Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-18
midsummer were at hand. For three

midsummer were at hand. For tnfee
weeks it had not rained, and the young
corn was beginning to curl up beneath
the effects of the drouth. In this ex
tremity the people ethoughtthemselves
Of the promise of their pastor, and has
| tened to him.
"Come, said Sharp, whose hilly farm
was suffering severely, "we want rain
You remember your promise"
"Certainly," returned Mr.. Surely
eff you will call for meeting of the
parish, I will be with them this even
| ing"
With this the applicants were per-
fectly satisfied, and forthwith they has
tened to call the flock together.
| NOV, you'll see the hour of your
disgrace" said Mrs. Surely, after the
xisitaEs.had.geassss@ss0a4, sSffy you
ever undertook to deceive them so.
II did not deceive them"
Yes, you surely did"
"We shall see" .
$50 we shall see," added the lady.
The hour of the meeting came round,
and Parson Surely met his people at the
church. They we're all there, some anx-
ious, the remainder curious.
"Now, my friends, said the pastor,
arising upon the platform, II have come
to hear your request. What is it?''
eve want raln,' bluntly spoke Farm
er Sharp; "and you know you promised
to give it to US
"Ay-rain-rain," repeated half a
| dozen voices.
Very we'll. Now, when do you want
to have it?'' . .....
Tonight Let it rain all night
long, said Sharp, to which several 9TH
ers Immediately assented?'
"No, no, not tonight" cried deacon
Smith. Il have six or seven tons of
we'll made hay in the field, and I would
not have it wet for anything"
$50 have I hay out, added Mr.. Peck
ave wont have rain tonight"
"Then let it be to morrow"
at will take me all day o-morrow to
get my hay in" said Smith.
| Thus the objections came up for the
two succeedidg days, and at length, by
way Of compromise, Mr., Sharp proposed
that they should have rain in just four
days.
"For," said he, 'by that time all the
hay which is now cut can be got in, and
we need not cut any"
"stop, stt p,' uttered, Mrs. Sharp,
pulling her worthy husband by the
sleeve. THAT is the day we have set to
go to Snowhill. 1t mustn't rain then. !"
This was law for Mr.. Sharp, SO he pro-
posed that the rain should come in one
week, and then sat down.
But this would not do. 'If we can t
have rain before then, we'd better not
have it at all, said they.
In short, the meeting resulted in just
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
on this point; said the pastor, as he was
about leaving the church. "we must all
trust in the Lord" And after this the
people followed him from the church.
Both Deacon Smith and Mr. Peck got
their hay safely in, but on the very day
Mr.. Sharp was to have started for Snow
hill, it began to rain in good earnest
MIR. Sharp lost his visit, but he met his
disappointment with good grace, for his
crops smiled at the rain.
Ere another month had passed by,
another meeting was called for petition
for rain, but with the same result as be-
fore Many of the people had their
muck to dig, and rain would prevent
them. Some wanted it immediately
some in one, some in two, and some in
three days, while other parishioners
wanted to put it off longer. So Mr.
Surely had no occasion to call for rain
One year rolled by, 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 a strange place if its inhabit-
ance should govern it.
/ On the last Sabbath in the first year
of Mr. Surely's settlement at Falow-
dale, he offered to break up his connec-
ton with the parish, but the people
would not listen to it, They have be,
come attached to him and the meeting
and they wished him to stay.
"But | can no longer rest under oul
former contract with regard to the
weather, said the pastor.
'.Nor do we wish you to, }" returned
Sharp. "Oniy preach to US, and teach
US and our children how to live, anc
hel p US to be social, contented and hap
py."
"And," added the pastor, while tear
of pride stood in his eye, as he looked
for an instant into the face of his nov
happy wife, call things above our prope
spheres we will leave with God, for 'He
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