lingered in the nursery and the sanctuary 1'rom 
the day that Cromwell and his soldiers had 
chanted them on Marat on Moor. All down the 
aisles of time came tramping to the ransie 
mailed men, bearing on their shields the two 
words, liberty and equality. They trembled on 
Mr. Owen’s lips with his parting blessing to his 
boy. Would he remember them, and would 
they comfort and give him strength now? 
Where there is affliction In a house, the minis¬ 
ter is at home. Mr. Allan entered without 
knocking, and made his way to the large, old- 
fashioned kitchen in which he was snre of find¬ 
ing the family. 
There by a table, with his arms folded and laid 
heavily upon it, sat Mr. Owen. His wife was in 
a small rocking-chair by the fire, and Blossom, 
a young girl, sat between them. 
Mr. Owen rose to welcome him; so did Blos¬ 
som; but tiie wife did not notice him—she sat 
still, rocking herself to and fro, looking at the 
blazing wood. 
Mr. Allan pot a hand in the brawny one that 
was held ont toward him, and laid the other on 
Mr. Owen’s great heaving breast. “ My friend,’ 
he said, “ how is It with the decrees of God S’” 
“Just and true are all thy ways, thou King of 
Saints,” faltered out the man. 
There was something strange in hiB voice—a 
thin, womanly sound, so unlike the deep, stem 
toriau tones in which be had always spoken 
before. Mr. Allan, when be h<;ard it, almost 
THE KING OAK 
Tnr. forest sward was his palace floor. 
The sky wiih it* vaulted Voof; 
And around hie throne his giant court 
Stood solemnly aloof. 
Young in the past and lawless days 
When force was right divine, 
And steel-clad Ungers griped the bladep 
That made a monarch sign. 
He had known all the still Jong summer beats, 
The w ood-dove sweet to bear. 
The insect hum, the fern that reached 
The antlers of the deer. 
He had known the winter’s frozen blasts 
The rattling branches’ sound, 
The cold beams of the far-off sun 
The woods in fetters bound. 
Ho had loved the soft-returning spring. 
Under whose gentle spell 
The grass sprung up, the leaf came forth. 
White blossom and blue bell. 
With a kingly Joy In winter drear, 
With the storm be wrestled high; 
But he ever w elcomed the herald ray 
That shone when spring drew nigh. 
It touched the gloss of velvet moss 
Upon the old oak's breast; 
It peeped into the squirrel’s haunt, 
And found the thrush's nest. 
It woke the sprites of fern and flower 
Whose sleep had lasted loDg; 
Dispersed the cloud, let loose the brook, 
And Ailed the woods with song, 
Old oak! long centuries of time 
Hast thou beheld depart; 
Be they repeated, ere decay 
Shall reach tby mighty heart. 
Dear Father: — When this reaches you I shall 
be in eternity. At first, it seemed awful to me ; 
but I have thought about it so much now that it 
has no terror. They say they will not bind me, 
nor blind me, but that they will let me meet my 
fate like a man. I thought, lather, It might have 
been on the battle-field, for my country, and that 
when 1 fell, it would be fighting gloriously; but 
to be shot down like a dog for nearly betraying 
it, to die for neglect of duty! — oh, lather, I 
wonder the very thought does not kill me. But 
I shall not disgrace yon. I am going to write 
you all about it, and when I am gone, you may 
tell my con-rads, 1 can’t now. 
“ Youknow, I promised Jemmy Carr’s mother 
I would look after her boy, and when he fell sick 
I did all I could for him. He wins not strong, 
when be wits ordered back into tbc ranks, and 
the day before that night, I carried all Lis lug¬ 
gage, beside my own, on our march. Toward 
night wc went in on double, quick, and though 
the luggage began to feel very heavy, everybody 
else was tired too, .and os for Jemmy, if 1 had 
not lent him an arm, now and then, he would 
have dropped by the way. 1 wob all tired ont 
when wc came into camp, and then it was Jem¬ 
my’s turn to be sentry, and I would take his 
place, but I was too tired, father. 1 could not 
have kept awake, If I had a gun at my head, but 
I did not know it until—well, until T was too 
late.” 
