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Brotherly Love.
BROTHERLY LOVE .
BY ALEX . HENRY GIRVEN , AUTHOR OF "REGINALD SELWYN , " & c . ( Continued from p . 431 . ) " I heard that lie was married , but that he was steeped in poverty . I recollected his grey hairs when I saw him last , that told me what he had
then endured , and I fancied his features pinched with privation . Then I remembered the kindness I had experienced from him when his position was superior in the social scale . I recollected the christian sentiments he uttered , the mildness and benevolence of his character and the endeavours he had made , without any proselytising spirit , to make me endure the hardships of my lot by pointing my soul upwardsand raising my
, thoughts from the contemplations of the beauty of nature , to the hand which had created that nature . With him I never gazed upon a flower , or inhaled its perfume , without his directing my thoughts to Him who had created it , and stored this earth with such gems to delight its inhabitants .
" I grew almost frenzied as I dwelt on the past . At last I discovered his final retreat , but only a few clays subsequent to his decease , and I ascertained that he had been hurried to his grave by the privations he had endured . But you are weeping , Ida . " "I cannot restrain my tears , for what you relate is so similar to the cicumstances of my poor father that it calls him before me vividly . " " I
can understand the sympathy you have felt in his fate . " " And do you not already hate me ? Can you look on me without horror ? said the maniac , crumbling the manuscript in his hands . " My father would not , " she replied , " he would have taught me to pray for you , and to rejoice in the change in your feelings . " "And if he knew that since the hour of my friend ' s death I am the thing
I am , with no hope of peace on earth and not daring to raise my thoughts to heaven , what would he have counselled you ?" " To pray for you more earnestly , to tell you that he whom you injured as a christian minister , would forgive you and to desire you to invoke the intercession of your Saviour . "
" And if he , the wretch I have described myself , was the murderer of your father , and besought you , his daughter , as I now do , on my knees , to pardon him , not to turn from him with loathing , to forget his crime and only regard his sufferings and his penitence , would you act thus ?" "Even so , for thus he taught me , thus he enjoined me . " "Thenbehold him at your feetfor I am the murderer of your father . "
, Ida rose pale and trembling , and in a low but firm voice said , " The words I have uttered I will not , I cannot recall , though I shudder in your presence . Pise , sir , and I shall tell you what my martyred father desired me to say should I ever meet you . ' Tell him , ' he said , ' that in all the persecutions I endured at his hands , I remembered I was a Christian , and a minister of the living God , and that I never ceased to
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Brotherly Love.
BROTHERLY LOVE .
BY ALEX . HENRY GIRVEN , AUTHOR OF "REGINALD SELWYN , " & c . ( Continued from p . 431 . ) " I heard that lie was married , but that he was steeped in poverty . I recollected his grey hairs when I saw him last , that told me what he had
then endured , and I fancied his features pinched with privation . Then I remembered the kindness I had experienced from him when his position was superior in the social scale . I recollected the christian sentiments he uttered , the mildness and benevolence of his character and the endeavours he had made , without any proselytising spirit , to make me endure the hardships of my lot by pointing my soul upwardsand raising my
, thoughts from the contemplations of the beauty of nature , to the hand which had created that nature . With him I never gazed upon a flower , or inhaled its perfume , without his directing my thoughts to Him who had created it , and stored this earth with such gems to delight its inhabitants .
" I grew almost frenzied as I dwelt on the past . At last I discovered his final retreat , but only a few clays subsequent to his decease , and I ascertained that he had been hurried to his grave by the privations he had endured . But you are weeping , Ida . " "I cannot restrain my tears , for what you relate is so similar to the cicumstances of my poor father that it calls him before me vividly . " " I
can understand the sympathy you have felt in his fate . " " And do you not already hate me ? Can you look on me without horror ? said the maniac , crumbling the manuscript in his hands . " My father would not , " she replied , " he would have taught me to pray for you , and to rejoice in the change in your feelings . " "And if he knew that since the hour of my friend ' s death I am the thing
I am , with no hope of peace on earth and not daring to raise my thoughts to heaven , what would he have counselled you ?" " To pray for you more earnestly , to tell you that he whom you injured as a christian minister , would forgive you and to desire you to invoke the intercession of your Saviour . "
" And if he , the wretch I have described myself , was the murderer of your father , and besought you , his daughter , as I now do , on my knees , to pardon him , not to turn from him with loathing , to forget his crime and only regard his sufferings and his penitence , would you act thus ?" "Even so , for thus he taught me , thus he enjoined me . " "Thenbehold him at your feetfor I am the murderer of your father . "
, Ida rose pale and trembling , and in a low but firm voice said , " The words I have uttered I will not , I cannot recall , though I shudder in your presence . Pise , sir , and I shall tell you what my martyred father desired me to say should I ever meet you . ' Tell him , ' he said , ' that in all the persecutions I endured at his hands , I remembered I was a Christian , and a minister of the living God , and that I never ceased to