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the acton free press paoattbum oh old nun and the young matt amlfcad to tiw anowy twuieht thnulh adlmnsai of bsaut that wu so miwhthr spirituality m wife my boy old brothar korunvld said m his deap fine mice is the most beautiful thing that ufa ho to offar young nun she to supplement to him eomplamvnt to his nature nd some- tlmaa finality of oompletanaa to hit personality which must please ood wholly and to man is lnunaasarably beautirut i know david ixmtr nodded a quiet smile played ow his law features he wu tall but his was a nice sraoe of youth one would hardly have guessed that dnee had passed a fevered day and time when hie parents doubted if ever he would wallc asaln or indeed live at all strolling with hands clasped behind him in the halflight of a wtntfy even- ins with a quill moon in a cloudtossed snowy night sky he was very splendid atrong and good i mean the old man added the righcund or wife to the right kmd of man yes david said you are a young preacher at the threshold of a career which i opptv hencvwtn he a great one i do not mean to natter i believe that word and your caiurch this church any church you shall yet serve in the fullness of your fine powers and talents would appreci ate the stability the excellence that a wife would odd to you- not david that one feels any lack which must be added to but always there li a lack when something would make another thing more complete you understand my meaning ah yes and thanks sir david stop ped they had passed ittie sombre brick church with its nakedlimbed trees close to it and shielding its quiet sanctity brother northrteld smiled you are stopping here he tniuoatett the house near the gate of whose wrought- iron fence david slowed hi pace yyes sir hah i well well a teasing music came into the mans voice i shant detain you ooocvnlght david aoodnlght sir n the older man went an into the gray usfc 4ule david walked with elastic step along the walk to tic great door diffused light from the stained windows touched him he rang waiting with heart just a bit quick he saw a dim shadow in the corridor the door opened quickly and there was sybil remington ahdavld just the slightest trace f a catch was in the young womans delicious voice come in he entered and ktoklng at ue girl hi was wanned to a brilliance of glow ut her beauty sybil remington seemed all that any man could require of n woman youth elastic and expressive beauty with culture and mind she was she was half defiant we dont call it dinner for ken emerson ah no david agreed u lfi good enough for me and good enough for nan it should also be good enough for you though z allow that it could not tie good enough for sybil rem ington david laughed while his mother tossed her head let us eat it whatever it is dinner or supper for im hungry as a wolf said david the next morning david was wakened by the blast of a truck horn at the par sonage gate me leaped from bed and hastily donned his clothes as he went out on the porch dawn was creeping across a anowtouohed world where drift 1 to the trees and roofs lay in white silence hallo cried a joyous voice a girl leaped from tlie truck and walked with elastic motion up to the steps hello nan david said heartily and grinned did we roust you from your beauty steep she giggled spiritedly wwell from sleep but not beauty sleep dads nan shouted back yehy called a voice from thetruok david reedy to go with us to the church with the tree okeh dome along david went along with the girl to the truck a great symmetrical tree hbed the body nan e climbed in be side her father a robust honestfaced farmer david slipped in try nan and the truck went around the block to the church there they got out and the three of them with common hand at competency unloaded the tree and wedg ed it through the swinging side doors into the annex mr emerson knocked the timab and snow off him and sur veyed the place there you are best tree we had nan picked it out its fine and thanks a thousand times mr emerson david was studying kan emerson she was not a beautiful girl at all but health and vitality did something to her that was indefinably lovely mtows mom nlie asked fine thanks nan tell her 111 be seeing her this after noon yee he questioned yws were decorating this tree you know your mother and i ail david said im bringing in the wnaths and ever green festoons and what not right after dinner dinner david echoed she giggled dcllclously dinner one oclock you know you know it as some thing ctanow no barb was in hqr votce no cloud in her eye as she turned and nodded to her lather and the three went out into the growtiu light of the her thin voice told so plainly david mate your ehfltce bow oils tautafct between yettr mother and me then eon he no delay the decision mutt be now david sensed the situation but im perfectly in his man mind he had not yet te experience to oomv to such a decision wisely he acted only as some deep lnettoot informed him and waited sybil gave him one look and flung around gorry she bowed the smile died enof she went swiftly out hardly wlthoutta flutter nan flowsop stepped ra to the rift she took martha longa strong brown hand m botb of hers and patted the hand mother martha what a beautiful old hand you have the voice was drench ed with tenderness that hand rooked davids cradle i can see you now on the cabin steps in the twilight rooking snd hear you singing sleep baby sleep at christmas i know you must have had a tree for david and made evergreen wreaths and decorated lb in lovely fashion for in those times they didnt have the tinsel and the lights and lovely fragile bells snd knobs and other decorations did they no martha long said but tho grim- ness had gone from her old voice and she looked uneasily at che door and you didnt know your boy then was to become one of use best of all the young ministers in the state did you i knew martha sold i prayed that ood would touch my baby and ood answered my prayer yes nan said softly