Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-02-22
HAPPY NANCY-THE TRUE
SECRET.


There once lived in an old brown
cottage, so small that it looked like
chicken coop. a solitary old woman.
She tended a little garden, and knit
and spun for a living. She was
known everywhere in the village by
the cognomen of happy Nancy. She
had no money, no family. no relation
she was half blind, quite lame and
very crooked. There was no come
illness in her, and yet there, in that
homely, deformed body, the great
God. who loves to bring strength out
of weakness, had set His royal seal.
well. Nancy, singing again ?"
would the chance visitor say as he
lounged at the door.
s'La! yes. I'm forever at it. |
don't know what people will think"
she would say, with sunny smile.
''Why, they'll think as they al
ways do, that you are very happy"
"La! we'll, that's fact. I'm
just as happy as the day is long
81 wish you'd tell me your secret.
Nancy, you are all alone, you work
hard, you have nothing pleasant
around you-what Is the reason you
are so happy?'
"Perhaps it's because havn't got
anybody but Cod" replied the good
creature looking up. "You see, rich
folks like you depend upon their fam
lilies and their houses they've got to
keep thinking of their business, of
their wives and children, and then
they are always mighty afraid of
troubles ahead. l ain'tgot anything
to trouble myself about, you see,
cause | leave it all to the Lord. ]
think, well, if He can keep this great
world in such good order, the sur
rolling day after day, and the stars
make the garden things come
up the same, season after season. He
can sartainly take care of such a poor
simple thing as l am; and so, yor
see, | leave it all to the Lord, ant
the Lord takes care of me-.
''Well, but Nancy, suppose flos
should come after your fruit trees ar
in blossom, and your little plant.
out
''But | don't suppose; never cal
suppose, except that the Lord will dt
everything right. That's what make:
you people so unhappy; you're al
the time supposing. Now why don
you wait until the suppose comes, a.
/ do, and then make the best of it ?
"Ah, Nancy, it's pretty certain
you'll get to Heaven, while many o
us, with all our worldly wisdom, will
have to stay out"
"'There, you are at it again, sait
Nancy, shaking her head, "alway'
looking out for some black cloud
Why, If l was you, I'd keep the dev
il at arms length, instead of taking
him right into my heart; he'll do yo'
desperate sight of mischief
She was right. We do take the de
mons of care, of distrust, of melan
choly forebodings, of ingratitude
right into our hearts, and pet ant
cherish the ugly monsters, till we as
simulate their likeness. We canke
every pleasure with this gloomy fea1
of i'll we seldom trust that pleasure.
will enter. OF hail them when they
come. Instead of that, we smothe
them under the blanket of apprehen
sion, and choke them with our misan
thropy. 1t would be better for us t.
initiate Happy Nancy, and "neve
suppose" If you you see a cloud
don't suppose it is going to rain; il
you see a frown, don't suppose {
scolding will follow. Do what you
hands find to do, and there leave it
Be more childlike toward the great
Father who created you: learn t.
confide in his wisdom, and not II
your own; and, above all, "wait Til
the suppose comes, and then make
the best of it, Depend upon it
earth would seem an Eden, if yol
would give no place in your bosom
TO imaginary evils.
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