rmth and cheer were in sharp contrast to the evening without. It was raining hard and everything was s

th him was his wife with a pile of stockings to be mended, in her lap. Beyond them, a small fire-place with rough stone dogs. A spruce fire crackled like pop corn and did its best to dissipate anything

ake the empty chair. He paused long enough for me to be comfortably seated and resumed his reading. He was in the midst of th

. You understand it, Effie," he said, turning to his wife. "It's the picture

ht of the cuddling power of love, when He stood on Olivet and looked down on the sin

n't find any Lander who did know. Finally I got an Englishman to look it up in a book he had and he told me it was something that went all around the body. Then

alm until he came to the word angels, and then

needs 'em. When we get the listenin' habit, we'll all hear 'em, and when we get to the trustin' habit, we'll obey 'em when they bring us messages. I reckon they've helped me a good deal. Sometimes they guide me to a big haul of fish,

paused and then rea

ming true. Good little kids die; and tough, scaly old rascals live on poking fun at the righteous. I

e benefit here and now in this life. Well, if the Lord had each one of us alone working out the promises, it would be very easy for Him and for us, but He's seen fit to let us live together and we interfere with one another considerable; but He thinks it best

his wife questioned him, naturally

ake it, it doesn't make much difference whether the bounty and the blessing He's intended for each of us comes one day or another, so long as it never fails to come. If this earth day was all I couldn't believe in Him as I do, but when I remember that there are days that have no ending, wh

med to relax its effort now that it was no longer necessary to read the print. I had learned in the few weeks that I had known Jim, that silence even more than speech hath her

ve you been

this home. There's been rain, but the sun came out the quicker because of the tog

to tell me such parts of his own l

d many reasons why a man should be converted before he is married. If there is anythi

morning. Then I come to see that a man needed a home on shore as well as a boat on the sea; that a man would be

e command in Genesis: To be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. I halted there that night for a spell o' thinkin' and I came to the conclusion that I ought to do my part and leave some one else to take my place and fish when I lay down the hooks. Th

ries an answer to a man who prays and then stands round idle waitin' for his answer. S

light rested on her hair and it shimmered and she looked up as I come by and we both smiled. Sir, then, I knew, just as plain as a straight, taut line that she

alked. I'd inquired and found her name was Effie Streeter. Now what I said and the walks we had together wouldn't interest you, and anyhow

I'd a proposed to her on the ordinary walk on an ordinary evening, she might have accepted but it wouldn't have come with the happine

r beyond Brigus and would like to have her go with me on the train the next m

here, but some seasons you can go somewhere a

colder up at Brigus and I took along my great coat, so she would be sure to be warm.

e turned to her acquiescing smile. "But I had the place all selected

summer the laurel was redder than ever I have seen it, before or since. Away beyond was Conception Bay with its hills and the wonderful

forgotten it to this day, and I am glad I haven't. Some forget what

t a spell, a holdin' hands and lookin

to say is the one God said when it was dark and He decided to make it light. It's the word He said when the world was tired and He decided to send His Son and it's the one word the Son spoke that has been changing the world since. Th

t began to snow. Yes, we have once in a while a snow storm in summer, and we did that year. Then I took the great coat I had

n it, all the spruce and firs standing and looking and worshipping, if trees worship. And I said: I guess it's the Lord's way of saying, H

tes laugh at our railroads, but do you know I never went a journey where the tra