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room-machine. And then he thought of widow Martin. But all his thinking would do no good. Then he thought of

and thirteenth verses of the fourtee

xiv. 12, 13. But it was about the time when Abraham had heard of the ca

t is," said Willie, "

about giving gifts to friends. So he went on to Leviticus. But it was about the wave-offering, and the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering. That was not it, and so he went from book to book unti

the walking-stick said. And at family worship his father read the twentieth chapter of Acts. When he came

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inking out lou

ud while I am readi

other verses. He wished his father had happened on

and thirteenth verses of the fourteenth chapter? There isn't anything in the Bible against givi

r. Blake arose to read his text. Willie looked at him, but thought of wha

and thirtee

rteenth!" said W

nth chapter," s

ter!" said Willi

Lu

upper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbors, lest they also bid thee

, half aloud, but hi

to wonder whether the cane had been actually about to repeat his father's text to him,

nothing. Most of that sermon must have been hammered out in that way, when he and the walking-stick were saying, "Something must be done!" For that was just what that sermon said. It told about the wrong of forgetting, on the bi