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So you wouldn't have lost her if I had not come." "You didn't knowin'ly git her in danger, and you did knowin'ly git her out, and that's enough for me," said the old man. "Well, well, Mr. Tuggar, if I had broken my neck it would have been a little thing compared with saving the life of such a woman as Miss Walton. Still, I fear the Lord has not much to do with me."
Gregory found Annie in the parlor, and he said, "I have good news for you; Daddy Tuggar is a Christian." Annie sprang joyfully up and said, "I'm going over to see him at once." When she returned, Gregory was quietly reading in the parlor, showing thus that he had no wish to avoid her. She came directly to him and said, "Daddy Tuggar says that you propose going home to-morrow."
He who has been my friend and helper so many years now tells me that my sins, which are many, are all forgiven. It seems that I have also heard Him say, 'To- day thou shalt be with me in Paradise." Tears gathered in Daddy Tuggar's eyes, and he said, brokenly, "The Lord knows I've allers been a sort of well-meanin' man but I couldn't talk that way if I was where you be." "Mr. Tuggar," said Mr.
At last Gregory said, "I shall think over what you have said, very carefully, for I admit it has a great deal of force to my mind." "That's right," said Mr. Tuggar; "argue it out, just as I did. Show yourself no favors, and be fair to yourself, and you can't get away from my conclusion. You've got to come to it." "I should be very glad to come to it," said Gregory, gravely.
Gregory was more affected by the old man's quaint talk than he would have believed possible. It seemed true that he was "shut up" to one or the other of the alternatives presented. He commenced pacing up and down the little porch in deep thought. Mr. Tuggar puffed away at his pipe with such vigor that he was exceedingly beclouded, however clear his mind.
Wasn't Jesus Christ honest? Didn't he know what He come for?" "Admitting that He came to save sinners, how can you be sure He will save all? He might save you and not me." "Well," said Mr. Tuggar, "I hadn't been home long before that question come up to me, and I thought on it a long time.
"But you will give us your blessing, now?" said Annie, smiling. "My blessin' ain't worth nothin'; but I know the good Lord will bless you both, even if Miss Annie never was an awful sinner." "Mr. Tuggar," said Gregory, "I own that place over there. Will you take me for a neighbor till you are ready to be Mr. Walton's?" "O, Walter!" said Annie, with a glad cry, "is that really true?"
I think you are latitudinarian in your tendencies." "Which Daddy Tuggar would call a new-fangled way of swearing at me," retorted Annie, with her frank laugh that was so genuinely mirthful that even Aunt Eulie joined in it.
The spirit of David's harp again breathed its divine peace on his sin-disquieted soul. The words of old Daddy Tuggar flashed across him, and he muttered: "Yes, she could take even me to heaven, 'if she stayed right by me."
He was a Christian, though he did not know it, and would not presume to call himself such even to himself. In view of his evil past he was exceedingly humble and self-distrustful. As Mr. Walton had told poor old Daddy Tuggar, he was simply trying to "trust Jesus Christ and do the best he could." But those associated with him in business, and many others, wondered at the change in him. Old Mr.
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