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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pearl of Love, by Madeline Leslie
+
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+
+Title: The Pearl of Love
+       or, Josey's Gift
+
+Author: Madeline Leslie
+
+Release Date: September 26, 2010 [EBook #33811]
+
+Language: English
+
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PEARL OF LOVE ***
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+
+[Illustration: MRS. LESLIE'S BIBLE PEARLS.]
+
+
+
+
+The Pearl of Love:
+
+OR,
+
+JOSEY'S GIFT.
+
+_BY MRS. MADELINE LESLIE._
+
+"Love is the fulfilling of the law."--ROM. 13:10.
+
+BOSTON:
+
+PUBLISHED BY A. F. GRAVES,
+
+20 CORNHILL.
+
+Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
+
+REV. A. B. BAKER,
+
+In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of
+Massachusetts.
+
+
+To
+
+FRANK RANDALL, RUTH, MAY, RANDOLPH MORGAN,
+AND JAMES WALDINGFIELD,
+
+CHILDREN OF
+
+D. F. APPLETON, Esq., New York,
+
+THESE "BIBLE PEARLS" ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
+BY THE AUTHOR.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+                        Page
+
+JOSEY'S RIDE              11
+
+CHAPTER. II.
+
+THE TWO NURSES            21
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE WRONG BABY            33
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+JOSEY'S TEMPER            48
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+JOSEY'S CHRISTMAS         61
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE BURNED BABY           74
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+JOSEY'S SORROW            86
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+JOSEY'S GIFT             100
+
+
+
+
+_The Pearl of Love._
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+JOSEY'S RIDE.
+
+
+"Please mamma, may I go to ride with you?" asked little red-cheeked
+Josey Codman.
+
+Mamma was tying on baby's silk hood, and did not answer for a minute.
+
+"I would let him go," urged Aunt Fanny. "He can sit between us; and he
+wont be a bit of trouble."
+
+Josey clapped his hands.
+
+"I'm going, mamma, isn't I?"
+
+"Can Nurse get him ready quick enough?"
+
+"Yes, indeed! Run, Josey, for your new hat. Nurse bring his sack from
+the hall. It's fortunate I curled his hair before dinner. It's all dry
+now; come, pet, stand still while I baste in a clean ruffle."
+
+Baby Emma didn't like so many wrappings around her neck, and began to
+throw back her head in an alarming manner. Mamma gave her to Nurse to
+carry about, while she put on her bonnet. Then the carriage drove to the
+door. Papa had to be called from his study. Nurse scrabbled on her hat
+and shawl, and at last they were all seated in the back, and the driver
+cracked his whip, calling out to his horses,--
+
+"Go on!"
+
+"Why!" said papa, "I didn't know Josey was going."
+
+"But I am. Isn't I, mamma?" cried the boy, his eyes dancing.
+
+"I should think so," answered mamma, laughing. "I don't know as it was
+best, we shall be out late."
+
+"Oh, we'll manage somehow," said Aunt Fanny, "Josey is such a good boy!"
+
+"Nurse," began mamma, "you must be careful what Josey eats for supper;
+only bread and butter, with a cup of milk."
+
+"Yes, ma'am."
+
+"And if he grows sleepy before service is through, take off his jacket
+and let him go to sleep. You will be in Mrs. Reed's nursery."
+
+"Yes, ma'am, where we were before."
+
+"Baby's asleep, so soon," said Aunt Fanny, watching the infant's head
+nodding over Nurse's shoulder. "Lay her down. She'll sleep all the way,
+and be as good as a kitten."
+
+"Don't let her soil her new cloak, Nurse," said mamma. "Fanny, the cloak
+looks beautifully! handsomer than I thought it would."
+
+"I always liked that color," answered Aunt Fanny, "it's real bird of
+paradise. Untie baby's hood; now Nurse, she'll sleep easy."
+
+Mamma and aunty were on the back seat, with Josey tucked in between
+them; papa and Nurse, opposite. Papa turned from one to another as they
+spoke; but he did not listen to a word that was said. There was to be a
+great meeting in the Tabernacle Church that evening, and he was to
+preach. As they rode along, his mind was fixed on what he was going to
+say.
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Codman did not always live near the great city where they
+were now going. Their home was more than a thousand miles away; but they
+had come here to reside for a year or two, and had rented a pretty
+cottage nearly ten miles from town.
+
+On three sides of the cottage, there was a piazza, with pillars all
+covered with woodbine and honeysuckle. In the barn at the end of the
+garden, was a horse which the clergymen used for his daily ride to the
+Post Office. When they went to town, they always hired a hack from the
+stable.
+
+Mr. Codman was a very learned man, as well as a faithful, devout
+minister. Everybody loved him, for he loved everybody, but especially
+little children. If he were riding through the village, he always liked
+to watch the boys at their play, or the little girls trundling their
+hoops. Whenever there was a cry of distress he was off from his horse
+in a minute, ready to assist the child who had fallen, or to relieve any
+one of their troubles.
+
+The children of course loved him. Many a time in the early spring, as he
+came out of his gate in the morning, he would find a group of them
+standing there to say "good morning!" or to offer him a bunch of
+violets.
