The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1917-03-01

Alaska. In the visits to which his vacations were
mainly given up and in the academic trumphs that
he never neglected to secure, Mis- Sophie saw al
most equally the hand Of God. At last when he was
twenty-five years DID, the Reverend Stephen Orth.
being fully equipped to direct the souls Of men,
ccpted his first parish
They were speaking Of Stephen when his letter
came--the women who sitting, in the warm
late afternoon on the narrow porch Of Sophie Bur
chclls shabby little cottage. But the coincidence
was not as remarkable as though the talks between
Miss Sophie and her friends we're not invariably OF
Stephen and OF the gores he so steadily accumu-
lated. Whatever their private view Of the young
man himself they all shared nowadays, the tender
hypocrisy that made them admire what She touch
ingy presented even probe for what She did not
spontaneously offer They knew SO well that
Stephens own account OF himsef-at school, at cor
lege in the mnistry-had always been the wide
solid fabric upon which her affection had embrod-
cred its flowing pattern; and il was with these in
visible tapestries that the walls OF her life were
hung it was from one TO another OF their splendid
scenes that her eager spirit perpetually auttered
They begged her to neglect them while She read
it, and settled back in their chairs arranging their
kind faces in lines Of wonder and admiraton-for
from Sophie Burches Stephen it was a matter Of
wide report that there was but one kind OF news TO
expect But as she read the tender smile So
phics face stiflened a little. And without rercading
the four hastily written pages, She replaced them in
the envelope There was perhaps no reason why
she should not have read the letter aloud. The
that in her brief reading OF seemed to scorch and
shrivel her was no secret it was being announced.
Stephen said in Chicago But a jealousy that was
stronger for the moment than any pride in him kept
her silent lie should have told her first; and il he
had not these women should not know. Not guess
ing that her artlcss face and hdgeting hands told
plainly story of suppression she placed the letter
in her belt and faced her guests ncrvousy.
ITS quite disappointment to me" She confessed.
with her quaint habit OF understatement Stephen
WON'T be home thi, month, after all
Emily Darrow, Sophie, ministers vile, was the
possessor OF rich experience that included more
than summer at Chautauqua. Does that mean
he's going to some Summer school Miss Burchell2'
She dscerningly suggested These young clergy
are getting to be restless intellectually"
Little Dora Thistcwaite lad the courage OF her
conservatism q always think that intellect isn't
everything, even in preacher" She dariney inter
rupted and explained piou,ly: 1t Ieems to me
they ought not to put too great a Hsn upon their
bodies or they will fail when their hocks need them
Does Stephen keep well, Sophicr
"Oh, perfectly" Sophie paed at the thought "Of
course he does oycrtaN hGself' She added with
subducd pride "lc did % college and he does now
for his people But nave Thought about -aud
watched hm-and e%le,c it must be that-God
gives him strength don't want to seem TO boast
about Stephen, lct isn't II true Evelyn dear you
know about sreh thing isn't it true that the mon
who have do4e grea' things in the world have Away