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REM I N IS-C E N.OE S OF
WA D D IN G TON ALMSHOUSES .
[Theiauthor o f this series-of-articles was'
the late Rev.
Thomas.Dent, Vicar of Grin- dleton, who for seventeen years acted as Curate of Waddington - and Chaplain of the Almshouses.]
[No. (i6.] The proper traiuing, and education of
children “ in the way they should go,” is one of those excellent provisions of our land, which ' private individuals and wise Governments have founded-and supported
for the good of. the community-in general.' And so far, indeed, in almost every Parish, wel'l has the plan succeeded according lo its means, in its own respective time and place. But yet there have been, and still there are among us, schools of another des cription, artless in form and humble , in origin. In some secluded cottage apart- men sits the village school dame of other times, superintending a few lisping little ones, trying to learn their simple ABC, or it may be a curly-headed villager industri ously canning over his wall tanned “ Read ing made easy.” Such attempts lo learn are , the first spring buds of infant mind coming fonvard for good or evil, a,grief to parents or a blessing. lln these isolated spots of our country, perliaijs. the future Politician, the worthy Esquire of the Parish, the celebrated Barrister, the emin ent Divine, the medical professor, or the grave judge, with a variety of others, may possibly have acquired there the earliest rudiments of their mothers tongue, as the first preliminary step to tliat long season of study and discipline, which enabled them afterwards to come out on the busy stage of life in their own genuine character. Now such humble means of learning in the first instance are surely not despisable;
me.tns, it is certainly something done, it is a means to an end, which, if life continues, has hereafter to be developed. It is a part of that necessary Christian training which teaches love to God, honour and respect to parents, and good-will to all. In this humble department of infant in
general.'appearance of .the •. old', wopa^tti ba^d certainly something about it, indicative of gravity, respect and esteem. Matty's life,
hotvever.ilike multitudes in-our world, had been a life chequered with misfortune, per plexity and trouble. It was not likely that the mother of seventeen cliildren could have gone through her arduous - trials with out, sorrows and changes,- great and dis tressing. When the door of the Almshouse opened to receive, her,r thei family, had been reduced by death, to few jin i number,'prob ably to two or three at the most, and'the comfort of better days and belter times had nearly all but vanished. .Her appointment therefore was in every sense of the expres sion truly a God send toiher,i she had ap plied hvicei before, and failed-in tlie appli cation, but the third time, proved success-, ful. On that occasion the .gratitude of- her heart seemed as if it scarcely knew any bounds, for the . idea of a; home for life, and the comforts of religion every day in the week were thoughts that animated every nerve. In this delightful abode, she en
joyed for several years consolation of mind to a greater extent, than she ever had done anywhere else, since her husband’s decease. Still, in course of time, there was a dense cloud of passing i’ rkness, an inci dent o.f no common oeeii..-nce among her own little youthful pupils, about which Matty and every well-disposed villager could not but grieve, though in no wise connected with it. It was the painful loss of a boy, which neither she, nor any body else could have anticipated. Nicholas Gibson, for by that name it
is still in recollection, bu t -time, , .and doubtedly Jteareth and
ajtswereth.ptaver especially the Gospel of Jesus Christ, has
struction consisted unremittingly the daily employment of old Matty Simpson. By permission of the Almshouses Trustees, -\latty was kindly allowed to e.xercise her scholastic talent in this way. The cottage indeed, was necessarily small, and two. little forms could only be placed across it. Yet the number in attendance was generally in proportion to its size, varying from six to eight, and mostly from three to seven years of iige. These she taught with a degree of diligence, care, and attention that gave the old widow considerable credit. Sucli little scions of a rising generation gathered up something of knowledge and something of behaviour. Truths adapted to tlic youngest minds were always selected ;is questions, and the corresponding .answers were short and simple. “ My dear children ” frequently would she s<ay, “ tliere is nothing
so pleasing in a school as good boys and girls boys who will mind what is said to tlieni, and girls, who are ready to do whatever good thing their parents or teachers tell tliem. God ‘ loves every good child that willingly kneels down to pray to Him. but He never can love a child that does not pray to Him at all. Bad children, who are never corrected by their parents, leant to lie and curse and .swear and steal things th;it are not theirs, but a good child, well trained, is a child who never does so. Pie who never minds what his father and mother say to him. is a boy that will soon bring his poor mother to shame and disgrace. Or if he call his parents by names that are not good, or abuse any one else, everybody will very quickly know what kind of a child such a boy is. And the same is equally true as‘to girls. A bad girl is beloved by nobody, except by those of the same bad character as herself. Her parents she never regards, or loves, or obeys. But a good girl will think that she never can do enough for her father and mother- be cause they take such great care of her whilst she is little. She gladly dues evey kind thing for .them that she can do, be cause she loves especially to please her dear Father in He.aven. Her mother, indeed, .as is natural, is the very joy of lier heart. Ijecause slie has had mucli more of her company, but then, she has often been told that she must not love either father or mother more than God. Not one part, therefore, but every part of the heart, a good child must give to God. .-kll chi'- ciren are his by creation, because lie made them, they are his by purchase, because he bought them. He did not give for them either silver or gold, or any sucli perishable thing, but he gave for them the blood of his own beloved Son, Jesus Christ, that tdl good cldldren might be saved through him from misery, when they die. jesus was born, he lived and died, that a way might be open for all into Heaven. But bad children and bad people must never go there, they will have to go to another place after death, where there will be pain and misery, crying and distress for ever, and
