The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-28

ioCoA AHud SidHCeU III the direction o.
Tobit and as she noted his bowed form
she whispered to herself:
1T is well. He sleeps"
A short while later she was startled
by a glad cry from her husband. and
turned to see that he was standing
and g~esticulating wildly, while at the
same time he cried:
Send for Tobias! Send for To
bias!"
AND when the young man had come
In the old man told his vision. or
dream. or whatever it was in which
there had been brought to his remem.
brance a debt Of the long ago.. How
years before when wealth was in his
possession he had placed a goodly
sum in the hands Of a certain trusted
friend named Gabael of the city of
RACES in Media.
And now, my son Tobias, thou shalt
depart for that distant city and bring
hitker those ten talents of silver"
So it was arranged that the young
man should depart, and with many
misgivings they babe him good-by.
MY son, be mindful of the Lord
our God, and take not a strange wom
an to wife, but a daughter OF thy ia
Tiers tribe"
That a remember the Lord and
serve only him l am certain" thought
Tobias to himself after he had depart
ed, but whittier shall l look for such
a wife as my father hath spoken off"
He was reused from his reverie by
the appearance of a stranger before
him with whom he fell into %converSa-
ton, and finding hat he knew the
way to RACES, he ~besought him that
he would go with him, and was much
cheered when he gave his consent.
Now Tobias knew not that it was
Gods angel who had come to guide
him on his journey, but as they pro-
ceeded Tobias and his companion,
Raphael, conversed together, and the
former unburdened his heart to Raph-
ael and told him of his p~erpleXity in
obeying the admonition of his father
regarding the seeking of a wife.
But is not God, who would thus
have you remember his law, able to
guide thy feet and bring thee to the
n whom thou shalt wed?" ques-
toned Raphael.
Yea, verify" exclaimed Tobias,
reverently, and that night as they
made camp by the side of the Tigris
river his mind was absorbed with this
new thought. He had gone to the
river to wash and as he bent over the
rivers brink a great fish leaped forth,
and he was upon the point of fleeing,
when the voice of Raphael sounded
out sharp and clear:
Flee not. Capture the fish and
bring it thither."
This Tobias was able to do after a
fierce struggle. Raphael cut open
fish n took therefrom the heart,
the liver and the gall, INT placing
them securely in a wrapping, gave
them to Tobias and cautioned him
with many solemn words not to let
leave his possession, for" said
he, the heart and the liver shall give
gall is good to anOint a mans
eyes that he see"
Tobias heart gave a great leap as
thought of his fathers affection.
What joy he would bring with him
upon his return. The gall should not
go from his possession, but of the
liver and the heart he knew not what
need he had therefor.
tVnn LOT tho two ~ abide ytnlnr |
our roof tonight. They be weary
with the long Journey" exclaimed
Raguel, a prominent Jew of Ectabane,
response to his wife's query re-
5arding w strangers who had APP
Deared OF the door. And as the words
we're spoken Raguel came forward
and greeted the men.
Why" he exclaimed, excitedly, as
he looked closely into the face of To-
bias, thou lookest much like my
Tobit."
"And Tobias is my father" ex-
claimed Tobias, now equally sur.
Sara, the daughter, came running
nto the DON at that moment. Young
no D0duCl1ul she Was, anu as The
yes of Tobias fell upon her he loved
Ter. But as her eyes met his a look
# anguish and sorrow spread over
Ter countenance.
AS the days passed and Tobias
his suit, for, said he, us not
'ara such an n as my father would
ave me wed being of my family? ?"
e became conscious of some mystery
urrounding the beautiful girl. He
new she loved him, and yet often
s they were together a shudder
you'd pass over her as her eyes would {
1eet his. On the day in which he {
sked for the daughters hand in mar +
iage, the father unfolded to him the .
wful truth that an evil spirit rested r
pom his house and had claimed al .
eady sever young men to whom the 7
eautiful Sara had been welded. And :
4 every case this had happened upon
wedding eve.
The heart and the liver of the
sh," like a fash came the thought