66¥- mitgunial work. Into this home came the youngest child, May. Here, too, ',i; he entered into the· local interests of the- community, dividing his Sabbaths 1126 between Gilroy and the mountain, endearing himself to the people, and i * dn,wing their hearts from daily toil to higher realms of spiritual thought, lie .0 pn,moted also the intellectual life of the community by his lectures, and '; by his interest in their literary society and in the selection of the School ; 2 Libiwi,y. 2'-1' The year 1884 was an eventful one with him, marked especially by re u t 1 icn i s wit.11 kind.red and early friends. He was appointed to represent the 0- P,wilic Coast and deliver an address before the National Teachers' Association, •·hicli convened in Madison, Wisconsin, in July of that year, receiving at the i. 0 •ame time from tl.e Principal, Miss Bill, an invitation to deliver the 9 Commencement address at Rockford Seminary. Just before starting on this Easterii trip he welcomed to his home a cousin who had been the playmate of his boyhood, and the friend of later years, from her work as 61 Principal of Knwaialiao Semintu·y, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. The ' invitation to 'attend the association gave him 1111 opportunity to visit the home an,1 friends of his youth. Of the happiness he felt in seeing once more the aged father, yet active and vigorous, to whom more than four score years had ivme and gone ; of the fraternal welcome that a,waited him in the home of his 01,lest brother, where he seemed to feel like a boy again, we may not speak. For nineteen years he had not looked upon the fiace of his beloved older sister, il rs. 0. B. Yotings. It was with mingled joy and soi·row that slie welcomed him to the lionie where Alice, the youngest of her household, lay dyigg. Within a few weeks of graduation, this daughter had returned from ,„llege to sink rapidly to her grave with consumption. To her young soul so •wiftly passing, and to her stricken parents, tlie coining of tlie brother ? and uncle was like an angel's visit. On the Habl,ath preceding the death and '' funeral of the dear girl, Prof. Norton preached in the cliurcli with which he lind first united in boyliood. Many changes had occurred iii the years that had M imssed ; ixiany places had become vacant, and to these he referred, closing the ,|i:,course by repeating the following poem from Whittier. To some who baird him that day the words seem like a propheey : ·4· " What cheer hath he ? How is it with him : Where lingers he thi B weary while ? Over what pleasant lieldls of Heaven Dawits the sweet sum·ise of his smile ? i Why on this spring air ec,mes no Whisper Front him to tell us all is well? Why to our tiower-time comes no tokei, Of lily or of asphodel ? I feel the unutterable longing ; v The hunger of the heart is mine ; I reach and grope for liands in dat·kness, 6 My ear grows sharp for voice or sigil, . Nuti, 1 .867. 21 4/5 , OCR Text: 66¥- mitgunial work. Into this home came the youngest child, May. Here, too, ',i; he entered into the· local interests of the- community, dividing his Sabbaths 1126 between Gilroy and the mountain, endearing himself to the people, and i * dn,wing their hearts from daily toil to higher realms of spiritual thought, lie .0 pn,moted also the intellectual life of the community by his lectures, and '; by his interest in their literary society and in the selection of the School ; 2 Libiwi,y. 2'-1' The year 1884 was an eventful one with him, marked especially by re u t 1 icn i s wit.11 kind.red and early friends. He was appointed to represent the 0- P,wilic Coast and deliver an address before the National Teachers' Association, •·hicli convened in Madison, Wisconsin, in July of that year, receiving at the i. 0 •ame time from tl.e Principal, Miss Bill, an invitation to deliver the 9 Commencement address at Rockford Seminary. Just before starting on this Easterii trip he welcomed to his home a cousin who had been the playmate of his boyhood, and the friend of later years, from her work as 61 Principal of Knwaialiao Semintu·y, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. The ' invitation to 'attend the association gave him 1111 opportunity to visit the home an,1 friends of his youth. Of the happiness he felt in seeing once more the aged father, yet active and vigorous, to whom more than four score years had ivme and gone ; of the fraternal welcome that a,waited him in the home of his 01,lest brother, where he seemed to feel like a boy again, we may not speak. For nineteen years he had not looked upon the fiace of his beloved older sister, il rs. 0. B. Yotings. It was with mingled joy and soi·row that slie welcomed him to the lionie where Alice, the youngest of her household, lay dyigg. Within a few weeks of graduation, this daughter had returned from ,„llege to sink rapidly to her grave with consumption. To her young soul so •wiftly passing, and to her stricken parents, tlie coining of tlie brother ? and uncle was like an angel's visit. On the Habl,ath preceding the death and '' funeral of the dear girl, Prof. Norton preached in the cliurcli with which he lind first united in boyliood. Many changes had occurred iii the years that had M imssed ; ixiany places had become vacant, and to these he referred, closing the ,|i:,course by repeating the following poem from Whittier. To some who baird him that day the words seem like a propheey : ·4· " What cheer hath he ? How is it with him : Where lingers he thi B weary while ? Over what pleasant lieldls of Heaven Dawits the sweet sum·ise of his smile ? i Why on this spring air ec,mes no Whisper Front him to tell us all is well? Why to our tiower-time comes no tokei, Of lily or of asphodel ? I feel the unutterable longing ; v The hunger of the heart is mine ; I reach and grope for liands in dat·kness, 6 My ear grows sharp for voice or sigil, . Nuti, 1 .867. 21 4/5 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,N through P File names,North, H B,NORTH, H.B._006.pdf,NORTH, H.B._006.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: H.B._006.PDF,NORTH, NORTH, H.B._006.pdf 1 Page 1