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Poet, Musician and Man 105
merely poetical is illustrated in the incident Morrison has related in saying that his sympathies were "always with the lowly and the poor":18
Once on a stormy winter night a little girl, sent on an errand, was run over by a dray and killed. She had her head and face covered by a shawl to keep off the pel tings of the storm, and in crossing the street she ran under the horse's feet. Stephen was dressed and about going to an evening party when he learned of the tragedy. He went immediately to the house of the little girl's father, who was a poor working man and a neighbor whom he esteemed. He gave up all thought of going to the party and remained all night with the dead child and her afflicted parents, endeavoring to afford the latter what comfort he could.
Another brother, Henry B. Foster, wrote that Stephen "was a firm believer in the gospel of Christ and ever had an abiding confidence in His mercy."19 As has been brought out, the Fosters were a devout Episcopalian family. Stephen's older sister, Ann Eliza (who had a hand in his tutoring as a boy), married an Episcopalian rector, the Reverend Edward Y. Buchanan, a brother of President James |
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