Harbor Jim of Newfoundland

ter Mr. Jewett had left. "We had a queer one here who believed you and I and the rest o' the sinners were out o' sig

f 'em. Towards night I met him on the Bowring Road. He motioned to me afore I got to him to keep

ck and I met some skunks, not one, but a mother and father and two children. They was walkin' separate and I tried to dodge, but I couldn't dodge four ways at the same ti

. Some folks probably get a blessing without thinking straight. Mebbe he's on the way to a great faith.

ugh that outen the same book men draw so many different things. Then, it was written by many a different

Now some folks come to a miracle in the Bible and they sit down in front of it like the Marys at the tomb and they never are able to roll it away or pass

we find, after we get over worrying about the whale. The point, I take it, is, the man was trying to run away from his duty and the story tells how he fared and how he came back and was established as a prophet. A good many folks seem to be still

because the Lord couldn't work a miracle on them He couldn't on somebody else. It may only prove they was too hardened in their sins and their doubts to be worked on, at

t a father or a mother cannot put in of themselves, and it is something that can't be destroyed. A good many have tried to destroy their souls; but it's my belief they haven't succeeded, not any one of all that have tried. Now, if He is the only one that can put a soul into this earth house, He's the on

thing about reincarnat

full attention to my subject. "No, I don't know a

hers that even when souls have been on this earth, they return again to complete their experiences. I was thinking that your idea of the ease with w

eighty-five than eighty. She never had any real luck or any great blessings until she cured herself. She was one of the unfortunate kind, most always ailin' and when you went to see her she had some new misfortune to tell you about. She lost every one of her children and two husbands besides. Folks said it wasn't any great loss, so far as the husbands were concern

ry fashion. It is hard to think justice has been done in both cases or perhaps in either case. But if this miracle of slipping a soul back into a body and sending it to school again is true, that you are telling me about

g it into quite a big package of goods I am saving for shipping across the stream when I take passage. I've marked them 'For His Judgment' and when I get over there, I'll

uld take Peter with his stubbornness and his habit of speaking up too quick and make him strong enough, sound enough, to be a real corner stone in His new church. I callate Peter was pr

the ministers have got rid of him, by tossing him over board and letting him drown in perdition. But the Lord God that went after the sheep would a some day heared the moaning of Judas

rk miracles if He wishes, right round here. The

id you say, Jim?

s bad points and add a few more evil ways. She named him, Pascal. But Rascal fits him better and

for his nets. When he gets 'em, he never cleans well and he always hurries the curing, and he is none too particular about either counting or weighing. He'll sell a little cheaper or lie a little stronger and get rid of 'em, usually

led his wife, and he's so mean he's never married since. If there's been a piece of deviltry carried out

as mean, ornery and selfish as Rascal come meekly to the judgment seat, I have seen 'em rise outen their old selves and become new and clean as a sunshiny morning after the air h

ned. No less wonderful I see bad men becoming good men; sick men becoming well men; and they that have been under the heels of sin and slaver