The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-24

gan to see the kind Of work the Lord
had cut out for her to do.
She did not set about IL deliberately.
Is you might say, nor make any plan for
herseli, but she was ready for the Lords
leading, and so she was led. From this
Time she seemed to see her way clear.
II was not six months after the
squire died when she had these three to
love and care for.
she stopped at my garden wall one
morning that Spring, l remember. I
was setting out my early tomatuses, and
me urove up In her rockaway with the
three children. we are going a-May-
ing, Mrs Beebe,' they called out, full Of
excitement aud sure enough they all
nau baskets TO bring home stuff from
the woods.
81 said to her: 'Ain't your hands
about full?'
+" No. said she, 'uor my heart, nor
q" Nor the carriage, either, Auntie.'
spoke up Jennie. There's plenty Of
room for another on this seat
That pleased me; for Jennie had
erly. W ~
Yes says Miss Halidane, looking
at them all as fond aud proud as "A
motheri the more the better
80 / see the idea she's worked on
since had come to her then.
but might have forgotten what she
said II it hadn't been for the baby COM
Ing so soou after-that chubby little
hve-year Old you saw. Well, that child
was left at her door in a basket! Just
like a stray, want il? / suppose some
poor creature knew Miss Halidaue
wouldn't let il suffer.
''She was a little dashed at first,
reckon. She sent down for me early in
the morning.
"'Mrs. Beebe,' says siie, Il want YOU
10 teach me how To handle aud dress
this little thing
Vow, the Lord knows I Amt hard
hearted, yet couldn't help saying, BE
you going to Keep III?
'Sne laughed. Unless you want it,,
Mrs. Beebe,' says she. You are better
lifted than / am 10 care for it,
" But says /, 'thinb what it may
grow up to be! It's an heir OF wicked
ness-no doubt about that. Amt YOU
afraid, being boy. it'il turn out bad,
spite OF its bringing Up? Inherited
tendencies-
"But she stopped me right there. 4
amt responsible for them she said,
'and the Lord will not hold me so, but
only for what can do; aud that / lCiLl
do
Some says he'll give her trouble
some day, aud mebbe he will but trou-
bic comes in one way or another to all
OF Us. We can't shirk that even il we
shirk responsibility.
There are seven Of 'em now in Miss
Halidane's family. You only saw six
at meetin'; one is a cripple it's pretty
to see how all the others wait on and
amuse ham.
81 was up there, the day before you
/ come, to get Miss Halidaneis rule for
loaf-cake, and as l was sitting awhile
| Ot was after tea, and somehow it made
me think Of the evening after the Squire
died., | said, Your house WANT left TO
you desolate long, was itP
"She smiled, and stopped a minute to
listen 10 the children outside for it was
early and they were all out in the yard
and orchard, even the littlest. He was
bringing his fat hands full of flowers to
Jimmie, whose rolling chair they had
wheeled out under an apple-tree, and
their shouts and laughing come in
through the open windows.
"'There isn't a house in the wide
world that need be desolate, said she,
while there are still hundreds of chill
dren's voices whose weeping might be
turned into laughter 20 cheer aud fiji
the vacant rooms and hearts,
'She'll have hers full as long as she
lives. l reckon when these grow up
she'll take more in, and the LOrd-Only
He-knows how many men and women
may be saved from lives Of sin and suf-
fering and given a good start in the
world by that one home. Her uncle
says she's great loss TO society, but
dunno but society could bear more such
losses, and the world none the worse. ~
The Christian Union.