The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-06-15, Page 2THURSDAY, JUNE 15th, 1039 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
“You make lfie a kind of play,” I i........................
said Betty as she wonderingly obey-.ed off for church, ed. “It doesn’t seem right to be! “I
dolled up like this to make a bed.”
Presently they heard the doctor
•coming upon the porch and Betty
in the slim blue dress went to open
the door, her hair a little gold flame
of light about her shapely head.
Marjorie, standing back in the tiny
parlor almost out of view had time
to notice the quick look of interest
in the doctor’s face as he took ac
count of the exceedingly pretty girl
who was meeting him, and the little
flush of rose that crept up into
Betty’s cheeks as she met his gaze.
Then the doctor turned and look
ed keenly at Marjorie.
“Oh, you’re the new sister, aren’t
you?” he said pleasantly. “Aren't
you twins? Yo.u- look so very much
alike, I doubt if I could have told you
apart if I hadn't met Miss Betty sev
eral times before.”
Marjorie looking up caught a
bright flame of color on Betty’s face
and thought how pretty she looked
in the new dress. She wondered in
passing if this nice pleasant
was interested in her sister.
Betty lingered a moment
door talking with the doctor,
him particularly about her mother’s
diet and medicine, and the young
doctor looked at her approvingly
and smiled as he finally went out.
Ever since she had arrived Mar
jorie had been planning what she
would do, but there hadn’t as yet
been time to carry out her plans.
“Monday you and I ought to go
out and do some shopping for Christ
mas.” Marjorie said to Betty as they
were putting everything in shining
order Saturday evening after supper.
“Christmas shoppng, my eye! A
lot of Christmas shopping I could do.
I haven’t got ten cents of my own,”
said Betty ruefully.
“Oh, yes you have,” laughed Mar
jorie. “Look in you purse. I put
some in there this afternoon while
you were down at the store and it’s
for Christmas shopping and nothing
else.”
, “Do you think I would go Christ
mas shopping with your money?”
asked Betty scornfully.
“It's not my money,” laughed her
sister, ‘it's ours, I gave it to you so
we could have some fun. You don’t
think it’s any fun, do you, to do all
the shopping alone, and not have
anybody else be getting up secrets
too? Now don’t act that wky.”
“And I used to think you were
selfish!” said Betty scornfully.
It was .Sunday morning while they
were getting breakfast together that
Marjorie asked quite casually:
“Where do you go to church? Is
is far from here?”
Betty stopped stirring the pancake
battei’ she was preparing and stared
“Go to church?” she laughed. ‘We
don’t go. We haven’t since we left
Brentwood. For one thing we didn’t
•have the clothes to go there or any
where else. And for another thing
I guess we were all too discouraged
and disheartened to bother
church. People don’t feel
interested in going to church
they are having such a time as
had. It isn’t easy to believe in a
God who lets people like Father and
Mother suffer as they have done,
don’t believe in a God myself.
Marjorie looked at her aghast.
“Oh, Betty! That’s awful! You
mustn’t talk that way.”
“Why not, I’d like to know? Do
you believe in God?”
“Certainly.”
“Why do
Marjorie
fully.
“I never
why,” she .said slowly,
certainly do!”
“Well, I didn’t mean to worry you,
only you asked about going to church
and I suppose you’IL he disapponted
in us if that’s what you expect of us.
Not one of ius goes to church except
Ted. He’s the religious one of the
flock.”
“Ted?” said Marjorie lifting as
tonished eyes. •
“Yes, Ted. He’s as faithful as the
clock. He walks away back to
Brentwood every Sunday. He's got a
crush.on a young preacher back
there, and we can’t keep him away.
.He’ll probably want to walk you way
out there with .him if you suggest
church to him.” !
“Why, I’d love to,” said Marjorie. ’
“Why don’t we both go? It’s a gor
geous morning.”
“Thanks, no.” said Betty coldly,
“I don’t feel religiously inclined and
anyway, I haven't a coat. You could
not just divide your coat with me,
although I presume you would if it
were possible. Besides, it’s you that
wants to go to church, not me. Here,
Ted,” as the boy came in from the
street, “here’s a candidate to go to
church with you.”
Ted looked at Marjorie with a sud
den sparkle in his eyes.
“Sure, I’ll take her,” he said dif
fidently. “But you haveta walk.
There’s no care line except a long
roundabout way.”