+
+Sometimes papa took Josey on the saddle before him; and then how the
+children would shout with glee, and press up to speak a word to the
+pretty boy.
+
+Mr. Codman was not the minister of the village, though he sometimes
+preached for the clergyman; but he always improved every opportunity to
+tell those around him of the love of God, who sent his only Son into the
+world to save sinners.
+
+[Illustration: JESSEY LEARNING TO RIDE. VOL. I.]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+THE TWO NURSES.
+
+
+At seven o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Codman and Fanny started for church. Dr.
+and Mrs. Reed went, too; and another clergyman with his wife, by the
+name of Matthews. Mrs. Matthews had been invited to tea, and had brought
+her baby, a little girl, nearly the same age as Mrs. Codman's.
+
+Soon after they were gone, Ann perceived that Josey was sleepy, and
+easily persuaded him to lie down on the bed. Then the two nurses, having
+had their supper, began to chat, while they tended the babies.
+
+"Look now!" said Ann, dancing Miss Emma on her lap, "the two of them
+look as much alike as a pair of kittens."
+
+"Except," answered Martin, "that your Miss has black eyes; and mine,
+blue."
+
+"That's true for ye, but then their mouths are the same, and sure enough
+I thought before, that no baby could equal ours for a small mouth."
+
+In the mean time Emma and Rose cooed and coquetted with each other in
+the very best of spirits, until a late hour, when they both went quietly
+to sleep.
+
+"Feth and a pretty sight they're making," suggested Ann, pointing with
+some pride to the bed; the two little ones lying side by side, and
+Master Josey across the foot, with his rosy cheek resting on his hand.
+
+"It looks for all the world like a baby asylum," was Martin's laughing
+reply.
+
+"I wonder what Mr. Codman is preaching about," she added; "I would like
+to be within sound of his voice, it's a treat to hear him."
+
+"I heard Miss Fanny saying to her sister that the text was to be from
+Ephesians 4:32. 'Be ye kind one to another.' You know it's before the
+'Young Men's Society,' he's preaching to-night."
+
+"And fine words they are to put before any society. I'll ask Mistress to
+tell me about it to-morrow. Sure, I've read in some good book, that
+kindness to every one would just turn this wicked world into a heaven,
+like where the angels live."
+
+"I believe it would," replied Ann, "for if everybody loved, sure there'd
+be no stealing, nor lying, nor any such wickedness. And then, why, there
+would be no prisons, nor jails. Indeed, Martin, I think it must be the
+finest text in the whole Bible."
+
+"Because," added Martin, in an approving tone, "the greatest kindness of
+all was, when the Lord of glory himself loved us poor sinners so well
+that he couldn't bear to see us ruined forever, and so he gave himself
+to die on the cross in our stead."
+
+"Would we have had to die there, if he hadn't?" asked Ann, with a look
+of awe.
+
+"Not just there, maybe; but we would have had no hope of being happy,
+because there was God with a sword over our heads; and he couldn't take
+it away, till somebody, equal to the whole world of people, suffered the
+penalty in our stead."
+
+"I see it now, I've heard Master explain, that Jesus being the Son of
+God, his blood was more precious than the blood of all the human race;
+and if all the sins of all the people were washed in it, there still
+would be enough to save millions on millions more."
+
+"Well," murmured Martin, after a pause, "we can't be kind enough to
+people after such an example as the Lord has set us."
+
+The great clock on a neighboring church struck nine.
+
+"They'll soon be home now," she added, springing to her feet, "I'll just
+bring my baby's cloak and hood from the closet, and have them ready."
+
+"It's a fine night for a ride," said Ann, bringing Josey's coat and
+cap, and laying them on a chair. "Baby slept all the way into town, and
+I expect she'll sleep going home."
+
+"You have to go nearly twice as far as we do. It's scarce six miles to
+Easton Parsonage; but then Mr. Matthews is a very careful driver;
+Mistress would like to ride faster than he drives; I wish we were going
+the same way!"
+
+Every moment footsteps were listened for; but not till half-past nine
+did a carriage drive to the door. Then Aunt Fanny and Mrs. Reed ran up
+in a great hurry.
+
+"Come, Ann," said Miss Fanny, hurriedly, "we're late and must be off in
+a minute. You put on your sack, and I'll dress Josey. Mrs. Reed has
+offered to put on baby's cloak and hood; and, Martin, you had better get
+on your bonnet, for the other carriage, with Mrs. Matthews and Mrs.
+Codman in it, will be here directly."
+
+The two nurses ran to the back room, where they had taken off their
+outer garments, and in less than five minutes, Miss Fanny appeared with
+Josey asleep on her shoulder, and Nurse behind her with baby Emma,
+closely wrapped in her cloak and hood.
+
+Mr. Codman cut short his wife's "good byes," by saying,--
+
+"It will be midnight, wife, before we reach home;" so, with hasty
+adieux, they jumped into the carriage and drove off.
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Matthews followed directly, turning down the opposite
+street, Martin screening her baby's face from the night air by a thin
+veil.
