Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-04-09

Garry Curious.

say every HOtffr las tarry turiOusy or. kUt
Inquisitiye. or some such name; but this is not a.
her real name, gave it to her long after she wa
4 ehristened, because she asks 80 many question
I about everything new that she sees. Her fathe
sometimes gets quite vexed at her inquisitive dis
position, and calls her Mistress Pry, because i
leeds her to be miseheyous as it did one day wher
she went into the garden and took off the only two
pears which had ripened, ON dwarf tree, Of which
he was anxious to discover the quality. Quite o
long story came of her taking off the fruit as she
told her father Honly Just TO how it tasted -
4 III tell il TO you. After she had confessed il to
/ him and been forgiven, he said to her:
Garry, you are very much like that iar-off grand
J mother of yours ON the mothers side, who could
not be content to enjoy fine garden filed with
fruit and flowers on purpose for her but must GOV.
! ct that which was forbidden her" --s.-. -,
what do You mean, fathers have no such
/ grandmother. There is grandma Eames and grand
/ ma Hollis; they have not fine gardens,-only back
/ yards. have no such grandma; what do you
] meaI?i fas b. i- t--. -e-t s --.
"Who does your catechism say was the first
woman?" a-a-
"Why, Eve; but she was not my grand mother;
how queer you are?' Ia
"She was the mother of all living. Do you re-
member how much unhappiness came into the
world bceaose she ate an appley do you remember
the story" ,z..-l ,
"Oh, yes father; bat / never could understand
why there could he much harm in eating an ap-
pie, don't see why God did not keep her from
eating it, when he knew it would hurt her. You
must tell me why, father
81 cannot tell you why God allowed her to eat
the fruit. He has not told US; but you viii re
member that disobedience always brings unhappi-
ness. ! will talk with you again. must go row.
Carry was going to school in few moments af-
ter this conversation, with her little head still full
of problems about grandma Eve. when as she was
running down one street, Dir. Lane came up anoth-
er, and with smiling "Good morning my little
friend, took her by the hand and walked along
with her.
DIR. Lane was her minister, and although he was
great minister and doctor of divinity all the chill
dren Of his parish loved him. and we're never afraid
to talk with him. He laycd children and told them
So He always had some pleasant thing to say 10
them, and said it as though he were u child him.
self. So little Garry pat her hand codfdingly in
his, and looking up in his face, asked him why such
great harm came Of eating apple-the apple
which Eve ate. -.r 5-~ss r..-t..
''The wrong was not in eating an apple merely,
but because God had forbidden her to eat it. The
sin was in disobeying God Why did you ask me
that little girl? why You thinking of thats''
said the DR.. TtJ
Then Carry told him how wrong she had done,
and what her father hail said to her, and added:
@But do not see Why God put the tree there to
tempt her, as told me about my new work-box
the other day, when 1 was showing il to baby
dou't see why he let her eat it, when so much sin
| was to come Of il He could hinder her if He
would. 1t puzzles me; will you explain it to mp?'
Many wiser held has been puzzled by these
same questions. / am as ignorant as you why God
allowed her to disobey Him and make us all sin
| ners He has not told us. Does not your mother
often do things for youwithont telling you the reason
why?7
Yes"
"And you do not ask her because you know she
loves you, and will do them for your good?"
me reasons when am old enough to understand
them. viii not God tell the reasons when We
are old enough to understand them?'
do you remember, Garry two or three years
ago, when your little brother died, you could not
understand what it meant to him lie so still and
cold?
"Yes.p Pa .-s-
"Do you understand nCw?'
yes ma told me only little while ago, that
death means when the soul, the part of us that
thinks and moves the body leaves it, and goes hack
to God. She told me that little Charley is in
heaven now, learning how God made the world
and the stars, and all the beautiful things We see
and that is just what | want to know, how they
| are made and what God made them for. Can't
learn this till die and go where my brother is::
Ma says can't
"You can learn many things about them; but
how God made them, and why, we only learn
| in His presence. You remember that the Bible
tells us that the angels in heaven praiSing God
on golden harps continually. have often thought
dear little girl, that learning just what you wish to
know enables them to make up their song of praise
| They learn now great MS power anu Soouht9S nlt
and that teaches them their glorious songs"
THE little girl walked on beside her minister q
few moments in thoughtful silence. and then said
II will try to be good as to be angel like yoS
said Nelly Yarnum was the day he was buried
"Do you always listen when talk to the chill
dren?' s-a. rsrr74-.
"Most always
What do you think about when yOn don't hea
me? can you remember any dag when you did not
what thoughts prevented you from listening to me?
After thinking moment she replied, "Yes l rC
member one day-the day after my new pink ha
was brought home. Father did not see it till Sun
day morning, then he said it was very becoming I
my black eyes; and could not help thinking abor
it, though Won was preaching to Sabbath-scho'
children #..ls a
Father puts great many notions into your Ii
tie head viii you tell him from me that he mu
be careful what he says to you about grandma E'
and pink hats?" And the minister left the lit
girl at the school-house door, and went on to full
his duties with heart glad TO find little heads bu;
inquring about Gods ways, but serious with u
: : responsibility of guiding them.
And Corrv was she satisfied about the grandn