Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 11, 2025
"I'll have to talk more to you about this, Samuel. Good night." "Good night, deacon." "He knows more'n you do about religion," said Mrs. Kimper, who had followed closely behind, and who rejoined her husband as soon as the deacon departed. "He ought to, seein' his head-piece an' chances; an' yet I've heerd some pooty hard things said about him."
But think a moment: do you really believe that any form of professional pride would persuade that young man proud as Lucifer, and just as conceited and headstrong, a young man who always has argued against religion and against every belief you and I hold dear to rise for prayers in an inquiry meeting, and afterwards say it was the Christian life of Sam Kimper, a man whom a high-born fellow like Bartram must believe as near the animals as humanity ever is, to say it was the Christian life of Sam Kimper that convinced him of the supernatural origin and saving power of Christianity?"
"Well, dear, is that any reason why you should be jealous of poor Sam Kimper?" "Jealous!" exclaimed Eleanor, her eyes flashing: "he is the worst enemy I ever had. I haven't had so much annoyance and trouble in all my life as have come to me during the past two or three days through that wretched man. I wish him almost any harm. I even wish he had never gone to the penitentiary" Mrs.
Kimper, too, was enabled to dress well enough to appear in church, though she stipulated that she should go only to evening services. "I don't 'mount to much, Mrs. Prency," said she to the family's benefactor; "there ain't much left of me as I once was, but I ain't goin' to have people look at me the way they do, any more than I can help." "The feeling does you credit, Mrs.
If there's any other man in this county that's had more opportunities of knowin' all about it, I don't know who he can be." There was silence for a moment or two. Sam quickened his labors upon the shoe, and the lady bent her gaze closely upon the shoemaker. At last she said, "Mr. Kimper, don't mistake the meaning of what I am going to ask you.
But he also was a man of quick perceptions: so, as the meetings went on, and he realized that their impetus was due not at all to anything he had said or done, but solely to the personal example of Sam Kimper, he fell into deep thought and retrospection.
Well, it blowed like ev'rythin' this afternoon as I was goin' towards Price's, an' that string of shoes just whirled around like a kite-tail, an' at last the bottom pair flew off into the street. An' I picked 'em up." "Findin's is keepin's," said Mrs. Kimper. "Give me them shoes, my boy," said the ex-convict. "You're goin' to take 'em away from me?
Guide, you must be losing your mind!" "As you intimated about your own business affairs, deacon, that is a subject upon which I am better qualified to judge than you. The meetings will be held, and Mr. Kimper will be asked to assist. In fact, I already have asked him. I trust that his presence will not cause us to lose such valuable assistance as you yourself may be able to give."
You're not going to make me believe at my time of life that I've been all wrong, and that Jesus Christ came on earth only to start a charity society." "Nor to teach people to live right?" "He wants them first to know how to die right. I should think, judge, that Sam Kimper had been converting you over again and doing it backwards.
He had therefore made no particular haste to call on Sam Kimper, being entirely satisfied, as he told his wife, his only confidante, that so long as the man was following the course which he was reported to have laid down for himself he was not likely to go far astray, whereas a number of members of the congregation, men of far more influence in the community, seemed determined to break from the straight and narrow way at very slight provocation, and among these, the reverend doctor sadly informed his wife, he feared Deacon Quickset was the principal.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking