Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-05-10
YoRKYIE SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING

: MORNING, MAY 10, 18f
:, : aCome," said shap, whose billy farm
was suffering severely, awe want some rain.
You remember your promise" gsgs..,
MCertainly," returned Mr.. Surely. If
you will call for meeting of the members
Of the parish, will be with you this even
ing.
With this the applicants were perfectly
satisfied, and forthwith they hastened to call
the flock together.
"Now you will See the hour of your dis.
grace" said Mrs. Surely, after the visitors
had gone. 40, I am slvery sorry you ever
undertook to deceive them so:" ~
s{"I did not deceive them" <
0Yes, you surely did" = 90
aWe shall SET" }" responded the pastor.
$50 We shall see, =, added theslady. =
=, The hour forlthe meeting came around,
and Parson Surely met his people at sthe
church. They were all there most Of. them
anxious, and the:remainder curious. {. Z +.
aNow, my friends" said the pastor, ari.
sing upon the platform,s 81 have come to
hear your request. What isit~ ~
"We want rain,," bluntly spoke Farmer
Sharp "and you know you promisedsto
give it to u.s. = .s
.mAy-rain-rain," repeated half dozen
voices. e.,
"very well. Now when will you have
it?"%s
"This very night. Let it rain all night
long," said Sharp. to which several Others
Immediately assented. ~ -
"No, no, not tonight" cried Deacon
Smith. 81 have six Or seven tons Of well
made hay il. the field, and Iwould not have
it wet for anything. ~" :
$50 have hay ont" added Mr.. Peck.
tsWe won't have it rain tonight
"Then let it be, tomorrow"
.HIt will take me all day tomorrow to get
my hay in" said Smith. :.
Thus the objections.came mp for the two
succeeding 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 out can be got in, and we need not
cut any" '"
"stop, stop" uttered Mrs. Sharp, pull.
ling her worthy husband smartly by the
sleeve. sThat is the day We have set to go
to Snowhill Hnsusn'train then !'
This was law for Mr. Sharp, SOL be pro-
posed that the rain should come in one week
and then resumed his seat. But'this would
not do. Many of the people would not
have it put off SO long. NIf #ecan't have
rain before then, we had better not have it
at all" said they: 50
In short, the meeting resulted in just no
conclusion at all, for the good people found
it utterly impossible to agree upon a time
whenit should rain. e s2@S
"Until you can make up your minds up
on this point" aaid the pastor, as he was
about leaving the church, "we must all trust
in thaLord." And after this the people
followed him,fro the place. -5&
Both Deacon Smith and Mr.. Peck got
their hay safely in, but on the very day that
Mr.. Sharp and his wife we're to have start
ed for Snowhill, it began to rain in right
good earnest. Sharp'lost his visit, but he
met the Disappointment with good grace, for
his crops smiled at the rain .,':
Ere another month had rolled by, anoth.
er meeting was called for petition for rain
but this time the result was the same as be-,
FORE Many of the people had their muck
to dig, and rain would prevent them. Some
wanted the rain immediately-some in one,
some in two, and some in three days, while
others wanted it put off longer. So Dir.
Surely had not occasion yet tocall 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 q strange
place, if its inhabitants could govern it
While they had been longing for power
they did not possess, they had not seen its
but now that they had, in good
faith, tried to apply that power, under the
belief that it was theirs, they saw clearly
that they were. getting beyond their sphere.
They saw that Natures laws were safer in
The hands of Natures. God than in the
hands of natures children.
On the last Sabbath ip the first year of
Mr.. Surely's settlement at Fallowdale, he
offered to take up his connection with the
parish but the people would not listen to
{. They had become attached TO him and
% the meetings, and they wished him to
'tay. .---. -. -.
hBut can no longer rest under our for
ner contract with regard to the weather."
aid the pastor. g;s;.tr,q
aNor Do We wish you to, = returned Sharp. |
rOnly preach to uszand teach US and our
children how to live, and help us to be SO.
,ial and happy"
aAnd," added the pastor, while tear Of
,ride stood in bis eye, as he looked for an
Instant into the face of his now happy wife,
sAll things above our proper sphere We will
cave with God, for "He doeth all things
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