"Quad's odds"; . (<gIJ~ BIJAH. name is Bijah—plain Bijah. Years and years ago they might havecalled him Abijah, but the name was toostiff and dignified for one with such a bigheart, and people shortened it. When we like a man we just give hima familiar name—something which bringsus closer to him as we pronounce signified nothing—Bijah sig-nifies charity, sympathy, big-hearteclness—all that we canlook for in one whose every day life has been a battle withwant and toil and trouble, and whose rough points werenever polished by contact with education. Everybody knows him—knows h
"Quad's odds"; . (<gIJ~ BIJAH. name is Bijah—plain Bijah. Years and years ago they might havecalled him Abijah, but the name was toostiff and dignified for one with such a bigheart, and people shortened it. When we like a man we just give hima familiar name—something which bringsus closer to him as we pronounce signified nothing—Bijah sig-nifies charity, sympathy, big-hearteclness—all that we canlook for in one whose every day life has been a battle withwant and toil and trouble, and whose rough points werenever polished by contact with education. Everybody knows him—knows him as old and gray andnearing the long sleep of death, but growing more tender-hearted every day towards the sorrowing child, the unfor-tunate man and the down-trodden and erring has given more from his lean purse to keep the wolffrom the door? Who has been more kind in heart andword to those who were recklessly driving to destructionfor want of a kind word to give them new resolution andnew faih ? Who has ta
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