Show Ca confidence Itice Betray cil BY AN OLD contributor it is is a miserable thin thing to find ones boneys self betrayed by the friend in whom one has placed the utmost confidence it cuts yea ails cuts II 11 like ke a keen edged knife to find that thai m what hat we comm committed bitted to the sacred keeping of ol 01 4 ud is now flow in the I 1 keeping beeping of the public or at t least of our public it tala takes es people along lon anytime time to become coa convinced meed that there are on earth very few who are worthy of conf confidence idenie they go frankly on oil trusting to brother and sister and friend until finding thellis themselves elves betrayed here deserted there stood from under in the very moment when they most need firm support and faith they begin to understand what is the ma material I 1 erial out of which A aich most men and women are made sensitive and irritable natures becoming victims to this treachery are almost maddened by it but it is is not worth north while oh not at all if they could but reali realize e it there is nothing of earth worth going mad about unless per perhaps tt it be OUT our own folly y in trusting too enuch to our fellow creatures even husbands arid and wives are too often false to each other in respect to many coLfi confidences dences it is 11 sel seldom doin indeed that two natures of similar or even amate depth and fineness ell are united in the marriage inala bond it is a sib sight apan painful 1 ful as interesting to M it riess ness a husband and or a wife attempting with all the warmth and enthusiasm of 0 a refined and noble nature to call forth answering glows and self from a sout soul which is 13 utterly incapable not dot only of making any suitable response but of appreciating the worth of what is spent for its sake I 1 Is it wot not painful to hear the sacred privacies vacie of a true and loving soul made the subject of obtuse and most appreciating uD m remark by the very one to whom they were ere confided involuntarily we shrink within ourselves saying how u worthy the sooner one united in any walk of life with one whose feelings are so far inferior and so BO much more external than his 0 jovn pvn becomes aware of it the better for all concerned then he will no more weary and exhaust himself with the vain endeavor to call into exercise in india his conigan co companion nipan on cof of what ever name what is not dot there but will school boo himself to accept him for what he is 13 not for what be would be glad to have himlie will w distress 11 deceive himself expose e pose himself sand and distress and condemn his companion no more ceasing his demonstrations he will be more happy because more in his own owl power the deepest and most tender thin things s of lis his soul he will not continue to throw 0 open to the gaze and touch of one who ho will ent but wonder at them or perhaps laughans laug hand call up upon on the crow crowd without to come and behold few e w few indeed on earth are of a faithful I 1 or trusty nature most persons do not even understand what it ia to tobe be faithful fineness and depth of feeling not know it Is not safe nor well to open cenyour pen your heart to their eyes no matter what relation they bear to you unless you are willing m that all your instructions to sacred privacy should be disregarded people must no not t be blamed f for r what hat the they lack but let no ina man n be so foolish as to t pr out oat his richest and strong strongest est love or or his utmost confidence upon any mortal vior tat there is but oue one that deserves so much a at t 0 our hands ii he will never betray 11 he e will not 0 t wound by rough touches the tender ness and the delicacy of our unveils d souls to him the most sacred confidences of our lives and hearts are sacred sacre yand dand beside him there is ia not ot one of aiom whom so much can with ith truth be said id hold the th a veil over your heart even in your secret chamber but when hen you yon enter your closet you may safely cast it aside thus from the anguish of their own often betrayed hearts lie arts speak tile the middle aged to the frank and young the same nature that was vas in us I 1 is in you y ye e youthful brothers and sisters we know many of your circumstances we can wel vell 1 divine what is before you and we entreat of you be wary be watchful it be not 0 t t too 00 d demonstrative god alone is cortlin worthy to have hav human hearts placed unreserved in ia his hands trouble T 0 o uble and bitterness bitter nessi buchas such as you can know inno in no other way will be saved you if it y yoa au attend this warning g if you think you n need eed it lotif not if you yott will dot cot accept it iago go your own way by and b by y pierced torn transfixed and bleeding you will stagger towards those arms and to that bosom or of eternal love arid and unchanging truth that longs now to receive you bafo before re your heart is wounded to the core but which will not reject you 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