Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-03-20
NEW VOL. 26--NO. "a.

than she could tell for the wheel and
for lesson. and then she went away.
Poor thing, she's just crowded TO
death with her big house and her
company It's no wonder she hadn't
thought about the debts.
We'll, you should have seen Ezra
when he came home and told him.
Twenty dollarsr says he. Who'd
have thought we could get twenty
dollars towards the debtsf But We
did. | put it in my envelope at our
thank offering meeting with this
text, which Ezra found for me;
Thou, 0 God, hast prepared of thy
goodness for the poor But there
was gift of hundred dollars that
was taken from another envelope,
with this verse:
".I thank Thee for Thy written Word. my
For every sacred line;
But more / thank Thee for Thy humblest
saint,
Whose daily life doth shine;
living page, most true most pure "i'''
Fresh nom Thy hand divine.
That was Mrs. Gillette'., we all
know. OF course she meant Ezra.
Nobody ever thought OF calling me
saint.
We'll. q year went by, and il those
hlessed old Boards want just as bad
off as ever! Some says they amt
managed right, but Ezra says, How
can they stop spending when they get
such letters, not only from mission
aries. but from converted heathenF
I'D noticed Ezra looking at the
desk. and | just felt in my bones what
was coming. 1t would have 10 go.
much as We sot by it, and SO II did
We'd kind OF planned TO give IL TO son
Ezra. but Just a. like as not there Il
have been some hard feeling between
him and his brothers about il; SO Ezra
put all his papers in IA bureau drawer
that cleared out for him, and found
places easy enough for all the things
I had in the desk, and Mr.. Gillette
himself came over and gave us TWEEN
tv-tive dollars for it, OF course, We
missed il some, but what's that when
YOU think OF what you have receivedY
Mrs. Gillette gave hundred dollars
TO home missions last year, and III
pretty sure that the Boards are be-
holden to Ezra for a good share oi H.
but that's the last thing he thinks OF.
When son Ezra came TO see us last
fall he was little put out about the
desk, though afterwards he saw IL
Just as we did; but he went out ana
bought his father a little writing Ia
BILE. wonderfully handy.
And now here is the same old story
ringing in our ears again about the
debts! There's just one thing left.
II did seem for q while as II | couldn't
mart with it. I'm a natural born
miser. | am! | was gazing at the
clock the other evening, and says |
TO Ezra: What an heirloom this
| clock isg'
Yes says he, but the gospel is
great deal older and preciouser heir
loon; thanks to the missionaries who
brought it to England
Il was lying awake that night, and
got to thinking how I'd been blessed
in my godly mother and grandmother
and how glad they'd be to have the
old clock help spread the gospel, and
then the queerest thing happened
The clock began to tick: Freely, ye-
have. re -ceived; freely, ye-haye, re
ceivedr
Its kept it going ever since till I'm
most crazy. l told Ezra OF 1t this
morning, and he says maybe II u
went over to Mrs. Gillette's and stood
on that broad landing up on her
stairs, it might keep on saying the
same thing till even Mr. Gillette, who
never goes to church, would hear II.
Who knowsF