’ ever.” Such
w.as the manner in wiiicli this kind, old widow addressed the elder scholars; gr.ave and seriously disposed her- .self. she had the happy art of gaining at tention by the interesting little questions she raised upon, .and of obtaining submis sion without any painful correction. The children both loved and feared and this it was that made everything besides so pleas ing. When a respectable individual called as a visitor Matty’s little flock were imme diately on their feet with a curtsey or a bow to greet their entrance, and the vener able widow in rotation next followed.; With spectacles gracefully raised above her eyes whenever she conversed and her .fine white hair combed back from her forehead, the
may, perhaps, be best to describe him, was one of Matty's earliest scholars lin the .•Vlmshouse. Nearly eight years of age, he was very naturally and properly the delight of his parents, and certainly a boy greatly beloved by all who knew him. A willing learner of his book, both as to reading ;ind spelling. Nicholas had gained the commen dation of Matty, she little thinking that a plant so promising would fall a premature victim to insatiate death. But so, it most distressingly happened. Every day he re turned home at noon to dinner, and ^■ ery probably did the needfuf errands for hi affectionate mother, whenever she had occii sion to require his services. At night the poor father trudged homewards from his daily toil in the stone quarry, and w:i.s gener ally present to 'occupy his usual seat, the old arm chair in the family circle. Thus the weeks went round, each of them e\ ery morning to an employment and Nicholas to school. By the left hand side of the road to his home at noon stood a neat, little thatched cottage, the tenant of which had occupied it for the long space of thirty years. Here it was, the darkening cloud coUected, Mary Ibbetson, the wife of this cottager, had been for several months in a very eccentric, declining state of health, and though not confined to her room, yet reason had nearly all but left its province. Silently quiet, however, to an extreme, both as to speech and movement, no in jury or danger was at all apprehended. Well known by everybody, remarkably clean in her habits, and always compassionately kind lo children before this exlraordinarv silence commenced, no one ever thought of aiiylhiug dilTereut. The sun that uioruiiig had shone as pleasantly, the birds had .sung as sweetly, the early part of the day liad passed ;is delightfully with Nicholas and his playmates, as any previous time on his journey from .school. The fatal cottage door, indeed had to be passed, he had passed it before, and seen no symptoms uf mischief, his little heart did not beat with the fear of any. But alas I the awfid hour was commencing, he had left the Almshouse as he never left it before, to come no more back to Matty’s school. The door had to be passed, he was going liome, but he; never passed it more to his home alive. 'How the frenzied maniac entrapited the little darling within her'clutches into the cottage cannot possibly be known. Over the hor rid tragedy of ‘the hour mystery has hung a veil, which from that day to this, no hu man being was ever competent to remove. Though noonday and a public road, yet no- Itody saw -either him or her, and nobody knew of it, till the dreadful deed was fully perpetrated. Then the scene within burst upon the
hti.sband. Roger Ibbetson. in all its horror, as soon as he opcneil the cottage door, after an hour’s unfortunate absence on other business. On the floor la Nieholas Gibson, drenched in blood, his .skull fractured, his hands bruised and bat tered. the iron poker broke in two, the uxe in another apartment clotted will hair and gore where the deed had been '
fini.shed, the body dragged into the house, and Mary her- .self sitting by the fire in -one corner. :is Im- concernedly as if nothing serious had ever taken place. To her husband's enquiry, who has done Ihis she at once replied, have. Jesus Christ told me to do it seven years .ago, it should have been a girl, but I could 'not obtain one” Then it was the
proved to be a healing remedy. Here was a lasting spring,of comfort .for thepi and also for Matty. For,,long did
it.cast a, glooip over the Widow’s school, and never , prob ably did , she . regain that cheerfulness, of spirits, for whicli she had been before often remarkable. In a few years aftenvards, Matty’s health visibly , grew worse, and khe -immediate result was an entire breaking up of the school. Matty, at first, had suc ceeded one of long standing in the -•Alms houses, a small school conducted by a worthy widow of the name of Margaret Fisher. Margaret was the very picture of a dame in the olden time, stern and strict and resolute, a commanding voice and method of discipline that overawed at once, by not allowing the least resistance. Many a child however, did she learn to knit, and sew, and read, and spell, for almost a life had she passed in this Asylum of peace and repose. She had been for year.s a regular communicant, and a very pious and thought ful adviser of others “ to go and do like wise.” Attentive herself lo her Bible and Prayer Book, the example had sometimes a beneficial effect. For the dilatory knelt down beside her, grateful for the season able counsel, which she was always ready to give. And even the superannuated, wh couid not trust their own memories, lelt much of their pecuniary matter for her to manage, always satisfied that if she would kindly consent to undertake for them, un-
