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Full Title	The Youth's companion, v. XXXVII, no. 8, Thursday, February 19, 1863.
Date Added	6 March 2020
Format	Journal
Language	English
Publish Date	1863-02-19
Publisher	Boston : Olmstead & Co.
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	Seven up.
Topic	Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens. Children's periodicals, American.
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OCR ote Lote ae, i 4 i |. did you for; pom great sufferi: i - Ages * me who God i “And how did you do it?” i sagplted. ‘How «40 sir, t how much a Shor ‘Jesus suf- fered for me ; rough now I have but one leg, I cannot fight for my country, but I'll join Jesus’ army, and fight for Him.. I know lots of boys, and I'll get around them, and bring them to church, and to the Sabbath school... We "boys n do a great deal more with young fellows than grown people can at the radiance of that noble spirit might be reflected into millions of souls, and win them to enlist in Jesus’ army. Children of the. Sabbath school, will you stand at ease while this brave cripple is gathering fouls for Christ? How many friends mpan might you win to the bleed orca of the sanctuary ! Come, labor nm the Lord’s side, and your reward shall be great, for i it shall be fully jpown and enjoyed in heaven. —Sunday School ———_++,—___ THE SOLDIER’S DREAM OF HOME. You have put the children to bed, Alice— + Maud, and Willie, and Rose isped their sweet “Our Father,” Did they think of me, and sa “God bless him, and God ‘bless “him, ‘Dear father, far away ?” \ O, my very heart grows sick, Alice, 1 long so to behold Rose, with her pre white forehead, ~ And Maud with her curls of golds And Willie, so ightly, So merry and full of glee— O, my heart yearns to enfold yer My “smiling group of three.” I can bear the noisy day, Alice— ‘The camp life, gy 2 and wild, Shuts from my yearning bosom The thoughts of wife and child, I gather my clock about PGroam such long, sad dreams! I think of a pale, young wife Alice, _ Who looked up in my fa When the drum beat in the evening est, And my soul is sick with Tongings That will not be ai g B g And‘more than all the ¢ ‘Who bore my habes God guard and keep you all, Avice, God guard and For if cal 01 What would | the other do? 0 me. Those wh - Safe in the dear home-fold? —_—_+or—__——_ WHAT IS GOD? Little Willie was undressing for the night and sitting on his mother’s “Peese mamma let Willie say ‘Now’I lay me’ here ;” and so the child repeated | his simple prayer. ‘Willie must be a good child, nord Eisemotner, “for the great God sees him all the “Mamma,” att Willie, arte. UD “is Dod very wn dre 7 vite. God i is very great! alae He dot dreat eyes?” “Yes.” « Docs Hi He see Willie ‘with tis dreat e eye es 2” «Yes, my “Has He dot dreat ears.” ve.” “Yes, “Does He hear Willie whisper with His dreat yes, He knows every little word.” The children playing behind their mother’s chair tittered at the baby’s questionings, and harley, two-whole years his senior, came ‘forward to help instruct his little brother. “Charley, dear,” said the mother, is and what He does ?” “God is a great man oP in heaven,” er answered “and. we pray ‘Now Shine to Him, ray uD where the stars be, willie!” No, Charley,” said Mary, another two years wiser, “God jsn’t aman atall,is He mamma? He “can you tell what is a spirit, Mary?” asked the mother. Mary hesitated a little, and then said, “It is what thinks; you said so, mamma, when the other baby died ; the epinit part of him, what thinks, had gone to “Yes,” said Charley, taking, up the word, “the spirit is the think, and Go. dais ou great think. lid you ever see a spiri Momma aa ono one ever a God with such eyes ‘a8 ours; if spirits were all around us our eyes could not see them. God is. here and everywhere we go, but we cannot see Him.” “How do we know God is here, quired Mary, af we never see Him ? -.We know because the Bible tells us so; and we know because we see what He does. Do you see how the boughs of the elm in the yard rock and bend ab “Yes, oa . “What makes the tree move ?” mamma,” in- “No; do you, see the wind, or only see the branches move ?” “I see the branches and the birds’ nest move, but I don’t see the win “But you know the wind must be there, or the tree oe be else THE YOUTIVS COMPANION. “So God is here, and makes the sun shine, and the Tees grow, and keeps us alive: but we don’t see ge “Mamma,” said Charley, “if God is here, j is He down to Albert's house, too?” “Yes, dear, God is everywhere at on: “I shouldn't think He could be i in al ‘he places, O he’s such a big God!” “That, is because He is God; because Heis a spirit, that He can'be in all places at the same Ame, “Who made God, mamma?” was Charley's next question. “He never was made at all: He always was with- out being made. “I don’t see how that is,” said Mary. “TI do,” said Charley, who bad an understanding of his own for many a hard thing. “There wasn’t anybody to make Him, was there, little Willie 2” Hie had just fallen asleep.