The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-03-02
CHAPTER xI--Continued.

For just one second the rector's
mother felt an impulse to shake Tod
Boyd. Gail Sargent was a young lady
of whom any young man might APP
prove-and what was the matter with
Tod? She was beginning to be humili-
Rted by the fact that, at thirty-two, he
had not lost his head and made a fool
OF himself, to the point of tight shoes
and poetry, over a girl.
"Why?" and the voice of Mrs. Boyd
was not cold as she had meant II to
be. She had suddenly felt some tug of
sympathy for TOD.
well, for one thing, she has a most
disagreeable lack Of reverence" he
stated.
Reverence" and Mrs Boyd knitted
her brows. Il don't believe you quite
understand her. She has the most
beautifully simple religious faith that
I have yer seer, Tod"
The Rev. Smith Boyd watched his
soup disappearing, as If 1t were some
curious moving object to which his at
IGNITION had just been called.
Miss Sargent claims to have a new
~Ncligion," he observed. She has said
most unkind things about Market
Square church. She says that 1t Is q
strictly comncfcial institution, and
that Its motive In desiring to build the
Sew cathedral ID vanity"
lie omitted to mention Calls further
charge that his eva motive in desiring
tine new cathedral was personal ainbt-
hon. Candor a. not compel that ad-
Risslon. 1t did net become him to act
afom piqued personal pride.
Mrs. Boyd studied him as he gazed
somberly at his ish, and the wrinkles
sace more returned to her eyes, as
eAe made up her mind to cure Tod's
tTitability.
ri am ashamed Of you" she told her
apn. This girl - scarcely twenty. If
remember rightly. and I'm sure that
do. you came % ne, at about twenty,
sAd confessed y q logical disbelief in
che theory of creation, which included,
Uf course, a disbelief in the Creator.
Hou were an fnfidel, sn atheist. You
we're going 10 relinquish your studies
Aad give up all thought Of the churvh."
The deep rsd Of the Rev. S1StsA
1oyd's face testified to the truth Of
Ahis cruel charge, and he pushed back
Ms fish permanently.
II most hunbly confess" he stated,
ND indeed he had writhed in spirit
Many times over that remembrance.
Pdowever, mother, l have since dis
severed that to - a transitional stage
through which every theological stu
Sent passes"
yet you won't allow 1t to a GIRL"
charged Mrs. Boyd, with the severity
which she could much better have ex-
bressed with . laugh. when you dis
sever that this young lady, who seems
- be in every way delightful, 10 SO
nisled as to criticize the motives Of
Market Square church, you withdraw
tAto your dignity, with the privilege Of
. hyman, and announce that you do
rot approve Of heS.' What she needs,
Tod. is religious instruction"
She had carefully ifoned out the
izny little wrinkles around her blue
eyes by the time her son looked up
nom the profound cogitation into
which this reproof had thrown him.
Mother, l have been wrong he
admitted, and he seemed ever so
tnuch brighter fer the confession. He
4rew his fish toward him and ate IL.
Later tho Rev. Smith Boyd present
ed himself at James Sargent's house.
with a new light shining in his heart;
tNna he had blue eyes. He had come
10 show Gail the way and the light.
N she had doubts. and lack 0 faith.
and nippant ir%everence. it was his
lluty to be patient with her. for this
Vas the fault OF youth. He had been
youthful himself.
Calls eyelids dropped and the cor
hners of her lips twitched when Rev.
6mith Boyd's name was brought up
10 her, but ~ Cd her hair in another
way, high on ~ head instead OF low
her aeek, ~ then shs went down.
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Sue vsivS3 ~ rUa1d at the neck.
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1890 noN11 that that would be
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