e.asiness of mind would soon be ended, and all their little accounts rightly settled. Thus did she for m.ony a week together, and was often present at the death of one or other of the sisterhood to lend a helping hand when need required- Her own 'turn however, came at last, at the advanced a of four score years and seven. Confined to a sick bed for a while, with a good lio]x; through grace in Christ, the thread of life quietly parted in two, and Margaret left in peace this world for another. It was then that Matty felt a eoniiectin
yes “ for all'sorts and condidons of men ’ for those, yvbo, never pray for themselves and especially for those who are troubled “ in mind, body or estate,’ that they may ikeep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, and have a “ happy issue out of all their afflictions.” This happy .issue, we very cordially trust, may b e Matty’s everlast ing crown. Her death quickly ensued' much sooner indeed than her friends ex' pected. She followed at a distance, in
point of time, poor little -Nicholas to the narrow house appointed for all living. Now as to the case of insanity in the pre
ceding narrative. After serious reflection and a calm review, there is one thing indispen sably requisite, and that is, to remove*^ an insane patient. How anxiously desirous the inhabitants of every Parish should be to have those, whose reason is gone, takeit early enough from them to a proper place of security, that neither harm -may he done to themselves nor mischief to otliers. l-'ot however seemingly quiet a person mav he at first, it 4s impossible to say to-wh.-i'^t an extent raving thoughts may go. and what in such a state may not be .accomplished. Fits of frenzy, with much of wit and cnnniii" united, may suddenly break out in a family where self defence is powerless. ;ind protec- tion an impossibility. At such times, too it occasionally happens, that fanalicisra most unaccountably mingles with madness, a male or female life must be sacrificed, but resolutely one at all hazards. Vet a satis factory explanation of the point, it i.s no easy matter to give, nor iiideeil upon what may be transacted or sa’d by such a per son, can we safely declare any iu'licial opinion, as to his future state. We camiut possibly venture to s;iy that “ we have traced that man to the utmost limit uf his existence.'’ No. as well might we say, a star is extinguished, because it has set to our
link broken, a widow in the same employ ment as herself removed- .a sister whose scholars loved each in their places, and whose manner of training though \ ery differ ently conducted, had for its object the same conclusion, and that was “ the way they should go, that when old they might not de part from it.” The elder widow was a dis ciple and an admirer of the old system of discipline and tuition, but the younger, an advocate for milder rule and modern im provements. In the .Almshouse Matty was living when the old chaplain resigned it, but four years after he had left he twice enjoyed the opportunity of a visit to his old friend. Each time was a sorrowful reminis cence of past events, hut ,neverthele.-:s a mutual strengthening to both of each other s piety, and an encouragement to persevere in godliness and hope to the end. About six months after the last call intelligence pf Matty’s indisposition was widely reported, for many had been well acquainted with her. Very stout and robust in younger days though only of the -middle size, she wa.s not so much reduced by age as many would h:ive thought. Suffice it to s.ay her Indisjw)- sition terminated in a dropsy, painfully diffi cult as to breathing, and in .all probability equally as distressing with regard to rest. Being, however, in another Parish, and re mote from 'her friend, it was a special and sacred rule with him not to exercise any ministerial .authority “ in another man's line of things.” This fell to the lot of him who might be officiating in the Parish pt that time. Hence as to what passed, nothing can be recorded. But one thing indeed may be safely done in such cases, as an
oblig.ation lies upon us to do ii. It is a truth -well esta.blished by Scriptural facts, that Christians may reasonably pray one for another, yea even should seas and mountains widelv divide them. God un-
sight. Leave we sucli judgment to Him, then, who .always correctly and righteously juclgetli: to Him ‘ unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets,” not even those of lunacy or anything else, “ are ever hid.” He it is, who made us rational beings, in every in stance. he knows the. exciting cause of loss of reason, its onward progress, its result and end Sad it is for man to witness the Irrational doings of his fellow man, mind shattered, reason misguided, actions furi ous. Our inmost feelings grieve about it. but it never shoulrl lie lr> excess. .-Ml is within God s own appropriate rules, order, time and place. What he does, or permits to be done. “ 'Phou knowest not now, Jjiit thou shall know hereafter.”
Clericus.
•Sept. 18. rS.|6. West Yorkshire.
(To be continued.)
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sorrowful knowledge of the fact spread from house to house in quick succession, every body clung with greater love and affection to their children spared, truly thankful to God that the shield of his protection still continued over them and theirs. .-Vt the Coroner’s inquest Mary was committed to York, stood her trial, and was acquitted on the clear ground of insanity, but very properly adjudged to be confined during the remainder of her life. Here she continued for some months much the s;ime as when she left home, apparently quiet again. But spying the opportunity one Saturday, when the keeper was for a few minutes absent about the necessary preparation for clean ing the room, she put her head into a
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