The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-26

amt true, an that amt much nor won't say
no bad O. myself that amt true, and that's
Almost every kind o bad but when has a
object, sticks to tan when l says I'll do q
thing, docs it."
"Good You'll do, then. Will you read
this book every day, and ask God, in Christie
name, to help you to understand and obey it7 y
"If don's, I'll bel mean will Jest
read some on it out to Teller fust, will yer, an
twill spell ont the easier fort, may be, AFTER.
wards. Ny readin's got q bit rusty, I'm afesred.
l larnsd it to the workus, whar was raised
but run away jest as soon as war big enough,
an sometimes been year or two without
SEEM page o. print"
with pleasure and you had better look
ooer me, if that will help yos. will mark the
plainest and most important parts, too, for you,
90 that you can turn to them easily at any
time"
Pointing to the words with his pencil as he
pronounced them, Herman began:
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with ell
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy strength. and with all thy mind; and thy
neighbor as myself"
"That's almighty hard I'm, amt it, to start
with?
"Yes, but it makes all the others easy and
it is not at all dieagreeable either, after you
have got into the way of it."
"Ye've got the hang ont, reckon haint
yer3"
az am trying to do so but it takes good
deal of time and patience, and great many
prayers, to bring it about. The nearer &c,
to it, the plsasanter find it. Love is thu mos,
delightful feeling in the world. Didn't it make
you happy to love your poor dog3"
II 81 reckon. Yer think thar's q chance for
me to have him again, then, if docs it alla"
BLOW many strange ways God has" though,
Herman, to lead His lost sheep home to him | y
"Indeed d." he replied; "but whether you
shall or not is for God to say, and not me.
Your only chance, your business in the first
place, is to serve and follow Christ"
/ But was it not wrong in Herman to try TO
cheat the bsckwoodsman into being a Chris
Itian2 1t would have been, very, if he had
done so but be did not. If he cheated any.
body, it was himself. He honestly believed
every word that he said upon the subject. He
habtually believed every word which be said
upon any subject whatsoever, and refrained
from saying anything which he did not believe.
1t was probably this evident heartiness and
good faith on his part, and the remarkable
Of cd nj nd al I'd n
sympathy, which he was already developing,
that gave to so mary others, wherever he went,
so much faith in his words, and espe cially in
himself, and that gave him from this time for
ward, more and more, an sscendency over the
minds of the doubling, cropping, seeking, and
sorrowing, which, 70 men of different etamp
from himself, seemed altogether marvellous
and unsccountable. He was very heterodox
perhaps, on this occasion but if SO, he was &C
in the excellent company of Bishop Butler.*
"Iujuns amt neighbors, be they?" e1claim-
ed the proselyte, striking on q spiritual snag.
Certainly; all human beings are. You vii
want to know, now. how / know that indiana
are human; and could tell you. But it nigh
take good deal OF time, and we shall need al
that We have for this book, shall We not ?"
"Bs l bound tot to fight 'em no more
then 2"
81 do not say that you are not to defend your
SELF if they attack you but you must by al
means do your very best to keep on good terms
with them. See here" said Herman; and turn
ing over the leaves, he found and read aloud,
"If it be possible, as much as leth in you
live peaceably With all men," fl
"Wall, but, stranger, hard speechel
once speechifyin, an he said twas NANTES
destiny-don't that mean it's all right for u,
to drive 'em out, an squat on thar huntir
grounds? an he seemed larn'd man"
at is the manifest destiny of the children
of the devil to outrage, rob, and murder, the
ignorant and defenceless not of the children
of God" /
avail, now, stranger, doctors differ. / wa
on boat spell ego, an thar was the cuteat
most interestin little chap Of a seven year-old
ever see, acoming on from Arkansaw u
Mizzoura. He'd got little cowhide, an he'd
crack it around his ears all day long, q. plsyir
overseer. He'd 81 an hide by the door O. the
cook shop; an every time he cotched the darby
cooky acomin in or out, he'd hit him such Q
crack on his stumps, as would make him skip
like q nanny-goat; an then he'd haw haw so
you'd hear him all over the steamer, and kno.
what he was about in q second. Then he'd q,
everybody to loan him chaw O. tobacco. BIZ
was on'y jest q larnin an it made him jest 4,
sick an yeller as death but gosh, he didn'
mind it no more'l nothin, he was so plucky
and he'd choke, 40 chaw, an spit, an spit, Or
choke, an chaw, With his in'srds all up in hrs
swoller, jest like any man. 1 never saw moth
in like it. thought I'd ha' gin anythin to ha
had him, an brung him up to the bush 81
the fust city we stopped to, stepped into tt,
store, An bought him the poottiest little bowl,
/ could find.
| de had poorly little book, An says l, jes
spout ont q bit ont, an let's h'ar yer. Twas al
about Ginetal jackson, an Bonyparte, an W alker
an them celebrated heroes, an it said that civil
'1ed folks like We oughter conquer folks a.
want 30 smart an enlightened, an instruct EN-
WALL says l, what dyer think O. that tia,
doctrineP 'Fus.rate, says he. 'How 5,
yer a-goin to apply if' says 1. Says he, 'whhr
gifts to home, the fust thing, I'll take an con
quer away Babby's garden cause he's on'y
four-year-old, an so stupid he can't raise moth
in-an plant it al with mint for iuleps. Nv
amt they prinel' Wall, but says i, thar
on'y conquerin on him. Yer know, after that
yer've got to Farm him. 'Pll Farm him. SAYS be
a-cockin his eye at me. Yer will, will yer
says /. What III yer parn him? To max,