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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Charlie Newcomer, by Wilbur B. Stover
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+Title: Charlie Newcomer
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+Author: Wilbur B. Stover
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+Release Date: July 14, 2011 [EBook #36732]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLIE NEWCOMER ***
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+  _Jno. 3:16._          _Jno. 3:16._
+                 OUR
+      Missionary Reading Circle.
+
+  SHORT COURSE OF MISSIONARY
+  READING FOR COMMON PEOPLE
+  YOUNG AND OLD.
+
+    =_What is said of it by many_=:
+
+        "_It will be very beneficial_,"
+
+        "_I would heartily recommend it_,"
+
+        "_I am glad my children are taking it up_,"
+
+        "_I consider the books first class_,"
+
+        "_It's just what I've been looking for_,"
+
+        "_Can safely recommend the books to all_,"
+
+        "_I wish you God-speed_,"
+
+        "_The idea is a good one_."
+
+    For books, address the Librarian,
+
+    For plan and methods, address Secretary.
+
+  JAS. M. NEFF, Lib.,      EDITH R. NEWCOMER, Sec.,
+  Covington, Ohio.         Waynesboro, Pa.
+
+
+
+
+  CHARLIE NEWCOMER
+
+  BY
+  WILBUR B. STOVER
+
+  JAS. M. NEFF, PUBLISHER
+  LIBRARIAN OF OUR MISSIONARY READING CIRCLE
+  COVINGTON, OHIO
+  1894
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+I knew Charlie Newcomer, and I loved him. To me he seemed to have a
+bright future. And that other children may be led to take his good
+example in uniting with the church while they are yet children, I take
+pleasure in telling the story of his life. I have told that story
+often from the pulpit, in children's meetings, and I tell it now, in
+this way that a larger congregation may be reached.
+
+In the home of Charlie and Bessie's parents at Ringgold, I wrote every
+word of this sketch. It is with considerable hesitancy, too, that the
+parents allow the facts to be told, since it enters right into their
+home life, and since some might misjudge their intention concerning
+their children.
+
+May his heart's desire now be realized--to be a missionary.
+
+  W. B. S.
+
+  _Edgemont, Md., Feb. 2, 1894._
+
+
+
+
+CHARLIE NEWCOMER
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+AT THE RINGGOLD SCHOOL.
+
+
+"Hurry up Charlie, for as soon as we get our dinner over, we want to
+play base-ball, and you're on our side, you know," called one of the
+scholars of the Ringgold school to Charlie Newcomer, as he was going
+home at noon for his dinner. Charlie's home was only a few rods from
+the school house, and on the same side of the road.
+
+"All right, boys, I will," he answered in return, and in a minute more
+he was home.
+
+Dinner was not ready when he reached home, for his mamma had been
+putting out her washing that forenoon. So he brought the water and
+then went to the cellar for the bread and butter while his mamma made
+the gravy, and dinner was soon on the table. While they were eating,
+Charlie said, "Do you think, mamma, I can get up head this afternoon?
+I've studied my lessons very well."
+
+"I don't know, indeed," said his mamma, "you cannot unless some one
+above you should make a mistake, and the other scholars are as anxious
+to stand well as you are."
+
+"They're awful hard lessons, and surely some one will miss, and I'm
+just waiting for a chance like that. You know I hate to be foot," he
+continued, "and if I hadn't 'a' missed that day three weeks ago, I
+would have been head now."
+
+He had finished his dinner before his mother and little sister, and
+was off to school while they were yet at the table.
+
+The boys in the play ground had changed their minds about playing
+base-ball, from the fact that some wanted to begin playing right away,
+while others wanted to wait for the return of those who had gone home
+for dinner. Some wanted to choose new sides, and others wanted to
+remain as they had been the day before; and yet others, as they said,
+"didn't want to play anyhow," and in the midst of so many voices, they
+all went to playing "Drop the handkerchief," girls and boys together.
+Charlie was especially fond of playing "Drop the handkerchief," and
+when he saw it was that game instead of ball, it did not take long
+until he was at it with all his might. Adding his kerchief to those
+already afloat, he ran around the large circle never faster.
