The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-12-10
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reproof ranking in my heart. No mat
ter how hayward I Ind been, no mat
ter how much or with what reason
you had punished ME through tho dry,
you took mo in your arms. and carcssed
and kissed mo before taking or send
ing me 10 bed. I have never gone t.:
sleep without feeling my heart glow
With happy consciousness of being
loved aud forgiven for all my faults"
SLUMP said ~, laying down the
bovk she had been reading and kncel
ing, the better to get into Mar!*;rct's
arms, Il ike to know what any body
would ever tind to forgive you about
I do wish you would do something
wicked until We could all show our
Christian spirit, and get: y little even
with you. As for mother being angry
With you, Why l never could make her
cross tor two minutes"
"You will mako me cross for good
deal longer time," broke in the tall MI
perva. who sat diligently sewing, with
tho "lamplig ht gloatiug DER" her queen
IL foure 1--WE do not want scene,
and meeting Of the mutual admiral
ton society this evening. propose
you should go on reading, for | want to
hear how her Majesty prospered in her
expedition into that rovolted province.
Had been in her place I think 1
should have staid in my palace, and
sent Monsieur Ferdinand after the reb
els"
"Ah, but you are not an Isabella J!
rejoiusd 70, "Maggic here would have
gone, wouldn't you, Maggie Z"
~ think it was right for the queen
to 20 With her TROOPS" said Margaret.
"In her case the post Of danger was
the post Of duty"
II do not like Isabella" was Miner
vas answer. "Sho always appears to
be acting like man."
"Yst she was a most dutiful daugh-
tor and affectionate mother, besides be-
ing an unusually good wife, for she
soothsd her husbands jealousies, con-
eealed his weaknesses, and continued
to make him respectable as long as she
lived, beside making his shirts like any
other good wife. When she died. he
fell from the high place in which she
had held him, quite down to his own
level. YET" Margaret continued
taking up the volume from the table
and reading, "hear what the historians
ny Of her reign: This was the golden
ago Of justice and since our sainted
mistress has been taken from US, it has
been more costly to transact business
With stripping Secretary than It was
with tho Queen aud all her minister's.
sBy tho notifications then introduced
the basis was laid for the judicial sys-
TEN, such as it has been perpetuated to
tho present age. The law acquired an
authority which, in the language Of a
Spanish writer, caused decree, signed
BY two or three judges, to be more re-
spected since th.t time than an army
before You know" Margaret con'in-
ued, "that 1t was Queen Isabella alone
of all the sovereiyns Of Europe who had
the penetration to see the wisdom OF
Columbus, and the courage to aid
him."
II do not care,' pursued Minerva,
tbrusting back impatient'y the rich
hair from brow that would we'll have
srassd crown, II should have let the
men look after the judicial system, and
tho new world too. A woman has no
bushes. meadlisg ia politics."
"Hsar her, mother" cried 70. "Do
tell US what you think'"
~ prefer to hear Willie's opinion"
was the quiet answer.
Willie, who had been intcntly listen
Ing, turned his large, sightlcss brown
eyes to his mother AID replied :. "When
the Saviour sent women to announce
His resurrection He commissioned her
to aid man in overturning all the pollt-
ical systems then on earth. The whole
history of christianity has been that Of
warfare against corrupt governments
and unjust laws. To say that women
should not take part in this work is to
condemn as criminals all our female
martyrs but, for woman and men,
Der Of our church to say 80, is for her
to condemn herself; for all that sepa-
rates that from other churches il its
protest against political wrongs. In
the carly history Of that church thou
sands Of the women Of Scotland signed
the solemn league and covenant