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As for Tobias and Henrietta, they was roundin' the turn by the fust house in Denboro, wavin' by-bys to us over the back of the seat. "We went home then; and every foot of the way Cap'n Jonadab called an automobile a new kind of name, and none complimentary. The boarders, they got wind of what had happened and begun to rag him, and the more they ragged, the madder he got and the more down on autos.
JEREMIAH xxxv. 19. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever. Let us think a while this morning what this text has to do with us; and why this strange story of the Rechabites is written for our instruction, in the pages of Holy Scripture. Let us take the story as it stands, and search the Scriptures simply for it.
Only Effie looked as if she enjoyed the turnin'. She never spoke nor moved, just stared after that buggy with her black eyes sparklin' like burnt holes in a blanket. "I was too astonished to say anything, but Jonadab had his eye on that smashed platter and HE had things to say, plenty of 'em.
"I wouldn't know an incognito if I stepped on one, but the tenor voice of him kind of made me sick. "'All right, I snaps, sarcastic. 'Suppose I call you "Willie." How'll that do? "'Do as well as anything, I guess, he says. Didn't make no odds to him. If I'd have called him 'Maud, he'd have been satisfied. "He waited in Annex Number Two, which was skippered by Cap'n Jonadab.
And for God; the Father of all fathers; our Father in heaven Oh, my friends, God grant that it may never be said to any of us, Behold the words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his children, are performed: but ye have not hearkened unto me.
"And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you; therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before me for ever."
They might surely have been trusted to have their boy's interests at heart, and must be better judges of those interests than he, at twenty-one, could be expected to be: besides if Jonadab, the son of Rechab's father or perhaps it might be simpler under the circumstances to say Rechab at once if Rechab, then, had left handsome legacies to his grandchildren why Jonadab might not have found those children so easy to deal with, etc.
"Then the machine buzzed off in a typhoon of dust and I went back to Jonadab, who was a livin' catechism of questions which neither one of us could answer." "So THAT'S the end!" exclaimed Captain Bailey. "Well " "No, it ain't the end not even yet. Maybe it ought to be, but it ain't. There's a little more of it.
There's ha'f a dozen Orham folks aboard diff'rent steamers that hail from this port, and 'twouldn't be no more'n neighborly to call on 'em. There's Silas Baker's boy, Asa he's with the Savannah Line and he'd be mighty glad to see us. And there's "But Jonadab held up his hand.
She was pretty pale, but she managed to smile back. I got up off the floor and slumped on the cushions. As for Cap'n Jonadab Wixon, he'd stopped yellin', but his face was one broad, serene grin. His mouth, through the dust and the dirt caked around it, looked like a rain gully in a sand-bank. And, occasional, he crowed, hoarse but vainglorious. "'Did you see me? he barked.
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