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The Deacon of Dobbinsville

CHAPTER IX
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O brethren, the day is dawning, the light is shining.

How glad I am that I have lived to see this day." When Grandma Gray had well-nigh exhausted her feeble strength in exhorting the people to come to Jesus and accept his truth, she sank into her big willow chair and silently prayed.

For a brief period there was a deathlike stillness over the audience.
For years Grandma Gray had lived a life that could not be gainsaid.
True, she spoke in her testimony about her up-and-down life, but when compared with the average professed Christian's life in that community, hers was above reproach.

In her extreme age she spoke as one from the border-lands of eternity, and her words naturally had a profound effect.
Jake Benton was next to testify.

He was simply overwhelmed with joy, and spoke at some length of his hope of someday being reunited with his darling girl in the skies.


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