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A Beautiful Lenten Story.

WHEN Jenny Lind, in the days of
her triumph, was making a tour
through this country, she stopped
at Natchez, at a time when the late Bishop
Green was there. It being in the sacred sea-
son of Lent, he felt it his duty to decline the
invitation sent him to attend her concert.

The next day his carriage met hers as she
was being driven to the boat. He, wishing
to assure her that the refusal meant no dis-
courtesy, but was simply a matter of con-
science connected with the holy season, re-
quested the driver to stop. By the inter-
view the Queen of Song became so much
impressed, that, alighting from the carriage
and kneeling upon the bare earth, she begged
his paternal benediction. A gentleman who
was with the Bishop reates the incident as
one of the most affecting he ever witnessed.
The minister of God, standing bareheaded,
his long white locks glistening in the Sun,
laid his hand upon the head of the kneeling
woman and prayed God's blessing to rest
upon her, that her wonderful art might re-
dound to His glory, and that the voice so
tuneful upon earth might one day sing the
angel's song in Paradise.