The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-25
Confessions
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CHILDISH IDEAS OF GOD

Ihat little margaret Ann is q
lamb. Yesterday l was over at
Ehene's and as l always do
went up to the school room.
The governess was out Of the
room and Margaret Ann was sit
| ting in the big chair with her hit
tie feet drawn up under her. AT
her feet sat Bulge and Teddy with
eyes alight and mouths open.
Listen" said Eliene. land you
will certainly hear some story.
That child Is going to make either
the greatest novelist or the great
est liar extant."
Just then a childish voice was
heard. And Budgie. when you
die you can go to heaven II you
want to. All you have to do is to
be good boy and when you die
God takes you right up into
heaven In a golding chariot.
Look here, Margaret Ann" put
in To-day. the Hkeptical, you
haven't got that right tall.
George Patten died the other day
and Bulge and I ruined away
and tagged the wagon In which
they put him. And they took him
out to the simetery and dropped
him in a hole cathud. Now Bulge
and me we watched very carefully
and unless God worked in one of
those mysterious ways his won
ders to perform the man tells
about" said Teddy proudly as he
evidently quoted from something
he had-learned at church or Sun
day school. There was no gold
ing chariot for George, was there,
Budgie?"
well, maybe, Teddy, 1t was
done when we was asleep" said
Budgie, the trusting, who would
believe the moon was made of
green cheese IL Margaret Ann at
firmed it.
II know just how it was" said
Margaret Ann in a triumphant
voice. you see, when folks die
they can have just what they want
just what they ask for, God or
the black-hole-ca-thud. Some ask
for God and some ask for holes.
You see, Charlie might have been
afraid of golding chariets and
took the hole"
Eleine turned to me and said,
Children work it out better than
they know. We all have a chance
to choose, Margie, don't we? and
some of us choose holes; more's
the pity.
While we were thinking about
1t there rose an awful hubbub in
the school room. Eliene rushed
forward and separated the twins
who were pummeling each other
in good shape.
What in the world are you
doing?" asked Eliene as she held
them apart.
WELL" said Budgie, as he
struggled for breath, Teddy just
said that Margaret Ann was either
lying or joking and I told him no
gentleman ever accused a lady of
lying or Joking, and he said Mar
garet Ann was no lady, she was
only a little girl, and l said there
was little girl ladies', and he said,
little girl ladies' your grandmoth-
er, and then l hit him."
81 think you are both horrid,"
said Margaret Ann. you know
that God hates a liar, but, of
course, God can take a joke"
Eliene looked at me in constorna-
ton. What would that child
think OF next?
well, I'll tell you something
that is no Joke" she said to the
children. "Budgie and Teddy
must not fight each other no mat
ter how mad they get, and little
Margaret Ann better tell her moth
er all her intimate ideas about
God and get her mothers opinion
on the subject before she talks
about it,"
There is nothing very splendid
about what mother tells me, Aunt
Eliene," protested Margaret Ann.
II can think up a lot of things
that beat anything she says all to
pieces"
well, you had better use your
thinking cap on your lessons. A
thesis on God will keep until you
are older"