+
+It was a bright, beautiful evening, but rather cool. Mr. Codman held
+Josey close to his breast; and his wife, with a warning to Ann to keep
+Emma well covered, began to talk earnestly about the sermon.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE WRONG BABY.
+
+
+In this way they rode on for four miles. "Almost half way," Fanny
+observed, as they passed the five corners; "I suppose Mr. and Mrs.
+Matthews are home by this time."
+
+Just then, Josey awoke with a start and cry of alarm, which roused his
+sister, and made her open her eyes. Fanny, who sat opposite, pulled
+back her hood to quiet her, when, with a shriek, mamma cried out,--
+
+"We've got the wrong baby! Oh, Nurse, you made a mistake! This is Mrs.
+Matthews' Rose. Husband, stop the driver, quick!"
+
+"Are you sure?" asked papa, who had been taking a short nap.
+
+"Sure? Can't I tell my own baby? Emma has black eyes; and, look for
+yourself, is this my baby's dress?"
+
+"I see no difference, my dear."
+
+"But, Frederick, it's awful, and every minute we're going farther away
+from our little darling."
+
+"Well, my dear, if you are positive, we must turn back, but it is a
+great pity such a mistake was made."
+
+"Mrs. Reed dressed both the babies," explained Aunt Fanny, trying to
+recover her senses, after the fright.
+
+"And I only carried down the one she gave me," argued Ann, choking back
+a sob. "I saw it was our baby's cloak, and I never mistrusted the right
+one wasn't inside of it."
+
+It was a difficult matter to make the driver comprehend that he was
+expected to go eight or ten extra miles to change babies.
+
+"Why isn't one as good as t'other?" he asked, grumbling. "The horses 'll
+never go through with it, and at this time of night it's no use."
+
+But Mr. Codman, who was now wide awake, and well understood the
+distress which agitated his wife, without the squeeze she was giving his
+hand, and her continual "Oh dear! Oh, my poor baby!" now said, firmly,--
+
+"We wont waste words about it. We must go to Easton parsonage as quickly
+as possible."
+
+"I'll take the short cut, then, across the moor. The moon is so bright I
+can keep out of the ruts."
+
+"But then we lose the chance of seeing them. They may have found out
+the mistake earlier, and be on the way to meet us. Drive on!"
+
+But driver still demurred, muttering that it was a bad job, and he
+couldn't be going over the ground four times without good pay.
+
+"How much do you want for yourself?" asked the gentleman. "I hire the
+carriage by the month."
+
+"A couple of dollars is little enough."
+
+"I'll give you three; now drive on."
+
+The carriage door shut with a snap, and they started off, driver lashing
+his horses with the whip.
+
+"We must look out that they don't pass us," said the clergyman.
+
+"I'll keep watch," responded Aunt Fanny, decidedly. "I wonder what Josey
+would say if he were awake?"
+
+"If our driver had been a father," exclaimed Mrs. Codman, "he wouldn't
+have asked why one wouldn't do as well as t'other."
+
+"Hem!" exclaimed Aunt Fanny, indignantly. "'Twouldn't have hurt the man
+to have heard your sermon to-night, brother. I don't think he's very
+kind, any way."
+
+"He was probably at the ale-house, and had taken enough to make him
+cross."
+
+"Had he heard you describe how God rewards our love to others by peace
+in our own hearts, he would have been more kind."
+
+"Well, Fanny, be as tender in your thoughts as you can. It is hard for
+the man to lose three or four hours of his sleep."
+
+"O, you always are ready to find excuses!" she answered, laughing.
+
+"I ought to practise what I preach, oughtn't I?" He looked archly in her
+face.
+
+"I hope Emma wont wake," said mamma, anxiously. "Little Rosa sleeps as
+quietly as a kitten. How strange that none of us noticed the change."
+
+"It's no joke," said Fanny, though she could not help laughing.
+
+They were going over a rough part of the road, and Josey, after growing
+restless, suddenly started up.
+
+"Are we most home?" he asked in a sleepy tone.
+
+"We'll get there by and by," answered his father, cheerfully.
+
+"I'm afraid we shall have to go all the way to Mr. Matthews'," said
+mamma. "Next time, I'll dress baby myself.'
+
+"Miss Fanny sent me to put on my bonnet," urged nurse. "She said you
+were in a hurry."
+
+"No one is to blame, nurse," said her kind master. "It is simply
+unfortunate."
+
+Mile after mile they drove on, only meeting an occasional carriage,
+until they came in sight of Easton Parsonage. Here the lights were all
+out, except one in the chamber; and there persons could be seen moving
+about.
+
+A vigorous knock soon brought Mr. Matthews to the door. "I heard
+wheels," he said, "and more than half suspected who it was. We made a
+sad mistake."
+
+Martin came down, her face very red, bringing baby Emma, and Ann gladly
+gave up her charge.
+
+Mrs. Matthews soon appeared with marks of tears.