+
+Grown up people sometimes wonder how it is that children are willing
+to play until they are all in a perspiration, but children just as
+well wonder at grown up people for working with the same result.
+
+The ringing of the school bell brought the game to a close. Nearly all
+of the scholars went at once into the house, while a few lingered on
+the porch to get a drink of water and cool off a little before going
+in.
+
+How quiet it seems just after all the boys and girls are called from
+the play-ground to their books.
+
+The school building at Ringgold is at one end of the town, and the
+town is a little, long one, right on the top of a large, long hill. On
+either side you can see the mountains, and from Ringgold to the
+mountain eastward, even away up on the side of the mountain, are
+thousands and thousands of peach trees.
+
+[Illustration: THE RINGGOLD SCHOOLHOUSE.]
+
+Within the school house is work. Class after class is called up to
+recite, and in some of them not many changes are made as to the standing
+of the pupils. In most of the classes the method of trapping is used.
+Whenever any one mis-spells a word or makes a mistake on a problem, the
+next one below him has a chance at it; if he misses, the next has a
+chance, and so on until the one is found who can make right the error,
+then that one traps and goes up above all who have missed.
+
+Ever since Charlie had been absent that one day, he had been working
+especially hard to win his accustomed place at the head of his
+classes, for whoever missed a day had to "go foot."
+
+That afternoon because the lessons were rather difficult, he hoped to
+get near to his old place, if not to reach it altogether. When the
+first class was called, his heart beat just a little faster than while
+he was preparing his lesson. As he arose from his seat to go, he
+breathed a little prayer to God, that he might remember well what he
+had just been learning.
+
+Several problems were missed and as many times somebody trapped up. But
+not every problem that others had mistaken reached Charlie. One time he
+thought he would now trap three, when he himself missed, and another got
+it. In trapping, however, the close of the recitation found him "third"
+but not "first." And so the class was dismissed for that day.
+
+The last in the afternoon was the spelling class. The teacher
+frequently began to pronounce the words on the lower part of the page
+first. "Tournament" was the first word to-day. The next was
+"constitute." "Coadjutor" was Charlie's first word to spell.
+"Inaugurate" was mis-spelled near the foot of the class. "Sumac" was
+missed, and the scholars below were eager. "Ducat" enabled the one
+above Charlie to trap two. "Joust" was spelled correctly. "Oolite" and
+"vocable" were missed several times. The lesson was almost closed.
+
+"Compass," said the teacher.
+
+"Fortnight."
+
+"Revolt." That was Charlie's.
+
+"Caoutchouc."
+
+"C-a-o-u-t-c-h--c-h--can't spell it," said the little man next below
+Charlie.
+
+"Next," said the teacher.
+
+"C-a-o-u-t-c-h-o-u-c-e."
+
+"Next."
+
+"C-o-o-c-h-o-o--o-o--."
+
+"Next."
+
+"C-h-o-o--"
+
+"Next," and Charlie began to wish he had been foot now, so he could
+get up more than one at a time.
+
+"K-a-u-o-t-c-h."
+
+"Next," and all eyes began to look toward the head of the class, for
+the unfortunate word was sure to go there.
+
+"Caoutchouc," again pronounced the teacher, clearly. The bright little
+girl at the head of the class was a good speller, but hearing so many
+efforts, she became confused with the word, and although spelling
+slowly at it, she missed it.
+
+"Next."
+
+"Caoutchouc, is it, teacher?"
+
+"Yes, sir."
+
+"C-o-u-t-c-h-o-u-c."
+
+"Next."
+
+"C-o-u-t-c-h-a-o-u-c."
+
+"Next," and every kind of a way was given to spell that word. It
+passed on down the class to Charlie. He was waiting, not a little
+anxiously for it.
+
+"C-a-o-u-t-c-h-o-u-c caoutchouc," and he marched up head with a smile
+that showed gladness for himself, and love for those in the class at
+the head of which he now stood.
