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Updated: June 23, 2025
Sue, run and sit in that rocking-chair on the porch and watch the cows going into the big barn. Do you remember, Eldress Abby, the second time I came, how you sat me down in the kitchen with a bowl of wild strawberries to hull for supper?
"Yee, I've no doubt they keep the worst of the world's people, those that are living in carnal marriage without a thought of godliness, I've no doubt children keep that sort from going to the lowest perdition," allowed Eldress Abby; "and those we bring up in the Community make the best converts; but to a Shaker, the greater the sacrifice, the greater the glory.
The Shaker and Shakeress, a monthly journal, edited by Elder Frederick Evans and Eldress Antoinette Doolittle, is the organ of the society; and in its pages their views are set forth with much shrewdness and ability.
But the idea was too new and too subtle to follow up, so the result of that troubled hour in the mill-chamber was only that he made no very resolute objection to Athalia's acceptance of Eldress Hannah's permission to come. It had been given grudgingly enough.
When the time was up, she said in a meek little mite of a voice, 'I think I'm least in the Kingdom now, Eldress Abby! 'Then run outdoors, I said. She kicked up her heels like a colt and was through the door in a second.
"But don't you believe He sees the difference between a person that comes to Him when there is nowhere else to turn a person that's tried all and found it wanting and one that gives up freely pleasure, and gain, and husband, and home, to follow the Christ life?" "Yes, He must, He must," Susanna answered faintly. "But the children, Eldress Abby!
The Mother Eldress crossed her hands on her bosom, while she meekly bowed her head, and expressed her gratitude that she should have been so remarkably favoured. It was evident, however, to Clara, that some of the Sisters were sceptical on the subject.
"Abby!" called Elder Gray, stepping into the entry of the Office Building. "Yee, I'm coming," Eldress Abby answered from the stairway. "Go right out and sit down on the bench by the door, where I can catch a few minutes' more light for my darning; the days seem to be growing short all to once. Did Lemuel have a good sale of basket-work at the mountains?
She had been in the habit of late of sending for Clara to impart religious instruction, which, she observed, she much required; not failing at times, however, to lecture her severely. The day after the Mother Eldress had recovered from her illness the Lady Superior addressed Clara in a more serious tone even than usual.
Might n't two people walk together to God if both chose the same path?" "It's my belief that one can find the road better alone than when somebody else is going alongside to distract them. Not that the Lord is going to turn anybody away, not even when they bring Him a lot of burned-out trash for a gift," said Eldress Abby, bluntly.
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