+
+"Wasn't it dreadful!" she exclaimed, with a fresh burst of grief. "I
+wanted to go right back. We were only two miles from the city when we
+found out we had brought away the wrong baby; but Mr. Matthews said no,
+we must keep her till morning. He thought it very careless of us, but"--
+
+"There was no carelessness about it," urged Fanny, indignantly. "Mrs.
+Reed wanted to help; and she put on the wrong cloaks, that was all.
+There was never a thought with us of not coming back. Brother wouldn't
+have hesitated if it had been twice as far. We knew you'd want your
+baby, and we wanted ours."
+
+"I thought you would understand that we should keep your little Miss
+till morning," explained Mr. Matthews.
+
+"But mothers have such tender hearts," added Mr. Codman, "and we ought
+to thank God for it. Come, wife, we must be off. We have fourteen miles
+to go, and it's almost twelve o'clock."
+
+"There's a difference in ministers as in other folks," whispered Martin
+aside to Ann. "Mr. Matthews scolded well, and wouldn't hear of going
+back; but your master did as he would be done by."
+
+"Just like his text," returned Ann. "'Be ye kind one to another.'"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+JOSEY'S TEMPER.
+
+
+It was a little past two when the weary family alighted at their own
+door. For the last few miles, the moon had been clouded; the horses were
+tired; and they had to drive with care.
+
+"Tell Cook we'll have a late breakfast," said mamma, taking her babe
+with a kiss. "Now, Nurse, go and get all the sleep you can."
+
+The following morning, Josey couldn't remember coming home at all. He
+opened his large hazel eyes very wide, as Aunt Fanny told him what had
+happened.
+
+"I'm glad we found her; isn't you?" he asked, again and again.
+
+Baby Emma received a great many extra kisses that day, and the next, and
+whenever mamma thought about the mistake. But one week after another
+passed on, Mr. Codman preaching once in a while, until Spring came
+again.
+
+When Emma was a year and a half old, she was full of mischief; and
+Josey, who was now five, sometimes got out of patience. He was just
+learning to read, and liked nothing better than to sit on Aunt Fanny's
+knee and hear her tell stories. Sometimes Emma, finding no one
+watching, would get to mamma's basket and overturn all the spools, or
+tangle the thread, and then Aunt Fanny had to start up and attend to
+her, and stop the stories very short.
+
+Or baby would climb on a chair to her brother's shelf and pull his nice
+books to the floor. Once, indeed, he came in from a walk, and found
+mamma busy with a caller, and Emma, who had been left there while Nurse
+went an errand, doing a great deal of mischief. She had a new book in
+her hand, and just as he found her she was tearing out three or four
+leaves, laughing and shouting with delight. Josey ran to take his book
+away; but it was too late. His Christmas present was spoiled. Poor boy!
+he cried as if his heart would break, and was very angry with his
+sister, more so than his mamma had ever seen him. He struck her little
+fat hand, exclaiming,--
+
+"You are naughty! naughty! and I don't love you any more."
+
+The visitor rose to go, and Mrs. Codman did not detain her. She was so
+grieved at her little boy's actions, she could scarcely command her
+voice to say "good-bye." She rung the bell for Ann, and then, taking
+Josey by the hand, led him away to his own chamber.
+
+He glanced up into his mamma's face and saw it was very white, and he
+began to be sorry for his bad temper.
+
+"Oh, Josey!" she commenced at last, seating him on her knee, "do you
+know how you've grieved mamma?" and then the tears began to roll down
+her cheeks.
+
+"Emma tore my best book," he said, softly.
+
+"Emma is only a baby, Joseph, and didn't know any better. If you hadn't
+struck her, papa would have bought you another one. But, Josey, you
+gave way to your anger, and told your darling little sister that you
+didn't love her."
+
+"I think she's too big to tear my pictures out," he said, sighing.
+
+"She must be taught to let your things alone," answered mamma, "and you
+must remember to put them out of her way; but all the pictures in the
+world wouldn't excuse you for treating her so unkindly. Don't you
+remember that pretty verse you learned last Sunday? 'Be kindly
+affectioned one to another, in honor preferring one another.' Papa
+explained to you what it Meant."
+
+"I'm sorry, mamma; but I want my pretty book."
+
+"I'm sorry, too."
+
+She said these words in such a sad tone that Joseph softened at once. He
+threw his arms around her neck, exclaiming,--
+
+"Mamma, I'm going to be good and love God like little Samuel in the
+temple."
+
+She held him close to her breast, whispering, "'He who loveth God,
+loveth his brother also.' This is what St. John tells us. 'If a man say,
+I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar.'"
+
+"Oh, mamma! I'm real sorry."
+
+"And he says, too, 'My little children, let us not love in word, neither
+in tongue, but in deed and in truth.'"
+
+"What does that mean, mamma, to love _in deed_?"
+
+"It means that it does no good merely to say 'I love you, I love God;'
+but we must show it by our actions."
+
+"How could I show Emma, mamma, when she was tearing my book?"
+
+"Think for yourself, Josey."
+
+He looked very serious, his cheeks growing more and more red, but at
+last he said, softly,--
+
+"I might have taken the book away, and put it up high; and I might
+think, 'She is so little, she don't know any better;' and after I said,
+'naughty, naughty!' as you and papa do, then I could kiss her."
