Holbrook's,--a long letter, full of tender sympathy, telling all
about how, in the afternoon of an early spring day, they had laid his
father by Johnny's side.
Edward read on eagerly, until he came to this sentence: "My dear boy, I
have a most precious message for you. I was with him only an hour before
he died, and at that time he said to me, 'I want you to tell Tip that God
has heard his prayer, and saved his father; and that I shall watch for
him to come to heaven, and bring all the rest.' And, Edward, I haven't a
shade of doubt but that your father is with his Redeemer; you must let me
quote again a verse which I once gave you: 'I love the Lord, because He
has heard my voice and my supplications.'"
And at this point the letter dropped from his hand, and Edward shed his
first tears for his father.
It was curious, the different ways that Mr. Minturn and his son had of
expressing sympathy.
"Oh," Mr. Minturn said, when he was told, "why in the world didn't they
send for you?"
"Because, sir, my father died very suddenly, and my mother thought I
could not afford to come so far for the funeral.
Pages:
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219