The Sentinel, 1877-06-08, Page 14MATTFTAfi
"And the lot fell•upon Matthias -de!rs :r •
('ailed oiltto tut .the traitor's place,
To bear the news of saving grace,
• Shed forth upon our -fallen race
raped forth, the wanderer home to lead,
Called.forth, the fluck-of Christ to lead;.
To:sow on earththe heavenly Beed..
O blessed lot, and yet below
Scarce anghtbesi- a his name -we know:
On whom God did thin grace bestow..: -
We.know not where for. d.he.fonght, , t..
What; wondrous works by blzn he wrought,".
• What nations of phrist's love -he taught.
Then -never deemt it Cause of -shame
If".noneon-earth..inscribe-thy name
Within. the_ booleof wor.diy tame
. _ We only see the outlinesfaint,
. -If of Qod's-ches holysaint. -
''_,What. h have eto makecom
complaint 31e.;
.
If hewhodoth in secret see, •
Approve our work; small need have we
Of earthly farce or eulogy.
. Grant only,"Lork that in thy sight
We walk. as children of the light.
And -''heath thy banner bravely .fight
•
Rare
and Rich.` -
crabbed Age and Youth -The Infe., . toes
Experience'. of an Englishman—How he
Was Ensnared by a Red, ,haired Siren
Mr. Henry Tho m peon is an Englishman by
birth, a -tailor by occupation, and.aa organ._
ist by instinct. Twenty years agone. Henry:
WAS accustomed-toirejuvenate masculine at
`tire in Adelaide street, South Shields; Eng-
land. He admired• the gentler sex, and' one -
Monday in I856'heaccompanied *the soprano
of his slim choir to a church on the North
timberland side of the River Tyne; and gayly
held ='her, hand 'while the parson -read the
marriage ceremony and the sexton enacted
i,-.the=responsible parts of clerk and grooms::
man and father to the bride. _ Two miles of
- turnpikke lay between the church _and -.:the
ferry. Intraversing that distance -the new,
1y fledged ' 1
HUSBAND AND WIRE QUARRELED
She went her way and Henry went hist way;
Extraordinary aa i
t may. seem, they never
met. again :except ;as strangers. -The unfor-
tunate denouement was disastrous to Henry..:
Public sympathyy was with the lady; although.
the grounds;. of difference, have never been ex-
plained to this day.l. His Servieea as. organist
:was dispensed with. Mending and rejuven
sting garments : brought but a lean living.
His :pianoforte pupilsdied away. He began:
to look unutterably .seedy,. and when his poor
:mother: died -he was ,ashamed' to attend her
funeral, aud with tears in his eyes gazed at
the -saddest procession he had ever seen from
• a distance. But the old: lady:Ieft him'a lit-
: tie money, and with this' he put the Atlantic`:
1.betwoen his old associations and himself.
Such, in -brief, is `Henry Thoinpson's; account
'of his early manhood and_ unjoyous_ prime in
England For several: years -he stitched -for
a -living in. Brookly' n, saving a slender capi-
. A short time since he purchaseda cigar.
business onGrand: street;, and his prospects
brightened. He was now 'verging upon -fifty,
and. his hair was ,streaked with silver. -He
was not happy; for he.was.a lonely, -
SHIRT-BUTroxf SS OLD BACHELOR,
and -his -solitary enjoyments -took the- form of
oyster. stews, whist and a - demijohn.. One =
day a jolly old farmercalled_ and purchased:
some navy=plug..: He hailedfrom. the neigh.
• borhood of Babylon,i L. I. :The two old fel-
lows became friends, and within a :month
_Henry Thompson was enjoying pat -luck at
the Richards farm.1 . Sallie Richards, the,.
eldest; daughter, : was, a bouncing young•wo.:•
man. of five and twenty, with plenty of form
and .color,' sante not ` afraid of work. She
thrummed the;.piano and sang afew plaintive
ditties: But when Henry: Thompson ran his
`. •hands tip and down'the key -board and educed
volleys of charming 'sound,.•the-Richards fain
were in ecstacies,-and Sallie'at.once -con-
" Whited, herself the tailor -tobacconist's pupil,
and whenever- she _cam a to the city she visited
the
LITTLE BALiCK PAALOE
Mysteries to learn the:steries of touch 'and thorougnd.
_ .y thorough
bass. Henry_ -began to think a -great deal
about this chestnut haired divinity. Her
laugh rang in his ears, like the wild harp's
-strain.. The dimples :of her cheeks seemed
to him -like bowersIin beds of roses Some-
times when her co .sin—a: young man from
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