+
+"Yes, my own darling, that would have been Christ-like, loving, kind,
+and forgiving; and your heart, instead of burning with anger toward your
+precious sister, would have been filled with the sweetest emotion, such
+as is implied by the words, 'Be kindly affectioned one to another.'"
+
+"May I go and kiss Emma now, mamma?"
+
+"Yes, darling; and I hope you will learn how pleasant love is,
+especially between brothers and sisters."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+JOSEY'S CHRISTMAS.
+
+
+Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, had come and gone; and now Josey was
+seven years old, and Emma was baby no longer. There was a tiny girl in
+the cradle who was named Grace. The family had returned to their own
+home; Mr. Codman preached to his old people.
+
+Aunt Fanny was still with them, though she had agreed to go on a mission
+to India with a gentleman now studying for the ministry. She was the
+same ardent girl as before, loving her brother's family, and devoted to
+their comfort.
+
+Joseph had from his birth been much in her care and was a prime
+favorite. She had grieved with his parents at the unkindness and
+impatience he had sometimes shown his sister; and she rejoiced with
+them that he was becoming so kind and affectionate.
+
+Though Joseph was so young, yet his parents hoped he had become a lamb
+of the Good Shepherd. He had faults, as all children have; but he tried
+to correct them. His face sometimes flushed when Emma teased him or
+meddled with his books, of which he was very careful; but he never
+struck her now, and seldom was angry but a minute.
+
+"I try to think," he said to his mamma, "that she don't know better, and
+that she's almost always good; and if I wait a minute and remember about
+Christ forgiving me, then I feel happy right away."
+
+Josey showed in one way that he was a Christian child. He loved
+everybody, and tried to be good to all.
+
+Among the poor people belonging to his father's church, no one was more
+welcome to their humble cottages than little Josey. He always had a
+pleasant word for each, and often spent hours of his play-time in
+reading to the old women of the parish.
+
+At Christmas, his greatest treat, and one that he spent weeks in
+preparing for, was to take his box sled (the one he drew his sister in,)
+and fill it with the presents he had prepared for his friends.
+
+"Though they are poor," he said, over and over, "I love them dearly,
+and I want to have them know it." So he spent all his pocket-money in
+buying what mamma and Aunt Fanny thought would be useful.
+
+A pair of mittens for one poor orphan, a flannel shirt for a rheumatic
+old man, a pair of glasses for another, and plenty of pies, which he had
+hired cook to make. He hired her, because he wanted to feel that the
+gifts were his and not his mother's.
+
+Do you wonder every body, rich and poor, loved him, and that, wherever
+he went, blessings were showered on his head?
+
+I don't mean those worthless words that so many beggars use without
+meaning: "A thousand blessings on your head, Miss."
+
+Oh, no! But real, heart-felt prayers that God would be his Father and
+Friend forever.
+
+Do you suppose Josey was a cross, sulky boy? Can you imagine him wearing
+a frown? or with his lips in an ugly pout?
+
+No, indeed! It is not possible for one who cultivates such love for all
+around him; for one who tries in this way to imitate the example of his
+blessed Saviour to be unhappy or cross. Those children who think only of
+themselves, who are selfish and greedy, who never heed the blessed
+words, "Be ye kind one to another," are the persons to wear sour faces
+and pouting lips.
+
+Don't you remember what the good Book says, "Her ways are ways of
+pleasantness and all her paths are peace." That means Wisdom's ways, and
+one of these paths is love; love to God and love to those around us.
+
+You can well imagine that Josey's father and mother, and aunt and nurse,
+were delighted in seeing him growing up to be a good boy; and each of
+them were ready to assist him in correcting his faults.
+
+He was neat and orderly; keeping his little treasures arranged nicely
+in the drawers mamma gave him, and his clothes each on their own hooks
+in his closet. But Joseph was not always prompt in attention to his
+duties. He liked so much to hear the talk at table or at the fireside,
+that it was a real trial to him to leave the pleasant company, and the
+delightful things that were being said; and he often lingered when he
+ought to have been on his way to school.
+
+Aunt Fanny used sometimes, by an anxious glance toward the clock, to
+remind him of his duty, for she hated to have her favorite reproved; or
+his mamma would say gently, "You'll be late again, Josey." If the
+conversation was very interesting, he would only push back his chair a
+little and wait for papa to say,--
+
+"My son, go this moment."
+
+One day his mamma had a long talk with him on the subject of
+procrastination, after which he did much better.
+
+She explained to him that the meaning of the command, "Honor thy father
+and thy mother," was not only that a child must obey when told to "go"
+or "stay;" but he must strive in every thing to act as would please
+them. He must honor them by anticipating their wishes, by acting when
+they were absent as he knew they would approve if they were present.
+
+She told him that he could please the Lord Jesus by a dutiful attention
+to their desires, such as, always to be in season for school, or
+punctual to any engagement, just as much as by being honest and
+truthful. The dear Saviour would look into his heart and know he was
+trying to do right out of love for him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE BURNED BABY.
