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Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
-S. CouxTRV Minister. —The I’astoral 
I'ar.soii had in mind to have a laugh with 
ids many K. N.-Y. friends over the old 
Springtime happenings of .his college 
days, luit while he wa.s eating dinner 
the picture of Grandpa and Billy came 
in the mail, and when he sat down to 
write he could not shake him.self free 
from the many experiences and stories 
that the picture brought to mind. For 
as he looks out of the window and sees 
CTiamberlin Hill in the distance he 
know.s that ’way. ’way over beyond it 
a funeral is now in progre.ss. for the 
man where “Little Billy” lived is dead, 
and “Grandpa.” who loved Little Billy 
:is his own, is conducting the funeral. I 
said “lived,” for ui) in the city a grave¬ 
stone is being carved for him and ou it 
will he found the.se word.s : 
“Billy 
Grandpa's Boy.” 
For Billy w.ns (trandpji's hoy. All 
these years, since f!ie death of Billy's 
mother, had lie cared for liim and looked 
after him and what wa.s still better, 
The Boy’s Horse 
companioned with him. And where 
Pdlly lived they loved him as tlieif own, 
and the man of the house tliere, well 
stricken in years, and his mind fast go¬ 
ing. would mind Billy when no one else 
could persuade. “Gome i>a,” Billy would 
sa.v, “Come jia, it's time to go to l)ed.” 
And pa would go. 
TIis Life F'or a Friend. —And one 
day last Fall a house was burned near 
where Billy lived and it was claimed the 
little Bohemian hoy, seven years old, set it 
afire accidentall.v. Because of this his 
lirothers made it hard for him, and so 
he found a friend in Billy, twelve years 
old, and they went to school together_ on 
the lonely road of more than three mih's 
each way. One morning last Winter on 
tile way to scliool. the little Bohemian 
hoy put ou his sltates to go part of the 
way on a pond and went through the 
ice. and Billy juit down his dinner pail 
and his hooks and his cap and went out 
to try to save him. They sent for 
Grandpa,-and he came and found his hoy 
and the other little hoy uiton the hank. 
The I’astoral Parson will nev(>r forget 
that funeral with the two white caskets 
—one on either side the aisle. Xor will 
he forget the letter he received from that 
godly man afterwards: “WTien I lie down 
at night I see the two hoys lying tliere 
on the hank, and the siglit drives sleep 
away. But he is gone and all care con¬ 
cerning him is at end. God has taken 
him and I how my. head to Ilis will.” 
(Jrandfa. —For nearly HO years this 
man lias gone iiji and down those lonely 
roads ministering in every way to those 
people. A.S was said of aiiotlier—he went 
about doing good. Though now 77 he is 
still walking, stiil heliiing. still buoyed 
up with a great sense of humor and still 
carrying a merry twinkle in his eye. All 
life he has ministered in the region 
where lie was born and among the peo¬ 
ple with wlioiii he grew iiii. This is a 
groat advantage. How different from 
.some city chap or some suiieraniiiiate 
from a city parish coming out among 
farm folk I Wlicn not among the folks 
lie was among th<> crops, over the stmie 
wall. I take it that out on the hill¬ 
sides. the liandle of a hoe is a hotter 
recommendation than a cane with a gold 
head, and a calloused hand is better than 
kid gloves. 
A Great Wai.ker. —.\.s a student 
working for orders In* nsrd to work in 
the factory of a distant city, fine day 
lie showed mo the .schoolliouse steps 
where he used to stop and eat his lunch 
from his i>ocket on his walk home .Sat¬ 
urday night. The distance today is 10 
mile.s. and really much more than that with 
the poor roads. He would have his ser¬ 
vices ou Sunday and walk Iiack again 
Sunday night. For years he had two 
churches—seven miles and a half apart 
—and when the weather was bad and 
going hard he would say. “Pretty had 
day for a horse. I'll .iust walk right 
over.” These long walks with constant 
stops for a chat and a cup of tea by 
this great-hearted man were a great boon 
to these people. About once in so ofton 
he would go on a walking “excursion,” 
being gone .several days and covering 
si.';ty or seventy miles. 
.V Sure Cure. —No matter what kind 
of ailment got hold of him he would al¬ 
ways say the same thing, in fact the 
same now. “If 1 can only get out on the 
road I can walk it right off.” About 
a year ago he was taken to the hosiiital, 
having among other complications a very 
had limb. “Even if he lived, he would 
never use that limb again.” So said all 
the wise doctors. “If I ever get out of 
this place on the road. I’ll cure it right 
up.” he said to the Pastoral Parson as 
tlie latter handed liim out a couple of 
those bottles of sweet cider he and the 
hoys put up over by the lirook. And he 
did. The Par.son happens to know that 
on one day last week, he walked nearly 
eight miles. Y'ears and years ago, a 
learned doctor gave him six months to 
live. “I’ll outlive you yet.” he .said 
with some .severity as he rose up and 
walked out of the ■ office of the young 
lihysician. And from appearances the 
Parson thinks he will! 
M'Eiuii.vii Guests.- -One time a couple 
came to him to be married over in the 
ciiurcli—the ve.ry one now descended to 
the Pastoral I’arsoii—very quietly—in 
fact there was to be no one else there. 
But does not the Good Book .say that 
“The wedding he furnished with guests”? 
It was to bo some time before anybody 
heard of this wedding. But alas! 
Some of the newsiest sisters of the par¬ 
ish decided that morning that they would 
go down and give the church a good 
sweeping out. They began with the old- 
fasliioiied choir gallery. Suddenly they 
heard steps outside. Yes, somebody was 
coming into the church. ^Yllat to do 
hut to drop down out of siglit behind 
the railing. They could hear the pre- 
p.'trafion and the conversation and pretty 
(piick the wedding .service began. ^Yhat 
womanly curiosity could .stand for that? 
AYitnesses. —It was St. Paul' who 
talked about a whole cloud of witnesses, 
and tills minister doesn't douht^ it a bit. 
For just as.he was .saying, “Wilt thoii” 
his voice wavered, and he nearly drop|)od 
the prayer hook. Was it his specs, or 
had lie eaten something! It was too big 
for a mouse, too round for a rat—that 
thing that suddenly rose up over the 
gallery rail. The young man was just 
whispering “I will” as though he wasn’t 
quite sure of his bargain when two 
round things appeared above tlie rail. 
For all a church is supposed to he a 
spiritual place, will there be spirits 
Grandpa and Billy 
there and will they wear things that look 
like dust caiis? „ A muffled chuckle and 
more heads above the rail told the story. 
And that coujile can’t understand why it 
was all over town before night. 
A Great Builder. —This good man has 
not only lioen a great builder of liuman 
happiness Init also a material builder as 
well. He largely built the house lie lived 
in for many years, and built the belfry on 
the church mostly liiiiLself. He took out 
the old-fashioned chimney in one house 
and built a modern one. He is an au¬ 
thority on building fireplaces, and to this 
day warms liimsHf by no other kind of 
fire—during no time of AYinter does he 
have any other kind of heat in his room 
than that from a fireplace which he 
built himself. His handiwork has never 
suffered the experience of an old Ken¬ 
tucky mountaineer who had liuilt a very 
rough-looking chimney for his but. A 
couple of “city foller.s” were coming 
along one day and .sjiied the house with 
its queer cliimney. ‘T,et’s jnill u|) and 
have some fuu with the duffer,’’ said one 
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