The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-27

fallen if he had not received her in his
arms, child and all. Dolly parted the
curtains, then sank back among the pill |
low She listened to 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 |
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
pitch his children so the Lord pitieth
them that fear Him." Jacob summoned
her by-and-by and seemed to want to
make everything go on as usual-not
like scene of any SORT The young
women carried the baby out among the
flowers and left it orJacob to study with
a kind of 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 wept for
such--as left behind forever. Then
Dolly was 50 he py! She went about
singing "Jerus I'm the golden, and
murmuring, ell never go awayl She
is here at las Jacob can't turn them
off nowr se -
OF the t. 0 women Dolly was really
the younger She had her lifelong
walked in the Light; the other had been
Swallowed by Blackness, and it is sin, not
time, that tells in this way. The baby
crowed and shouted at the strawberries
grandmother displayed for dinner, and
chung to its grandfather as if it had
planned its own siege upon his heart; so
as 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 steeple, then
Jacob said: :s 81. -
Come, little Granniei Get We into
yer pulpit and preach us our Sunday les
sonw
Dolly laughed softly, for she knew
what he meant. Ever since Jacob Sc
cured the old carved chair in the per-
version of the church to its present uses,
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 oratory.
Again, Sunday afternoons, the condition
upon which Jacob would listen to Dolly's
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs"
was, that she sat here in state; sweet in
her holiday tidinesss, and as much of
SAINT In his eyes as any ecclesiastic who
III Older times might have used it.
Come, come, Dolly! Give us a text;
yen get no bigger congregation by
waitin'."
I Put away teasing, Jacob. Ye need
no sermon this day; we've lived it for
! 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 it'll fall back upon We in bless.
ing out of the tender hand of the great
Forgiven; mind We that, jacob And
now, fancy, child, the wee baby has
been baptized with over many tears;
let it lift up its little head with Gods
other pretty flowers; they'd never thrive
under no end of rain and shadow. Yen
do no harm to note it, moreover. Janey."
| she added softly, that a BODY forgets
all about the dirt any of 'un comes I'D
out OF, ii only after little itsblossoms
out sweet to the very heart of it. Pm
/ feeble now; and then livin' I'D here
! above the people, I'm out of sight of
things that used to seem black to me:
! but with the lilies and the steeple and
seeming higher to heaven. | can't worry
1 or get afeerd. | believe so much in the
light that is sown for the righteous
and the 'gladness in the upright in heart
nay, nay, Janey, don't We hang yer
| headl I'm not a shutting YOU out from
/ that blessing. The Lord raiseth them
/ that are bowed down. And when He
raiseth ye, yell be upright never fear.n
! The little old woman's breath BEGAN to
come with labor, and Jacob made her
stop talking that Janey might read to
her instead. Then the baby awakened.
and seemed to find great deal too much
solemnity in the air, for it laughed and
chartered and spun about with most in
sabbatlcal levity. Jacob wondered at it,
and "as he gazed the wonder crew.
with wonder came admiration with that
softness in his blue eyes. Anybody
might have seen that before many DAYS
that tiny foot whose shoe he so fiercely
flung away would have trodden a little
| path straight to the warmest corner of his
heart.
Bring me to baby, Jacob" called
Dorothy, after while. :" Let it lie in
my lap and look at the window. Ye can
stay out with Janey and see the sun set"
So Jacob lifted the child and carried
it to her. The baby was charmed by
the soft radiance, shifting rainbow-ike
over its white dress. 1t waved its small
hand back and forth in the blue and
crimson rays, and watched them wonder
ingly as they played over Dorothy's,
snowy locks. Without, they heard her
grooming softly to the child, and it, in
response, cooling like a dove. BY and
by, when the air grew chill, Jacob and
his daughter returned to the room. The
old head rested back against the carved
cherubs; the little one lay quiet, having
Just discovered the pictured Agnus Del.
Dolly's face could not be paler than
usual; but Jacob did not see, as always,
the outward signs of the poor futtering
heart. Janey bent forward-then both
knew that the mother had "gone along
the way of peace to the land of everlast-
ing light" -.-...