—Springfield Republican ——_or—_—_ FOR YOU, prayer { for every child, and it is wants of every boy and girl is it? “Create in me a‘clean heart, oO God; and renew a right spirit within me.” This is one petition of King David’s BS. wich you will find contained in the fifty- sal Here is a short CHILDREN’S COLUMN. —+ STOLEN SHILLING. footsteps on the ing to the brary oon which ch opened into the gar- den, was accosted by you want any rabbits t to-day, sir?” “Rebbite! Tet me look at them. O, what beau- ies 1” “Will you buy a couple, sir?” “Yes, by all’ means—these two, I think ;” and Ernest pointed to the ones he liked best. So de- lighted was he with his rabbits that he was almost forgetting to inquire the Pai 4 shilling, sir, onl, ge Ernest felt in his pockets, but found them em) “I must ask mamma to lend me one,” he sai himself, and bidding the man to wait a minute, te ran in doors. He ‘had, however, only taken a few steps, when he paused, ‘for he remembered that that very morning Mr. Maltravers enjoined him never borrow money. Ernest was in despair. “M. weekly allowance is due to-morrow, but that wi be too late, and I shall jose qhese beautiful rab- bits,” he muttered ; “and it i paltry shilling want.” He went back thoroug ghly dishe eartened. “I can’t buy the rabbits, much as I should like to,” he said, sorrowfully, and. stooping again to caress his favorites. “They are the man, temptingly displaying them. e such fine ones, and so cheap,”, said It was too Stay a moment, I have it,” said Ernest, quickly. In a minute he returned, holding the shilling i in his hand. “He gave it to the man; and then, with trembling eagerness, hastened to deposit his prize ina place of safet; the family were assemred in the drawing-room, t poor woman came beg; “You will find a shilling on the library mantel- piece ; give it to her,” said Mr. Maltravers, turning to the servant. But ine maid came back without ity 5 at was not to be ‘un, Ernest, and “Took $ theve the day before yesterday.” Ernest obeyed, glad to escape from his father’s presence 5 but he, oa, returned with the assurance that it was not the “Very strange,” vvemarked Mr. paltravors, and then nothing more was said about The next morning Ernest rose * early, that he might feed his rabbits. Ile went into the garden and got a quantity of lettuces, and was busy be- stowing them on his pets, when he was startled to find a hand laid on his thoulder, and to hear his father’s voice. “Erne: you’ saw me put it consciousness of what was about to follow. “Where did these. rabbits come from ?” «JI bought tl “And the money, "hose was that?” was. the next question, sternly asked, [Ernest hesitated. “Follow me.” Mr. Maltravers led the way to his study. “Now, ‘Ernest, tell me, did you take the shilliog from here?” was a dead silence until the question was repeated. Tl est, amidst smothered sobs, answered in the affirmative. «Ernest, Ernest!” exclaimed his father, sadly, “if any one had told me that I had a son who could act thus, I would not have believed it possible. ‘Alas! that ‘Ichave been thus deceived. I little thought I should live to see a child of mine become at thie “No, no, father, not that, do not call me that,” said Ernest, throwing himself at Mr. Maltravers’s feet, whilst his slight frame shook with suppressed emotio “Vout can’be nothing less, singe you appropriated money me was not your «But, papa, you font knows T have not told you, how q came to take it. ‘I only intended bor- rowing it; for I knew I should receive my weekly -} allowance’ to-day, and so I thought to replace it without any one knowing about it. “But, my boy, did you never reflect that in do- ing so you were committing a double sin? First, by deceiving your parents; and secondly, by tak- ing what was not your own; besides, too, did you not remember that there was Que watching over you? Even if Thad never discovered the deceit of which you have been guilty, it would not have escaped the notice of an all-seeing eye, who marks what is done amiss, But I believe you to be sin- “Yes, cere in your repentance; 80 arise, my boy, and ionrpate “Yes, papa,” he tied, not without a vague re seek your own room, that you may there Pray earn- estly for Pardon | to your Father in hea Ernest left the room, weepin; itterly. Years have not sufficed to obliterate the lesson tau; that day; and often now a group of mi cluster round him to listen to story of the “Stolen Shilling."—London Children's Friend. —_+__- WILLIE’S MITE, Away up among the hills of Vermont, in one of the back pews of a country church, sat little Willie Hazel, listening to an account of the sufferings of our poor goldiers i in jhe hospitals and upon the battle-field ; as he listened the great tears trickled down ‘his little sunburnt cheeks and rested upon his jacket. ‘“O, what can I do‘for these poor men?” thought little Willie, an orphan, “bound out and nothing of his o: Dear 4 the sight" of God were the bright tears on that -coar grey jacket, for they were the heartfelt offering of Sympathy and lov shall call again { in a week,” said the speaker, “and all dlothing, delicacies, reading, or money I shall be take for the benefit of the oor soldiens™ Before Willie left the church, e put down his head and said, softly, “O Loi rd, show me what I may do. * The next day it was “corn-husking in the big barn, and ‘farmer Waldron said, “Now, my boy, if are smart, you shall have all the husks } you pull Willie always worked hard, for his Bible told him not to ‘be an “eye-servant 3” but this day his hands were very nimble, for he had “thought of something.” After his day’s work was faithfully performed, he carried his husks some dis- tance, sold them to a woman who made mats, and received a shilling for the soldiers. “And my Child’s Papers,” thought Willie, “I'll give those, too.” So when the kind agent came around again, he'took “Willie’s mite” and Willie’s blessing along with the rest, and Wil Iie hanked God for the privilege of doing somethi Little boys and little gitls can’t you do some- thing, too ea When is it that a person ought to keep his tem- per? 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