gently restor ing the torn trimmings she nodded for david to fade from the scene he slip ped out and away he wae gone for a good white walk ing with bowed head once he wanted so poignantly to 00 into the great rem ington house he thought of old brother northfleld and those wise words the old man spoke gomeuune in their m waning directed davids steps away but the heart can is a tug that almost no de cision con resist when he returned to the annex and looked in his nrst thought was that kan and hi mother both were gone entering he was alone with his tangled thoughts and feelings he heard a small remote sound and there stood nan emerson her brown eyes were so kindly the light of under standing in them was so good that david rather broke down you know nan he said it it was all so small yet it seemed suddenly so terribly important i i ha med to lough but it was a confused eauud it was both small and very impor tant you see i can so well get your side your mother is a lovely woman fine and tender but she is no longer young and elastic tn her heart in her emotions especially her love lor her when she looked up and as if by a power without herself to i to his vae what did she do while praying for heart her baby jon upon her knees ehe did drawn for more than that and eornefchlng in resist ana so david near tlie tree itself so essentially a prayer she did arms folded watonm her without elolrw and often food she what david aw was something so worked year by year making quilts and radiant and imnsesjeurehly lovely that ha picking berries and attain fruit and seeped win that rare whlmtleal saving and scrimping and all that ah moment with davids diamond en her might hoard a few dimes or dollam eo flfer where ohm there had been only tn later years when iwu chunk of a strand of string nan was lmperlshably boy i could go to school and than on to beautiful all the joy of herself ell the theological seminary i have seen her fine understanding and sympathy in her insist on carrying heavy wood through warm vivid nature end all the peace and the rain so that i might have the more flood win of herself took form and glow time to study my lessons for what upon her face david knew in that reason so that her boy might know moment that the beauty he was looking all things and to lonowledge have closer at now was the sort that would endure communion with ood i am glad that f life and eternity it would grow as i lost he knowledge 1 might have had it ripened re stole a look at fiybn ai- ln that time and made her alt by the ready hie infatuation for her had spent are and carried fee wood myself and itself with it the notion he had made searched for ood in the burdens vf its from glamor true beauty lies deup in the tender sweep of love peace good will kacrlflee and understanding commanding voice weight and the cold grisly rain and round him there butltrgoss back be yond this jjsn he was in the depths of some remote study of himself and his love for martha long i when i was a ohlld a babe in arms for various reasons the world has i was stricken by infantile paralysis awakened to the magic power of really utile or nothing wasjenown about the fine speaking voices writes olive robetn malady then but mother well she bnrtonr may hove bod a vision there at smoky let us hope that mothers have taken mountain was a hot spring coming from the lesson personally for pleasant voice a cleft tn the solid rook and here day stand them in goad stead when dealing after day and week after week and manuh after month and year after year shejnit me in the hot both and worked with mc counting no labor no effort as anything but joy there were weeks when i was given up to die by all butj herself she wuold not give up she nursed me day and night and lost no much sleep that her present neurosis is a hangover of those hard months of unceasing devotion to me that all happened without my memory of course till i was a young man and cured so that hardly a hint even of the paralysis remains control by being always sort and swcet and now he concluded you saw evrn a small child will recognise that -a- the episode i could not take sides with shouting mother la afraid of him afraid wdth sybil i that he wont do an he u told that htn tout you care for her david will 1b strormcr than her own yyes there must be that indefinable some- you love her thtrur behind a voice that commands he shook hie head i cannot love respect with their children first i had better explain that to me thore is no real beauty in a voice that lns no presence or force behind it and i dont mean volume par from it for bellowing has alaays lacked authority only a person who feels the futility of his words knows the necessity of shout ing them a child soon learnt that and fecla no need of obeying the warning or com mand thai is shouted at him on the other hand a child will not walk over the mother who shows her tells mother of his hopes visiting his mother at her home in fleaforth ontario for the first time since us5 premier aberhart of alberta explained some of his social credit plane to her the premier is shown here with mrs- aberhart who is ho years old a silver blonde with exquisite delicacy i fine coming day the truck went away of tone and fashion yet when with her nan looking back waved david could never escape a certain i david had returned to the annex after spiritual discomfort perhaps this was breakfast and wua working to get s base because her father was the towns bonk- for the tree when sybil come in he er and men who have passed their years stopped in his labor stunned by some battling the necessity or dollars can never quality of fascination in her she wore feel quite at esse in the presence of oil a white sabv coat with dark hat and anyone who cannot take my love for my mother along with my love for that one i love let us finish the tree nan sold her voice curiously tight the next day david lang went to the jewellers in town taking with hlra a bit or coiled strins the jeweller smiled gently and together