The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-05-08
81 will learn them a lesson," returned

the pastor.
GAY, that you cannot be as good as your
word-and when you have learned 1t 10
them, they will turn you off. !"
"We shall see," was Dir. Surely's 1e-
ply, and he quietly took up book and
commenced reading.
This was the signal for her to desist
from further conversation on the subject,
and she accordingly obeyed.
Time flew on and the hot days OF mid
summer were at hand. For three weeks
it had not rained, and the young corn was
beginning to curl up beneath the effects
of the drought. Ia this extremity the
people bethought themselves Of the prom
ise OF their pastor, and they fastened to
him
Come" said Sharp, whose hilly farm
was suffering seyerel y, "we want rain
You remember your promise"
.'Certainly," returned Mr. Surely. "it
you will call meeting OF the parish, /
will be with them this evening
With this the applicants were perfectly
satisfied, and they hastened TO call the
flock together.
"AgoW, You'll see the hour OF your dis
grace" said Mrs. Surely, after the visi-
tors had gone. :'Oh, am SO sorry that
you ever undertook to deceive the parish
So"
''I did not deceive them
'Yes, you surely did"
eve shall sec," added the pastor.
The hour of the meeting came around,
and Parson Surely met his people at the
church They were all there, some an1-
ious, the remainder curious.
"Now, my friends said the pastor,
rising upon the platform, 81 have come
to hear your request What is it,"
'Ne want rain" bluntly spoke farmer
Sharp, Sand you know you promised to
give it to u.s."
.'Ay-rain-rain,'' repeated half doz-
"Very well. Now when Go you want
to have it ?"
"To-night Let it rain all night long,"
said Sharp, to which several others imme-
detely assented.
@0No, no, not tonight" cried deacon
Smith. ~ have six or seven tons Of we'll
made nay in the field, and [ would not
have it wet for anything"
$50 have | hay out in the field, ad-
ded Mr. Peek. I'VE won't have rain to-
night"
'Tben let it be tomorrow"
alt will take me al day tomorrow to
get my hay in" said Smith.
Thus the objections came up the two
succeeding days, and at length, by way
of compromise, Mr.. Sharp proposed that
they should have rain iii just four days.
For" said he, "by that time ali the
hay which is now cut can be got in, and
we need not cut AMY"
Stop, stop" uttered Mrs. Sharp, pub
ling her worthy husband by the sleeve.
That is the day we have set to so to
Snowhill. 1t MUS rain then"
This was law for Mr.. Sharp, So lie pro-
posed that the rain should come n one
week, and then sat down.
But this would not do. .'If we can't
have rain before then, we'd better have
none at all" said they.
In short, tie 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. Mr.
Sharp lost his visit, but he met his disap-
pointment with good grace, for his crops
smiled at the rain.
Ere another month had passed by, an
other meeting was called ior a petition for
rain, but with the same result as before.
Many Of the people had their muck to
dig and rain would prevent them. Some
wanted it immediately IN one, some
in. two, and some IN three days; while
other parishioners wanted to put it off
longer. So Sir. Surely had 10 occasion
to call for rain.
One year rolled by, and up to that time
the people OF Fallowdalc had never once
been able to agree upon the exact kind OF
weather they would have, aud the result
was, that they began to open their eyes to
the fact, that this world would be a strange
place if its inhabitants should govern it.
On the last Sabbath in the first year of
Mr. Surelys settlement at Fallowdale, he
offered to break up his connection with
the parish, but the people would not lis
ten to it. They had become attached to
him aud the meeting, and they wished
him to stay.
But l can no longer rest under our