+
+Some words more and the lesson was recited.
+
+"Charlie," said Earl Rinehart after the bell rang, and they were
+passing out of the door, "I was glad you got that word right."
+
+"Why so, Earl?"
+
+"Because I'd rather have you head than any one else, even if I do have
+to be second or third."
+
+And having crossed over the stile, five of them joined in a row and
+ran a footrace down the little hill, past Bell's and Newcomer's, on
+down the road,--save one, who turned off to the right quickly and
+hurried into the house to tell his mamma of his good fortune in the
+spelling class.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+A SUNDAY AT WELTY'S CHURCH.
+
+
+The sun was shining brightly on Sunday morning, and all was still and
+quiet in Ringgold and the country round about. Charlie had buttoned
+his sister Bessie's shoes, and they both were now sitting on the back
+porch of their home, talking.
+
+Their papa was in the front room reviewing his Sunday school lesson,
+and their mamma was re-arranging some things in the kitchen. It was
+not time to go yet, but the carriage was standing at the gate and the
+horse was in the stable, harnessed.
+
+"Bessie," said Charlie, "don't you wish you were going to be baptized
+to-day!"
+
+"Why, Charlie, you know I'm too little," said Bessie.
+
+"How old do you think you ought to be first, anyhow!"
+
+"Oh, I don't know."
+
+"I was just thinking about how nice everything is this morning, and I
+wonder how it was in the garden of Eden."
+
+"Children, are you ready for Sunday school? Papa is hitching up."
+
+"All right, mamma, we're coming," they answered, and were off together
+very soon.
+
+On the way to church, no one had much to say. Charlie was sitting on
+the front seat with his papa, and he was the driver too, while Bessie
+and mamma sat on the second seat.
+
+The church is down in the valley between the long Ringgold hill and
+the mountain to the east, and by the time they reached it, several
+other carriages were already there. The superintendent of the Sunday
+school had just gotten there a short time before, and all who were
+there were gathering in to spend a little while in singing before time
+for Sunday school to begin. The first hymn they sang that morning was
+
+    "Jesus, when he left the sky,
+    And for sinners came to die,
+    In his mercy passed not by
+      Little ones like me."
+
+and all the other verses.
+
+After they sang them they all kneeled down and the superintendent led
+in an earnest prayer. Then they read the lesson, verse about, and the
+teachers began work with their classes.
+
+Grown-up people sometimes think the Sunday school is just for the
+children, and even here at Welty's there were some who seemed to think
+that way, and the Sunday school consisted mostly of children.
+
+[Illustration: WELTY'S MEETING-HOUSE.]
+
+Charlie's teacher took his class to the one end of the church, into
+an adjoining room, where they could learn so much better, not being
+annoyed at all by the talking of the other classes. Here in this
+little room, teacher and class regularly study the Word of God for a
+half hour every Sunday.
+
+A half hour seems but a short time, and indeed it is, but that is only
+the recitation period, and that is long enough for such as have
+studied the lesson well. It takes a good while to tell what we don't
+know, but not very long to tell what we do know.
+
+Sunday school was over and five minutes later church services began.
+Nearly all the scholars remained for church. Several ministers were
+there, and the one who preached talked about the love of God for
+everybody. He said God loved boys and girls as well as men and women.
+He loved bad people and good people. He even loved heathen people, and
+He wants every one everywhere to love Him in return. He said God
+wants all of us to serve Him, and if we do not serve Him, we can not
+love Him. He said, too, that the more we serve Him, the happier we
+are, and the less we do for Him, the more unhappy we are.
+
+He talked about prayer, too. He said some Christians pray and some
+Christians do not, and how that the best Christians always pray the
+most.
+
+The preacher was an old man whose beard was already gray with the
+labors of many years, and everybody said it was a good sermon.
+
+After the meeting there was no haste to go home. Every one seemed
+desirous of staying there and shaking hands and talking a while. The
+superintendent nearly always tried to get several to accompany him
+home, so that they might spend the afternoon together. All the members
+of that church did in the same way. The children were out on the
+grass talking with each other and waiting until parents and friends
+were ready to start for home.
