LIGHT IN THE EAST

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1529, 11 April 1887, Page 3

LIGHT IN THE EAST

He had slept quietly all the long, silent night, while the family took turns m watching beside him, but aa daylight ap proaohed, and the first faint raya of the coming sunrise dispelled the dim wight shadow*, he stirred uneas'ly. Hii patient, loving wife sat by the bed holding m hen one of the cold, pale hands that lay nerveless and almost pulnelesd be ■lde him. He felt rather than saw that •he was there. 1 Mother,' he aiked, presently, 'is it lighten the Eautr «* 'Yes, David,' she answered with tearful voioe, 'the light Is breaking.' * Then It is time to be op/ he said, and ■o fell asleep. And soon ihe red, roay sun fhoded the whole Eastern sky with a rodlanco that reflected itself m the snow, and 11 up the winter Ecene with an indescribable glory. Bat the old farm house looked cad and lonely. The cattle m the barn waiting to be fed, lowed mournfully to each other. The old house dog sat on the Btoop and looked into the distance with pathetic eyea. and shivered with dumb inailnct. And tha ear y miming train com'ng round the curve slackened its speed as the men leaned forward t > ask m pantomime for their old friend. And they saw the bit of flattering black that was to Blgnal them, and instantly every head was bared and bowed, So ! he w»a ! gone, who for so many years had w»ved them a cheery ' good morniDg ' that had lasted them all (ho day. Yea, wbeu it vras ' light In tha east ' ho waa • up ' and away, God having provided some better thing for him In the MorniDg Land.