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Abram ain't Annie Aunt Jane Babtist babtized babtizin bein Bob Crawford Brother Gyardner caliker Campbellite child church clothes comin Crawford cryin Dick dinner dress Elrod evenin everything eyes fair fit to kill flowers folks forgit garden gittin give goin Goshen gyirl hand Harvey Harvey Andrews Harvey's havin heap hear heard hollered honey horse Jane Ann Jane's Jerry Crawford jine Johnny-jump-ups Kentucky knew laugh laughin little Richard live livin looked lookin Lord married Marthy Mary Andrews mighty Milly Amos Milly's Miss Penelope mornin never night nothin Old Man Bob Parson piece porch pore pretty puttin quilt reckon Richard ricollect rose Sally Ann Sam Crawford sayin says settin sewin Silas Petty singin somethin standin Sunday sweet day talkin tell tellin there's thing thinkin thought told took tryin Uncle Jim Matthews walked weddin woman women yonder
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Page 86 - Welcome, sweet day of rest, That saw the Lord arise; Welcome to this reviving breast, And these rejoicing eyes! 2 The King himself comes near, And feasts his saints today, Here we may sit, and see him here, And love, and praise, and pray. 3 One day amidst the place Where my dear God hath been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days Of pleasurable sin.
Page 149 - All service ranks the same with God : If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst. Are we : there is no last nor first. Say not " a small event ! " Why " small " ? Costs it more pain that this, ye call A
Page 139 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Page 3 - I had somebody to talk to. Take that chair right by the door so's you can get the breeze." And Aunt Jane beamed at me over her silverrimmed spectacles and hitched her own chair a little to one side, in order to give me the full benefit of the wind that was blowing softly through the whitecurtained window, and carrying into the room the heavenliest odors from a field of clover that lay in full bloom just across the road.
Page 24 - Well, I reckon Parson Page thought if he didn't head Sally Ann off some way or other, she'd go on all night ; so, when she kind o' stopped for breath and shut up the big Bible, he grabbed a hymn-book and says : " 'Let us sing "Blest be the Tie That Binds.
Page 75 - The Lord sends us the pieces, but we can cut 'em out and put 'em together pretty much to suit ourselves, and there's a heap more in the cuttin' out and the sewin' than there is in the caliker.
Page 15 - I'm sayin', let him rise up from his grave in Corinthians or Ephesians, or wherever he's buried, and say so. I've got a message from the Lord to the men-folks of this church, and I'm goin' to deliver it, Paul or no Paul,' says she. 'And as for you, Silas Petty, I ain't forgot the time I dropped in to see Maria one Saturday night and found her washin' out her flannel petticoat and dryin
Page 15 - Lord and revilin' an elder as this woman is doin', why, I tremble,' says he, ' for the church of Christ. For don't the Apostle Paul say, " Let your women keep silence in the church " ? ' " As soon as he named the 'Postle Paul, Sally Ann give a kind of snort. Sally Ann was terrible free-spoken. And when Deacon Petty said that she jest squared herself like she intended to stand there till judgment day, and says she, ' The 'Postle Paul has been dead ruther too long for me to be afraid of him. And I...
Page 78 - I've always had the name o' bein' a good housekeeper, but when I'm dead and gone there ain't anybody goin' to think o' the floors I've swept, and the tables I've scrubbed, and the old clothes I've patched, and the stockin's I've darned. Abram might 'a' remembered it, but he ain't here. But when one o' my grandchildren or great-grandchildren sees one o' these quilts, they'll think about Aunt Jane, and, wherever I am then, I'll know I ain't forgotten.