“God be thanked,” interrupted Mr. Owen 
reverently. “ I knew Bennie was not the boy to 
sleep carelessly at his post.” 
“They tell me to-day that 1 have a short re¬ 
prieve, given me, by circumstances; ‘time to 
write to you,’ our good colonel says. Forgive 
him, father, be only docs his duty; he would 
gladly save me if he could; and don’t lay my 
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It was in the early part of October, 1803, that 
the Rev. Mr. Allan started to walk to the Farmer 
Owen’s over the hills. He had to cross two low 
spurs of the Green Mountains, nudas he climbed 
to the.top of the second the rich valley of the 
Otter Oreek’lay ppreadjout before him. At any 
other time ho would have stopped to admire Us 
gentle [undulations; its great flower garden of 
forest trees, rich in every color and hue; its sil¬ 
ver threads winding their wry to the waters of 
the ‘.Champlain, and the glorious autumn light 
which lay like a golden mantle over them all. 
But tbi6 afternoon he seemed oppressed by tbc 
beauty which surrounded him. lie looked upon 
it with eyes misty from tears. There was a dull, 
hcayy weight upon Lis heart—ft weight which 
even the long, fervent prayers that he had ut¬ 
tered so uneeasiDgly since noon had failed to 
move. ^Between him and that landscape, wc 
might almost say, between him and the mercy 
seat, there moved a straight, Jail hoy, with a 
laughir^ blue eye, clustering browu hair, and 
lips always ready with a merry, pleasant word. 
To-day, there was Benny, nutting under the 
hare, brawny arms of the butternut tree; throw¬ 
ing his line into the little brooks, that came 
babbling down from the steep mountain side; 
driving his cows along the narrow foot path; 
standing with Blossom under the bright maple, 
and shouting with pride and joy as the wreathed 
her pretty face in the gay leaves. 
“Oh, Bennie! Bennie! ” Mr. Allan hardly 
knew jbe was calling the name, until It came 
back to biin with such an empty, mocking 
sound, from the heartless echo; “almost”—Mr. 
Allan thought, starting himself by Ihe seeming 
impiety ot the words—“almost as it there were 
no'great, kind Father over us all.” 
As he came near Farmer Owen’s house, he 
saw his oxen yoked to the plow. He knew they 
had been there '.Bince the telegraph came. Mr. 
Owen had read it in the field, gone to the house 
and forgotten them, and no one had dared to 
put them up. Ho was a man fully capable of 
takiDg care of his own affairs under any circum¬ 
stances, never having been known before to 
forget. 
Mr. Alluu beckoned to an Irishman who wa3 
passing, and asked him to take care of them. 
The man came with an awed look upon lfis face, 
as if even Ihere he stood in the presence of a 
great sorrow, and without tbc least noise, 
obeyed. 
Mr. Allan walked on slowly toward the 
house. He had known Mr. Owen for many 
years, and he knew him well. Indeed there was 
a peculiar bond of sympathy between the two 
men. In his large parish there was not one 
upon whom the minister relied as he did upon 
this strong, sturdy farmer. Many and many aa 
hour he Lad walked by his side when he was 
upturning the brown earth, and had discoursed 
with him on topics which would have sounded 
harsh and repulsive to common cars, but which 
were fraught with deep and vital interest to 
them. Mr. Owen was a direct descendant of the 
Puritans, and every drop of blood in his veins 
was tinged with as stvongand true a “blue” us 
if he himself had landed in the Mayflower. He 
took naturally to the sterner doctrines of re¬ 
ligion, while Mr. Allan, versed in all the modern 
lore, questioned and doubted. The keystone of 
Mr. Owen's theology was the sovereignty of 
God“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do 
right?” This was the man upon whom God 
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