Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-14


She want homesiok, at least not
exactly, though II WAS her first day
AZ school. but she WAS thinking. I'll
was almost bedtime, and she dreaded
1t.
For the first time in her life she
must get herself ready for bed In .
room with three other girls, strangers
&c her. and two Of them ct least, laugh
ed and chartered 90 much that they
made her nervous. II she could only
slip away to her room::before the others,
and have . few minutes Of quiet ! But
there was no use In trying for that ; the
moment the bell rang, they were all
expected to troop to their rooms.
II the truth must be told, Sophie
Baker felt little bit like coward. She
did not mind brushing out her lovely
hair before the girls, nor getting out
her pretty dressing case, and using her
ivory handled toothbrush, nor even
putting on her dainty night-dress with
fts delicate laee trimmings; the thing
she did not want 70 do was to kneel
down before those girls and pray.
She knew there were girls who never
did this; she had heard M0llie An
drews, only . few days before she left
| who kept up her "baby habits, and
always said her prayers before she
went 70 bed. And Mollie Andrews had
been In oarding school for two years,
and knew how things went.
What was to be done? Sophie was
the youngest Of all the givls, and could
not bear 10 be laughed 1t, aud she
T" most knew" she said to herself, that
none of those girls prayed. Yet she
bad never In her life gone to sleep
without praying, and 1t shocked her tc
think Of doing 70.
OF course she wouldn't; but couldn',
she slip into bed, cover her head closely
and pray az well as she could on heI
knees? This was what she asked her
self with beating heart, while thu
girls buxzed around her, busy with 9
last glance at their next days lessons
Sophie had been very carefully
taught she knew that II she were sicl
and could not kneel down God wOult
be as we'll pleased with her prayer IL
! bed as He would ON her knees, but how
about creeping into bed and praying be
! cause she WAS ashamed to have other
! see her?
: It made her cheeks glow to think O
it.
arm never do it," she said at las,
decidedly. 81 shall kneel down an,
. i pray just a. usual, even II they q
I laugh and poke fun at me-" Afte
/ that she felt happier, 1t was 90 COLE
!. Portable to know just what she was q
; ing TO do.
al Il took her longer 10 brush her hal
' than usual that evening, and the merr
! voices around her did not quiet Ii
/ beating of her heart, but at, last sh
r dropped on her knees and buried hs
i | face In the pillow and tried to pray
4 | Il was very still about her the CIR
4 might be planning some fun, but the
q Ibid 1t quietly. A sweet sense Of bein
|. with Jesus stole into 6ophie's hear
g and when she arose, the loud beatin
v (which 1t had almost seemed to her Il
q rest could hear was still.
I'll But why were the others so quiet
d She looked about her, every girl was
II her knees.
al One by one they arose quietly, WI
n no air about them of having done an
n thing strange or unusual they kiss
!. lone another good night, their voic
Just as happy as before. but ht'
auieter, and very soon the light "
ont, and they were resting on their p
Or Ilows.-The Pansy.