Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-10-03
From the childs Paper.
THE FOUND PoCKETBooR.

society of Tom jackson.
81 do" said his mother and she said
nothing more.
A week or more after this, John burst
into the kitchen with Tom at his heels
"See. mother" he cried, "what / found
SUCK handsome pocketbook 10
{" Where did you find it ?" asked his
mother.
q In Pine Grove; who do you suppose
it belongs to ?''
"1 reckon it grew there" said his mo-
ther.
Z" Grew there !" exclaimed John, lifting
up his his eyebrows with great surprise
A pocket book grow in the woods =
Who ever beard Of such thing 1t
could not be-
Why not ?" she asked.
Why not ?' replied the boy; the
pocketbook was there on purpose. Look
here, opening it; here is place for
blank>bills, and here is a little out.of. the
wayspot with snug fastening for gold dol
lars and memorandum book, and pencil
case. and such beautiful gold pencil
Look, mother, with pen and lead both;
it was made for man to use."
Some contrivauce here, certainly"
said his mother, putting down her work
and taking it into her hands for further
examination. "It is one Of the most use
ful pocketbooks ever saw, if it did not
grow there, perhaps it made ITSELF.
Both boys stared at her more and
more.
Why, mother, you talk foolish, !" said
John, with sober and puzzled look ;
"there must have been man with mind
to have made this" "a man that kneuO
how-a pretty neat workman" added
Tom Jackson.
"How do you know ? you never saw
him." said Mrs. Clary.
"No, but I've seen his aoork, and that's
enough, to convince me | am Just as
certain that somebody made it as if saw
him.
"You areI" said Mrs. Clary how
SO 2"
Why, mother" said John, very much
in earnest, ''you see the pooketbook had
to be planned, to answer certain pur-
pose no it must have had planner,
that's the long and short of it; and know
it just as well as if saw it planned and
done by the man himself"
That is." said his mother, sit shows
an intelligent design, and it must have
had an intelligent designer. Somebody
must have made it and thought beforehand
how TO make it,"
"Just SO !" exclaimed both boys at
once
" And it would be foolish to think 9th !.
erwise," added John.
+" think so." said his mother. "And
it is just as FOOLISH" she continued, with
a great deal of meaning in her eye as she
looked into the boys oyes, "when you see
the wonderful contrivance in the beings
and things around you, the design with
which they were made, and the skill with
which they were put together, for you to
doubt or deny that there is God aOho
made them. Who planned your eyes to
see with, your ears to hear with Can
eyes make themselves ? Can a man
make bird? Who created the sun, and
planned night and day? Did your mo.
ther or father plan your fingers and make
them grow? You never saw Uho does all
these things, but you know perfectly well
that q great somebody thought beforehand,
designed and contrived the eye. and ear.
and the sun. and your fingers-all things
and all beings which are around you
And that great somebody. is God, the
eternal Mind and great maker of us all" !"
The boys did not expect to be condem-
ned from their own mouths in this way.
Can you see my mind % asked Mrs
Clary. II can see your body" said Tom
Jackson. GLOW do you know what my
mind is ?" 81 can only tell by what you
do and say can't see it," answered
John.
/" But do you think that have mind
spirit ?" asked Mrs. Clary. "Oh yes,'
exclaimed the boys, "you show it by youl
actions"
Now. as you can see my spirit only
as act it through or with my body, SO
you can see God the great Spirit, only as
he shows himself 70 you by the wonderful
things which he has made /; but you are
Just as certain Of one as the other.
The haymakers now came into the
kitchen and interrupted the talk. The
boys went off with thoughtful looks. The
next day when John brought in mess o.
beans which he had been picking from The
vines, Mother" said be, ~ shall never
never say do not believe there is God
again the little tendrils Of the bean
curling and clasping round the poles show
liz. Why do vines have them, and no
other plants? Somebody planned it.
reckon.
And that somebody is God.
~As specimen Of the breyity Q