The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-30

But she was good woman, ami much
respected, and her end was rc&ceful.
Blessed are the dead which die in tie
Lord. that they may rest from their
labOts; and their works do fellow them
that's what Mr.. Chapman preached
about to her funeral"
"What did he preach about at Harriet
Marsh's funeral :" asked Margaret. iGly,
her thoughts far away, and the battle
still raging.
why, somehow, he wa at his best
that day. Some said they didn think
he knew she had hope at all, but every
body around here knows she joined tie
church when she want morc'n fifteen.
and took her letter when she first went
to New York. He preached about the
resurrection of the body, in a kind of
gen'ral way and it might n been an old
woman's fun'ral, or a mans, for all he
said about Harriet Marsh"
They stood now at the grave Of Mar
garet's mother, who had died when Mar
garet was "a baby, and OF her father,
whom she remembered but vaguely
Margaret to read The simple -iu-
scription, 81 have fought the fight. :
GLOW did it happen that that was put
there - she asked. Il never thought
about it before
Your father asked Stephen to have it
put on. You didn't know v0ur father
well, he bcin' such Il business man, and
you off to boartlin'- school most of the
time, and up here vacations Wen, lie
never said much about religion, anyway,
but he was good man. The night after
Stephen got there, about an hour before
he died. your father said: Stephen, I've
had long fight, and I'm ready for pro-
motion. It's been hard battle, but it's
been worth fighting; put it on my tomb
stone, Il have fought the fight will
you" Stephen said he would, and he
did. Strange you never happened to hear
about it before.
at never would have meant to NE
what it does now. am glad YOU told
me, Aunt Kate"
That night MARGARET wrote to RAY
mond:
DEAK NAY
please do not think too hardly Of ne.
| have decided to be Puritan.
81 don't want people TO excuse what
do because they have faith i'll me, but to
Ia, f,,t Il
nave lalth III ME because don tdo Things
d th;nGs 49, uUn " ' ',',l 4.
are right. can't let Won he conscience
for me.
Il have not decided this way because
L,t We peolte "ouiu I"H ~ my '''Ii"'Sf
myself. dom want ~ i've - RNhnm;,n
really and truly; l do wish not 10 be one
am not laying down any laws Tor
o,,Ia , +I,;,i: 10y J"us .''t',e va
set IN my own oninion as hrttr.. ar hiob.
er than any other. But just can't he
happy lnchoosin? al line OF conduct which
tSn,,a, ~ S,,r m' ,I'., To- n.y. e,v
row and mistal,cnin thinl,inrit is wrnr,
Life is warfare, Ray, and don't want
TO retreat from my hrst battle; this IS
i ~. - fI,,t 'ii''l HAS i''''iE 'eei 'eiA
.Whar the result to DIR rrieudsbin will
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