+
+Charlie was among the last to leave, and as he and his papa walked out
+to the carriage, where mamma and Bessie were waiting for them, he
+said, "I don't know why I like church so well, papa, I just wish it
+would last all day."
+
+His papa said, "Before you could walk we always took you with us to
+preaching." "I'm glad you did," answered Charlie, as he ran to untie
+the horse before his papa was quite there.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING.
+
+
+One day a little fellow was seen walking back and forth on the road
+from the store to his home, looking serious, and with eyes close upon
+the ground. A wagon going by, the man called out, "Charlie, what are
+you doing?"
+
+"Oh, I lost something, and I'm just trying to find it."
+
+And he kept hunting a long while between his home and the store to
+find whatever it was he had lost. His mamma had sent him to the store
+to get some groceries for her. He received the change into his hand, a
+nickel, and coming home he lost it. His mamma thought he could not
+find it, but he continued seeking until he did.
+
+"Mamma, I found it," he came in saying, "I knew I could. You thought I
+couldn't, now you might give it to me." His mamma laughed and then
+asked him to bring in some water. After he had set the bucket of water
+on the table he said, "What do you think I was thinking about when I
+was hunting for that five cents?"
+
+"I can't tell, son."
+
+"Well, mamma," he said, "I would like to be a Christian, can't I? I
+would like to be baptized soon."
+
+His mamma always prayed that her children might grow in grace as they
+grow in years, but this was unexpected. She answered: "I am glad you
+think about that, Charlie, but you are too young now."
+
+"How old must one be first?"
+
+"Well, that varies a good deal, I know."
+
+"I'm _nine_ years old."
+
+"Yes, I know."
+
+"Ain't nine old enough?"
+
+"But you must think about it more, Charlie."
+
+"More! I've been thinking about it a long time a'ready."
+
+"Well I'll talk to papa about it, and we'll see what he says. You know
+we want you always to do right," said his mamma, and he got his
+magnet, and put pins together and magnetized a needle, and made it
+swim, and point north and south.
+
+That night after both children were asleep, their parents talked a
+good deal about what Charlie had said.
+
+"Charlie wants to unite with the church."
+
+"He does? When did he say so?"
+
+"Just to-day, and he is in deep earnest about it, too. I don't know
+what to think, hardly."
+
+"I hardly think he realizes fully, what he wants to do."
+
+"Poor little fellow, what do you think I had better tell him?"
+
+"I don't know. Suppose he should come and then not hold out. You see
+that would be bad."
+
+"Yes, and then, papa, what wrong has he done?"
+
+"That's so."
+
+"But you remember four years ago when a certain lady was here on a
+visit, how she happened to express her unbelief in God. No one thought
+the children heard a word of it. Charlie was gone in a moment, we
+thought to play, when he brought in the Bible and laid it on her lap
+and said, 'Read that, it will tell you what to do.' I always did think
+Charlie would be a Christian very early in life."
+
+"Yes, I am glad for it, too,--but I guess we'd better wait a while
+anyhow, and see if he really wants to come," said his papa, and the
+matter was dropped, and other things were talked about.
+
+Several days passed by till the subject was brought up again. Then
+Charlie said:
+
+"Nine years; old enough to go to school, old enough to do work, old
+enough to do good or bad, and not old enough to be baptized. Mamma, I
+do wish I could."
+
+"Charlie, you never did anything bad."
+
+"Must I do something bad before I can join the church?"
+
+"No, no, but you're so young, you don't need to yet."
+
+"Well, I can't see--" he said, and then, with tears in his eyes, he
+took Bessie by the hand, and went down across the lot to the old apple
+tree, where they had a swing and spent often many happy hours.
+
+In a day or two after that, Charlie mentioned at the table, his desire
+to be a child of God. "I am sure I would hold out," he said, "and if I
+couldn't I'd be just where I am now. But I could, for Jesus helps,
+don't He?"
