The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-21

bushel perhaps all together. They
hang on the trees and the children
look at them, but can't have them
They drop on the ground at their feet,
but they dare not s;oop down and
pick them up. Not chestnut goes
into child's mouth until the govern.
ment has taken its tenth. 1t may be
only two quarts and Mr.. Lee said that
last year it was hardly that and worth
about twenty cents, but the Turkish
government was on hand and went
off with it. And so the children are
brought up from their earliest infancy
to love the government and become
good citizens and patriots, just as
under Calvinism they used to be
brought up to love God and become
good christians, not because there was
anything particularly loveable about
Him, but simply because "they had
better if they knew what was good
for them"
But to return to the church. Be-
fore the services were over the minis
ter beckoned to young man, whis-
pered to him and look at us, and then
/ knew what was coming they were
after speech. The young man APP
preached looking intently and with a
puzzled expression at Lawrie and my
self. saw that he was trying to
make out which was the minister. At
last l thought that he seemed to settle
upon Lawrie and began to feel re-
lieved. l was just saying to myself
"now young man if you do take me
for minister you will be the first man
that ever did and / wouldn't give
much for your discernment when
it occurred to him that he had better
ask somebody that knew and Of course
my chances were ruined. / had a
speech all made up for the occasion
but the possibility that l might get
out of it, had worked me up into such
a state of excitement that | couldn't
remember how the thing began, and
so l contrived to get out of it on the
promise that would do so at another
time. And the next Sabbath re-
deemed my. promise, though to an
other congregation. This time it
was on the roof of house, sheltered
from the sun by kind of arbor of
patchwork of straw and brush and
old mats. We went up the steps on
the outside through cour, yard, and
this time, we had taken along our
rubbers on account of the mud and
took them of and at the head of the
stairs. The congregation was assem-
bled, sitting on the floor. the women
in the rear, the men in front and,
what seemed to me an improvement
on our arrangement, the boys sat i'm
mediately around the pulpit. The
pastor who understood English re-
markably well, invited me to speak,
and interpreted for me. / told them
among other things that l had come
up from the coast on horseback, q
long, hard journey. had been
obliged to leave my money behind
and take pistols for fear of robbers.
But that next time / expected to come
on railroad train bringing my money
with me and leaveing my pistols be-
hind. And that such state Of things
could only be brought about by the
influence of the Bible, making Of
them christian nation. with benefi-
cent laws and good government.
They all seemed to look at me as if
they understood every word before it
was translated and they were so at
tentive and respectful that it was a
real pleasure to talk to them. Then
we went out. l was going to say we
passed down the aisle-but we had to
make an aisle for ourselves as we went
on. We commenced stepping over
the heads of the small boys, now and
then putting hand on their heads
to steady ourselves, then leaning on
the shoulders of the men, until we
got down to where the women sat in
white sheets, and then it began to be
embarrassing. But Mr. Lee stopped
moment. girded up his loins and