The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-06

"Mary Ann used to fall in with Lu-
mans schemes at first" rejoined the
wiry man, "but she's had falls enough to
come down to bottom facts now. When
man lives in the clouds a woman has got
to attach herself to the earth with strong
cables, now 1 tell you. Terry firmly is
quite a necessary place TO stand on, if
yon are going to make any sort of liv-
ing"
The men in the country store were ad-
justing the Brewster family affairs long
after the object of the discussion had arriv-
ed home. She and Hepsy we're bound to
cover the chair that night. That finished,
Mrs. Brewster sat down on the soft cushion
to collect her thoughts. All the family
were In bed and asleep when she took the
well worn family Bible and opened it.
No matter how much work came into her
life, che never failed to read her chapter
every night before she went to bed. She
felt anxious over the dispensing of af-
fairs In the household after the boarders
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through with it all, and then the thought
of the mortgage came heavy upon her
mind.
Commit thy way unto the Lord and
he will direct thy paths" we're the words
she read. After she finished her chapter
she knelt down by the newly covered
chair, and gave all her cares, even to the
mortgage, into the hands of the Lord.
trusting that he would help her lift
them.
1t was very warm the first week that
the boarders came, and win so much
cooking and work to be done, it seemed
as if the load could not be carried. But
day by day strength was given, and just
as everything was getting into good run
ming order Judge Upson's only daughter
was taken with typhoid fever. There
was panic in the house; wells were i'm
pure, or drainage was bad, the boarders
said, and all of them left, but Judge Up
son and his sick daughter. Her mother
was dead and they two were all that were
left OF the family, and were strongly at
| tached to each other. A trained nurse
was procured, but there were days when
the physician gave no hope of recovery.
Mrs. Brewster did everything to make
the stricken ones comfortable in her home
and at ease. 1t seemed such strange
ordering of her life, yet she forgot her
self and her cares in ministering to the
troubled ones of her household. 1t was
indeed strange that such turn should
have been taken in affairs. After weeks
of anxious watching and waiting the
daughter was enabled TO go home, but
the summer was nearly over. The mort
gage could not be paid off and the home
must be lost. 1t was but small sum
in the eyes of a monied man, but to the
Brewsters few hundred do lars was a
very hard matter to get together. But
notwithstanding the dark outlook, Mary
Ann Brewster read her chapter every
night and committed her way to the
Lord, and did her duty every day as it
came to her.
Two days before Judge Epson went
away he called Hepsy to wait on his daugh-
ter and said:
Il want to do something my good girl,
for Mrs. Brewster. She has been SO very
kind to us. I think, perhaps, you can
suggest the right thing to me better
than could think for myself. Isn't
there something that she is anxious
about? l think so from some things I
have heard"
cts the mortgage, Judge Epson.
Don't let her know I spoke of it to you,
but she's worrying herself sick over that
all the time"
81 will look over the matter, Hepsy,
and l thank you for telling me about it."
After Judge Epson left the house on
his return to the city, long envelope
was found in the room he had occupied
addressed 20 Mrs. Brewster, and docu-
ment enclosed that gave her the home
clear of all membranes.
"God works in strange ways" she said
as she burst into tears. "Who could
have thought of such way as ths?"
When che showed it to her husband
later in the day, he smiled and said:
didn't I tell you not to worry, Mary
Ann? l knew all the time that something
would turn up to pay off that mortgagep
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