The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-29
Poor HaFah's Sundays Dream.

hard all the week days, Dut VINO was not
hindered from going to church on Sun
day if she chose to. She did choose to go,
but she made q sad misuse of her privilege
for she usually slept all through the SER
mon.
What was Sabbath day made for if not
for rest? Rich people who did no work
all the week slept in meeting-She had
seen Them do it, and why shouldn't poor
tired servant girl? and church was nice,
quite place to sleep in, too. So she got
into the habit.
One Sunday she did not sleep so sound
ly as usually, first doze, and then a
slider, Just enough to close her ears to
all the minister said, and then she began
to dream.
She dreamed she was walking through
pleasant country that was new to her,
and came to place where the road parted
and she stopped to consider which road to
take.
One was considerably ascending, and
from the glimpse of spire far away, she
judged that it must lead by meeting
house.
The other was romantic looking road,
winding through drOwsy scenery of trees
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Petty brooks, and all the way, o little
lazy, She took that road, and wandered
on.
by All by the scenery began to
chHnge. The road grew sleeper and
sleeper, till descending all the way.
Great rock lowered by the wayside,
then hills, SC high that they almost shut
her in from tin sky.
All at once Sic heard river roar just
IN front OF her.anl then she saw that the
bridge was gone!
Terrified, she TOLD back "A weary iourn
ney, now, and took the other road; but
when she came to the church. and
wished to enter, she cold not get in.
The door was shut.
She was beginning to CRY, for she was
ready to drop with fatigue and sorrow,
when suddenly she heard it laundering,
and the thunder said,-
my soul. be ON thy guard
Ten thousand foes arise"
Poor Sarah found herself on her feet
awake, with her fan and parasol on the
floor, and the organ and the whole vof,e
of the standing congregation pealing o,r
the closing hymn.
Covered with confusion, she got out
of the house as soon assshe could, after
the benediction, and went home thinking.
She wondered what it was she had lost
in the sermon that day. She wondered
what she might lose by and by, if she
kept going to church in that lazy fash
ion--to sleep, and not to hear. And finally
her thoughts settled around to one
text, BE not slothful, but followers Of
them who through faith and patience in
herit the promises she took care
never to sleep in church again. T. ID.
NAMING GIRLS 1T is not bad plan to
give girls only one baptismal name, so
that if they marry they can retain their
maiden surname-as Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Harriet Beecher Stowe. This
is the practice among the Society Of
Friends, and is worthy of more general
adoption, for we should then know at
once on seeing the name of lady whether
she was married, and If so, what her
family name was. In Geneva and many
provinces of France the maiden family
name of the wife is added to the surname
of the husband; thus, if Marie Perrot
married Adolpbe Lauve, they would after
marriage write their names respectively
Adolphe Perrot- Lauve and Marie Perrot
Lauve. The custom serves to distinguish
the bachelor from the married man, end
is worthy of imitation; for if vanity unites
in the same escutcheon the arms OF hus-
band and wife. ought not affection to
blend their names.
CONE T, SrAY.-John b. Garrison. l67 Third
street, Portland, Or. has taken the general agency
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