dawned upon him,
and how he had changed in all but the
cold, stiff manner that he could not
change; for though the heart was warm
and tender that beat within, there was
needed something without to draw forth
the kindHer manner:


John and his sister went home hap
pier that night; for Johns misfortune
had proved his success, and he was to
go to Mr.. BIeUkinsopp's tomorrow, and
commence his occupation as clerk there
at fair salary.


John" said little Lucy, as she baGe
her brother good night, ST have thought
of nice text for to-day gri.sd


So have I, Lucy" sl
/ "What is yours, John"


"No, tell me yours 6rst, Lucy"


"'When my father and mother for
sake me, the Lord taketh me up3 And
now yours, John"


al have been Young and now am
old, yet never saw l the righteous for
sakeu, nor bis seed begging their bread.
That's the text came into my mind
when Mr.. BlenkiusOpp told mel could
90 to him as clerk. / remembered our
dear fathers life, Lucy, and how be
wore himself out trying to help others
and how be always said that be could
trust the providence of God, because
he knew the grace Of God si .


Then they parted for the night, and
little Lucy knelt beside her tiny bed 10
that dingy little room, and thanked
God for His care, and prayed q BLESSING
Cd the good old man, and the noble
young man who had befneRded them
that day ~ 7oiaaasa q
/ There was a wedding some years
after this, when Edmund Garew, ESQ.
10. G., was married to Lucy Heuthorn,
Ionly sister of John Henthorn, ESQ, oi
the firm of Blenkipsopp y Hepthorn!
and very happy wedding it was, and
-Fpeople remarked that old Mr.: Blenkin'
sopp looked the merriest of the psrtt
It'll the bride andJ bridegroom wen
away, and then it was noticed that be
coughed a good deal, and muttered t
himself, and wiped his spectacle glasses
very often. '' ". B. G.