The Washington herald., 1907-03-31

to buy you new suit OF clothes TO go to
Presbytery in. and I told 'em If II was
70 get Mis- Page a new dress. / was
ready to give; but not a dime was | g0in'
TO give toward putin inery on mans
back. I'm tired o seem the ministers
walk up into the pulpit IN their slick
black brOadeloths, and their wives settin
down in the pew in an old black silk
that's been turned upside down, wrong
side out, and hind part Before. and
sponged and pressed. and made over till
you can't tell whether it's silk, or caliker,
or what
Wei, reckon there was some o. the
women that expected the roof to fall
down on us when Sally Ann said that
right to the minister But il didn't fall.
and Sally Ann went straight on. And
when ii comes 10 the perseverance Of the
saints and the DEGREES Of Cod says shs
there amt many can preach better ser
Honi but there's some Of your sermons.
says she, that amt 1T for much DIT
kindiin' fires. There's that one you
preached last Sunday on the twenty
fourth verse Of the fifth chapter Of Ephe-
slams. l reckon I've heard about a hun
dred and fifty sermons on that text, and
I reckon I'll keep on hearin' EN- as
long as there amt anybody but men to
do the preachin'. Anybody would think.
says she, that you preachers was struck
blind every time you git through with the
twenty fourth verse for ] never heard q
sermon on the twenty-nfth verse. ] be-
lieve there's men IN this church that
thinks The fifth chapter OF Ephesians
hasn't got but twenty-four verses, ana
I'm goin' TO read the rest OF it TO EN- FOR
once, anyhow
And If Sally Ann didn't walk right up
into the pulpit same as if she'd been or
dained. and read what Paul said about
men lovin' their wives as Christ loved the
church. and as they loved their own
bodies.
Now says she. If Brother Page can
reconcile these texts with what Paul says
about women submittin' and bein sub
Ject, he's welcome to do IT, But says
she, If / had the preachin' to do, 1
wouldn't waste time reeOncllin'A I'd jest
say that when Paul told women to be
subject 10 their husbands IN everything,
he wasn't inspired, and when he told
men 10 love their wives as their own
bodies, he was inspired and Ia Ike 70
see the presbytery that could silence me
from pTeachin' as long as / wanted 70
preach. As for turnin' out o. the church,
says she, I'd like to know who's 20 DO
brought that woman 10 Christ there was
not a man IN the crowd fit 70 cast "a
stene at her, and II there's any man now
adays good enough to set IL judgment on
a woman. his name amt on the rolls Of
Goshen Church. II 'Lizabeth, says she,
had as much common sense as she's got
conscience, shed know that the matter o.
that money didn't concern nobody but our
Mite Society and we women can settle
it without any help from you deacons
and elders
Wei, 1 reckon Parson Page thought II
he didn't head sally Ann of some way
or other she'd 90 on all night, so when
she kind o stopped for breath aud sAut
up the big Bible, he grabbed a hyfnn-boOk
and says:
Let US sing ''Blest BE the Tie That
Binds.
He struck up the tune himself. and
about the middle Of the nrst verse Mis-
Page got up and went over 10 where
Lizabeth was standiu and give her the
right hand OF fellowship. ana then Mis-
Petty did the same; and the first thing We
knew We was all around her shakin'
hands and huggin' her and cryin' over
her Twas a reg lar lOye-feast; and we
went home feelin like we'd ben through
a big pTotracted meetin and get religion
over again
% 'Twasn't more'n week tin 'Lizabeth
was down with slow feyer-nervous coli
lapse, old DR.. Pendleton called f. We
took turns nursin' her and ono day she
looked uD in my face and says, Jane,
know now what the mercy of the Lord
is
Here Aunt Jane paused, and began 70
cut three-cornered pieces out OF a time
~rs-Fs.
quilt was 10 be of the wild-goDse pat
tern. There was a drowsy hum from the
beehive near the window. and the
shadows we're lengthening as sunset ap-
preached.
"Ons queer thing about it." she re-
was that while sally Ann was
taikin', not one OF US felt like laughin
We set there as solemn as If parsOn was
pTeachin' TO US on lection and pTedesti-
nation But whenever 1 think about II
now, I laugh fit TO Kill. And I've thought
many a time that Sally AIMS plain talk
TO them men done more good than all the
sermons us women had had preached to
as about bein' 'shame-faced' and sub
mittin' ourselves TO our husbands. for
every one o. them women come out In
new clothes that spring, and such
change as il made in some of EN- t
wouldn't be surprised If she did have
message TO deliver. jest as she said. The
Bible says an ass spoke up once and re-
proved a man. and I reckon If an ass
can repTOve a man. so can woman.
And it looks 10 me ike men stand in
need Of repTovin' now as much as they
did IN Balaam's days
Jacob died the fouerin fall, and Liza
beth got shed Of her troubles. The trifin
scamp never married her for anything
but her money
Things is different from what they
used to be-" she went on, as she folded
her pieces into a compact bundle and
tied It with piece Of gray yarn. My
son-in-law was tellin me last summer
how a passel O. women kept goin' up to
Frankfort and so pesterin' the legislatur'
that they had 10 change the laws 20 git
rid Of 'en. SO married women now has
all the property rights they want. and
mOre'n some OF 'em has sense to use, I
reckon"
How about you and Uncle Abram7'
suggested. Didn't Sally Ann say any
thing about you in her experience"
Aunt James black eyes snapped with
some Of the fire OF her iong-psst youth. /
La! no, child" she said. "Abram new
er was that kind OF a man, and I never
was that kind of a woman. I ricollect as
We was walkin home that night Abram
says, sort o. humble-like; Jane, hadn't !
THE LONELY HONEYMOON.