"Don't be Hard upon Him."
In a most interesting address delivered by the Rev. Canon Wilberforce recently, at Frome, England, he said: "Not long ago there was in my own parish one of the bravest, purest, and brightest of the wives of workingmen I have ever seen. All through her married life she had been praying for, bearing with, and forgiving the man who at the altar had sworn to love and cherish her. A short time ago he set his seal upon years of cruelty by raising his foot and kicking her savagely, and three hours after she had gone 'where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.' The last words she spoke were whispered into my own ear—Don't be hard upon him when I am gone. He is so kind when he doesn't drink. They laid the little form of her prematurely-born infant by her side, and four other little ones followed to the grave one more victim of the arch-fiend rum."