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And Brother Goshorn, the class-leader at Harden's Cross-Roads, exhorted her to tear every idol from her heart. And still the sweet woman's nature, God's divine law revealed in her heart, did assert itself a little. She planted some pretty-by-nights in an old cracked blue-and-white tea-pot and set it on her window-sill.
And when we sot out for Saratoga, they wuz jest about as long as a shavin' brush, and looked some like one. There wuz no look of a class-leader, and a perfesser about 'em, and I told him so. But he worshiped 'em, and gloried in the idee of goin' afar to show 'em off. But the neighbors received the news that we wuz goin' to a waterin' place coldly, or with ill-concealed envy.
Bully for the parson!" said Squire Pratt. "Parson 'listed?" said the reporter. "They and the women led off in this war. I'm glad of it, brings out the pith in 'em." "I dunno," said Dyke, looking round. "Gaunt's name brought in a dozen; but It's a dirty business, the war. I wish 'n somebody's hands hed stayed clean of it." "It's the Lord's work," said Pratt, with a twang, being a class-leader.
Was the outcome of two generations of unremitting toil merely Ellis? He knew exactly what was Ellis's attitude towards the ideals of old Jack, old Jack the class-leader, who wore clogs till he was thirty, and dined in his shirt-sleeves at one o'clock to the end of his life.
It is a wonderful arrangement for mutual help." "It gives to all our societies a family feeling. We are what we call ourselves brothers and sisters;" and, with a smile, he stretched out his hand to take the one which Phyllis, by some sympathetic understanding, offered him. "There was something like it in the apostolic Church?" "Yes; our class-leader is the apostolic diaconate.
Jonas had not yet arrived, but that he was expected every minute. Roland stood behind the door, and the magistrate and the constables mixed for the nonce with the crowd. Presently a murmur went round. 'Mr. Jonas is coming; and peeping out, Roland saw that saintly individual in a pung, sitting in pious state beside the foremost class-leader of the church.
The man who robs me of my earnings at the end of each week meets me as a class-leader on Sunday morning, to show me the way of life, and the path of salvation. He who sells my sister, for purposes of prostitution, stands forth as the pious advocate of purity. He who proclaims it a religious duty to read the Bible denies me the right of learning to read the name of the God who made me.
I wouldn't have believed that such a likely girl as Mary Forcythe could act so." Poor "contrary" Mary! She was very unhappy. The fatal last morning came. All the boxes were packed. The drays, laden with furniture and beds, stood at the gate. Mrs. Clapp, and Mrs. Elder, the class-leader, were going over the house collecting last things and doing last jobs.
He was successful in business, brought up his family very reputably, and supported his mother comfortably to the end of her days. For many years, he was class-leader in a Methodist church for colored people, and his correct deportment gained the respect of all who knew him.
There was a long silence. "De jedge am bin a class-leader fohty year," said at last old Primus the barber in the background, shaking his woolly poll. Nobody answered. The squire noiselessly laid down the dice and shut the backgammon-board. Major Fetridge rose with a groan: "I'll go over and get a glass of somethin'. Won't some gentleman join me?" Nobody joined him.
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