Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-27


good"
Jacob looked iutcntly into her eyes,
his own curiously bright, "what would
We like best Dolly? Pve a mind to
give ye wish; take yer time now-any-
thing"
sle panied claspiog her wrinkled
hands He ought not to have excited
her thus Then she whispered, "It--
she--might come for all day, If ye'd
Just look ut the wee baby"
She thought he might be angry, but
he colored and, for the first time in
wears, kissed her awkwardly. Jacob was
tender but moi effusive. Then he went
out and shut the door. He came back
in few moments and she dared not ask
il he had sent a messenger, but believed
he had. An hour after, while the moth.
er lay behind the white curtain, the
door opened softly and there stole in
sleuder woman, all in black, save for the
baby gathered to her breast like lily.
She was sadder.faccd far than Dolly, and
she had eyes most like the father to
whom she ran-at whose feet she would
have fallen if he had not received her in
his arms, child and all. Dolly parted
the curtains, then sank back among the
pillows. She listened 10 the low voices
and soft sobbing long time; she grew
once or twice faint with happiness and
half wandered in her mind, always,
though, in a dim, beautiful shadow
land--a region tinted by her flowers, her
bright window--always with sweet,
solemn thought of Gods great love !;
how, "like father pitieth his children
80 the Lord pitieth them that fear Him."
Jacob summoned her by,and-by and
seemed to want to make everything 90
on usual--not like a scene Of any sort,
The young woman carried the baby out
among the flowers aud left it for Jacob
to study with a kind 0. grave curiosity
while she went back to help her mother.
A great load seemed to be slipping from
her in this old atmosphere of home. 1t
was again holy sabbath day; she had
went for such--as left behind forever.
Then Dolly was so happy She went
about singing Jerusalem the golden"
and murmufing, She'll never 90 away!
She Is here at last. Jacob can't turn
them Of now, "
OF the two women Dolly was the
Younger. She had her lifelong walked
in the light; the other had been shad-
owed by blackness, and it is sin, not
time, that tells in this way. The baby
crowed and shouted at the strawberries
displayed for dinner, and
cung to its grandfather as if it had
planned its own siege upon his heart: 50
az the hours went by Dolly was perfectly
content about its power. When all the
cheerful hustle of dinner was over, and
baby asleep along with the shut morning
glories under the friendly steepIe, then
Jacob said
"Comc little Grannie, Get ye into
yer pulpit and preach us our Sunday
lesson"
Dolly laughed softly, for she knew
what he meant. Ever since Jacob Sc
cured the old carved chair in perver-
sion of the church to its present u'es,
that had been invested with a kind Of
sanctity. Jacob would never sit in it..
Dolly, when alone, when'in bodily suffer
ing, when in agony Of soul for her fallen
one, used to kneel there, as in an ora
tory. Again, Sunday afternoons, the
condition upon which Jacob would listen
to Doly's "pslams and hymns and spir'
itual song5o was, that she sat here in
state; sweet in her holiday tidiness and
as much of saint in his eyes as any
ecclesiastic who in older times might
have used it.
Come, come. Dolly. Give us text;
yell get 10 bigger congregation by
waitin."
"Put away teasing, Jacob Ye need
no sermon this day ye've lived it Tor
yourself. Haven't he lifted our Janey
up with We where Gods sunshine can
fall on her? Let a body do the same
and there is small need of words about it
--.only itll fall back upon ye in blessing
out OF the tender hand of the great For
giycr; mind ye that, Jacob! And now,
I",'ti,,d " With over many tears, LET it
lift up its little head with Gods other
mrs,ty m aowers. thev'd never thrive ur-
ga.'S Ia. W ond and Of rain and shadow, Yen do
w Wv onr, no ~ rntn II morpovrr. Janey "
aEo % added softly "that A body forgets all
aLa"t ai,l ,ha ART onv of nm comes m out
'GoI' 'G ~ .ni,. ' altar a Ettle il blossoms out
", ,,5on+ tn ibe verv heart tofit Pm feeble
s"vev ,,,,,,' w "nJ then q Twin, nm here above
.io" .no ,oorIo ""ti Pm ont of sirbt of thinrs
thot t,o rsl m.eld to seem black to me but with
thn lilies and the steeple and seeming
ripher to heaven, can't worry or get
aieard | believe so much in the light
that is sown for the righteous aud the
rIadness in the upright in heart'---nay
nav, .Janey, don't ye hang yer head
I'm not shutting you out from that
blessing, The Lord raiseth them 'ha'
are bowed down. And when lie ralsetf
ye, yell be upright, never tear
The little old womans breath heCar
to come with labor. and Jacob made hej
ston talking that ,Janey might read e
her instead. Their the baby awakened
and seemed to find great deal too mucl
solemnitv in the air, for it laughed anC
chatted and spun about with most in
sabbatical leyity. Jacob wondered at it
and "as he gazed the wonder grew
with wonder came admiration; will
that soltpess in his blue eyes. Anybod,
might have seen that before many day
Int tiny foot whose shoe he 80 fercel,
aunc away would have trodden littI
notb .traiyht TO the warmest corner o