The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-02

t first time since they had been marie
g on the forehead
r Christina would now be left alon
/ with the cares of the house. and h
: knew he ought to have some one +
! help her. The fever of sacrifice wa
5 also upon him. And so he found an
other derelict, to whom he was seale(
forever.
, ! At a time of more calmness h,
might have baked at this one. She
was a cross, to be sure, and it was
now his part in life to bear crosses
But there We're plenty of these, and
even one vowed to life of sacrifice
he suspected, need not grossly abuse
the powers of discrimination with
which Heaven had seen fit to endow
him. But he had lately been on the
verge of a Seething maelstrom, balanc.
ing there with unholy desire and
Wickedly looking far down, and the
need to atone for this sin excited him
to indiscretions.
1t was not that this star in his
crown was in her late thirties and less
than lovely. He had learned, indeed,
that IN the game which, for the chas.
tenlng of his soul, he now played with
the Devil, it were best to choose stars
whose charms could excite to little but
conduct of saintlike seemliness. The
fat, dumpy figure of this woman
therefore, and her round, fiat, moon.
like face, her mouse-colored wisps of
hair cut squarely off at the back of
her neck, were points of a merit that
was in its whole effect nothing less
than distinguished.
But she talked. Her tones plaved
with the conStanCy of an everything
fountain. Artlessly she lost herself in |
the sound of their music, until she
also lost her sense of proportion, of
light and shade, of simple, Christian
charity. Her name was Lorena Sears
and she had come in with one of the
late trains of converts. without friends
relatives, or means, with nothing but
her natural gifts and an abiding faith
IN the saving powers of the new dis.
pensatlon. And though she was SO
awe in her faith, rarely informed in
the Scriptures, bubbling with enthu.
Siasm for the new covenant, the new
Zion, and the second coming of the
there had seemed to be no
place for her. She had not been asked
IN marriage, nor had she found it
easy to secure work to support her.
self.
She's strong" said Brigham, to his
nqulring Elder, and a good worker,
out even Brother Heber Kimball
wouldn't marry her; and between YOU
md me. Brother Joel. | never knew
1eber to shy before at anything that
would work. You can see that. YOUR.
self, by looking over his household"
But, after the needful preliminaries
md a very little coy hesitation on the
'art OF the lady, Lorena Sears. spin.
ter, native Of Elyria, Ohio, was duly
ealed to, for time and eternity. and
ecame a star forever in the crown of
DEL Rae, Elder after the Order of
leIchlSedek in the Church of Jesus
,hrlst of Latter-day Saints and Presi.
ent OF the Amalon Stake of Zion.
IN the hustle of the start south there !
ERE OF necessity, moments in which
ne crowns new star could not talk: y
ut these blessed respites were at an 3
nd when at last they came to the b
pen road h
AT first, as her speech flowed on he ri
'oked sidelong at her, in a trouble Of II
'ar and wonder; then, at length. alb. al
emily, trying to put his mind else in
mere and to leave her voice as the il
'uted mi muir of distant torrent, al
e succeeded fairly we'll in this, for jc
orena combined admirably in herself
e parts OF speaker and listener, and n,
as not, he thankfully noted. watch w
i or his attention. 81
lie was called back by the stopping ki
her voice, but she had to repeat her f.
lestlon before he understood it. The III
evil tempted him in that moment HI
was on the point of answering 81,
because she talked too much" but NJ
stead he climbed out of the wagon N,
walk. He walked most of the 300 III
les in the next ten days. di,
But he had taken up a new cross ey
d he had his reward. The first
5ht after they reached home he took E
little Bible from its hiding place
d opened it with trembling hands
e stain was there, red in the can. L
Light. But the cries no longer rang
his ears as on that other night =
en he had been sinful before tho
&c, And he was glad, knowing that Il
self within him had again been put
wn.
CHAPTER XIV.