Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30
The Big Church over the Chapel,

The Big Church Over the Chapel,
What do you expect to make ?r said
Mile, curiousy, continuing the drift of
the previous conversation.
| told Mrs. Sanderson, when / was
little fellow, that 1 expected to make
man, / answered; land now please tell
what you expect to make?p
"A woman, suppose, I" she replied, with
a little sigh. -.
" You speak as if you were mad about
it," | responded. -4. - --- Old -
81 ann And she looked off as if re-
flecting upon the bitter prospect.
"Why?"
oh, men and women are so different
from children" she lsaid Zone of these
years you will come back with grand airs,
and whiskers on your face, and you will
find me grown up, with a long dress on !;
and I'm afraid L shan't like you as well as
L do now, and that you will like somebody
great deal better than you do me.n
Perhaps we shall like one another q
great deal better than we do now" said
It's only perhaps" she responded
" No, we shall be new people then. Just
think of my father being little boy once
presume shouldn't have liked him half
as well as | do you. AS likely as any way
he was a plague and and pester.u
But we are growing into new people all
the time" l said Your father was a
young man when he was married, and
now he is another man, but your mother is
Just as fond of him as she ever was, isn't
she ."
Why, yes, that's fact I guess she
IS indeed! She just adores him, out and
outn
Well, then, what's to hinder other peo-
pie from liking one another right along,
even if they are changing all the time ,"
Nothing" she replied quickly. d" / see
it; l understand. There's something that
H., l. 4.
that needn't change; which is it?n
Whatever it is, Millie,n ! answered,
- we will not let it change Well make
up our minds about it right here. When
l come back to stay, 1 will be Arthur Bon
nicastle and you shall be Mile Bradford,
Just the same as now, and We'll sit and
talk in this corner Just rs we do now, and
there shall be nc Mister and Miss between
u.s.
Mile made no immediate response, but
looked on again in her wise way as if
searching for something that eluded and
puzzled her. | watched her admiringly
while she paused. AT last sudden flash
and said "Oh, Arthur I've found it !
As true as you live, I've found it ~
Found what, Mile ?n
THE thing that doesn't change, or
needn't change" she replied.
well, what is it ?n
- w ny, IL everything. Wnen uSeO 10
dress up my little doll and make a grand
lady of her there was the same doll, in.
side, after all ! Don't you see ~
"Ees, L see.n
"And you know how they are building
a great church right over the little one
down on the corner, without moving q
single stone of the chapel. The people &C
10 the big church every Sunday, but all
the preaching and singing are in the
chapel. Don't YOU see ?' . Of.
Eyes, l see, Millie," | answered "bu
don't think should see it without you
eyes to help me. am to build man anC
you are to built a woman right over tn,
BOY and girl, without touching the boy q
all; and so, when we come together again
We can walk right into the little chapel
and find ourselves at home.n
isn't that lovely,n exclaimed Mile. %.
can see things, and you can make things
1 couldn't have said that-about eur goint
into the little chapel, you know"
"And / couldn't have said it if yol
hadn't found the chapel for me,n re
sponded. IIl EeIF wv w .-|
"Why, doesn't it seem as If we belonge,
together, and had been separated in som
way ~
At this moment Mr.. Bradford rose an
came near US to get book. He smiles
pleasantly upon us while we looked up t
him, pausing in our conversation. Whei
he had gone back and resumed his seat
Mile said
"There's big church over two chapel'
He has a young man in him and boy be
sides. The boy plays with me and under
stands me, and the young man is dead i
love with mamma, and the old man take
care Of US both, and does everything. Ism
it splendid ?''
'Ah, Mile have heard many wis
men and wise women talk philosophy, bu
never one so wise as you and have nevt
seen a young man whose growth Ina
chOked and destroyed his childhood, or q
old man whose youth had died out Of hin
without thinking of our conversation tina
night. The dolls are smothered in the
clothes, and the little chapels are fated
fall when the great cathedral walls a
finished. The one thing that need II,
change, the one thing that should n
change, the one thing which has the pow
10 preserve the sweetness of all YOUTH
relations up to the change Of death, an
doubtless, beyond it, is childhood-the Il
nocent, playful trusting, loyal, lovin
hopeful childhood of the soul, with all
illusions and romances and enjoyment
pure and simple delights.-FrOm DR.. HC
lands arthur BOHRicdstle"' ScribRej
for May.