“I’ll love to walk!” said Marjorie
doctor
at the
asking
about
much
when
we’ve
1
you?”
looked at her thought
stopped to think aboiut
“but I do. 1
So Marjorie and her brother start- to keep his hold on the dishpan which
j he had been trying to right, and
guess you’ll be ashamed of me, | when Betty removed him from the
but they don’t mind clothes where!sink the dishpan with its remaning
we’re going.” j dirty water came along, and deluged
“No,” said Marjorie thoughtfully, Betty who had just chanegd her kit-
“I’m not ashamed of you, I’m proud chen dress for the pretty little house
of you. Things like that are only*
comparative, anyway, aren’t they?
They shouldn’t have any part in go
ing to church.”
Ted eyed her speculatively, and
finally ventured another question:
“I guess you’re saved aren’t you?”
“Saved?" said Marjorie altogether
startled. The phrase was not common
among the young people she knew.
“You haveta.be born again, you
know'.”
She gave him another keen look
and as if she were answereing the
question in her eyes h said:
“You believe, you know', that’s
how’ you get saved. You just believe.”
“Believe?” said Marjorie inquir
ingly. She didn’t say “believe what”
But her tone said it. So he answered.
“Believe that Jesus is the Son of
God and died to take our sins upon
Himself and suffer their penalty.”
He explained it gravely, as if he had
done it before, and understood thor
oughly what it meant.
“Why, I guess I believe that,”
said Marjorie, “I've never really
thought much about it, but I believe
it of course. It’s all in the Bible,
isn’t it? I believe the Bible. I wras
taught to believe it when I w'as very
young, I’m not sure I know’ much
about it.”
“Gee, it’s great when you get to
studying it!" said Ted irrevantly.
Marjorie looked at him in surprise.
“Have you ever studied it?”
“Sure! We had Bible classes twice
week at the Brentwood chapel.
Gosh, I wras sorry to move away!”
“You must have had a good teach
er," said Marjorie wonderingly.
“I’ll say he was! He was swell!
He seemed to know just what you’d
been going through that day, and
how to show you where you’d got off
the track, see?”
“Who is this teacher?”
“Gideon Reaver’s his name. He’s
just a young fella, only been out of
Seminary a little over- a year, but he
certanly knows his Bible,
preach all
ever heard
him. You’ll
“Well, I
keep from going crazy over
Marjorie smiled.
Ted turned red.
“Oh, you’re not like that. You’re
sensible! But he’s a prince, you know
I’m not blaming ’em for going crazy
over him. If I were a girl I might
do it myself.”
“Did Betty used to go to c-hurch
w’ith you when yo-u lived in Brent
wood,” asked Marjorie.
Ted’s face darkened.
“No!” he said shortly. “She would
not go. She said she had no time
for church. ‘She was all taken up
with a poor fish in the office where
she worked. He useta come out in
a second-hand roadster and take her
places. He made me sick. Had one
of those little misplaced eyebrows
on his lip, thought he was smart
could smoke more cigarettes in an
hour than anybody I ever heard of,
and wore his hat way off on the back
of his head like he was bored with
the world and thought he was foo
good to associate with common
people.”
“Then she doesn’t know Gideon
Reaver?”
“No, she wouldn’t be introduced
one day when I brought him home.
She said she didn’t care to know
preachers, they would bore her, and
dress Marjorie had given her that
morning. iShe had been upstairs get
ting into array to meet the doctor
when she heard the tumult down
stairs.
Betty looked at herself in horror
and gasped, the more so as the na
ture of the element that was doused
over her was gradually revealed by
the dregs of dirt in the dishpan.
Then suddenly Betty looked up
and saw the doctor standing in the
doorway with the most comical look
of amusement and pity on his face
than a man could wear, and at once
Betty knew that she too was crying!
The utmost humiliation that
could bring had descended upon
The handsome young docor had
her like this, wet and dirty and
angry!
And all limp and dirty as she was
she sank down ino a kitchen chair
and burst into real weeping.
If she could have seen the doctor’s
face at that moment she would have
been surprised. The -comical look
of amusement vanished utterly and
a look of utter tenderness and sym
pathy came into his eyes. In one-mo
tion he set down his medicine case
on a chair in the hall behind him and
strode over to Betty.
