Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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arable I used to slip softlyto the door, open it the merest crack, thrustmy hand through, seize Williams coat tail ashe passed, give it an authoritative tug frombehind, then close the door and walk trem-blingly back to my chair in the next room. Icannot say what might have happened if hehad failed to heed this hint of maternal provi-dence over my son, but he always did. Now, sir, I would hear him say, speakingsternly, get your Bible and memorize thethird and tenth verses of the twenty-sixthchapter of Isaiah! The third reads: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth inthee; and the tenth one reads terribly: Let favour beshewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness;in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and willnot behold the majesty of the Lord. I do not know how William could remember the versesof the Scriptures so accurately under disturbing circum-stances, but he invariably dosed Peter with both kindsof punishment.
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Peter Wrote That He Had Decided to Enter the Ministry Then he would go out to make pastoral visits, and nodoubt to quiet his nerves, for he was always mournfullyupset by these Jehovah seances with Peter. Then my sonwould slip quietly through the dining-room door andappear before me, standing at a little distance, wishful andindignant, his face tear-stained, still rubbing his shouldersthrough his thin summer jacket. This was his way oftempting me. But I always resisted, except possibly Imay have regarded him with too much tenderness fordisciplinary purposes. Peter, I would say, you did wrongYour father did right to punish you. Nowtake a bath and get your Bible! I always made him take that baptismal batljafterward, because it soothed and cooled hi!heated body and still hotter temper. And Ialways saw that he knew the penitential verse)before his father returned. Children are more than intelligent, they anclairvoyant. They know us so much bettethan we know them. Peter has told me sine*tha

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