The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-10-25

0emO0puor0 Oh uOmes III Wo8 a8olu
holy Sabbath, dnyi ehef bad wspt 70
euoh-as LEFT behiad hes f6revct. Thei
Dolly was 20 happy She went abou
dngtng Jerusalem the golden" ant
| murmuring, "6he'u never 90 away
She h here 1t lastl Jacob can't turn
/ Ofthe two women Dolly Wa resIij
the younger. She had her lifelong
walked In the Light; the other ha<
been Swallowed BY Blackness, and 4
= ain, not time, that tells In this was
The baby crowed and shouted ct tn
strawberries grandmother displq3pf
for dinner and clung 70 its Rrand-fSth
or a. ifit had planned its own seig'
upon his heart; 80 "a fhe H61n we6tt
Dolly was perfectly content about III
power. When all the cheerful bustli
Of dinner was bver, Ind ,bShS asleeI
along with the shut neutrality-suspicious.
under the friendly steeple, then Jacot
said:
!. Gomez a4as ,eraaelel ] Get y
d in,9 f LEI .sS.S %IH's nd Prsio 'assea;
Dolly laughed softly, for she knew
what he meant. Ever since Jacob &C.
cured the old carved chair In the
perversion Of the ohuroh q to
Its present uses, that had. l3e9u Invest.
ed with q kind Of sanctity. jacob
would never sit In IL. Dolly, when
alone, when I'm bodily suffering, when
In agony Of soul for her fallen one used
to khsei thers,as In IN pypkgrM Again,
Sunday afternoons, the condition upon
which Jacob would liston to DoIIy's
twas, that she sat here in state; sweet
In her holiday tidiness and as much oi
o saint In his eyes as any ecclesiastic
who In older times might have used
It.
..Cbms, COME, DolIy,lr Give us,a.text;
ye'Hget no bigger lcongfegatloh BY
waitin',"
"Put away teasin', Jacob. Ye need
no sermon this day; ye've lived 1t for
yourself, Haven't We lifted our Janey
up with We where Gods sunshine can
fall on her, Let body do the like
and there Ii small need Of words about
it--only it'll fall back upon We In bless
In out of the tender hand Of the great
Forgiven; mind We that, Jacob! And
now, Jeney, child, the wee baby has
bean baptized with over many tears !;
let IL LIT npiits little head with Gods
other pretty flowers; they'd never
end.of rain and shad-
ow. Ye'lido no harm to take note,
m0rsover, Janey,p she added softly,
that q body forgets all about the dirt
any OF 'un comes up out OF, II only af-
ter little It blossoms out sweet TO the
very heart Of it. I'm weak like now (;
and then q .livin' up here above the
people, I'm ont of, sight Of things that
used to seem black to me; but with
the lilies and the steeple and seemin'
higher to Heaven, can't worry or get
afeerd. Ibelieve 30 much In the light
that Is, Gown for the righteous, and
the .gladness for the upright In heart,
may, nay, Janey, dom We hang yer
head I'm not a shuttin' yeout from
that bAessiu,. The Lord rAiseth them
that are bowed down. And when He
raiseth ye, yen be upright never
The little old woman's breath begvn
to come with labor, and Jacob made
her stop. talking that Janey might read
to her Instead. Then the baby Awak-
too MUCK solemnity' In the.aif, fos 1t
laughed and chartered and spun about
with most unsabbatical levity. Jacob
WOOOeIeO ~ IL, Huu 10 n0 koACu WIG
wonder grew !" with wonder came ad-
miration with that q softness in his
blue eyes. Anybody mighthave seen
that before many days thattfny foot
whose shoe he 80 fiercely flung away
would have trodden o little path
straight to the warmest corner Of his
heart. "
"Bring me The baby, Jacob" called
Dorothy, after while. ."Let 1t 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-like
oyer its white dress. It waved Its
small hand back and forth In the blue
and crimson rays, and watched them
wonderinglys as : they played over
Dopothy's snowy locks. Without,
they bard her grooming softly to the
child, end It, In Response, cooling like
erex chm, Jacob and his daughter re-
TUNED 70 the room, The old head
f1a1dhkck against The carr ed cherubs;
the little one lay quiet having Just
dBeoveted the piStured AgplBF Del.
Dollys face could not be paier than
usuel, but Jacob did not see ,As always,
the 0atward signs ofthe pOorsfuttering
heart. rJaney bent forward-then
both Knew that ibe mother had ,'gone
along the way OF peace to the land o
everlasting light,9 Christian Union.
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