The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-15


ted Morrill, a. open the door
There is little change In her from
year u year. Waitstill by the way
Why don't we get ont Of this afternoon
,un aud sit IN the old graveyard un,lci
he treesy We ARE early and tbs, clluil
Won't get here fOt half au hour ~
'erry says that he DIES not uuderStan"
uothrrs ease in the least aud that ~
ne hut some great Boston physician
puld give proper opinion on II. OF
curse that Is impossible W present"
They sat down IN the grass under
cath one % tile emS. and Waltstiii
,ok off her hat nud leaned hark
ylinst the tree trunk
Tell me more she said III H. :.
,nc since we talked together quietly
wi we have never really spoken a.
uur mother
or course" ivory continued. the
pnple of the village all think aud
'ieuk ~ mothers Illness MS religious
iSHuity. but To me il seems nothing "
~ sort. was only u child when IN.
lpr first fell IN with lnrub Cwrhrnnc
~ ! was twelve WHEN father went
way from home on hi, mission AMI
+ there was ANY ulrp suffering FROM
lelusions in our family II was he. not
Iother. She had altogether given mp
sning TO the Cochruue meetings. and !
veil remember the scene when my IN.
her told her Of the revocation he had
ece.ved about going through the state
nd into New Hampshire In ORDER 10
convert others and extend the move
ment. She had no sympathy with his
self imposed mission, you may be sure,
though now she goes back In her men,
DRY to the earlier days Of her married
life, when she tried hard, poor soul,
to tread the same path that father was
treading SO as TO be by his side at
every turn Of the road.
IL am sure there lvory's tone was
somewhat dry and satiricaD that IA
theirs road had many turns. Waitstilli
He was schoolmaster in Saco, you
know. when ! was born. but he soon
turned from teaching to preaching. and
here my mother followed with entire
sympathy. for she was intensely. de-
voutly religious. said there was lit
tie change In her. but there is one new
symptom. She has ceased to refer to
her conversion 20 Cochranism as a
blessed experience. Her memory OF
those first days seems to have faded
As to her sisters death and all the cir
cumstances OF her bringing Rodman
home. her mind Is a blank. Her ex-
pectation Of fathers return. on the
other hand. Is much more intense than
ever"
''She must have loved your father
dearly, Ivory. and TO lose him In this
terrible way Is much worse than death.
Uncle Bart says he had great gift OF
language"
"Yes. and il was that. in my mind.
that led him astray. fear that the
spirit OF God was never so strong In
father as the desire to influence peo-
pie by his oratory. That was what
drew him TO preaching in the first
place, and when he found in Jacob
Cochrane a man who could move an
audience to frenzy. lift them out OF
the body and do with their spirits as
he willed he acknowledged him as
master. Whether his gospel was a
pure and undehled religion doubt.
but he certainly was master OF mes
meric control. My mother was be
guiled, entranced. even bewitched at
first, | doubt not. for she translated
all that COchrane said into her own
speech and regarded him as the proph-
ct OF new era. But Cochrane's last
revelations differed from the first and
were OF the earth, earthly. My moth
er's pure soul must have revolted. but
she was not strong enough to drag ia
Their from his allegiance. Mother was
OF better family than father. but they
were both well educated and had the
best schooling TO be had In their day.
So far as ! can judge. mother always
had more balance than father and
much better Judgment-yet look at her
now!"
Then you think IL was your fathers
that really caused her