St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-12-15
From Hearth aad Home.
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The Methodist Church to " mich Ni~.
Matilda White and Miss Nancy Sawyer
belonged WAS the leading one in Lewis
burg. as it is in most county seat villa
yes in Indiana. If | may hr permitted
to express my candid and charitable
opinion "f the difference between the
two women, shall have To use the old
Quaker locution. and say that Mis-
Sawyer WAS Methodist and likewise Il
Christian Mrs. White WAS Methodist.
hut fear >ll" WAS iinl likewise.
.As to the first part "f this assertion.
there was no room to douht Miss Mali
cy's pirty. She corld Get Happy in
class meeting 90! VII" lad Il hctt,l
night y. and cuuld witness Il good c\pr-
licnrc i'll the quarterly love feast. Bat
il j. not upon these grounds that ! base
my opinion ui Miss Nancy. DO not
even the PhariSccS the same She ncy-
CT dreamed hat she had any right to
speak OF It hristan Perfection (Which.
"a, Mrs. Partington sajh of total dcpI;,r-
ity. is an excellent doctrine if il is lived
up toy: hut when Il Wnmau'S heart is
/ full of dcvoUt affections and good pur-
I poses. when her head dcyiSrS liberal
/ aud Chrjstlikc things, when her hands
are always open to the poor and always
/ busy with act, of love and >cit-dcnial,
( and when her feet are ever eager To I1II
upon rrIimd~ OF mercy. whE. il there h.'
anything worthy of being called Chris
: tian Perfection in this world of imprr-
( trction. do not know why such an ont.
does not possess it. What need Of an
/ ilNIimg licr experiences IN r0cR" IL itld
ont the state of her SOul
How Miss Nancy managed to live on
/ her slender income and be So generous
/ WAS il perpetual source OF pcrrlcXity to
/ the gu,;sipS OF LcWishurg. And now
| that she declared that Mis-. Thompson
and >hocly should not return to the
/ pnor-housc there wa> Il general "utcrN
/ from the whole Committee of lntcrmcd-
dlrr> that she would bring herself to
/ the poor-hoI$r before she died. But
| Nancy Sawyer was the richest woman
| in LrwiShtrg. though nobody knew it.
! and She herself did not once suspect it.
How Miss Nancy and the preacher
conSpircd together, and how they mail
aged to bring Mrs. ThompSon's case mp
at the time OF the "Sacramcntal Ser
vice" in the afternoon of that Sunday in
Lewisburg, and how the preacher made
IL touching III II ,ItlSi itlOIt
the regular recollection for the Poor
WAS taken. and how the Warnl-heartcd
McthodistS put i'll dollars instead oi
dimes while the Presiding Elder read
those passages about Zaccheus and 9th
cr liberal people, and how the congre-
CATION sang
He dies, the Friend of Sinner. die
more Justify than ever. after ha>in.
performed this Christian act-how al
this happened can not take up th(
readers time 10 tell. But can a>slr,
him that the nearly blind English wo
man did not room with hlasphemou
old Mowley any more. and that TIN
!. blue drilling pauper trock gave way It
something better. and that grave littl
Shncky even danced with delight. ant
:, declared that God hadn't forgot. thoug
he'd thought that He had. And Mi,
Matilda White remarked that ii WIS
shame that the collection for the poo
at Il Methodist sacramcntal Servic
l. should he given To woman who was
member Of the Church of England. am
like aS not never soundly converted,
And Shocky slept III his mother
arms and prayed God not to forget Han
nah, while Shocky'S mother knit stock
:. ings for the store day and night, an
e day and night She prayed ANA hoped.