“Poor child!” he said. “You’ve
been working too hard. We’ll have
you in bed the next thing if you
don’t look out. Here!” he sain
seizing upon a towel that hung on
the rack above the sink.
The doctor wet the end of the
towel and came over to Bett^, lifting
her face very gently and wiping off
the tears with the wet towel.
“There!” he said cheerfully. “You
will feel better now. Nothing like
cool water to brace one up.”
Sullenly Betty looked up
laughed. Laughed with the
streaming down her cheeks.
• The doctor came over to
again, taking a clean handkerchief
out of his pocket, and lifting her chin
with one hand gently wiped the tears
away.
Betty stopped laughing and her
face hold something almost like awe.
The doctor smiled indulgently as
he hurried upstairs. Betty smiled at
herself and wondered if all doctors
were so cheerful and comforting. It
was probably just because he was a
doctor that he had been so nice to
her.. But it thrilled her to think
of his wiping her tears, of the touch
of his smooth fingers lifting her chin
so gently. It was that sense of be
ing cared for that touched her,
brought the tears to her eyes.
“Fool!” she told herself bitterly.
“It didn’t mean a thing! He was just
{being kind and impersonal! He’s pro-
jbably in love with some charming*
1 nurse or maybe married to an heir
ess. Any good man might have
done just what he did and think
nothing of it. He was just being
kind and helping me out of a mess.”
She stared after him wistfully as he
went out to the car and drove away,
and then she hurried upstairs to take
off the pretty dress.
Marjorie sitting in the pretty lit
tle old stone church of a hundred
years ago, and listening to the young
preacher making salvation plainer
than she had ever heard before, was
happier than she had ever been in
church before.
It was as if a strong sea breeze
I were blowing through the little
_____ _ —„ ------ ----- —, — ’audience room, waking up and re-
it might be embarrassing to have him i freshing every mind to keener intel
hanging around. Oh, she makes me | ligence. As if a holy kind of glory
sick, sometimes.”-------------------------i pervaded the place. She heard one
“I guess she’s had rather a hardwoman explaining to another. “Why,
time,” suggested Marjorie gently. jThe Holy Spirit is here!”
“Sure she has! We’ve all had ai Then, too, the singing here .seem-
hard time. And she’s been a good ed to have a different sound from
scout, worked like everything to take I that in ordinary churches. The people
care of Mother and Father, and all sank the words as if they meant
-sometimes she makes them, and the music rose like incense
from an altar and seemed to mingle
life
her.
seen
very
a
and
tears
her
He can
around any preacher I
before. But you’ll hear
see what he’s like.”
hope I shall be able to
him,”
i
that, but still-
me sick.
He
voice
wood
hill? ___ ____ -- ... - . ______ _ . ___ -- - ..
long low stone house with the white-source of all knowledge, the
pillars to the porch? Isn’t that some j hidden treasury of a CLJ
swell location? And there! Upon my I wealth.word if there doesn’t come Gideon! So she sat and listened wide-eyea
Reaver now!” {to the eager young preacher with the
Then Marjorie looked up to see a ] wonderful holy eyes who seemed as
tall finely built young man coming
I toward her with astonishingly won-
! derful eyes that seemed to have seen
further into life than most men see,
yet that had a -deep sweet settled
peace in them. She wondered if it
could be real, She had never seen
a young man who had that look,
Maentime back in Aster street
Betty was havng a time of her own.
A united howl arose.
Betty came flying down stairs, her
eyes flashing fire! she beheld a drip
ping crowd of children.
“Buddie Gay! What are you doing?
You naughty, naughty boy!”
Betty seized Bud’s arm and jerked
him back from the sink, but some
subconscious reaction compelled him
9 9
suddenly broke off and his j with the heavenly choirs above.
grew jubilant.” There’s Brent-i But now suddenly it seemed that
now! Bee it up there on the I the Bible was the guide book for the
And that’s our 'house, that Christian’s way, the indispensable
j deep
Christian’s
he talked to be looking into another
world.
When the sermon was over sne
felt breathless as if 'she had been
privileged a glimpse into Heaven it-
’self, as if God had been there speak
ing to her soul through the lips of
this young man. She was filled with,
awe, Her heart throbbed a response
as though she wanted to answer a
high sweet call she had heard for the
first time.
“You have shewn me so many
things,” she said to him afterwards
as they stood together at the door
a moment, waiting for Ted to gather
aip the hymn books and straighten
the extra chairs for the night service.
