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had to economize when poverty po^ paring for a card party.
gessed neither picturesqueness nor In ¬
terest. They were always several
weeks behind in the payment of do
westic bills, and these recurring re
minders of money stringency mad
dened Cherry. Sometimes she summed
it up, with angry tears, reminding him
that -she was still wearing her trous
seau dresses, and had no maid, and
sever went anywhere—!
But she developed steadily. As she
grew skilful in managing her little
bouse, she also grew in the art of
managing her husband and herself.
She became clever at avoiding causes
of disagreement; she listened, nodded,
agreed, with a boiling heart, and had
the satisfaction of having Martin’s
viewpoint veer the next day, or the
next hour, to meet her own secret
conviction. Martin seemed satisfied,
and all their little world accepted her
as a matter of course. But under it
all Cherry knew that something young
add irresponsible and confident in her
had been killed. She never liked to
think of the valley, of the fogs and the
spokes of sunlight under the redwood
aisles, of Alix and the dogs and the
dreamy evenings by, the fire. And es
pecially she did not like to think of
that eighteenth birthday, and herself
thrilling and ecstatic because the
strange young man from Mrs. North’s
had stared at her, in her sticky apron,
with so new and disturbing a smile
In his eyes.
“Think of little old Cherry going
off on week-end trips with three
men!” Alix would say proudly. “Think
of Cherry giving a party!” Anne per
haps would make no comment, but she
often felt a pang of envy. Cherry
geemed to htve everything.
Suddenly, without warning, there
was a newcomer in the circle, a sleek-
headed brown-haired little man known
as Justin Little.
He had been introduced at some par
ty to Anne and Alix; he called; he
was presently taking Anne to a lec
ture. Anne now began to laugh at
him and say that he was “too ridic
ulous,” but she did not allow any one
else to say so. On the contrary, she
told Alix at various times that his
mother had been one of the old Mary
land Percies, and his great-grandfather
was mentioned in a book by Sir Wal
ter Scott, and that one had to respect
the man, even if one didn’t choose to
marry him.
“Marry him I” Alix had echoed in
simple amazement. Marry him—what
was all this sudden change in the
household when a man could no sooner
appear th^n some girl began to talk
of marriage? Stupefied, Alix watched
the affair progress.
“I don’t imagine it’s serious!” her
father said on an April walk. Peter,
CHAPTER V.
So winter passed at the mine and
at the brown house under the shoul
der of Tamalpais. Alix still kept her
bedroom windows open, but the rain
tore in, and Anne protested at the en
suing stains on the pantry celling.
Cherry’s wedding, once satisfactori
ly over, was a cause of great satisfac
tion to her sister and cousin. They
had stepped back duly, to give her
the center of the stage; they had ad
mired and congratulated; had helped
her in all hearty generosity. And now
that she was gone they enjoyed their
own lives again and cast over hers the
glamor that novelty and distance nev
er fall to give. Cherry, married and
keeping house and managing affairs,
was an object of romantic interest.
The girls surmised that Cherry must
be making friends; that everyone must
admire her; that Martin would be
rich some day, without doubt.
Chery wrote regularly, now and then
assuring them that she was the same
old Cherry. She described her tiny house
right at the mine, and the long sheds
of the plant, and the bare big build
ing that was the men’s boarding house.
Martin’s associates brought her trout
and ducks, she wrote; she and Martin
"My dear father,” the girl protested.
‘Have you listened to them? They’ve
been contending for weeks that they
were just remarkably good friends—
that’s why she calls him Frenny!”
“Ah—I see!” the doctor said mildly,
as Peter’s wild laugh burst forth.
“But now,” Alix pursued, “she’s told
him that as she cannot be what he
wishes, they had better not meet!”
“Poor Anne!” the old doctor com
mented.
“Poor nothing! She’s having the
time of her life,” her cousin said un
feelingly. “She told me today that
she was afraid that she had checked
one of the most brilliant careers at
the bar.”
“I had no idea of all this I” the doc
tor confessed, amazed. “I’ve seen the
young man—noticed him about. Well
—well—well! Anne, too.”
In June came the blissful hour In
which Anne, all blushes and smiles,
could come to her uncle with a duti
ful message from the respectfully
adoring Justin. Their friendship, said
Anne, had ripened into something
deeper.
“Justin wants to have a frank talk
with you, uncle,” Anne said, “and
of course I’m not to go until you are
sure you can spare me and unless you
feel that you can trust him utterly!”
Anne’s engagement cups were
ranged on the table where Cherry’s
had stood, and where Cherry had
talked of a coffee-colored rajah silk
Anne discussed the merits of a “smart
but handsome blue tallormade.”
