The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-02-06
trrom Hearth ind Home.l
The Hoosier School Master.
BY EDWARD EGoLEsToN.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE GOOD SAMARITAN.

THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
The Methodist Church to which
Mrs. Matilda White and Miss Nancy
Sawyer belonged was the leading one
IN Lewisburg. xs II Is in most county
seat villages In Indiana. IfT may be
permitted to express my candid and
charitable opinion Of the difference
between the two women. 1 ahalI have
to use the old Quaker Iocution, and
say that Miss Sawyer was Methodist
and likewise Christian; Mrs. White
was . Methodist, but I fear she was
not likewise.
Az To the 6rst part of this assertion,
there was no room to doubt Miss Nam
cys piety. She could get happy IN
class-meeting (for who had bette,
rig ~ sud could witness good expe
rie0cs In the quar~rIy hve-feast. But
II II not upon theee grounds that l
base my opinion Of Miss Nancy. Dn
not even the Pharisees the sme? She
never dreamed that she hal any right
to speak Of "Christian Perfection"
(which. ~ Mfs. Psrtingtnn said oi to-
tai depravity. Is an excellent dnc,rine
hit 10 lived up to); but when wo-
man's heart ID fun II devout affections
aud good purposes, when her head de
vis~s liberai and Christilke things,
when her hands are always open t.
the poor and always busy with acts Of
love and self-deniai. and when her
Zee: are ever eager TO run upon errand-
Of mercy, why. II there be anything
worthy "t being called Christian Per-
fection in this world of imperfs ,tion, 1
d. mot know why such M one does not
pnssess 1t. What need Of auatyziny
her experiences In r0cuo TO lind out
the need Of her soul?
How Miss Nancy managed to live
on her slender income and be so gen
erOus sas . perpetual s"urcs OF per
plexity To the gnssips Of Lewisbarg.
And now that she declared that Mrs
Thomson and Shocky should not re-
turn to the poor-houss there was
general outcry from the whole Com
mittee of fIntermetdiers that she would
bring herself to the pOor-house before
she died. But Nancy sawyer was the
richest woman In Lewisbury, though
nobody knew 1t, aud she herself did
not once suspect It.
How Miss Nancy and the preacher
coDspired together, and how they
managed TO bring Mrs Thomson's
case up at the time Of the '.Sa .r.ment-
u Service" in the afternoon of thai
Sunday In Lewisburs, and how the
preachers made touching statement
of Il just before the regular collection
for the Poor" was taxed, and how the |
Metho.iis's put In dol
lara inAtexd s.c dinAAa saslAiAA-A -AA... O.-.--a-a
Ing Elder read those passages al0u,
Zaccheus aud other liberal people, and
how the congregation sang
"He dies. the Friend of sinners dies"
more iuAtily than ever. after having
performed this Christian act--how all
this happened I cannot take up the
readers time to tell But cal. assure.
him that the nearly blind English
woman did not room with bia.p EN-
ous old MOwley any more, and tha,
the blue-driIiing pauper frock CAV.
way to something better, ami that
grave little Shocky even danced with
delight. and declare that God hadn't |
forgot, though he'd thought that He !
bad. And Mrs. Matilda White re
that it was u shame that til.
for the poor at y Methodist
sacrSlnentai service should be- given IL !
! woman who was . member of the.
Church OF Eaga ID, and hike ss nor
never soundiy converted!
And Shncky slept Ia his mothers
lrms and prayed God not to forge,
Hannah. white Shocky = mother knil
,,ockings for the store day aud night,
md day aud night she prayed and
hoped.