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She tore a corner from the hymnal fly-leaf and scribbled her verdict while the elder O'Neills and most of the old people were kneeling in prayer. Assuring herself that all nearby heads to be dreaded were reverentially bent, she passed the missive. As she did so she chanced to glance up toward the minister. Oh, dear heaven! He was looking straight down at her.
"Now, Jim," he said, after she left the room, "I'm going t' stay right here while you go and order our trunks around just t' pay you off f'r last night." "All right," said Hartley cheerily, going out. After getting warm, Bert returned to the sitting-room, and sat down at the parlor organ and played a gospel hymn or two from the Moody and Sankey hymnal.
It includes histories, juridical codifications, dramas of love and destiny, patriotic songs and state anthems, the hymnal of a people's worship, philosophic writings of the sages, collections of proverbial sayings, works of religious fiction, orations of statesmen, and oracles of mystic seers.
I've got to be at my baking; make y'rselves at home." "Now, Jim," said Bert, "I'm going t' stay right here while you go and order our trunks around just t' pay you off f'r last night." "All right," said Hartley, cheerily going out. After getting warm, Bert sat down at the organ and played a gospel hymn or two from the Moody and Sankey hymnal.
Guns always loaded and within reach for instant use, rest upon low overhead beams, or upon pegs against the wall. On a shelf, at some convenient place, and specially built for their accommodation, the Bible and hymnal are kept. Abel's Bible and hymnal, as in all Christianized Eskimo houses, were printed in the Eskimo language.
And thus it was that she came upon a book of Stevenson's verse her first adventure into poetry. The hymnal lyrics had never stirred her; she had memorized and sung them parrot-wise. But here was new music, tender and kindly and whimsical, that first roved to and fro in the mind and then cuddled up in the heart. Anything that had love in it!
The company was thrown into raptures over the charming tale, which lasted until they found its name. How fresh, with the crisp air of morning, are these tales of primitive tradition! How naif these simple stories of Hebrew heroes! What so fine in religious poetry as some of the strains from the Jewish Hymnal? What a noble drama is Job, the Hebrew Faust! How wise the proverbial sayings!
The Bible, a book of Common Prayer, a hymnal, may be included; a copy of Shakespeare, a dictionary, some clever and interesting book, like Curious Questions, and a volume or two of sketches and essays, ranging in style from Emerson to Jerome K. Jerome, may agreeably fill the mid-day hour of rest which the guest takes in her room before dressing for the afternoon.
Is it not pretty to think of the wrinkled Japanese in bunk beside the hot and clamorous engine conning hymnal a trifle blotched with grease here and there and whistling softly those endearing tunes on which so many of us were brought up? Long may "Jimmy" cook and wear blue shoes a modestly supplicate "For those in Peril on the Sea"! That he may smile to the last would be a superfluous prayer.
"Well, in our hymnal there's the line of a hymn: 'Green pastures are before me, and mother and I used to say that line every morning when we woke up, to remind us that Love was going to lead us all day." "I'd like to see your mother," said Mrs. Forbes after a pause. "You will, to-night," cried Jewel, suddenly joyous again. "Oh, Mrs. Forbes, do you think I could take Anna Belle to New York?"
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