Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — A Remarkable Love Story. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Love Story.

The most remarkable love story of the summer is told by the Port Jervis Union. Four years ago a gentleman of 23 won the heart of a lady of 19. She was the daughter of pious parents and, although she was not connected with any church, looked with a feeling akin to horror on anything approaching skepticism. But the time came when she learned that her lover; was a deist; that he had no veneration for the Bible, and took no interest in the churches. She w r as deeply pained by the revelation. She sent for her lover and endeavored to convince him of his error, but he was not satisfied with her arguments. She finally wiote to him a tear-stained letter bidding him goodbye forever. The lady mourned, but tried to satisfy herself that she had acted correctly; Two years made her more liberal than she had been. The, more she read the more she distrusted her former decision, and she finally became quite as liberal as the lover she had discarded. The lover, too, had undergone a change. Last winter a revival of religion took place in the city in which he was engaged in business. Suffice it to say that he united with the church, and in a short time became a zealous member. He thought over the action of his former sweetheart in discarding him for his infidelity, and wrote her a brief note, asking the privilege ofonce more calling on her. When she timidly apologized for her previous dismissal of him, he, to her surprise, defended her conduct, said she had been in the right, and in her place he would do the same. Her heart sank at these words. She confessed being a nr/n believer in the Bible, she had diaparded it. and with it her belief in revealed {religion. He pleaded with her, urged everything he could think gs to induce her to change her mind. She could‘not, and told him so. He felt that he must not be yoked to an unbeliever, and gave her up.