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Could ye be buyin' a home for childher an' dogs for the price of a penny?" The queen nodded. "Would it be big enough for nine childher an' one dog; an' would it be afther havin' all improvements like Miss Peggie an' the House Surgeon?" Again the queen nodded. Bridget lowered her voice. "An' could we put up a sign furninst, 'No Trusters Allowed'?" "I shouldn't wonder."
As the children specified, there are no "trusters"; and it has all the modern improvements, including Margaret MacLean, who is still "Miss Peggie," although she is married to their new Senior Surgeon. There is one very particular thing about the Home which ought to be mentioned. When the children arrived Toby was on the steps, barking a welcome.
Now all we've got to do is to forget trusters an' humps an' pains an' them disagreeable things, an' think o' somethin' pleasant." "Ain't nothin' pleasant ter think of in er horspital," wailed John, the present disheartenment clouding over all past happiness. "Ain't, neither," agreed James. "Aye, there be," contradicted Sandy. "Dinna ye ken the wee gray woman 'at cam creepity round an' smiled?"
"It's them trusters," wailed Peter. "They come a-peekin' round to see we don't get well." "They alters calls us 'uncurables," moaned Susan. "Pig of water-drinking Americans!" came from the last cot. "Ye shut up, Michael! Who did ye ever hear say that?" "Mine fader." And Michael spat in a perfect imitation thereof. "Well, don't ye ever say it ag'in do ye hear?
We are like them when, in any trouble, we do not trust him. It is hard on God, when his children will not let him give; when they carry themselves so that he must withhold his hand, lest he harm them. To take no care that they acknowledge whence their help comes, would be to leave them worshippers of idols, trusters in that which is not. Distrust is atheism, and the barrier to all growth.
Where these acts are acts expressive of trust, trust, e.g., that a man is honest, that our health is good enough, or that we can make a successful effort, which acts may be a needed antecedent of the trusted things becoming true. I doubt whether Professor Taylor would himself be in favor of practically handling trusters of these kinds as liars.
'Not many wise men after the flesh, but humble trusters in Jesus Christ, are the victors in the world. Believe you that, and order your lives accordingly. Oh! what a reversal of this world's estimates is coming one day, when the names that stand high in the roll of fame shall pale, like photographs that have been shut up in a portfolio, and when you take them out have faded off the paper.
Don't ye mind the time the trusters had planned to give us all paint-boxes for Christmas, an' half of us not able to hold a brush, let alone paint things, an' Miss Peggie blarneyed them round into givin' us books? Don't ye mind? Now we've got somethin' pleasant here, right now " And Bridget smiled. "What?" "May Eve." "What's that?"
My brother! there is one support that is safe, and one stay upon which a man can lean his whole weight and be sure that the staff will never either break or pierce his palm, and that is the faithful God, in whose realm are no disappointments, amongst whose trusters are no heart-broken and deceived men, but who gives bountifully, and over and above all that we are able to ask or think.
Miss Peggie's American, and so's the House Surgeon, an' it's the next best thing to bein' Irish which every one can't be, the Lord knows. Now them trusters is heathen, an' they don't know nothin' more'n heathen, an' we ought to be easy on 'em for bein' so ignorant." "They ken us 'll nae mair be gettin' weel," said Sandy, mournfully. "Aw, ye're talkin' foolish entirely.
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