Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-10

>e your sife Paal: we eou,,, never be hip- py." D>>aly wounded, lic rut ht1 f.aG. hi'n. .'If you have fnali, dcriosd, lnank, must submit; you teii me 70" can"". iaaf' " au atheist, an a2nostic. ttec.-!.i'Ser, what you will; very we'll. [ can not F'ar- " narrow- minded bigot. n'o es1 n"t overlook an open, honest difference al opinion, 80 I will say good hTe ,hs voice shook and he took her aga'N 'n Nns arms. "Goodbyo, which mcans, you kno,3, God be witl yoa. and sat sth- cercly, God be with you. No Eaaa gill ever love you as T dor Thank; gon ar' throwing me over fora shadow; yoH will know ii some daya'
 '.Wby do you speak oF God, "hen you don t believe in apye',' 1T do believe in 'God the Fathet Al mighty, but not jn your kind of hide pound God "You insult your Maker, you hias phcmel! Oh, Paul, Paul! did you have DO nQINPE to uCatli Aoo
 "I had a good .mothcr; she had all' your infexiblc righteousness, but. was\ herself an angel in spite of it; she Is aead.''
 After much painful argument, they parted Paul Lindsay resigned his pos'' ,on and went, no one knew Whiihef, fhankfJ,l had heard nothing from h'fn for hrcc wears; and if her heart ached, proud Thankful gave no sign.
 One warm Sunday in Iu'y the family vent to church in. a body. The'r oWa minister vas away on his annual vaca- aon. In"his plaeo .was a zealot, who was .amed for making heathea converts 'ath. than Christifn ones. i Thnnkful listened to him without much aE1cS1fon. He made so,nc assertion con. dorning his certainty of of his own sa'va tion; and his equal certainty th:s' others From the foundation of the nllive,se-"l anow it!'' he exclaimed humping ths copy of Holy Writ before him.
 Thank full s combatfveness was somehow aroIsed.
 "Why s he the fayoritc of God? How 6ocs lie know he is going to be saved. how does he know anyone iss how does he know there is any such thing as he un dcrstands itq'' she reflected. ''How dc \ know------'' All at once she started sat down again, her face white, he aeart bcating with terrific force.
 "My faith is gone' He has destroyed 1t he does not know, and IT doubt! ( Father, take not the light from me! l an lost, l am lost do not know' Sh, dropped her head on the back of the pew before her.
 "I can not bear it He is iar-h, has no right here--nethcr have I. ;" Sh, whispered to her mother: '<I am no we'll, I will go home.' She rose ant left the church quietly and quickly. II her own room she prayed and agoni7et for hours; but no light came
 'I can not make myself believe! Tha minister does not bclicvel Oh, my poo Paul! How much better you are thas I--you believe in God--the Father Al mighty, with no Limitations. l have los my little God of vengeance. whom VI call omnipotent aud then we limit hint f. the hundred and forty and four thou sandl'
 She did not tell any of her people w!: had befallen her, and was thankful in deed that it was vacation.
 CT mnst think a little. 1 must, 0 course, resign; as I exacted of Paul, s will exact of Thankful. 1 will net b n fit guide for the young as I toll him. Really I feel in no sfnse unfit t wen as to gain knowledge. I have n sudden and violent desire to break in nediately all the laws of tue decalogut as thought people without my kind o faith must have. I wish I could SC Paul; never needed him 50 much. Ol self righteous bigot, to drive him away ! am most dcsorvedly punished. /"
 There was no help to be had from an of her family; her father aad mothe were saints in practice aal prceept though, if she had gone to hem, the wisdom would have show her hgh stanley was absorbed ia ha frofess' Q and would not sympat'dz". 1aeo woul Ah;rk hey weak. not to eiaHyle with ht trouble and lay it low.
 Dudley and Elizabeth were jovi young sinners; Elizabeth said "Idcit xescensus'' was sound philosophy ar read her Plato more than her pray book.
 "Don t talk to me of Christians, a eient or modern, after the way they d stroyed Hypatia and countless others and the ladies of our own church wou have given poor Mrs. St. Clair the san