+
+
+The winter after Josey was eight years old, his parents received a visit
+from their dear friends Mr. and Mrs. Matthews and little Rose. Two
+infant brothers had died since they last met, and Rose was still their
+only daughter.
+
+Emma was now in her fifth year, and Rose only a few weeks younger.
+
+Many a time during the visit, did the mothers and Aunt Fanny talk over
+the mistake made by Mrs. Reed, at which no one was more sorry than Mrs.
+Reed herself. Many a time they laughed over the question of the cross
+driver:
+
+"Why wont one do as well as t'other?"
+
+The man had married afterward, and when a tiny babe was put into his
+arms, and he was told it was his own, he understood well why every
+father and mother love their own children best.
+
+Aunt Fanny was soon going to leave the country. They had all been busy
+for months in getting her clothes ready for the voyage, and a missionary
+society in the village were making shirts, etc., for her friend, Mr.
+Barnard.
+
+One afternoon, she walked to the village to give some directions that
+had been requested, and took the opportunity to make her last calls on
+some of her poor families.
+
+The tea hour passed, and she did not return. Her brother did not know
+where she was gone, so they were obliged to wait patiently for her
+return, though Josey grew every moment more anxious.
+
+At last it was within half an hour of his bedtime,--Emma and Rose had
+long before gone to their cribs,--when Aunt Fanny's welcome voice was
+heard.
+
+She looked very pale, and all knew at once that something must have
+happened. She motioned Josey to her side, and laid her head on his
+shoulder as he stood by. Presently she exclaimed,--
+
+"I have seen a dreadful sight! Oh, I never can get it out of my mind!
+The screams and shrieks, I hear them yet!"
+
+"What is it? do tell us," urged her sister.
+
+"You know little Juley Lane, what a passionate child she has always
+been. I told Mrs. Lane the last time I was there, it wasn't safe to
+leave her with the baby. She didn't seem to have any love for him. Now
+she's killed him."
+
+Josey gave a start and sob of horror, while Mrs. Codman exclaimed,--
+
+"Shocking! terrible! how did it happen?"
+
+"I was making calls," added Fanny, with a groan, "and I met Mrs. Lane.
+She was hurrying with a basket of clean clothes, and told me she'd been
+obliged to leave Juley with her old mother and the baby. I told her I
+was going to call, which relieved her anxiety, and she said she'd be
+home in a short time.
+
+"Long before I reached the house I heard awful groans, and on opening
+the door, what a sight was before me.
+
+"Mrs. Lane, thinking the baby would be safer, had tied him into the high
+chair, and set him in front of the stove. Julia had one of her fits of
+anger and pushed him over. His poor hands and face fell upon the hot
+iron and burned to a crisp. When I went in, the old woman had crawled on
+her hands and feet, to the place, and was trying, with her poor deformed
+fingers, to release him. Juley stood by, frightened and crying, but not
+able to do anything.
+
+"I flew to untie him from his chair, which was in a bright blaze, and
+then rushed to the door to send for a doctor. Then the mother came. Oh,
+dear! I wouldn't go through such a scene again for a kingdom. I don't
+believe the poor child was conscious; the doctor thought not; but such a
+sight! You wouldn't know him from a piece of burnt wood; and there he
+lay, only showing he was alive by a feeble groan.
+
+"Mrs. Lane shrieked and tore her hair, and when Juley pulled her dress,
+I was afraid she'd kill her, too. So I got a neighbor to carry her off,
+screaming and fighting. The old woman hasn't been across the room
+before by herself for a year, and now lies speechless on the bed; I
+don't believe she'll live till morning."
+
+Mr. Codman put on his hat directly and hurried away to the distressed
+family, while his wife took off Fanny's hat, and brought her a cup of
+tea, begging her to try and eat a piece of toast.
+
+"You'll be sick, dear, if you don't," she urged. "The shock has been too
+much for you."
+
+"I can't hold the cup;" sobbed Fanny, giving way at last; and then she
+held up her poor burned hands and arms.
+
+"Oh! oh dear!" screamed her sister.
+
+"My poor, poor girl!" exclaimed Mrs. Matthews; and then they and Josey
+and Nurse all cried together.
+
+In less than half an hour Mr. Codman returned, and the doctor with him.
+
+The old woman had breathed her last. Fanny had saved her from burning
+to death, by tearing off her blazing clothes at the risk of her own
+life. The neighbors all said Miss Fanny was an angel. If it had not been
+for her presence of mind, the house would have been burned, and the
+widow have lost everything.
+
+The doctor bound up the poor, blistered hands and arms, talking
+cheerfully as he did so, but, his eyes grew moist as he told them
+afterward what she had done.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+JOSEY'S SORROW.
+
+
+In the hurry and excitement, no one thought of little Josey. It was not
+till Aunt Fanny was sinking to sleep from the effects of the doctor's
+medicine that his mother found him sobbing by himself in the corner.
+
+"What will become of Juley, mamma? will she have to be put into
+prison?"
+
+"Don't think about Juley to-night, dear," she answered, soothingly.
