The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-17
REUNITED BY
REVIVAL
b. MRS EVA HORTON

(Copyright.)
Coin to meetin' tonight"
"'Fraid l can't tonight"
Whats to hender?"
I've been every blest night for TWO
weeks, and Jason and the boys are all
out al the elbows. I've got to stay
home long enough to get 'em mended
up"
my stockin'bag's full, but / tell
ZEN l can't stay home from them
meetin's!"
Aunt Hnldy, called sc more from
her placid, matronly manner than her
age, wal scraping a plate of breakfast
refuse to her chickens. They snatched
Il from one another with the greed of
. modern monopoly and gulped It
down with soft, quick clucks OF salts
faction. She flicked of the last bit Of
friend hominy and went to the fence
to get within range Of her neighbor.
Mrs. Dill.
That lady had come out to empty
her dish-water around the grapevines.
She rolled her bare arms up in her
Bingham apron and went over to the
low picket fence, where she and Aunt
Hubby had many q fence council.
"You see, l can kill two birds with
one stone" she said. Il can take care
Of Rosina's baby and do my mending
at the same time. He sleeps all the
evening-I've KEEP him two or three
times. He's a splendid baby, and to
think his grandpa's never seen him."
Il know it, calculated the other;
II tell 'em it's q shame! He a church
member and never speakin' to his only
girl for six years because she married
the son of a man he had a grudge
against! 1 tell 'em l do know what
he's made Of"
We'll, l don't care" said Mrs. Dill.
"Rosina's done as well as any girl in
this place, II her father has turned
her OF. See what a nice little home
they've got. Course it had a little
mortgage, but Wills payin' it of right
along. He works early and late, an
he's straight as a string, Will Carr
is."
Il tell 'em Rantz Emmett must be
a. stubborn as a mule to hold .
gudge 50 many years"
stubborn! It's no name, for It.
Think Of q man drivin' his only boy
away to sea an never readin' n Of
the letters he sends! Ross want a
bad hoy either: Just a little wild IN
hasty. l alwus think it depends on
yourself whether o the angel
or the devil in your boy"
Poor Susan! She don't say much,
but that broke her heart. AN how
she ever stood it when he turned Ro-
sina OF, l tell EN- l don't know!"
YES" assented Mrs. Dill. "Susan's
an awful quiet woman, but she's firm.
She's come to Rosina's and done for
her, like any mother, but 'spect
Rantz has been ugly to her for It.
fact, l'know he has. But Aunt Hubby"
she lowered her voice to a solemn
whisper-"these meetin's are goin' to
fetch Rantz Emmett! He's got to
give in to the Lord. Susan Emmett's
been prayin' the heart out of her, an
the Lord amt a-goin' to turn . deaf
cart"
She wiped OF q stray tear with the
corner Of her apron. The other shook
her head doubtfully.
." do know" she said. His face
looks so white an set in the meetin's,
/ tell 'em it most scares me to look
At It"
Mrs. Dill gave a triumphant nod.
Roslna and her husband were . lit
tie late at the meeting that night.
One OF Mrs. Dill's boys had come in
on the train from an adjoining village,
and she had waited to get him we'll
started on his supper before going
over.
= saain't got time for more'n . bite;
! don't want to miss that song serv-
fce,' he said, as he sat down to a
hasty meal. "A stranger got OF here
-one Of them reporters again, down
from the city, l s'pose. There wa a
long piece in yesterdays Times about
our revival. so somebody told me on
the train"
Reporter, eh?" said his mother.
starting OF to her evenings mission.
~Well. / hope there'l be an extry
good meetin' to report" Somehow she
was full Of joyful expectancy, ss she
hurried over to Rosina's, he. =
nl1ed with mending and her mind and
heart with thoughts and prayeis for
her peighbors and friends.
Being late. the Carrs slipred quietly
into the FIRST pew in which there hap
pened TO be two vacant seats, well
toward the door. Opposite they saw
the reporter Of whom Mrs. Dill had
told them.
The church wal full Of people. The
6ane az the Tumsawogue revival had
Npfead through the surrounding coun-
-tFy. ard people living within driving
vr0lGtaAce came from all directions.
1Ae whole community was drinking
- that cir Of God which made their
sv1c0e nauseate them.
= Portuguese sea captain rose to
gfve his testimony Then at a signal
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