The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
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BY LILLIAN v. HALE.
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ever love you rs l do, Thank YOU are
throwing me over for shadow; you will
know it some day. -
"Why do you speak of God. when you
don t believe in any7''
81 do believe in God the Father All.
mighty, but not in your kind of hide
bound God.
You insult your Maker, you bias
pheme.. oh, Paul, Paul. did you have
no mother to beach yous
your infexible righteousness. but was
herself an angel in spite of it; she is
dead
After much painful argument they
parted Paul Lindsay resigned his posi-
tion and went, no one knew whittier,
Thankful had heard nothing from him for
three years; and if her heart ached. proud
Thankful gave no sign.
One warm Sunday in July the family
went to church in a body. Their own
minister was away on his annual vaca-
lion. In his place was zeaot, who was
famed for making heather converts rath.
! than Christian ones.
Thankful listened to him without much
attention. He made some assertion con.
corning his certainty of of his own saliva.
tion; and his equal certainty that Others
he could mention were eternally damned
from the foundation of the universe
know it!' he exclaimed humping the
copy of Holy Writ before him.
Thankful S combativeness was somehow
aroused.
Why is he the favorite of God7 How
does he know he is going to be saved!
how does he know anyone isl how does
ne know there is any such thing as he un-
derstands it7' she reflected "How. do
L know All at once she started;
sat down again. her face white, her
heart beating with terrific force.
MY faith is gone He has destroyed
1t; he does not know. and IL doubt! D
Father, take not the light from me. l am
lost, ] am lost / do not KNOW Shs
dropped her head on the back of the pew
before her.
can not bear it He is liar-hs
has no right here-neither have IL Sire
whispered to her mother: 81 am not
well, | will 60 home = She rose and
left the church quietly and quickly. In
her own room she prayed and agonized
for hours: but no light came.
81 can not make myself believe, That
minister does not believe Oh, my poor
Paul! How much better you are than
You believe in God-the Father A.
mighty, with no limitations / have lost
my little God of vengeance. whom Wa
call omnipotent and then we limit him 10
the hundred and forty and four thou.
sand!'o
She did not tell any of her people what
had hefallen her. and was thankful in
deed that it vas vacation.
81 must think little 7 must. OF
course, resign; as ! exacted of Paul. 50
will / exact of Thankful Il will not be
fit guide for the young, as 1 told
him. Really | feel in no 50 nse unfit tn
guide them, TO teach them to be good as
well as to gain knowledge. I have M
sudden and violent desire to break i'm j
mediately all the laws of the decalogue,
as | thought people without my kind Ct
faith must have. | wish | could see
Paul; never needed him so much. Oh.
self-righteous bgot. to drive him away! I
/ am most descrvedly punished y
There was no help to be had from any
of her family; her father and mother
were saints in practice and precept;
though, if she had gone to them, their
wisdom would have shown her light. |
Stanley was absorbed in his profession
and would not svmpathize; Theo wouli
think her weak, not to grapple with her
trouble and lay it low.
Dudley and Elizabeth were iovi.I
young sinners; Elizabeth said "facl .
descensus' was sound philosophy and
read her Plato more than her PRAYER
book
"Don't talk to ME of Christ:an ar.
Gent or modern, after the way they d..
stroyed Hvpatia and countless others
and the ladies of our own church would
have given poor Mrs. st. Clair the sams
treatment. beca she ran away with ths
evangelist. If ii had not been for mod.
ern prejudice and respect for modern
law, nine-tenths of them would have
done as Mrs. St, Clair did, but thev hal
not the courage of their convictions. If
law were religious institution MANAGED
by savage old bishop rather than nits
respected heathens Ike Judge Clayto'..
there would be more martyrs than the
were in the early centuries
This was long speech indeed fcr
Elizabeth In that family eyerythin,
was discussed, and all had the coura
of their opinions and set them forth vita
no uncertain sound. /
CHAPTER V.