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The Hidden Bond..
Nothing more . True , the letter was written on costly paper , sealed with scented wax , and bore arms emblazoned on its capacious seal . Aid—assistance—sympathy—there was none .
The poor cripple looked up piteously when it was read to him—then begged to spell out its contents for himselfslowly mastered , with dim and failing sight , its purport—and then turned his face to the wall and wept sore ., " Cheer thee ! " was Staindrop ' s comment : " the tie remains . The bond will not be broken . "
He looked as he spoke long , and fixedly , ancl cheerfully into the convulsed and working features of the cripple ' s face ; met with calm and unflinching gaze his searching eye . Gaze answered to gaze . What was there in that look which lit up hope—lively , cheering , sustaining hope in the one , and expressed true Samaritan feeling in the other ?
The final struggle approached . Staindrop was , as he had promised , present . He had assured the sufferer that he should not be abandoned at the last to hirelings . He kept his word . The consolations of religion , aud the presence of its minister , soothed the cripple's last hours ; ancl his resting-place was selected by the thoughtful and
considerate scholar in a spot where the sun shone and the grass grew—where the breeze played among the branches—where the birds would carol over him , and the ceaseless murmur of a gushing stream woo him softly to his repose . The lesson was not lost . It was p > ractical ; and it told . The villagers of Tide-waters looked on and pondered .
" Friend , benefactor , nurse , mourner—all in one ; what new principle is this ? " " A principle that bears no despicable fruits at any rate , " said the old rector of Tide-waters .
" What were they really to each other ? " cried his son ; "in sober earnestness , what were they ?" " Brothers , " was the answer of a bye-stander— " brothers , as Masons ! " " Strange ! " cried the younger man— " strange and striking in the extreme ; the tie was broken onlat the
y grave . " "It endures beyond it , " was the quick rejoinder ; "it is founded on a divine and immortal principle—even this , " God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him . "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Hidden Bond..
Nothing more . True , the letter was written on costly paper , sealed with scented wax , and bore arms emblazoned on its capacious seal . Aid—assistance—sympathy—there was none .
The poor cripple looked up piteously when it was read to him—then begged to spell out its contents for himselfslowly mastered , with dim and failing sight , its purport—and then turned his face to the wall and wept sore ., " Cheer thee ! " was Staindrop ' s comment : " the tie remains . The bond will not be broken . "
He looked as he spoke long , and fixedly , ancl cheerfully into the convulsed and working features of the cripple ' s face ; met with calm and unflinching gaze his searching eye . Gaze answered to gaze . What was there in that look which lit up hope—lively , cheering , sustaining hope in the one , and expressed true Samaritan feeling in the other ?
The final struggle approached . Staindrop was , as he had promised , present . He had assured the sufferer that he should not be abandoned at the last to hirelings . He kept his word . The consolations of religion , aud the presence of its minister , soothed the cripple's last hours ; ancl his resting-place was selected by the thoughtful and
considerate scholar in a spot where the sun shone and the grass grew—where the breeze played among the branches—where the birds would carol over him , and the ceaseless murmur of a gushing stream woo him softly to his repose . The lesson was not lost . It was p > ractical ; and it told . The villagers of Tide-waters looked on and pondered .
" Friend , benefactor , nurse , mourner—all in one ; what new principle is this ? " " A principle that bears no despicable fruits at any rate , " said the old rector of Tide-waters .
" What were they really to each other ? " cried his son ; "in sober earnestness , what were they ?" " Brothers , " was the answer of a bye-stander— " brothers , as Masons ! " " Strange ! " cried the younger man— " strange and striking in the extreme ; the tie was broken onlat the
y grave . " "It endures beyond it , " was the quick rejoinder ; "it is founded on a divine and immortal principle—even this , " God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him . "