Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-01-27


"No, no, not Tonight" cried Deaco
Smith. ''I have six or seven tons of well
made hay in the field, and would not hay
itwet for anything" H
80 have hay OUT" added Mr.. Peck
I'VE won't have it rain to- night, s
"Then let it be to- morrow"
| 1t will take me all day to morrow to ce
my hay in,' said Smith.
Thus the objections came up for the tw,
succeeding days, and at length, by way O
compromise, Mr.. Sharp proposed that the,
should havo rain in just four days. "For,
said ne, "by that time, all the hay which
is now out can be got in, and we need no.
cut any
"stop, STOP uttered Mrs. Sharp, pulling
her worthy husband smartly by the sleeve
"That is the day we have set to 20 tc
Snowhill. 1t mustn't rain then -
| This was law for MIR. Sharp, so he pro.
posed that the rain should como in one
week, and then resumed his seat. But this
would not do. Many of the people would
not have itput off SO long. eff we cam,
have rain before then, we'd better not
have it at all, 'said they.
In short, the meeting resulted in lust NO
conclusion at all, for the good people found
it utterly impossible to agree upon time
when it should rain.
"Until you can make up your minds upon
this point" said the pastor, as he was
about leaving the church, 'swe must all
trust in the Lord" And after this the
people followed him from the place.
Both Deacon Smith and Mr.. Peck got
their hay safely in, but on the very day that
Mr.. Sharp and his wife were to have started
for Snowhill it began to rain in right good
earnest. sharp lost his visit, but he met
the disappointment with good grace, for his
crops smiled at the rain.
Ere another month had rolled bv, another
meeting was called for petition for rain,
but this time the result was the same as
before. Many Of the people had their m uck
to dig, and rain would prevent them. Some
wanted the rain Immediately some in one,
some in two, and some in three days, while
Others wanted it put off longer. So Mr..
Surely had not yet occasion to call for rain.
One year rolled b., and up to that time
the people of Fallowdale had never once
been able to agree upon the exact kind of
weather they would have, and the result was,
that they began to open their eyes to the
fact that this world would be strange
place if its Inhabitants could govern it.
While they had been longing for power
they did not possess, they had not seen its
absurdity, but now that they had, in good
faith, tried to apply that power, under the
belief that it was theirs, they saw clearly
that they were getting beyond their sphere.
They saw that Natures laws were safer in
the hands of Natures God than in the hands
of Natures children.
On the last Sabbath in. the first year of
Mr.. Surely's settlement at Faliowdale, he
offered to take up his connexion with the
parish, but the people would not listen to
It, They had become attached to him and
to the meetings, and they wished him to
stay.
s'But can no longer rest under our for
mer contract with regard to the weather."
said the pastor.
>'Nor do we wish you to- returned
Sharp. "Only preach to us and teach US
and our children how to live. and help us to
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be social and happy"
"And," added the pastor, while tear
of pride stood in, his eye, as he looked
for an instant into the face of his now hap
py wife, "All things above our proper
sphere we will leave with God, for Sod
doeth all things Uelin" s8 "a 3asnaeam