The wedding was to be in Septem
ber, not quite a year after Cherry’s
wedding. Alix wrote her sister pages
about it, always ending with the em
phatic declaration that Cherry must
come down for the wadding.
Cherry was homesick. She dreamed
continually of the cool, high valley,
the scented aisles of the deep forest,
the mountain rearing its rough sum
mit to the pale blue of summer skies.
June passed; July passed; it was
hot at the “Emmy Younger.” August
came in on a furnace breath; Cherry
felt headachy, languid and half sick
all the time. Martin had said that
he could not possibly get away, even
for the week of Anne’s wedding, but
Cherry began to wonder if he would
let her go alone.
"If he doesn’t, I shall be sick!” she
fretted to herself, in a certain burn
ing noontime, toward the middle of
August. Martin, who had been play
ing poker the night before, was sleep
ing late this morning. Coming home
at three o’clock dazed with close air
and cigar smoke, he had awakened
his wife to tell her that he would be
“dead” in the morning, and Cherry
had accordingly crept about her dress
ing noiselessly, had darkened the bed-
room and eaten her own breakfast
without the clatter of a dish.^Now
she was sitting by the window, pant
ing in the noon heat. She was think
ing, as it chanced, of the big forest
at home and of a certain day—just
one of their happy days!—only a year
There was a shadow In the door
way; she looked up surprised. For a
minute the tall figure in striped linen
and the smiling face under the flow
ery hat seemed those of a stranger.
Then Cherry cried out and laughed,
and in another Instant was crying in
Alix's arms.
Alix cried, too, but it was with a
great rush of pity and tenderness for
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The heat and bareness and ugliness
of the mine might have been over
looked, but this poor little house of
Cherry’s, this wood stove draining
white ashes, this tin sink with its
pump, and the bathroom'with neither
faucets nor drain, almost bewildered
Alix with their discomfort
Even more bewildering was the
change in Cherry. There was a cer
tain hardening that impressed AJix at
once. There was a weary sort of pa
tience, a disillusioned concession to
the drabness of married life.
But she allowed the younger sister
to see nothing of this. Indeed, Cherry
so brightened under the stimulus of
Alix’s companionship that Martin told
her that she was more like her old self
than she had been for months. Joy
ously she divided her responsibilities
with Alix, explaining the difficulties
of marketing and housekeeping, and
joyously Alix assumed them. Her vi
tality infected the whole household.
She gave them spirited accounts of
Anne’s affair. “He’s a nice little aca
demic fellow,” she said of Justin Lit
tle. “If he had a flatiron in each
hand he’d probably weigh close to a
hundred pounds! He’s a—well, a sort
of damp-looking youth, if you know
what I mean! I always want to take
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 11
PAUL IN ATHENS.
LESSON TEXT—Acts 17:16-34.
GOLDEN TEXT—In him we live, and
move, and have our being.—Acts 17:28.
REFERENCE MATERIAL-Luke 4:15-
PRIMARY TOPIO—Paul Telling the
People about God.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Paul in Athens.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—In a Famous Greek City.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Paul in a Center of Learning. Being
Driven from Berea, Paul Fled to Athens.
a crash towel and dry him off!”
“Fancy Anne with a shrimp
that!” Cherry said, with a proud
at her own man’s fine height,
sounds awful to me.”
“He’s not, really. Only it seems
like
look
“He
that
he belongs to the oldest family in
America, or something, and is the
only descendant—”
“Money?” Cherry asked, Interest
edly.
“No, I don’t think money, exactly.
At least I know he is getting a hun
dred a month in his uncle’s law office,
and Dad thinks they ought to wait
until they have a little more. She’ll
have something, you know,” Alix
added, after a moment’s thought.
“Your cousin?” Martin asked.
"Well, her father went into the fire-
extinguisher thing with Dad,” Alix
elucidated, “and evidently she and
Justin have had deep, soulful thoughts
about it. Anyway, the other day she
said—you know her way, Cherry—
‘Tell me, Uncle, frankly and honestly,
may Justin and I draw out my share
for that little home that is going to
mean so much to us—’ ”
“I can hear her !” giggled Cherry.
“Dad immediately said that she
could, of course,” Alix went on. “He
was adorable about it. He said, Tt
will do more than build you a little
home, my dear!’”
“We’ll get a slice of that some time,”
Cherry said thoughtfully, glancing at
her husband. “I don’t mean when
Dad dies, either,” she added, in quick
affection. “I mean that he might build
us a little home some day in Mill
Valley.”
“Gee, how he’d love it!” Alix said,
enthusiastically.
“I married Cherry for her money,”
Martin confessed.
“As a matter of fact,” Cherry con
tradicted him, vivaciously, animated
even by the thought of a change and
a home, "we have never even spoken
of it before, have we, Mart?”
