The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-19
A TALKATIvE WIFE.

IN THE Lions of the Lord"

From THE Lions of the Lord"
In the hustle of the start south there
were, of necessity. moments in which the
crowns new star could not talk; but these
blessed respites were at an end when at last
tney came TO the open road.
Al nrSt, as her speech flowed on, he looked
sldelong at her, in a trouble of fear and
wonder, then, at length, absently trying TO
put his mind elsewhere and to leave her
voice as the muted murmur OF distant tor
rent he succeeded fairly well in this for
Iorena combined admirably in herself the
parts or speaker and listener and was not
ne thankfully noted. watchful of his atten-
ton But In spite OF all he could do, SEN
fences would come TO seize upon his ears:
No chance at all back there for a
good girl with any heart in her unless she's
one or the doll-baby kind, and thank for
tune, / never was that! Now there was Will
bur Watkins-his father was president of
the board or chosen NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. had
way or saying Lorena's all right-she
weighs hundred and seventy-eight pounds
on the big scales down to the city market
and it's most Of IL heart-a hundred and sew
enty-eight pounds and most all heart-and
she q De prize 10 anybody but then, that
was his way-Wtlbur was a good deal of a
take-on-and there was never ANYTHING he
tween him and me. And when the elder came
along and begun 10 preach about the new
Zion and tell about the strange ways that
the Lord had ordered people to act out here
something kind or went all through me- and
i says, Ihat the place for me- OF course
the saying is, There amt any Gawd west
of the Missouri but them that says IL amt
or the mouse OF lSrdel-lotS OF folks purtelds
TO be great Bible readers, but pin 'em right
down and what do you find?-you find they
amt really studied it-not what Won could
call pored over Il. They fuss through a
chapter here and there, and rush Ickety-
brindle through another, and amt got the
blessed truth out of any of 'em-little fine
points. like where the Lord hardened Pha-
raoh's heart every time, for why ?-because
II He hadn't a done il Pharaoh would "a
give In the very first time and spoiled the
whole thing And then the Lord would visit
so plumb natural and cOmmonlike with
Moses-like telln' him. Il appeared unto
Abraham, unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the
name OF God Almighty, for by my name
Jehovah was j not known unto them
thought that was awful cute and friendly.
stoppin' To talk about His name that way
On, I've spent hours and hours over the
blessed Book. bet / know something you
don't, now-what verse in the Bible has
every letter In the alphabet In IL except
.JT or course you wouldn't know Plenty OF
preachers don't. It's the twenty-frst verse
OF the seventh chapter OF the Book of Ezra.
And the Book OF Mormon-I do love 10 git
set down in rocker with my shoes OFF, m
kind OF a heavy-footed person TO be on my
feet all day-and that blessed book in my
hands-such beautiful language IL uses
that verse love so, He went forth among
the people waving the rent of his garment
IN the air that all might see the writing
which he had wrote upon the rent-thats
sure enough Bible language, Amt II? And