. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . nd. The man whom he was talking with at thenext corn-shock owned but thirty acres of ground, and perhaps all that coveredby a mortgage. That evening, at the close of the husking day. one man drovehome a roan span so frisky, so full of life they got their feet over the other man walked home. Great difference in education, great difference inworldly means; but I noticed at the husking time they all seemed to enjoy eachothers society. They did not ask any man how much property he owned or whathis education had been. They
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . nd. The man whom he was talking with at thenext corn-shock owned but thirty acres of ground, and perhaps all that coveredby a mortgage. That evening, at the close of the husking day. one man drovehome a roan span so frisky, so full of life they got their feet over the other man walked home. Great difference in education, great difference inworldly means; but I noticed at the husking time they all seemed to enjoy eachothers society. They did not ask any man how much property he owned or whathis education had been. They all seemed to be happy together in those good•times. BOYHOOD REMINSCENCES 35 And so it will be in Heaven. Our Father will gather his children aroundHim, and the neighbors will come in, and the past will be rehearsed. And someone will tell of victory and we will all celebrate it. And some one will tell ofgreat struggle and we will all praise the grace that fetched him out of it. Andsome one will say, Here is my old father that I put away with heartbreak, just. BRASS-WORKERS BAZAAR, DAMASCUS look at him, he is as young as any of us! And some one will say, Here ismy darling child that I buried in Greenwood and all the after years of my lifewere shadowed with desolation—just look at her! She doesnt seem as if shehad been sick a minute. Great sociality. Great neighborhood kindness. What though John Milton sit down on one side and John Howard sit downon the other side? No embarrassment. What though Charlotte Elizabeth sit 36 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK down on one side and Hannah More sit down on the other side ? No embarrass-ment. A monarch yourself, why be embarrassed among monarchs? A songsteryourself, why be embarrassed amid glorified songsters? Go in and dine. All the shocks of corn coming in in their season. Not one among allof you having died too soon or having died too late, or having died at hap-hazard. Planted at just the right time. Ploughed at just the righ
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