THE COURIER.
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Under the sod, on a bare hillside,
The house is fashioned where
I must bide;
It is only to open a door ol mouid,
Then seck it close from the
winter's cold;
And that is the cnil ah, well-away!
So getteth min's cloudy, or
cloudless day. -IDYLA.
HIS FAREWELL SERMON.
Austin Winthorp came out ot the sem
inary parly in Juno and almost imtupdi
ately found two calls awaiting him. Ozo
was from the Hon. Charles Dutton Col
ton or Topo'f a, Kansas, who offered to
put fifteen thousand dollars into a
church at his home city and hava youn?
Winthorp me out and build up its
membership. The other offer was from
a little town in western Nebraiki and
had catuo through tho efforts ot Win
thorp's old university school-mate,
Henry Hartzall, who had gone into tho
cattle business there a j"ear or two be-
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tended on Sunday morning. During tion trickling down their
tnm Th Tnii-lta call was a very tsmnt- hia ntav he pained ouita a hold on the their heads to the wind
ing one. but to Winthorp it smacked too
ranch cf ths "boom" which that city was
then going through. So he almost im
mediately accepted tho Nebraska pas
tor 'e.
Active work was not to begin in his
field until Auguit and Winthorp
cheeks, bent
at tho cross
little colony of Chicago fashionables stieets and hurried on. In tho seams ol
from Hyde Park. His large, splendid their eyes were bhek specks of dirt, and
frame, his strong, sympathetic face with the lids were tight drawn, and wrinkles
txinkliu; blue eyes and high forehead ran from tho ends to the temples, a3
crowned by light, thin hair, made him from the eyes of him who looks too long
attractive to every ono. He possessed a or toointently at the sun.
now
atraizhtway took boat to Port Mills on
tho Wisconsin shore of 'Lake Michigan.
He went there for other reasons than
rest o.-hiehoillh. Miss Margaret Do
land was spending the summer at the
Port with her pirents ono partof tho
little colony which had moved up from
the Hyde Park corner ot Chicago and
taken possession ot the Wisconsin re-
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ready grace which, combined
delicate imagery groat
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with a
earnestne33 and
natural eloquence, mads him even at his
age and experience a powerful and at
tractive spcakor. He 'preached ia tho
little churih at Port Mills those two
sermons which pivei a rapid path for
future success, lingered a week longer
with his sweetheart, and then after all
tho good-byes and one farawell, turned
bis face westward, to-tae little lonely
a t tM-prairie town in Nebraska. ""
'And hers Margaretr'DtUnd'Roes out
hu college course had riponed into love.
Tkero he told her of his passion and at
the same time of his intention ot enter
wft the ministry. Her lite he knew well
enough had bem more or less one ot
gayety and society, and he felt that he
could not ask her to became his wife. So
ho simply told her ot his love and asked
nothing in return. Margaret Deland
knowing her own love for him was
woman enough to attune her lifo to his.
and eo had come out bold If and an
aoanced their ongajement. All of which
explains why young Winthorp turned so
hastily northward toward Port Mill?.
He spent fiva weeks at the res irt and
during this time preached twice at the
little frame church which the summer
boarders and country folk around at-
takatory. aacCarrie78taatencome3 against the
l9 w "atrjjg& assfT
When Winthorp reached the town
where ho was to begin his work it
seemed to him as if he had ridden into
an immense furnace, The hot August
wind blew a gale from tho south. The
white fiery ball of the sun beat down
until the air on the long level Drairia
quivered as it does over the sands of the
desert. The leaves of the few little cot
tonwoods were dry and curled and the
blades ot grass crackled underfoot. Dust
swept by in clouds, enveloping dwell
ings, whole streets, at time3 the entire
town. When the wind calmed a mo
ment there wero added ridges ot whitish
brown on the window ledges and in the
fence corners little mounds rose higher.
Women remained unseen within doors.
Men with powdered hair, dusty wilted
collars, and little channels o penpira-
All that day and many more the wind
from the southern furnace blew unceas
ingly. The trees turned brown and bare,
the earth grew parched and seamed with
huge cracks. And the prairie glowed
and glistened and quivered under the
desert sun. Men saw the work of months
perish in a day. Business died in a week.
Movers' .wagons crept slowly eastward,
the horses' heads bent close to the ground
a limping dog following wearily behind,
with swinging tongue, the blackened
canvass fluttering and napping noisily
little band full that sat before him and
it touched his heart sorely as he looked
into their eye?. There were old men
bent and infirm with suffering, young
men with gray on their temples. There
wero women whose lips were palo and
thin and drawn, whose eyes were bard
?.nd dull. There were children from
whose faces bad faded all expression of
childish joy and happiness.
