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She knelt and prayed long and earnestly for an abundance of this Holy Spirit to guide and help her. She took her birds and started out.
I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them. Ezekiel xxxvi, 27.
Her first stopping place was at a dwelling that stood back some little distance from the street and was surrounded by flowers.
What drew her attention most was the appearance of a little child whose innocent face reminded her that purity still existed. She entered the grounds and rang the bell.
A young woman opened the door and kindly invited her in. The Witch made some remark about the pretty boy outside, when she saw an expression of pain flit over the lady's face. Something wrong here, she thought.
Yes, the child was hers; she had loved not wisely but too well, Her betrayer, a prosperous business man who was as yet unmarried, was allowed to move in the very best of society, but the finger of scorn was pointed at her from all sides.
She was the only daughter of parents who thought very fondly of their lovable grandchild, still felt keenly the disgrace that had been brought upon the hitherto spotless family name.
Does the seventh commandment demand more obedience from one sex than the other? It reads as if it was spoken to both alike. Our Witch learned the man's name and business address, and departed.
She was so in sympathy with this family that she felt in a hurry to get to work, and so signalled a passing car to stop, and entered. It was well filled, but two seats remaining unoccupied she seated herself in one of them.
Presently a little colored girl came in and took the other. A high-bred dame sitting next elevated her aristocratic nose and pulled her skirts aside as if fearing contamination.
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken. Jeremiah xiii, 15.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! Proverbs xxx, 13.
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of Hosts. Jeremiah 1, 31.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs xvi, 5.
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah xiii, 11.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down. Isaiah ii, 11.
Why draw this color line so tightly? What of this outer covering? Have not these people immortal souls which may be white as the whitest; and in many cases, brilliant talents?
The Witch remembered a circumstance where a king of oratory, holding a high official position, was debarred from sitting at table with a ship's crew on account of this same color, which was only a heavier shading; and is not all creation a matter of shadow and coloring?
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth. Acts xvii, 26.
A shabbily dressed woman came in. The stamp of labor was on her gloveless hands, and she looked weary, indeed. But no attention was paid her whatever.
Then came two flashily attired females. No less than five gentlemen arose to offer seats. Were they more in need of rest than this poor laboring woman?
Ah, well! perhaps they were more heavily burdened with their follies than she with her cares.
For once the Witch was too busy with many thoughts to concentrate her mind on any individual in particular, and passed on and out of the car to finish her day's work.
She went in to a business establishment and made her way to the office. The proprietor, a busy man of the world, was at his desk. He looked in surprise at the cage of birds; a rather unusual place, certainly, to attempt the sale of a bird, the business house of a man without family.
"I have no use for pets myself, and have no one to give them to."
No one? Then memory stirred; he thought of the one whom he had so cruelly wronged, and of his innocent child in disgrace. Why were these new and better impulses taking possession of his mind? He did not know, but the Witch did.
She saw the result of her work a few days later when his marriage notice was published in the paper. Another family put to rights.
Next, a respectable looking place that might belong to the occupants, for there was not that unkempt appearance about it that is peculiar to rented property.
Our Witch opened the gate and went in. A scowling woman came to the door who looked daggers at the unwelcome peddler, and said she would not have one of those noisy birds in the house.
About this time her tired-looking husband came home from work, and judging from the tirade of abuse heaped upon him, it was evident that she certainly would not tolerate any noise about the premises that she could not make herself.
It was only a matter of time when this quiet, hard-working man would tire of his home life. Husbands with such life partners are not so much to blame if they do prefer the company of other women, the gambling dens and saloons, or any place rather than their homes.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Proverbs xxi, 9.
How many wives, instead of trying to make home attractive, drive happiness away with their cruel tongues?
Who have said with our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own who is lord over us? Psalms xii, 4.
Hold thy tongue. Amos vi, 10.
The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.
It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii, 6, 8.
A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. Proverbs xv, 1, 4.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, as even God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians iv, 31, 32.
The Witch is yet at her work. She proceeded on her way, thankful that she has made one less shrew in the world.
On her way along she observed a boy sitting on the walk near some shrubbery. He seemed very intent on whatever he was doing. She approached nearer and saw a poor butterfly denuded of its wings lying quivering in his hand, and he was looking at it with the most intense satisfaction.
"My lad, do you know that--
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Proverbs xv, 3.
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. Proverbs xx, 11.
"Understand that it is sinful to torment any living thing."
The boy slunk away, realizing for the first time that it was wrong to torture anything so small as a butterfly.
The disposition to torture seems to be inherent with many boys and if allowed to grow on them will in time predominate over all good impulses, and prompt them to commit the most terrible crimes.
For the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Ezekiel vii, 23.
If they were taught to cultivate will power to subdue these evil impulses what a blessing would be derived! How prone to wickedness is all human nature, and how much we need to pray for help to overcome it!
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