+"You'll cry yourself sick. We must all thank God, who saved our dear
+Aunt Fanny's life. She was so good and thoughtful, and did not once stop
+on account of the pain in her hands, but threw water on the flames, and
+almost lifted the old woman into bed."
+
+"Oh, mamma! I am glad about that; but I can't help thinking, if you
+hadn't taught me to love my sister, and not give way to temper, I might
+have--I mean, dear, darling Emma might have been burned to death. Do you
+think God has forgiven me, mamma, for striking her as I used to?"
+
+"Yes, Josey, I am sure He has. You're a kind, affectionate brother now,
+teaching your sister to be patient and obliging."
+
+She saw the shock had been too much for him. He trembled excessively as
+he tried to unbutton his jacket.
+
+"I'll talk with you all about it to-morrow," she said; "try to say your
+prayers now, and go to sleep."
+
+"But, mamma, are you sure Aunt Fanny will get well? She did groan so,
+when the doctor touched her arm."
+
+"Oh, yes! I hope she'll be better in a few days. Burns are always very
+painful at first."
+
+"Well, Aunt Fanny is a good missionary. Isn't she? She was kind one to
+another."
+
+"Yes, indeed! she always is that; just like your father, you know."
+
+Mr. Codman wrote Mr. Barnard the same evening, and he came the day but
+one after the poor baby was burned, just as Mr. and Mrs. Codman were
+starting to attend the funeral of the old lady and child.
+
+Fanny was dressed and sitting in an easy chair, both arms bandaged to
+the elbows and laid out on a pillow. She looked very white, except where
+a fever spot burned on each cheek. Mrs. Matthews sat by, talking in a
+cheerful tone, while Rose and Emma played with their dolls in the corner
+of the chamber.
+
+With a gentle knock Mrs. Codman peeped in, asking, in a mysterious
+voice,--
+
+"Are you ready for visitors?" Then, without waiting for an answer, she
+beckoned the young missionary to come forward.
+
+He flew to her side, and, not daring to trust his voice, instantly
+kissed her cheek.
+
+"This is Mrs. Matthews," Mrs. Codman said. "She will be happy to tell
+you what a heroine your Fanny has been. I must run away, or I shall be
+late."
+
+Mrs. Matthews repeated some of the particulars of the dreadful accident,
+and then, seeing how hard it was for the young man to control his
+feelings, rose, and calling the children, left the room with them.
+
+"My own Fanny," he said, putting his hand softly on her head, "I wish I
+could bear this dreadful pain for you. How could you expose your
+precious life? What should I have done if you too"--
+
+He stopped suddenly, and walked to the window, but soon returned at the
+sound of her voice, saying,--
+
+"James, you are making quite too much of what I did. Any one would have
+done the same. I could never look you in the face if I had not tried to
+relieve such terrible suffering. But Oh, it was dreadful! I cannot
+forget it."
+
+Tears filled her eyes, and he tenderly wiped them away.
+
+"I cannot sleep," she went on, "except under the influence of anodynes.
+The shrieks and groans ring in my ears."
+
+"Your nervous system has had a shock, and it will take time to recover.
+You know I have been studying a little medicine, and I shall take you
+for my first patient. I prescribe perfect rest, and that you see no one
+but me."
+
+Fanny laughed. "Josey will have something to say to that," she began.
+"He has been the most unwearied little nurse, and his face has grown
+very sad."
+
+"Dear little fellow! I shall love him better than ever."
+
+Mr. Barnard staid two days, and then Fanny was obliged to insist that he
+should leave her, as there were not quite two months before they were to
+sail, and she knew that every moment of his time was filled with
+engagements.
+
+Her burns were less painful, and it would still be weeks before she
+could help herself at all; but she was surrounded with friends who
+delighted in doing anything for her comfort.
+
+She bade him good-bye, with a tear and a smile, not expecting to see him
+again till a day or two before their marriage.
+
+He looked back to watch her sitting so white and patient, without one
+murmuring word, and thanked God that she was so soon to be his own
+loving, faithful wife.
+
+Josey rejoiced that now he could return to his labor of love and feed
+his beloved aunt; for she insisted that he did it more skilfully than
+any of them.
+
+Those were precious hours to the dear boy, when, with the tray before
+him and a spoon in his hand, he ministered to her wants, meantime
+telling her all the thoughts of his little heart. Years after he
+remembered the words she had said, and tried to improve by them.
+
+He was now fully determined to be a missionary and go out to tell the
+heathen about Christ, as his aunt Fanny was going. He began at once to
+gather all the tracts and primers he could find, and packed them in an
+old valise.
+
+His mother found them there some months later; and explained to him that
+the poor Hindoos could not read English.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+JOSEY'S GIFT.
+
+
+Aunt Fanny's burns were now nearly healed. For a week she had been
+without the bandages, though the wounds were still tender. Her trunks
+were mostly packed, and many tokens of love placed there by beloved
+friends.
