The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-15

aliythlhg. 1 was etcfva W. oi.5p. a.
YOU might say. Our folks always i;ai II
three times a. u aDdsthe doctor has
been talkin' ana talkin' 10 me about
eatln' pie. 1 have the dyspepsy liRe
everything, and it makes me useless by
spells and IA unreliable as a weather.
! cock. An Doctor Drake, he says there
won't nothing help ne but a diet. L
WIS readin' the Bible that morning
while Il was waiting for breakfast, fort
was Monday. and wife was kind OF set
back with washin' and all, and I come
across that part where it says that the
bodies o. Christians are temples OF the
Holy Ghu't. Wei, thinks /, we'd ought
to take care OF ON il they be, and see
that they are kept clean and pleasant,
like the church; and no body can be
clean nor pleasant thns has dyspepsy.
But come to- pie, I felt as though l
couldn'tI and luokye! I didn't! / eat
a piece right against my con.
science; acin' what | knew l oueht to
do, | went out and did what l ought MT
to. / toll ye mysconscience made music
for me considerable, and 1 said then /
wouidntneYer sheer at a drinkin' man
no more. when he slipped up. I'd feel
for him and help him, for | see how 1t
was. So that days practice gave out,
but 1t learnt me o good deal more than
I knew before. z
81 started ont next day to look up my
Bible class. They haven't really tended
up to Sunday-schocl as they ought,
along hack, but l was busy here and
there, and thereadidn't aEeem to be a
real chance TO get to it,
"Well, 'twould take the evening to
tell it all, but | found one real sick, been
abed for, three weeks, and was SO glad
to see me that l felt fairly 'shamed of
myself. Seemed rs though I heard the
Lord for the first time sayin, "Inasmuch
as We did it not TO one of the least Of
these, ye did it not unto me-"
"Thenanother mans old mother saws
to me, before he came in from the shed,
aysshe:
practiced what they preached, vou'dsha
come round 10 Look him up afore now,
but he reckoned you kinder looked down
on the mill hands. I'm awful glad you
come"
.u1" Brethren, SO was I. I tell you that
days work done me good. got q good
opinion OF joseph Emmons, now tell
|ye, but ! learned more about the Lords
ways than a month of Sundays ever
showed me-"
A smile he could not repress passed
ver Mr.. Parke's earnest face. The
deacon had forgotten all external issues
III coming 80 close to the heart ofthings,
but the smile passed away as he said:
Brother Emmons do you remember
what the Master said: IF any man will
do his will, he shall know of the doc
trina MI, al har ~ no ~ Md ~ aulo&hnr
l speak s myself"
G"Weli, so it is" answeredth Ii deacon,
sits 50 right along. Why,I v
thought SO much of my Bible class nor
took such interest in 'em rs l do to-day
not SINCE begun to teach. I blieve
they'll come more regular now, too.
Now come fellawshipd day. l thought
that would be all plain sailin'; seemed
though I'D got warmed up till / felt
pleasant towards every body sol went
around seoin' folks that was neighbors,
end 7 was easy; but when l come home
at noon spell, phiiury says, s~aystshe-
Square fuckers black bull is into
the orchard q tearin' round, and he's
knocked two lengths Of fence hat!!'"
"Wel, the old Adam riz up then,
you'd better sblieye. That black bull
had been a breakin' into my lots ever
since we got in tn aftermath, and it's
Square fuckers fence and he won't
make it bull.strong as he oughter, and
that orchard was Il young one just comm
to bear, and ALI the new wood crisp
cracklin's with frost. You'd better
b'lieve didn't have much feller-Ieeling
with Amos Tucker. ] jest put over to
his house and spoke up pretty free to
him, when he looked up and says, says
he:
Fellowship meetin day, amt it,
decaon?'
"I'd rather he'd a slapped my face,
I felt as though should like to slip
behind the door. 4 see pretty distinct
what sort Of u life I'd be living all the
years I'd been a professor, when /
couldn't hold on to my tongue and
temper one day!"
"Breth-e-rn,1 interrupted a slow,
harsh voice, somewh It proken with
EN- lion, "lll tell the rest ont. He
Josiah Emmons came around like a man
ana Christian right there. He me
to forgive him, and not to think't was
the fault Of his religion, becanse't was
sis'n, and nothing else. think more
of him to-day than l ever done before.
l was n that wouldn't say I'D practice
everlaslin' n~onsence-Td rather 90 to
~ AithS NtS AL VIA Woth
at benz good a week. ] believe my
hope has been one of them that perish;
it hain't worked, and 1 leave il behind
to-day. l mean to begin honest, and
it vas seein, ore$honest Christian man
that fetchedme round tot" M
mi Tucker sat down and buried his
grizzled head in bis rough hands.
Bless the I1ordp' said the quivering
t%ones;of a still older man from a far
eorner-of the house, and many d glisten-
ing eye gave silent RESPONSE. go :on,
brother Emmons,' said the minister.
"Well, when next day come I got up
to make the tire, and my boy Joe had
forgot the kindlin's. I'd opened my
over meEssuddin that this wassthe day Of
prayerforthe family relation. I thought
l would say nothin,' 30 l just fetched in
my kindlin's myself, and when'the fire
had burnt up good | called my wife.
Dear me, ;, said she, Give got such a
headache. 'siah, Tut I'll come in a nm
ute.n didn't mind that, for women
are always havin' headaches, andI was
Ijest agoin' to say SO, whom 1 remem-
sbered the tex about not bein' bitter
against 'em 50. says "Phiinry, you lay
abed. I expect Emmie and me can get
tue vittles to-day, | declare she turn d
Ioyer and gave me sectla look; why it
struck right in. There was my wife that
had worked for an waited on me twen-
ty odd years, most Scarf because I
spoke kind of feeln' to her. / wentand
Fetched in the pail o. water she'd always
drawn herself, and then milked the
COW. When leone in Philury was up
frying the potatoes, and the tears a
shinin' on her white face. She didn't
4 say nothinss, she's kinder still, but she
hadn't no need to. I felt aleetle mean
er'n sdidsthe day be6ores sut'twan't
nothing u to- my condition whentI
was goin', towards night, down the suIlef