Winthorp knew them all, knew their
story, knew what they had suffered.
And as he looked into their faces that
twil ght hour of his farewell, he threw
aside the formal sermon be had prepar
ed and talked to them out of bis heart's
experience of the year.
'We read of heroiBm of war which is
lha heroism ot the movement. We read
of the heroism of tho ancients the
Greek and the Roman. And a feeling of
awe and reverence comes over us. But
I want to say and 'God knows that
there is no greater heroism than you
h ve displayed during this past year
the heroism of bearing privation and
right in the end.
"And no I corns to the hardest part
of my task" bo said, "to say good-bye."
Though my prospects are bright for the
future, you will never know how it
wrings my heart to eav farewell. Tn.
Bides. Cattle were aban
doned. Dwellings left empty, business
houses-vacated and in the eyes of all.
fear and despair and desperation.
And yet Winthorp stayed out the
yeara year that tried his soul to its suffering and sorrow silently and uobly.
very depths and aged him as five years Such is tho greatest heroism in the
had not done before. He made bis world and such you have shown." Then
fight spending his meagre salary on the ne wnt on to cheer them up and to tell
starving, comforting the despairing, vis- them that they must not give up to des-
iting the sick, watching at the bedside P""'r ad everything would come out
of the dying. He was game to the last
and only gave up when forc;d by tho inevitable.
uno willing helper Winthorp had
iouna. Almost immediately on his
arrival be had been drawn to Carrie
Stanton by her sweet tender fapp hpr cether we have witncnri c.ni0 ,,
retiring modesty and her quiet, earnest noDe can describe, scenes which aie
devotion. Throughout all that terrible burned into my memory as by red hct
winter she bad been hie helpmate and iron- Together we have gone thiough
they had come to know each other as slar ration and suffering and death. And
only tho3e can who walk together amid have come to know you as if you were
scenes of suffering and death. my family my brother or my sister.
Cirrio Stanton' friendship and help Ad froin all of you I have I bave
in his woik cheered Winthorp's loaely known nothing but kindness and court
life and he came more and more to rely esy and good will. You bave aided me
upon her and value her friendship. But cheerfully and willingly,
to Carrie Stanton herself this friendship Hia vico broke at the end and he
had come to mean more. To her Win- Bank down into the pulpit chair. The
thorp was the man of all men in tho twilight shadows had been creeping in
world. Her heart had trnnn nt in i,:. from th wpat until tv,-. i:i ..i ,
r, iu uuu --" mo , iino tuurcn was
at the very first, and in the knowledge almost in darknesi. Without a word,
Into buying a Cheap Kanjre, when vou can buv. with a litrlo ' ana ,D "e r constant com- ,u Y:,,7 . re,8 ,a? cno"ng thro its
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panionship she found the greatest hap
piness of all her life. Never for a mo
ment ata she' dream that fate
step in and Enatch him from her.
might
Tno little handful lft th k.u .i
went slowly through tne summer even
ing to their homes.
Then Winthrop took up the Bible bis
mother had civen bira and left tho
church. It was almost dark then and
he did not sea the slender form of a girl
m,.; I l luo PP3o side ot tho
church from him. Her head was bowrd
low on tho rail in fmnt a 1
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er breast.
a i.ne evening ruir. .v.:u ,t.,
vacancy occurcd it required little urging ? o take whistled far in the western
oathepartoftheDelands to have tho d'9,a.DC0 aQd then faraway to the east
call extended. Winthorp, realizing that S .iLI 88?- But the girl
hishhtwaRiiror;nt,i 1..1:..,". . 1V-- ,"""-" "cau si
0 ""-"uucij muspririo cnurcn Bobbin
At the end of his year Winthorn r.
ceived a call to a paEtorato in Hvdo Park ?hurca from him.
ru: it. J i"', 1,,. nn thn nil '
vuicuko. nis two sermons at Pnrr 1 , v. i 1 ;" uui a
Mills had hppn u!, .,iFrt cl"'chei1 dcspa.ringlv at he
.v.uvulul,lcu auu wuen a ADe
town, accepted.
It was just a year Tram his iirEt Sun
day in the place when he preached bis
farewell sermon. It was acorn locking
sat in the little
bin,; i.-i In and Eobbine aDd b
bine while night Eclt!cd down over tho
prune and nil sounds died awav e-nt
tt.aR .f XP eouta wind which
Diew on unveiSicgly.
Harry G. Shedo.