+
+When with her brother's family the young missionary always wore a
+cheerful smile; but there were hours when she wept at the thought of
+parting from those who were so dear. Yet not for one instant did she
+regret the choice of her life. She was going to tell the poor benighted
+heathen of the love of Jesus,--to try and persuade them to throw away
+their idols, and worship the living and true God.
+
+As she thought of all this, and realized what a privilege it was to save
+souls from eternal death, her whole heart glowed with a desire to be
+among those for whom she was to labor.
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Matthews had been travelling for some weeks, but had now
+returned to be in season for the wedding.
+
+On the Sabbath night previous, the family were seated in the library,
+when mamma noticed that Josey was not present. She could not account for
+this, because, when out of school, he was scarcely a moment away from
+his aunt's side. She went through several rooms in search of him, and
+at last found him in a closet by himself, sobbing as if his heart would
+break.
+
+"Why must Aunt Fanny go?" he sobbed, "I can't bear it,--I can't bear not
+to see her any longer!"
+
+"My darling," said mamma, taking his hand, and leading him to her own
+chamber, "do you know what Aunt Fanny is going for?"
+
+"Yes, mamma, but couldn't somebody else do it?" She stopped a moment
+and then said,--
+
+"Josey, there was a time, thousands of years ago, when man had sinned,
+and there was no hope nor joy for him in the world; there was only the
+certainty that his soul must be miserable forever. Then our blessed
+Saviour said, 'I pity these poor people and shall try to save them.' He
+left his glorious throne, by the side of his Father, and came here to
+give himself to death.
+
+"The love and pity of God the Father was so great, that he sent his
+beloved Son, that whosoever believeth on him shall have everlasting
+life.
+
+"The poor Hindoos know nothing of the true God. They have not the
+precious Bible, as we have, to tell them that they need not throw their
+babies to the crocodiles,--they need not tear and wound their own flesh,
+nor throw themselves under the wheels of the cruel Juggernaut. Your aunt
+Fanny and uncle James are going to tell them, they need do nothing of
+all this. They desire to say to those poor, ignorant men and women and
+children, that Christ's love for them is so great that if they will but
+come and accept of his salvation, it shall be freely theirs. She wants
+to tell the poor, weary pilgrims, who have been walking hundreds of
+miles with stones in their shoes, that the blessed Jesus will accept
+them without money, without price, without any of these painful
+journeys,--that they have only to lay their load of sin upon him, and he
+will carry it for them."
+
+Josey's tears ceased to flow, and he listened with almost breathless
+interest.
+
+"Do you want to keep Aunt Fanny from telling them this?" mamma asked.
+"Do you want them to go on worshipping those senseless idols, which can
+neither see, nor hear, nor understand?"
+
+With a great sob Josey answered,
+
+"No, mamma, I love her dearly, dearly; but I'll let Jesus have her.
+He'll know then how I love him."
+
+With a gush of tears, she folded him to her heart. When they were more
+calm, she urged him to return to the parlor.
+
+"Pretty soon I will," he said softly, "And oh, mamma, if you'll please
+let me sit up an hour later every night till she--I mean, till we're all
+alone. Now I'm going to write her a letter."
+
+My little reader, would you like to read it, and see how our dear Josey
+showed his love to his Saviour? how he tried to obey the rule, "My
+little children let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed
+and in truth?" It was this:
+
+
+     "My dear, darling Aunt Fanny:
+
+     "I've been thinking a great deal about you, and once I said
+     I couldn't let you go away; but I'm willing now. I know I
+     shall miss you dreadfully. And it makes me cry to think how
+     I shall want to hear you pray by my bed, every night; but
+     I'll tell you why I'm willing. You know I'm trying to be a
+     Christian child, and I do hope the dear Saviour has pardoned
+     my sins; so I want to show Him that I really thank Him for
+     it, and to-night, I said to myself, 'I have nothing to give
+     Jesus, to show him my love, but my dear, dear aunty. I do
+     hope it will show the heathen a little, that I love them,
+     and want to be kind to them. When you get there, will you
+     please tell them a little boy gave his aunt to the Saviour,
+     so that they may learn the way to heaven.
+
+     "When I am a man, I hope I shall be a missionary, too; and
+     perhaps then God will let me see you and Uncle James again.
+
+                                        "Your little nephew,
+
+                                        "JOSEY CODMAN."
+
+
+
+
+MRS. LESLIE'S
+
+BIBLE PEARLS.
+
+
+_Series for Boys._
+
+    VOL. I. THE PEARL OF LOVE.
+
+     "  II.  "    "   "  CHARITY.
+
+     "  III. "    "   "  OBEDIENCE.
+
+     "  IV.  "    "   "  PENITENCE.
+
+     "  V.   "    "   "  HOPE.
+
+     "  VI.  "    "   "  PATIENCE.
+
+
+_Series for Girls._
+
+
+    VOL. I. THE PEARL OF FAITH.
+
+     "  II.  "    "   "  DILIGENCE.
+
+     "  III. "    "   "  MEEKNESS.
+
+     "  IV.  "    "   "  FORGIVENESS.
+
+     "  V.   "    "   "  HOPE.
+
+     "  VI.  "    "   "  CONTENTMENT.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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