+
+Then nothing more was said for several months about his becoming a
+child of God. It seemed as if he had forgotten his desire to find
+something of heaven so young.
+
+The summer was over. All the peaches on the side of the mountain and in
+the valley had been gathered. The leaves of the trees were yellow and
+golden, and many had already found their resting place upon the ground.
+Charlie and Bessie had both been going to school for six weeks already.
+It was Saturday. There was to be preaching at Welty's that day, and a
+love-feast in the evening. Charlie had been thinking about the
+thirteenth chapter of John and the fifteenth, and when all were about
+ready to go to the meeting he said, "Now, if you had let me join the
+church last summer, when I wanted to, I could have enjoyed this meeting."
+
+"Why, my dear boy," said his mamma, "you can enjoy it anyhow, can't you?"
+
+"No," said he, "not as I'd like to."
+
+And they all four got into the carriage and started off to the
+meeting, not saying very much.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
+
+
+Services continued longer one Sunday than usual, and after the meeting
+was over quite a number of those who had come a distance, upon
+invitation, decided to stop with others who were not so far from home.
+Two carriages drove over to the big spring. The Newcomers went with
+the Sunday school superintendent, and others went elsewhere.
+
+This manner of visiting after the meeting on Sunday, is sometimes a
+good thing and sometimes it is not. It is good if the occasion is used
+for the spiritual benefit of those concerned. Sunday is the Lord's day.
+
+In the afternoon, at the superintendent's house, the conversation
+drifted about on the various phases of religious life, church work,
+Bible study, educational work, the conversion of children, missionary
+work, books, papers, and present day life.
+
+The little folks were out somewhere, engaging themselves as they saw
+proper. Sometimes they came into the room and remained a short time,
+then out they would go all together.
+
+Charlie remained, however. There may have been _two_ boys who
+preferred to stay in the house.
+
+Toward evening Charlie came to one of those who had been talking with
+the rest, and leaning over on his knee, he wanted to ask some
+questions. He had been hearing and not saying anything, and now he
+wanted some things explained.
+
+"Tell me," he said, "how old is old enough to join the church."
+
+"That varies, Charlie, according to the intelligence and teaching of
+the child. Some are more fit when they are ten years, than others at
+twenty."
+
+"Well, but, am I old enough?"
+
+"I think so, don't you?"
+
+"Yes, I do, but another thing. Does an education make a person good?"
+
+"No, it will make you better if you are good, but if a bad man gets
+education, that doesn't make him good."
+
+"Then is it any use to study so hard to get a good education?"
+
+"Why certainly."
+
+"Tell me."
+
+"Education, Charlie, is just development. You know what development
+means?"
+
+"Yes sir."
+
+"Well, development gives strength."
+
+"You have noticed that large tree out in the orchard. It was only a
+chestnut once, but now it is developed. That tree is only an educated
+chestnut. Which is stronger,--the chestnut tree or the little
+chestnut?"
+
+"The tree, of course," said he, "but I heard some one say, I think it
+was just last Sunday, that education spoils some people."
+
+"The right kind of an education will never spoil any one."
+
+"I'm going to get a good education. Papa and mamma said they'd help
+me, but I want to earn the money myself, and then go a long time."
+
+"And then you'll be a missionary won't you?"
+
+"Could I?"
+
+"You can if you choose."
+
+"What must I do?"
+
+"You must be a good Christian at home, and do all you can for Jesus
+now. Whoever is not good at home is the same away from home. Do things
+so people will all love you. If your associates and acquaintances do
+not love you, it is not likely the heathen will, and love is a great
+deal of the missionary's preparation. And give. If you have not much,
+give a little, and if you have more, give proportionately. But it is
+not all in giving. There is more even in living for the Lord, and just
+letting one's self be all His."
+
+Charlie seemed to be thinking of something else then, and he spoke out
+in earnest:
+
+"Doesn't the Bible say we ought to send missionaries everywhere in the
+world?"
+
+"It says we must '_Go_', yes."
+
+"Were there heathen fifty years ago?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Well, then why didn't we send lots of missionaries fifty years ago? I
+wish I could go."