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never knew the Bible was a book like
that!”
He gave her a startled look.
“Oh, didn’t you? I’m glad I help
ed,” he smiled. “I hope you’ll come
again.”
“Oh, I will!” she said fervently.
“What you have said seems to be
something I’ve been searching for a
long time.”
His face lit'up with a kind of glory
light.
“Oh, I am glad!” he said quietly.
Then came Ted with his shy smile
of adoration.
“I wish I could run you home in
my car, Ted,” said the young preach-«
er wistfully, “but I have a funeral
in half an hour, and just barely time
to get to it. Sorry, I’d enjoy taking
you.”
He included Marjorie in his smile.
“Oh, that’s all right, Mr. Reaver,”
said Ted shiningly. “I’m going to
take my sister over to see our old
place. She’s never seen it, yo-u know.”
And then as- the minister looked
at her inquiringly, Ted ex.plained.
“You know she’s been awayxfor a
long time. She’s never^Oen it.”
“Oh,” said the minister looking a*
Marjorie quickly azain, “then you’re
not the sister I saw before? I thoug>ht,
there was something different. ^botit you. You’re not twiiis^ai^y^u?”
“Yes,” smiled Marjorie, “and i
guess we’re quite alike in looks at
least.” «
(To be Continued)
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Usborne Council
The Municipal Council of Usborne
Township met on June 3, with all the
members present. Minutes of meet
ings held on May 6 and May 25 were
adopted on motion by Berry and
Fisher.
Correspondence was received as
follows:
From the District Municipal En
gineer, granting approval by the
Dept, of Highways on selection of
tenders for current contracts. Filed.
From the Dept, of Municipal Af
fairs, listing Legislation relating to
the Municipalities passed at the 1939
Session of the Legislature and also
a copy of the 1939 Amendments to
the Assessment Act. Filed,
From the 'County Clerk, fixing
Usborne’s allotment of 'County taxes
tor 1939 at $12,890.46, made up as
follows: General 'County rate $4,-
397.99; County Highways, $4,642.-
33; Provincial Highways, $733,00;
Secondary iSehools, $3,117.14. The
Clerk was instructed to compute the
County Rate required on the Revis
ed Assessment and submit to July
meeting.
A resolution was passed 'giving
the Clerk instructions to present an
account by mail for all outstanding
indigent hospital accounts, where the
patient is living or where an estate
has been left and in future to pre
sent an account when any indigent
leaves hospital.
Another Resolution was unani
mously adopted, instructing the Road
Superintendent to allow Ratepayers
to rent the Power Grader at the rate
of $2.00 per hour for use on their
lanes. Accounts to be paid in cash
to the Treasurer of failing in this the
account shall be presented to the
Clerk by the Road Superintendent
and shall be added to the Collector’s
Roll and collected with other taxes.
The 'Clerk was instructed to se
cure one copy of the 1939 'Statutes.
Treasurer’s Report -— Receipts
for Month of May, Tax Arrears and
penalty and interest thereon $1,287.-
97; balance of cash on hand, June 1,
1939, $3113.03.
Expenditures for Month of May —
Road Superintendents voucher $817.-
11; relief voucher and administra
tion $15.60; miscellaneous expendi
ture, $59.59.
At 2 p.m. the Council adjourned
to form a Court of Revision for the
hearing of Appeals on the 1939 As
sessment Roll and each member took
the Oath as required by the Assess
ment Act.
Seven property appeals were heard
of which two were farms and five
small properties. In the case of
four of the small properties the As
sessment was sustained. $200.00 re
duction was allowed on each of the
two farms and $100.00 additional
exemption was allowed on the resi
dence occupied by the Kirkton Lib
rary Board by reason of containing
a Public Library.
Two dogs were struck from the
Roll and one added.
Adjustments were made in the As
sessment of two farms not appealing
on the suggestion of the Assessor,
making the total reduction in the
Revision $850.00.
The .Revised Roll for Usborne for
19.39 shows a total Assessment of
$2,630,93-5.
The Clerk was instructed to noti
fy all appellants and others affected
by the decisions of the Court of de
cisions arrived at, giving each the
opportunity of appeal.
The Court of Revision was closed
on motion of Berry and Hodgert.
Council adjourned to meet on Fri
day, June 3 0, 19 3 9 -at 1 p.m.
A. W. Morgan, Clerk
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