Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-12-22

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Packy the third time.
Yes. a place for you. Packy; just such
a place as YOU can best fill; such Il place
AS YOU would most like"
TO keep for myself? I suppose it
could MT mean that. could it9'
TO keep? Yes. God will keep it f,r
you. He will fix it up Just for you. Has
prepared it already perhaps. and it waits
! the SUM-"
"A place all MY own murmured
Packy. "Oncc had Il place rs a boot
black; but Ned Carter got me out of it.
sold some newspapers once; but l lost
the Job was too little for anything. they
said. | hav mt ever had Il place Of my
own ut all-not even chair in our attic. y
| And then. after II pansc, Packy added,
" Sometimes one gets tired to never have
no place.
Packy. the place Jesus has for YOU no
one else could fill or take. should al the
world die and 90 to heaven first. Jesus
has been thinking of you ever since yo,,
were born, and has been looking out for
your place and making it more beautiful
than words can tell
P,cky's sweaty little hand trembleh.
There are places in this world we
think we could fill, Packy. if we only had
the chance; only had money or friends to
lift us into them; but SO many times we
seem to be kept back, and the chance to
20 forward seems never to come. Then
again there aic places in hearts we crave
we long for love. for sympathy; but the
wul LIT is SO crowded. we are pushed aside
and forgotten. Forgotten by the world
you know, Packy,' pressing his hand.
but not by God He is ever watching
ont for u.s. and all that we need will be
found in the place He is preparing for lis
there. And to think we are TO have all
eternity TO spend in L place of our own.
Packy. We can get along very we'll the
little time we stay on earth, can't we. dear
even if we never find Il place just ours be-
low? Jesus died TO bring you to the place
above 1t is sure to vOu-
"Bought with Il price. > flashed Ptcky.
thinking of Il red biz of paper on the Old
beam.
Yes. ihrt WAS our lesson two Sundays
ago. Yon have :. big memory for such :,
lit l- fellow. Packy. Il go to prepare Il
place for yon, that where | Am there We
may be also Say that g,n, Ptckv
Iou-but there, the bell has rum. You
will be hcle next Sunday, Ptckv? We
did mt oct far with the lesson to-day. but
perhaps it i jus, us we'll; yon will remcm-
Der better what have told You.
Yes ma am, an III come rain or shin,
an I'll put white star for This Sunday
an | love YOU for :,ll
She didn't know wha, he meant; bat she
said, Yes. YES and bowed her head
pleasantly, and threw u loving smile AL
over him from top to toe
She WAS SO Glad she did. afterwarl. and
30 glad she had taken an interest in him
that Sunday; for though it WAS the first
time She had spoken straight to his heart
it WIS also the last chance she had i'll
which to do it. Last chances come 50 of
zen when We are DOT aware they are tn,
last.
"Packv Mack. 4 child Twin. in b inter
| row. WIS last night clinginy To the railing
of horse car No. >. when Il bigger boy
hrll>t him from his place, causing him /,
fall. and III" wheel of an omnibus passing
over the little boy injured him fatally"
That WAS the pirl@rlph which ran
through the morning papers 4 few lays
1ttrwaid. tnl)st tie first words Tho
Teacher SAW ~ She glanced over he paper
1t breakfast tim" Chauce again, for She
seldom read the paper 80 carly. God
chance thi, time. too.
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