The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-18

'or her spiritual benefit. But even hii
ionguey confidence and ingenuousnes'
tTd CLEAN but little satisfaction from
couNtterviews with the rheumatic and
his iiHeving old woman.
unbelh Mr.. Pendleton," she used to
"Nf fhaking a thin rheumatic hand,
say, ap impressiveness which her heareI
with az Aave copied advantageously in
might a ''it amt no use. You kin
the puppy seein' with the spirit, an
talk aboa, with the spirit; anybody
worshippNAle somethin' to catch hold on
needsa litAsh when it's all spirit it's
with the floor a mortal bein' to compre-
too much flhe Lord knows | amt never
hend, an u anything but spirit.
had much 0had any evidence, so to
amt never h't never had a prayer
speak l aihy life. If have, I'd jest
answered in n how. You say, mebbe,
like to know answered Jest the same,
they've been ,rent way from asked
only in diff3all it answerin' prayer to
for. Ef you cwhenyou ask for another,
give one thing I'D rather not believe
l don't. A Aod than to believe He'd
thar was any rthat. That's jest con-
do thing likefIe said about Himself
trary TO what sln' the stone in the New
an the bread It's worse to think He'd
Testament. nike that than to think
cheat anybody lghar, aecordin' TO my
lie amt anyr. Pendleton, human
mind. No, Mkle human evidence once
bein' needs litp up their faith, an l
in while to ket,ng. I'll jest let you
amt never had aeen a leetle. Here l
know how it's Ian, an me an Jack
am, an old wonon this rock for forty
sons lived here s being things I've
year. An thar but amt never had
wanted different, I've cried an groaned
'em-things that Lord for-big things
an prayed to the but | never got one.
an little things-Te me one of the
Ef the Lord had Inns to me that [
little things, 1t seeling that lie was
might have got az
here. !, when jackson am
Forty year aged an set up house
me was jest marriiwas an awful storm
keepin' here, thar father an broth
one night, an m,in it. | staid on
er was out yonder prayin'. The next
my knees all nightdarlin' bodies was
mornin' their two brother had only
washed ashore. Mmonths-the sweet
been married a few thing she was.
est, loyingest little prayed to hey
She began to pine. !, an left her little
her spared. She dieo
baby for. your own, did
''But you had him d Mr.. Pendleton,
you not ?" Interrupts been a comfort
desperately. 'He hasplayed His love
to you. God has disc in sparing him
and mercy in this ca
to you.n IND the rheuma-
"Mr. Pendleton'-t- RI amt never
'ic hand went up agaird 10 me eff had
asked to hev him spareent. Iain't got
it would hev been dlffeaen lots of other
through yet. Thar's b might jest as
things, big ones, that little ones. Look
well not speak of, and ltur' to say that
at that bridge I'll veiwhen you came
you shook in your shoes sorry this min
over it, an wouldn't be,k. Whenever
ute eff you was safe ba hbart is still
jackson goes over it mIk, tor fear / e's
an cold till he comes bad TO the Lord
fell through. I've praymaE think this
about that. Then-you il Jackson's
a little thing-but thaosAbush in it
garden. He set out a 1t Amt died.
fifteen year ago. Well, omit, though.
Thar amt ever been u rostinles that if
An it seems to me some onlthat bush
thar should be jest one ros he Lord had
that should believe that { think I'd
been thar. You wouldn0ut that. l
been silly enough to pray sr aih'tnever
hev. It's hfteenyear, an tn PeIndleton,
been a rose thar. No, Mrwela, but it
it amt no use You mearuy whar, to
lays with God, ef He's W can get
show Himself to me in naW
hold on" ouHg min
So the pretty, rosy-faced az bis way
lister would go away, pick ,rid b. after
! cautiously over the unstable,yerl which
somewhat nonplussed PIN kneeling
Mrs. Reed, incapacitated FRI sat and lis.
by her rheumatic knees, ha
tened to grimly. three miles
The Bar Lighthouse wa9late road
from Rye. A sandy, des stretched
almost us billowy as the sci the whole
between, The only mouse Zone just al
distance was little brown They sun
the other side OF the Dridge. for shoI
ported themselves by sewinahew. vii
, in Rye. Jackson Reeds neagaged I,
liam Barstow, hau been her nam,
marry the daughter-Abby brought
was but a month ago he had He ha,
wife home from the city,lt over i,
Q rented pretty little tenemeg. Abb
: Rye, and gone to housekeep4tle note
a Weaver had tied up few and MI
1 and keepsakes in a neat pare she wen
them away out of sight. The a lain
e on with her work. She wal no shoy
II trustworthy looking girl, witlble fror
9 about her, as different as pos married
a the one her recreant lover ha ncing-lit
l. She was pretty, with an entr bing sh
p tie air of style about every by fe,
d wore. Abby had seen her ,ket an
Ie times in a jaunty velvet i'll rom
g killed petticoat, with the f,pde hal
p face with its fringe of fluffy b of a h,