Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-05
THE BIG CHURCH OVER TH z
CHAPEL.

"What do you expect to make ?"
said Millie, curiOusly, continuing
the drift of the previous CONVERSE
ton.
e1 told Mrs. Sanderson, when l
was little fellow, that expected
to make a mar" he answered; "and
now please tell me what you expect
to make"
"a woman, 1 suppose" she re-
piled, with little sigh.
"You speak as If you were sad
about it," replied.
f'T am" And she looked of as if
rejecting upon the bitter prospect.
"Why?"
"Oh men and women are SO diff
ferent from children" she said
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, Pm afraid l shan't like you as
well as do now, and that you will
like somebody great deal better
than you do me-"
EPerhaps eshall like one anoth-
er great deal better than we do
now" / said.
otis only q perhaps" she respond
ed. FNo, we shall be new people
then. Just think of my father be-
ing little boy onceI / presume
shouldn't have liked him half as
well as do you. AS likely as any
other way he was a plague and a
poster.
'But we are growing into new
r.aas,I~ all the kfrna - aid ffV
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 ever she was, isn't
she?"
'TWhy, yes, that's a fact; / guess
she is, indeed! She just adores
him, out and out"
"Mell, then, what's to hinder
other people from liking one another
right along, even il they are chang
ing all the timer"
"NOthing," she replied quickly.
al see it: / understand. There's
something that doesn't change, isn't
there? or something that needn't
change: which is it?"
"Whatever it is, Millie," l an
swered, eve will not let it change.
Wen make up our minds about il
right here. When / como back to
stay, / will be Arthur Bonnicastle
and you shall DO Mile Bradford,
just the same as now, and we'll sit
and talk in this corner Just as we do
now, and there shall be no Mister
and Miss between US"
Mile made no immediate re-
Spouse, but looked of in her wise
way, as IL searching for something
that illuded and puzzled her.
watched her admiringly while she
paused. At last a sudden flash came
into her eyes, and she turned to me
and said: "Oh, Arthur I've found
it'll AS true as you live, I've found
itl'
"Found what, Miller
ssThe thing that doesn't change,
or needn't change" she replied.
''Well, what Is it?"
"Why, it's everything. When
used to dress up my little doll and
make q grand lady of her there was
the same doll, inside, after ALL
Don't you see"
eyes, see."
"And you know how they are
building great church right over
the little one down on the corner.
without moving a single stone of
the chapel. The people go to the
big church every Sunday, but all
the preaching and singing are in the
chapel. Don't you sect"
eyes, / see, Millie," answered {;
"but i don't think l should have
seen it without your eyes to help
me. i am to build man and you
are to build q woman right over the
boy and girl, without touching the
boy and girl at all and so, when
we come together again, we can
walk right into the little chapel, and
find ourselves at home"
''Isn't that lovely" exclaimed
Millie. tI can see things and you
can make things. l couldn't have
said that-about our going into the
little chapel, you know"
"And I couldn't have said it if
you hadn't found the chapel for me, f"
1 responded.
"Why, doesn't it seem as.if we
belonged together, and had been
separated in some way ?"
AT this moment Mr.. Bradford
rose and came near us to get book.
He smiled pleasantly upon us while
we looked up to aim, pausing in our
conversation. When he had gone
back and resumed his seat, Mile
said:
"There's big church over two
cbapels. He has a young man in
him and u boy besides. The boy
plays with me and understands me,
and the young man is dead in love
with mama, and the old man takes
care of us both, and does everything
Isn't it splendid ?'
All, Milliel 1 have heard many
wise men and wise women talk
philosophy, but never one so wise
as you; and / have never seen q
young man whose growth had
choked and destroyed his childhood,
or an old man whose youth had died
out of him, without thinking of cur
conversation that night. The dolls
are smothered in their clothes, and
the little ehapels are fated to fall
when the grand cathedral walls arc
finished. The one thing that need
not change, the one thing that
should not change, the one thing
which has the power to preserve
the sweetness of all youthful rela
tions up to the change Of death, and
doubtless, beyond il, is childhood
the innocent, playful, trusting, 10y
al, loving, hopeful childhood of the
soul, with all its illusions and no
mances and enjoyment of pure anC
simple delights.-HollaHd'S BoRni
c0SlLc.