"I never heard of it before,” he ad
mitted, smiling, as he knocked the
ashes from his pipe. “But it’s pleasant
to know that Cherry will come in for
a nest-egg some day!”
Presently the visitor boldly sug
gested that she and Cherry should both
go homS together for the wedding, and
Martin agreed good-naturedly.
“But, Mart, how'll you get along?”
his wife asked anxiously. She had
fumed and fussed and puttered and
toiled over the care of these four
rooms for so long that it seemed un
believable that her place might be
vacated even for a day.
“Oh, I’ll get along fine!” he an
swered indifferently. So, on the last
day of August, in the cream-colored
I. The Idolatry of the Athenian#
(v. 16).
Athens was the Intellectual metrop
olis of the world at that time, the
home of the world’s great eloquence
and philosophy. Paul’s spirit was
stirred within him when he saw the
city wholly given to idolatry.
II. The Parties Concerned (vv. IT-
21).
True to his usual custom Paul went
into the Jewish synagogue and entered
Into earnest argument with the Jews.
From them he turned to such as were
found in the market place. Here he
came into touch with the Epicurean
and Stoic philosophers. The former
were atheistic materialists. They de
nied the doctrine of Creation. They
gave themselves up to sensual in
dulgences since they had no idea of
future judgment. The latter were
pantheists. When they heard the
(preaching of Paul they desired to
know what new doctrine he preached,
so they invited him to the Areopagus
where he might speak to them of his
new doctrine. They inquired as to
what this “babbler” might say. The
word “babbler” means literally “seed-
picker.”
III. Paul’s Address on Mars’ Hill
(vv. 23-31).
1. The introduction (vv. 22, 23). He
did not accuse them of “superstition”
as the A. V. would make it, but as in
the Am. R. V. he introduces his dis
course in a courteous and conciliatory
manner, stating that he perceived that
they were very religious. This he ex
plained by stating that as he was view
ing their city he beheld an altar with
an inscription “To the Unknown God.”
This was his point of contact. He
proceeds at once to connect it with
the idea of the living God, implying
that this altar had been erected to
silk and
looking,
like the
she and
the expensive hat again, yet
Alix thought, strangely un
bride that had been Cherry,
her sister happily departed
for cooler regions. Martin took them
to the train, kissed his sister-in-law
gaily and then his wife affectionately.
“Be a good little girl, Babe,” he
said, "and write me!”
"Oh, I will—I will!” Cherry looked
after him smilingly from the car win
dow. "He really is an old deac! b she
told Alix.
CHAPTER VI.
But when at the end of the long
day they reached the valley, and when
her father came innocently into the
garden and stood staring vaguely at
her for a moment—for her visit ‘and
the day of Alix’s return had been kept
a secret—her first act was to burst
into tears. She clung to the fatherly
shoulders as if she were a storm-
beaten bird safely home again, and
although r,he immediately laughed at
herself and told the sympathetically
watching Peter and Alix that she
dion t know what was the matter with
her, it was only to interrupt the words
with fresh tears.
Tears of joy, she told them, laugh
ing at the moisture in her father’s
eyes. She had a special joyous word
for Hong; she laughed and teased
and questioned Anne, when Anne and
Justin came back from an afternoon
concert in the city, with an interest
and enthusiasm most gratifying to
both.
After dinner she had her old place
on the arm of her father’s porch chair;
Alix, with Buck’s smooth head in her
lap, sat on the porch step beside Pe
ter, and the lovers murmured from
the darkness of the hammock under
the shadow of the rose vine. It was
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24-31).
(1) A
(vv. 24,
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direct blow at the philosophy of both
the Epicureans and the Stoics. He did
not attempt to prove the existence of
God; it needs no proof. The Bible
everywhere assumes the existence of
a divine being, (b) His spirituality
and Immensity (vv. 24, 25). He is
not served with “men’s hands as
though he needed anything,” neither
is He confined by any sort of religious
temple. Being essentially spiritual
He demands heart-service, and being
transcendent above all He is not con
fined to earthly temples, (c) His ac
tive providence (v. 25). He gives ex
istence, bestows needed gifts, and as
sovereign directs all things.
(2) Declaration concerning man (vv.
26-31). (a) His common origin (v. 26).
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ian pride which supposed that they
were superior to all other people. This
proposition he proved from their own
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as the senseless idols were, (b) Na
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of God’s'appointment, (c) Men should
seek God (v. 26). His goodness and
grace in supplying all our needs, and
ordering even the affairs of the na
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Gbd, for He is indeed very near to
every one; so near that our existence
and movements are all under His con
trol (v. 27). (d) Pressing obligation
to repent (vv. 30, 31). This was his
supreme message. Though God had
formerly passed over idolatry He now
calls to all men to repent. The solemn
reason for such action Is the coming
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