they worked out the slse and setting of the diamond david went away the nigh l of the tree the annex was packed sybil was there she was chang- j ed davids thought nan was there dclloknia flni nan with modest claim to jrood looks only in her rare perfect i health vitality and blooming joy martha j ww there also she who had lived her wisdom and her prayer if she doubted thal somehow in the upheaval of life she was to fall of finding answer to her i prayers she wan to be mistaken for one of the ushers bearing gifts from the tree where a red rat santa clous ploy- xj at the delightful action of havlns just j arrived from the north pole on a rocket ship brought a small beautifully ucd 1 gift to nan emerson who sat by martha i loruj j kan undid the binding with ruddenly nervous she opened the box there in the jamb or people she was as alone as if the room were empty when j the wrapper fell away she found a ring her eyes for an instant david said it is tike this with me i love her i could not care for one who took mc without my love far my mother let me tell you something well lets work then while we talk you didnt flnlah the tree no she sold they fell to work then hand by hand they attached the trimmings they worked with small cord making the light patterns secure as had been sybils original design once in the twining nt strings david had an other measure nan went quickly com petently about the work her eye and hand seemed to have an artistry that equalled sybils while david felt eo utterly at peace by her side my mother he suld his vcrlcmcllowl diamond with dignity and love of course has not could not rise and she was warm with the polish the gloss of townswomen the furious color that came from her the mother who whines her rcquets can not be sure they will be obeyed and neither can the woman who whs edlrs nd coaxes or the mother who sjivs prettily please darling do it for my sake for my sake indeed i the normal olilld doennt exist who wont lake ad vantage of the mother who pleads for obedience for her sake that to my way of thlnkins is about the weakest way in the world to try to manage a child children instinctively obey the voice that says firmly and quietly do it without depending on shouting wheed- unipormcgglng to get a thing done 1 conservative chieftain congratulates leader dr r j man ion federal conservative leader left was one of the first to congratulate col george a drew rlfrhl upon his election ss leader of the ontario conservative party at the recent convention held in toronto by the ontario cormcrvauve aanoclatlcn r food prices that money buys and all that money does to people horn- are you david she asked fine thanks and you ore ore he stopped it was so near the up of his tongue to apeak frankly of her beauty i stopped by a moment to say that weve arranged for the church christmas tree for the program an christmas xve and im looking to you of course to decorate it you have such a flare of artistry in such masters but x am glad to do it david ooml- wont you come in skirt the contrast giving her the savor 1 of a russian princess straight out of same siberian drama he finally straight- j cned the tree while sybil took the trhn- mlngs and small lights she had brought and worked the intricate wiring in and out so it would not show yet disclosed the rare and mysterious beauty of ilium- inatlon she cast silvery stuff like icicles and moaslike snow upon onehalf the tre which she had completed by noon more than once in the business of this she leisured decoration their hands had touched once he took windings of her nnew navels v oranges thanks no i must run alone home ruujlqurer on a bit of silk cord wlten she mothers walling supper dinner he was not looking atta craftily hid the saw a shadow cross her eyes it was on elusive cloud gone almost the instant it appeared he had caught it once or twice before when he spoke of his mother im aorr one said and her voice kt him go hr walked hurriedly through the measure in his pocket conscious of its romauuc value he smiled when she was ready to go and watched her depart with a haunting wtstrumess nan appeared at the parsonage after lunch and she and martha long soon went to the church david trailed along behind for the nrst time troubled and cranberries 19c large ked berries delicious flavor per tb delteknb medium large per dozen it 23 1 -aw- mcurmi stuf j jo lives victory swaat mlaad pickles j ract mmicaiao cherries oot 1- 17c 7- 1- 23c ii i 10c soacul mld nuts u tkislld pecans ckk or glafw ale crt tangerines 10c singapore sliced delicious and sweet nice size real buy kraft mtftacu who gloom the mon was gone inui tta clouds v upset by the impending difference about by the tune he camr to the rotur be- the tree decorating when he went tn yond the church a flush of lirui met martha long was snorting its new- hl face as he opened the door martha lone swatted him she was a minted woman with oddly round eyes and a curious pallor or akin one saw instant ly tn her outnr imarof her son tne flavor of patience was upon hr lined face the mark of power snd purpose her forebears wen men who went laugh ing into the kentucky and tennessee grapefruit 955r25c fancied nlbblah almost rurloualy she baton laklns down the decorauoiu i rrcaun i have aomr 4de about uea ut my own she said but it is lovely naa insisted dell- ostely sybil remington appeared then and david knew what stark embarrassment snd spiritual acony vas sa these two tat wudemee and in htfh adrrnturoui lee women who tored him took each others took it hardships snd torrors snd its measure marthas stronc ureant sugars horrors alone with its ipous they halted nan pneta looked on with war not man or eloquences or of mat sober eyes sybil suae upon dayld axtaulc paroepuon m some odd blolog- i make her stop dattdl i m vsu manner these qualluea awaited w david umc and look shape in hl aplen- j her fury are no quarter s she even old voice hla ood mind snd rare ym- sensed his tseltnaa 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