Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-11-28

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est due to Squire Forbes"
do not look at it to night" Mrs.
Newton pleaded; "do not let Mon
days cares creep into Sundays peace.
Andrew"
"Wby, Molly" the farmer replied.
looking at the little woman tenderly,
"the care has been in my heart all
day; somehow 1 could not put it
away when 1 ended Saturdays work.
Mol tor he only tried in his own
strength.
Il tell you, Molly" he continued,
and the hard look came into his face
again, Il have thought and thought,
and no way can and to make up the
needed sum"-and then, suddenly as
flash Of lightning darts across the
summer sky, the CLEAN OF a new
thoRght shone In Farmer Newton's
eyes. But he said no word of what it
was to his wife. as be left bis seat and
began to walk restlessly up and down
the room.
Mrs. Newton, though a farmers
wife, a country-reared girl, had an
instructive delicacy and tact, which
told her, however much a man might
love his wife, there were times when
her silence was dearer to him than
her words. So she sat still till the
clock struck nine, then she moved
quietly about, preparing for the
night, saying, Il think 1 will so up
now; you will come soon, Andrew?"
But he made no answer.
After she had gone he continued
his restless walk for many minutes;
then be paused to trim the lamp, and
then he turned toward the sideboard,
and, with only a minutes irresolu-
tion, he opened the drawer and took
out the much worn account-boUk.
Its close on to Monday" he said,
half aloud, as though to still the quiet
rebuke OF conscience, which came
like an echo OF his wife's words:
"Wait. and DO week days work on
week days. but he put it aside, and
in its place admitted the evil thought
which had flashed into his mind an
hour beforehand yet he was a chris
tian man; be thought be had been
trying to follow Christ for years.
Had it been all the time In his own
strength? He had always been hon.
est; but had his honesty never been
really tried before? He had always
been truthful; but had he never been
really tempted before to deceit?
Tn, Bible says: Let him that
thinketh he standeth take heed. lest
he fall" -The devil" says a wise
man Of old."does not tempt bad men,
because he has got them already; be
tempts good men, because he had not
got them, but wants to get them" In
tbs darkness Of that night, Farmer
Newton forgot for a while these
truths-forgot that temptation met
and resisted, or met and yielded to,
is the test of what man really is.
Not for myself" he said to him.
self, as he sat down to count and re-
count the lines OF figures in the book
mot for myself, but for Molly and the
children" 1t could be done so easily
by recording rofits,-that-well!-
could be done SO easily, il on the
morrow he faced Squire Forbes with
promise to pay later on, giving that
book as a pledge. with its fiction, Of
money coming to him, when he knew
there was none to come.
And a subtle voice seemed to whis
per In his heart: @You will only bt
} doing what hundreds Of men in trade
are doing every day: you will only
be giving a wrong impression, land
then, there came to Andrew Newtor
a temptation so fierce, so powerful
that, strong man though he was, b.
bowed before it as reed before th'
} wind. But, as he almost yielded, h'
heard another whisper in his hear
saying: "If you do it, you will be act
, ing a lie, Andrew; you will be losing
l what is worth more than house o
land-losing honor and TRUTH ant
3 those two voices kept up their strif
I in Andrew Newton's heart, till the an
D tumn night gave place to morning
l and nights end, just as temptation
do. either in bright sunrise OF vic
J. tory won, or a dreary dawn, darl
a with cloudsl How did Farmer New
: tons end? In sunrise: for right con
quered; God helped him to resis
: though, he did not ask the Lord
o help till the night had well-nig
e waned; then, finding his own strengt
b utter weakness. he cried aloud a
u last: LORD, help me; and no so0ne
5 did he cry than the help came. Fo
d over and over, the experience {
: Gods children OF old is lived in tn
: story OF his children nowadays. ID
d you remember-"Andt the Lord sal
y unto Moses: Make thee a fiery sci
5, pent, and set it upon a pole, and
l. shall come to pass that every or
l. that is bitten (surely that mean
g temptedD when he looketh upon
'f shall live: and 1t came to pass that
n serpent had bitten any one, whe
IS he beheld the serpent OF brass |
ID lived? The only condition OF hea
10 ing, the looking as the Lord con
is manded; just as the only strength
ID resist temptation is found in askin
N the Lords help. with faith in b