Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-10-21

God and His angels" said the yyunl
mystic softly, falling again into tht
mood from which he had been SO rude
| ly awakened.
"Angels!" scoffed the young mate
rialist. If thee was thinking OF any
angel at all, will bet thee 1t was Dor
othy Fraser"
"Tush, child, do not be silly" replied
the convicted culprit. For It was easier
than he would care to admit to mingle
visions of beauty with those Of holi-
ness.
Il am not silly. Thee would not dare
say thee was not thinking OF her. She
thinks Of thee"
How does thee know?"
Because she gives me bread ano
jam II l so much as mention thy name,
Uncle Dave, was 1t really up this very
valley that Mad Anthony Wayne
marched with his brave soldiers?"
This very valley"
Il wish l could have been with him."
1T Is an evil wish. Thee is child
OF peace Thy father and thy fathers
fathers have denied the right Of men
to war. Thee ought to be like them.
and love the things that make for
peace"
Well, If I can not wish for war.
Will wish that a runaway slave would
dash up this valley with pack OF
bloodhounds at his heels, Oh, Uncle
Dave, tell me that story about thy hid
ing negro in the haystack, and chok-
ing the bloodhounds with thine own
hands,"
Il have told thee a hundred times"
But l want to hear 1t again"
Use thy memory and thy magma
ton"
The child, bounding forward, the
tired procession entered the barnyard.
The plowman fed his horses and stop
ped to listen for a moment to their
deep drawn sighs of contentment and
to the musical grinding Of the oats in
their teeth. His imaginative mind read
his own thoughts into everything and
he believed that he could stinguish in
these inarticulate sounds the words,
Good night Goodnight"
Good night" he said. and strokins
their great f1anks with his kind hand
left them to their we'll earned repose
On his way to the house he stopped to
bathe his face in the waters Of a
spring brook that ran across the yard.
and then entered the kitchen where
supper was spread.
Thee Is late" said the woman who |
had watched and waited. her fine face
radiant with a smile Of love and well
come.
Forgive me, mother" he replied. Il
have had another vision"
Il thought as much. Thee must re-
what thee has seen, my son."
she said, for all that thee beholds
with the outer eye shall pass away,
while what thee sees with the inner
eye abides forever. And had thee
nssage, too?"
1T was delivered to me that on the
loly Sabbath day I should go to the
lamp in Baxter's clearing and preach
o the lumbermen."
Then thee must go, my SON.
Il WILL" he answered, taking her
land affectionately, but with Quaker
and leading her to the table.
The family, consisting Of the mother,
n dOOpLeu daughter bOIOl led, lAo |
aughter's husband Jacob and son
stephen, sat down to simple but
ountiful supper, during which and q
ate into the evening the young mys- C
10 pondered the vision which he be- t
eyed himself to have seen, and the 8
which he believed himslf to a
ave heard. In his musings there was r
OF a tremor or a doubt; he would :,
ave as soon questioned the reality Of
le old farm house and the faces of =
le family gathered about the table. .
[e was a credulous and unsophsti-
ated youth, dwelling In realm Of
Imagination rather than in world OF
eality and law, He had much to learn.
.is education was about to begin, and
begin as does all true and effective
1ucation, in a spiritual temptation.
he Ghebers say that when their great
-ophet Ahriman was thrown into the
re by the order OF Nimrod, the flames
to which he fell turned into a bed Of
ses, upon which he peacefully re-
ined. This innocent Quaker youth
Id been reclining upon a bed Of roses
hich now began to turn into a couch
flames.
Ito be continued.)