Tony Starr's Legacy, or Trust in a covenant-keeping God

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1863 Excerpt: ... XIV. DURING these last two years Tony had made several visits to his old aunts, but had never been allowed to remain but a few days at a time. He was now to go home to live once more, and he heard the announcement with a strange mingling of joy and sorrow. He had become very much attached to his new home, to Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, and the adopted brothers and sisters; but, after all, there was a natural feeling that they were not his own, and at times, a longing for the home close by the side of the Methodist meetinghouse. We said in our last chapter, that in Tony Starr had been fulfilled those covenant promises made so long ago to the holy parents of old. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller had been freely informed by Mr. Clay of all the circumstances attending the making of Tony's Legacy by his dead motherland the delivery of it to him, at the time which she had appointed. This, with much care and judgment, they often brought before the mind of the child, presenting, perhaps, two courses of conduct to him, and asking him which seemed most. truly "wise," or urging him to a duty, because it implied the "fear of God." We cannot pause to enter into details; we would simply say, that God, in his infinite mercy and love, moved the heart of this child, through the instrumentality of this precious Legacy, to seek a close union with himself. Humbled, in view of his past sins, bitterly mourning over them, he sought forgiveness through the blood of Christ. There shall be joy in heaven over one sinner, that repenteth; the heart of Tony's mother, among that heavenly host, "shall rejoice;" and may we not believe that the Holy Spirit, under whose direct influences Tony's stubborn heart melted, may have whispered to him in these words of joy, which were mingling in the mother's " glad new...