+
+"Do you want to know, Charlie, how you can tell if you can be a
+missionary when you are a man?"
+
+"Yes sir," said Charlie.
+
+"Be a little missionary now. Be a Christian. Get new scholars to come
+to Sunday school. Live for other people all you can. One little person
+quit eating candy, and gave the money for the Lord, another bought a
+dozen eggs and raised chickens and sold them for the Lord. A little
+farmer boy raised potatoes on a little corner of land his papa said he
+could have, and then sold them for missionary money, and there are
+many other ways."
+
+"Oh, I know, I know what I'll do!" said several at once. "I'm so
+thirsty."
+
+"So am I." "No, wait." "Come on."
+
+"We can all do something, then, can't we? I'm dry too."
+
+And the one who was answering questions, together with for six little
+people, who had gathered around him, went out under the grape arbor,
+and down by the row of evergreens to the spring, and they all drank
+heartily from the old tin cup.
+
+An hour later all the visitors had their faces turned toward home, and
+the children were thinking about being little missionaries at home.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+A CHILD OF GOD.
+
+
+A good many months had passed since Charlie lost the nickel between
+the store and his home. He had often spoken about his desire to be a
+real Christian. He was going to school every day, and had more than
+the average of school-boy-liveliness.
+
+Several years had passed since he and one of the little Sunday school
+girls swinging in the shade of the old apple tree, had each promised
+the other to begin to be a Christian while they were young in years.
+The little girl was first to fulfil her promise, and was now an active
+little member of the church, praising God by her daily life. He
+thought more of her for her decision, but he himself was not yet a
+member of the church, and was already twelve years old.
+
+Brother Early had been preaching every night in Waynesboro for several
+weeks. A good many people, who lived not too far away from Waynesboro,
+often drove in to attend the meetings. Charlie was usually on hand, an
+attentive listener.
+
+On the way home one Sunday night Charlie broke the monotonous rumble of
+the carriage by asking, "Mamma, do you think I'd be saved if I'd die?"
+
+And his mamma answered, "Well Charlie, indeed I don't know what to
+tell you," and no one said anything further for a moment, which seemed
+ever so long.
+
+"What do you say about it, papa?" continued Charlie in a very earnest,
+pleading tone of voice.
+
+"You have asked a pretty hard question," said his papa. "Just at this
+time of your life we cannot know. God is just, and may be you'd be
+saved--may be not." After several minutes, which seemed almost like
+hours, as the carriage moved slowly up the hill, his mamma, ever
+anxious about her boy, as all mammas are, said, "Why do you ask such
+questions, Charlie?"
+
+"Well, mamma," he answered, "I can't stand it any longer. My heart
+pretty near breaks when we are at meeting. I do wish I could join the
+church."
+
+Now, his parents had talked the matter all over by themselves, and they
+had decided to allow Charlie to come at this time, if he really wanted
+to, and they would also encourage their son. When he had thus spoken,
+they told him the words that his boyish heart had been aching to hear
+for already so long a time, that he should "come now," if he wished.
+
+The next evening Charlie lost no time in publicly coming out on the
+Lord's side.
+
+"Brother Oller," said he, "I'm coming. It's decided. I want to be
+baptized and live a Christian."
+
+The aged elder stooped to the eager boy before him, and tenderly
+answered, "Well, Charlie, the Lord bless you. The lambs are always
+welcome in the flock. I hope you will be able to be a valiant soldier
+for Christ. The Lord bless you, my dear boy."
+
+On the way home that night, Charlie's heart was glad within him. How
+different it was from the night before. He was soon to be a soldier
+for Jesus. It did not seem to take long at all to go home, and the
+hills did not seem so steep, and the night did not seem so dark. He
+could now see the bright side of life, better than ever before.
+
+While his papa was out at the barn, putting away the horse and
+carriage, Charlie was talking to his mamma in the house.
+
+"I wish now we had family worship. Mamma, why don't we have family
+worship, anyhow?"
+
+"Well, I don't know, Charlie, just why we don't," said mamma.
