3/13 He got his mother's Bible and he wrote some dreadful things in it, and made a fearful picture." "Picture of what ?" asked the old woman. Here it is; I remember every word," and she repeated it word for word, it having sunk deeply into her mind. "Then at the bottom he had written, 'Hallelujah, Amen! Gethin Owens Garthowen.'" A smile overspread Sara's countenance as she observed Morva's solemnity, a smile which somewhat lessened the girl's disquietude. "What wonder was it that the boy drew a picture of the things that he heard every Sunday in chapel--God's never-ending anger, and the devil's gathering in the precious souls which He has created. That would be a failure, Morva, and God can't fail in anything. |