Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-03-24

her way nome, Mrs. byrne lived ~
the other end of Rosedale, but she was
too shy to refuse, and rolled the linen
up again.
Mrs. Byrne was a hard-worling
woman with seven children, whose
husband, after subjecting her to all the
miseries of q drunkard's wife, had re-
leased her by pitching head-frst off
the bridge below Rosedale into the
river. WomanliSe, she grieved for
him, as if he had made her life bed of
roses, and turned to her washtubs for
living, patiently and industriously. A
very sunbeam of woman she was, in
spite of her troubles, and Susie was
amazed to find her sitting on the door
step sobbing like child. She rose to
receive Mrs. Staceys message, and
promised to do the work, and then, in
answer to Susie's gentle: "You must be
in trouble. l am afraid" her grief
broke out in words:
i've no right to complain, miss"
she said, 'Hor the Lords been very good
to us since poor Tim was drownded,
but indeed it's a chance lost I'm fret
ting for"
"a chance lostP" said Susie, her voice
still full of gentle sympathy.
Its Nora, miss She's been delicate,
miss, iver since she was born, and the
air here is bad for her intirely The
docther says her lungs is wake, and it's
a bad cough she's got, and we're too
near the say here in Rosedale. And me
sister, who lives at B, she's wrote
she'll take Nora for her own and
eoh0Oli-rr on1 No lnt hn,-
work till she's stronger. She's not
much of her own, hasn't Sister Mary;
but she's no childer since she put four
in the church yard, and she'll be good
to Nora, an the child just dyin' here
by inches, for she will help me, and
sloppin' in the washing's bad for her.
She coughs that bad at night miss,
and the doctor says the air in B
would be the maxim of her.
'But, surely, you will send her." said
Susie
"There it is, miss! Mary, she can't
sind money out an out, and it costs six
dollars to go to B.. l was up to
Mrs. Stacey's, to ak the loan of it, and
work it out little at time on the
washin'; but she told me she could not
spare it. An she richl I'm thinkin',
miss, perhaps she'd be servin' the Lord as
we'll as savin' girls life, you may say,
instead of buyin' all this embroidered
linen to show off at ST. Marl<'s.'
The words struck Susie like stab.
Was it to serve the Lord or for her own
vanity she wanted to give the white
cross to St Marks? Saving a human
lifel The thought almost took her
breath
"You can send Nora if you have ten
dollars?" she asked.
"Yes, miss; but it might as well be a
hundred. I cah't get it."
Yes, for will give it to you; and you
can ask the Lord to bless my Easter
Offering"
And before the astonished woman
could reply, the shining gold piece lay
in her hand and Susie was speeding
homeward. - .
''The Lord be good 20 her! The saints
bless her bed!" cried Mrs. Byrne. "An'
she t'aching for her own bread and but
ter an trudging about in all weathers
to earn dollar!'
you seem surprised at something,
Mrs Byrne," said quiet, deep voice at
her elbow, and she looked up to see Mr..
Castleton standing beside her. 81
came over to see if you could come up
to the parsonage and help Mrs. Willis
tomorrow. She has some extra work on
hand"
Yes, sir! I'll come, and be thankful
to you. An am surprised-jest dazed
like" And out came the whole story
from the grateful womans lips, ending
with:
And it's worlsin' she is as hard as
meself in her own way, while Mrs
Stacey, that's rollin' in money, couldn
spare jest the loan of it, for it's MOI
begging I'd bel''
Easter services were over, and Mrs
Stacey had invited Mr.. Castleton t.
dinner. She had told no direct lie, bu
certainly had given the impression tina
the lovely embroidery upon the new
linen was the work of Bessie's fingers
AS they drove home she asked Mr.
Castleton, sweetly:
Don't think me impertinent, bu
which of the offerings was Miss Bar
clay's?"'
s. None, that know OF"
"Was there one offering of ten dol
lars in the collection?"
"No-a five-dollar bill was the larg
est"
Such hypocrisy!' sneered Bessie
"It was not necessary for Miss Barcla,
to tell you, snaluma, she was going t.
give ten dollars for an Easter offering
but she need not have told falsehoo,
ABOUT itr'
! "Nor did she,' said Mr.. Castleton
Her Easter offering was ten dollars.
| But he made no further explanation
: nor did Susie, when summer tim
: brought her letter, asking her t.
; share his life and iabors, know tina
Mrs. Byrne had told him the story O
her charity. Shields, in n. Y
: Ledger
Happy Easter Bells.
Oh happy, happy Easter bellsl
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