Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-05-07


loving look in her beautiful eyes,
ooh! | thank you so much,
dear Philip, and do hope and pray that
it will be true of YOU" And soon after
this she left them for her heavenly
home. 1t was a terrible blow to Philip,
for she was the one he loved best in the |
world. Now as he walked up the road,
it all came back to him, as if it was but |
yesterday that it had happened, and |
yet he had hardly thought of her for
years.
His father and mother were very
much surprised to see him come in, for
they thought he had gone to the village
and so would not be home till late. He
merely said, Good night and went
up to his room. will not attempt to
tell what he thought as he sat down on
the side of his bed. He remembered
then, that it was the one Maud died in.
So his heart went right out to her and
oh! how he longed to have her back
For the next few days he did not go
away from the farm there was no
school then-but helped his father as he
had never done before. Something
strange has come over Philip" said
| Mr.. Baker to his wife one evening
Hes never worked so nice as he's
doing now, and there's something in his
face that looks different. " "Well!
that's strange" said she, "for several
times lately he reminded me somehow
of our dear Maud. don't know what.
Something in his eyes, perhaps"
The next day as Dick came out of his
house he saw Philip sitting under a tree
by the roadside. He wondered what he
was doing and an impulse made him call
out, "Halloa, Philip. Won't you come
in and hear the gramophone " The
boy jumped to his feet and ran down
the road saying as he came up, Thank
you, Dick! I'd like to ever so much.
Only today | don't want to hear any
thing but Safe in the Arms of Jesus. -"
Dick wondered at it, but he didn't ask
him why he only wanted that; and they
went in and the gramophone played it.
Again please, said Philip, whose face
was covered with his hands to hide the
tears which would come to his eyes, and
also to shut from his sight everything.
THANK you, Dick" said he when it
was over. Perhaps you don't re-
member my sister Maud But she loved
that hymn and sang it to her just be-
fore she died. When | heard it the
other day. it seemed to me as if she had
come down from heaven and was sing
ing it to me. And I've been thinking
of her ever since. 81 remember her, y
said Dick taking his hand and pressing
it. 'She was a dear girl and we all
thought everything of her May
go down to Sunday School with you next
Sunday, Dick?' asked Philip when they
parted. "I'd be glad to have you and
think you'll like our teacher, answered
Dick.
So the next Sunday the two boys went
down to the village together, and PhiliI
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School, and came back home with Dick
Next evening Mr.. and Mrs. Baker were
sitting III the kitchen, he reading I
paper, she knitting. Philip had come
home and hal gone up to his room
+ "What's that noise?" Suddenly ex
claimed Mrs Baker, laying down hei
, knitting and holding up her finger
Tley listened and discovered to thei
: surprise that it was their Philip whC
, was singing. Il wonder what has com,
f over the boy" she whispered "Com'
I to the stairs.
. They crept softly to the foot of tn
stairs and stood and listened. You SCI
when Philip had gone to his room al
impulse came over him to sing dea
o Maud's hymn, and he began very softl
v for he did not want his mother AM
+ father to hear him. But as he sang, h
lost all thought of them as he though
o. of Maud, and his voice came out louder
k and oh, SO sw city, for he had a beauti
p ful voice "Oh. father" said Mrs
e Baker "Do you hear? It's our dea
Il Maud's hymn, Safe in the Arms o
d Jesus, he is singing, and she burs
t into tears. Come down Philip" Gale
e. his father, when he had finished and "a
$ was still. 1--WE want you.
The boy came down and was astonisl
n ed to see his mother with her apro
k thrown over her head weeping "Sin
e that hymn over again; won't your" sal
his father And Philip went and PIT
r. his arms around his mothers neck
It was years since he had shown any atfe'
1t ton for er-and began to sing. And
d seemed to his father and mother as
2. they had never heard anything so beal
Sc tiful before.