Did Lemuel have
a good sale of basket-work at the mountains? Rosetta has n't done so well for
years at Old Orchard. We seem to be prospering in every material direction,
Daniel, but my heart is heavy somehow, and I have to be instant in prayer to
keep from discouragement."
"It has n't been an altogether good year with us spiritually," confessed
Daniel; "perhaps we needed chastening."
"If we needed it, we've received it," Abby ejaculated, as she pushed her
darning-ball into the foot of a stocking. "Nothing has happened since I came
here thirty years ago that has troubled me like the running away of Nathan and
Hetty. If they had been new converts, we should have thought the good seed had
n't got fairly rooted, but those children were brought to us when Nathan was
eleven and Hetty nine."
"I well remember, for the boy's father and the girl's mother came on the same
train; a most unusual occurrence to receive two children in one day."
"I have cause to remember Hetty in her first month, for she was as wild as a
young hawk. She laughed in meeting the first Sunclay, and when she came back,
I told her to sit behind me in silence for half an hour while I was reading my
Bible.
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