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Half a Century

CHAPTER XVI
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Everypody likes you, caus you is bleasant mit everypody." As he talked he drew his sleeve across his eyes, while his wife and daughter comforted me.

I would board there and finish my school, then go to Butler and take the seminary, or a place in the common school.
I saw no one as I passed my late home next morning.

In school the first exercise was bible, reading verse about with the pupils.

The xxv (25) chapter of Matthew came in order, and while reading its account of the final judgment, I saw as by a revelation why this trouble had been sent to me, and a great flood of light seemed thrown across my path before me.
Christ's little ones were sick and in prison, and I had not visited them! Old Martha, standing before her judges, rose up to upbraid me! I was to have followed the Lamb, and had been making butter to add to an estate larger now than the owner could use.

No wonder she thought I stole the money.


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