. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . They had no-right to make fun of a good man, especially for a thing he could nothelp, and which was not a serious defect anyhow; but to kill forty-two children for doing it seems to me cruel. So I think, said Carrie, and Charley, regardless of his grammar,shouted, Me too ! But you mistake, children dear, said Grandpa ; it was not done. THE MARVELOUS JAR OF OIL. 2 8 GRANDPA GOODWINS STORIES. from personal spite of Elishas because they made fun of his baldhead, nor was it because they ridiculed his baldness at all; it wasbecause
. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . They had no-right to make fun of a good man, especially for a thing he could nothelp, and which was not a serious defect anyhow; but to kill forty-two children for doing it seems to me cruel. So I think, said Carrie, and Charley, regardless of his grammar,shouted, Me too ! But you mistake, children dear, said Grandpa ; it was not done. THE MARVELOUS JAR OF OIL. 2 8 GRANDPA GOODWINS STORIES. from personal spite of Elishas because they made fun of his baldhead, nor was it because they ridiculed his baldness at all; it wasbecause they disbelieved and ridiculed what God had done for Elijah ;tauntingly calling on Elisha to go up, too. Oh! said Mary, with surprise, they meant go up in a chariotof fire, as you say Elijah did. Certainly, and that was where their sin was and why they sufferedso terribly. God will not permit His acts and words to be treatedwith contempt. I never understood that story before, said Mar}*. Nor I, saidthe other children and their mother also. Elisha did another remarkable thing, continued Grandpa. Thewidow of a poor but very good man came to him one day in greatdistress because she and her two boys were about to be sold as slavesto pay an old debt. Horrible ! exclaimed Carrie. Im grlad such barbarous thingsare not done now. They were done then, and she was about to experience it to hersorrow. But
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