Hillsboro People

t up his Bible, and called to his wife, "Deborah, the Lord hath answered me in

back, her hand at her

he may not live till dark. I am sent for by his pious sisters to wrestle with him in prayer. Oh, Deborah, now is the time to strike the last blow for the salvation of our s

ain to Nathaniel the reason for the minister's putting on his Sabbath voice of a

a righteous death. This is an ill man, whose terrors at the reward of his unbelief will be like goo

el Hall-that he had done naught but good to all men, that he had fought b

nderstanding, and does not know that the devil has no more subtile lure than a man who does good works but who i

in the same direction. As they filed up the stairs he trembled to hear his father's voice already raised in the terrible tones of one of his inspired hours. At the entrance to the sick chamber he clung for a moment to the door, gazing at the wild-

d then, across the nightmare of frenzy, he met the calm ga

h this evidence of his son's emotion, caught his breath for another flight of eloquence which should sear and blast the pretensions of good works as opposed to the true

under cover of his father's thunder

teady as when they were in the woods. "Nay

eeking eloquence mount to his brain. The women were all sobbing aloud. A young girl was writhing on the floor, her groans stifled by her mother's hand. The air of the room was stiflin

lence. The sweat was running down his face. "Gideon

se. The silence

he did not open his eyes. "Aye, truly I repent me of my sins,"

ly, "Nay, not so, thou subtle mocker. Dost thou

terrible eyes and ecstatic pallor he began to laugh whimsically, as he had laughed in the wood with Nathaniel. "Why, man, I thou

till serenity, which was there later, when the min