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Groody, from the hotel. Hannibal met them, and stated the doctor's orders. Mrs. Allen and Laura did not feel equal to facing any one. Though the old servant was excessively polite, the callers felt rather slighted that they saw no member of the family. They went away a little chilled in consequence, and contented themselves thereafter by sending a few delicacies and inquiring how Edith was.
He can't be different in heaven from what He was on earth?" "No," said Mrs. Groody, quickly, "for the Bible says He is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever." "I never read in that place," said Edith, simply. "That makes it clearer and stronger than ever. Please, don't think I am setting myself up as a religious teacher. I know very little yet myself. I am only seeking the light.
"I see that you are such a lady, and it seems that you ought to find some lady-like work, if you must do it," said Mrs. Groody, musingly. "We have tried to get employment almost any kind. I can't think my sister would have taken her desperate course if we could have obtained something to do. I know she ought to have starved first.
Groody, settling back into something of her old gloom. "I'm afraid I've sinned away my time." With a strange blending of pathos and reproach in her tone, Edith answered: "Oh, how can YOU, with your big, kind heart, that yearned over a poor unknown girl that dreadful night when you brought me home how can you think so poorly of your Saviour? Is your heart warmer are your sympathies larger than His?
"Bless the child, she's right, she's right," sobbed Mrs. Groody. "It was just so at first. He came right among people, and called all sorts to Him, and they came to Him just as they was, and stayed with Him, and He cured, and helped, and taught 'em, till, from being the worst, they became the best.
But see how He feels about poor lost Zell, when I, her own sister, was almost hating her," and, reaching her hand to the table, she took her Bible and read Christ's words to "a woman of the city, which was a sinner." At this Mrs. Groody broke down completely, and with clasped hands and streaming eyes, cried: "I will go to Him; I will fear and doubt no more."
"Is dat you, Miss Edie?" called Hannibal's anxious voice. "Good-night, my dear," said Mrs. Groody, hastily, "Don't lose courage. I ain't on as good terms with the Lord as I ought to be. I seem too worried and busy to 'tend to religion; but I know enough about Him to be sure that He will take care of a poor child that wants to do right."
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