The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-02-03
aler1ProN, IOWA FEBRUARY 8, 1870.

never seen before.
And did you let Helen talk In that
way without any answer?"
| why, ye-e-es. l don't like to
quarrel with girl like her"
| "Well, Jenny shall not be driven out
Of the Circle If can help it."
why If you attempt to stop it, you'll
be in hot water with Helen. And you
know who her friends are-the first
people in town.
"Do you really think me mean
enough, Mary, to care for any thing of
that kind?"
| Il don't think you are mean, Sarah;
] know you are noble. But don't the
Bible tell us to let alone contention be.
fore it be meddled with? And that he
who meddleth with strife belonging not
to him, is like one that takelh IL dog by
the ears"'
Yes, but think this strife does be-
long to me- in the closest way possible
That rule must be judged In the light of
other rules that limit it. Christ came
not to send peace but q sword. And
there is nothing that Christians act
worse about than this cowardly fear of
quarrel when plain, true words for the
right are needed. They can give up al
most anything but their love of having
smooth, easy time with everybody
around. Woe unto you when all men
speak well of YOU How are you going
to be true to God in this bad world with
out stirring up anger somewhere ?"
AT the next meeting of the Circle, Jen-
ny Palmer made bold to show herself
again. Sarah had met her once or twice
and (withont speak ing of Helen's rude
ness at ally was SO kind that she thought
it must be she had friends there. She
took a seat with sarah. Helen came in
later; and as Jenny's back happened to
be toward her, sat down near her with
out noticing. -. ...
All went on smoothly for few mo-
ments. The young ladies sewed and
chatted, Jenny working on in silence.
But when she quietly answered some
question of Sarah's, Helen started at
the sound Of her voice as if a snake had
crawled into the room. The other girls
saw it, and two or three showed by a
little snicker their own feelings. That
gave her boldness. "The time has
come,' she said to herself, ito stop this
creatures coming here.n
II wish,n she began, loud enough for
Jenny to hear, though still with her
back toward her, that some folks had
sensa ennngh to know whore thoy arc
wanted
"Why, what can you be thinking ofo"
asked Jessie Horton with "A knowing
look, and "a laugh in which one or two
others joined.
Then began a talk about disagreeable
people in general, in which Helen, slow
ly working her chair round toward Jen-
ny, and growing more and more person
al, brought matters to u point. Then
Sarah spoke, calmly but firmly, laying
her work down in her lap, while Jenny
rose and went over to another side of
the room.
~ don't think, girls, that all this is
fair or Christian. | can't believe that
most Of Us here like what has been said,
! though no one seems willing to say so.
We have no right to shut out any one
Of our people from the Circle, who is not
ill-mannered and is willing to work. 1t
wrongs the cause we are at work for. 1t
wrongs the person we drive away. 1t
Is all wrong in itself. And as for me,
though don't want to hurt any body's
feelings, and shall be sorry to lose any
body's love, intend to invite Jenny
Palmer every time | come to the CiIcle
myself"
And what followed? Some one asked
Mary Smith II few months after; and
! this was her answer.
"Ofco there was an explosion. OF
course Helen declared she would never
speak to Sarah again But Sarah had
been SO frank and noble about it that
we all admired her; and, after while,
even Helen herself, came to see that she
had done Jenny injustice, and began to
make it up with kindness
True Pride-An Anecdote.