+
+"Well, mamma, papa ought to have it. Other members do, don't they?"
+
+"I guess papa feels a little timid about leading in prayer," said his
+mamma. "That's all the reason I know."
+
+"Well, I tell you, I'll do my part. I'll take my turn always, if we just
+can have family worship every day. Won't you ask papa? I think he will."
+
+Sunday was the day for baptism. Two of the brethren came on a visit to
+examine those to be baptized, before the day for baptism, to learn if
+they were ready for the holy ordinance, and if they were willing to
+take the New Testament as the rule of faith and practice, and to walk
+in harmony with the church.
+
+[Illustration: THE STREAM BELOW THE BRIDGE.]
+
+Charlie's answers were clear and well-defined. The brethren had
+quite a pleasant visit with him, and they went away feeling that
+children were very fit subjects for the church, "for of such is the
+kingdom of heaven."
+
+There were thirteen baptized that day, and a large number of people
+witnessed the scene. It seemed, as we read about it in the Bible, like
+apostolic times, as one after another was led down into the stream of
+water near the bridge, and was there buried in baptism.
+
+When Charlie arose from his knees, while they were yet in the water,
+the minister, Brother Price, greeted him with a kiss.
+
+After the baptisms, all the people soon went away to their homes, but
+of all that number, thirteen went away feeling the joy of having
+entered into a blessed experience, which they had not known before.
+
+That Sunday night the voice of prayer was heard in the home of the
+Newcomers. Family worship was a daily service there from that time on.
+Every evening before going to bed the little family would sing a hymn,
+read a portion of Scripture, and then all kneel down together and
+pray. And Charlie, true to his promise, and but a boy, yet a
+_Christian_ boy, would always take his turn, in reading, in leading in
+prayer, and in closing with the Lord's prayer.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+A SATURDAY AT HOME.
+
+
+After we are once six years old, the most of us have to spend more
+days, as children, in the school than out of it; and whether Saturday
+does us very much good, I do not know. The lessons are nearly always
+not as well prepared on Monday as on other days, for too much time to
+prepare is about as bad as too little. And then, too, we sometimes
+forget over Sunday, what we have studied for Monday; but, it is better
+not to know the lessons on Monday, than to study them on Sunday.
+Sunday is the Lord's day. The best way of all, however, is to study on
+Friday and Saturday nights, and then get up a little earlier on Monday
+morning and review before school time.
+
+Saturday is an off day generally. Girls have a good deal of work to do
+about the house and boys have a good deal to do about the barn, and
+sometimes they have to work pretty hard.
+
+Charlie had finished his chores as soon as he could that day and was
+in the house.
+
+Bessie was very busy fixing her dollies' dresses, for she had five
+dollies, and they always were so hard on their clothes.
+
+"Boys will be boys," grown up people often say, and Charlie oftentimes
+would give vent to his boyish nature by just teasing whoever would be
+teased. He teased Bessie a good deal, and mamma too. He made Dash, his
+dog, stand in the corner.
+
+He would hide in the evening when his papa came home, until he would
+hear what he would say upon missing him, then come out from behind the
+stove, behind the door, or under the table, laughing heartily.
+
+On this particular Saturday, Charlie was through with his work, and
+while he was helping his mother a good deal in the house, he took to
+teasing her.
+
+Presently she said, "Charlie, don't do that, for it is not right."
+
+He said nothing to this correction, but went quietly out of the house.
+
+After a little while he came hurriedly in again saying: "Mamma, you
+said I was doing wrong. I went out to the barn, and crawled up into
+the hay mow, and I prayed to God to forgive me, for I don't want to do
+wrong. Will He forgive me, mamma, and will you?"
+
+"Certainly I will forgive you, Charlie, and God will too. Try not to
+do it any more," answered his mother, as she was wondering if she had
+not spoken too harshly to her boy.
+
+Some schoolmates came in then and they all went down to the swing
+under the apple tree, where they had a good time together.
+
+After they all had a turn swinging, they played "catcher" around the
+house, and "hide and seek," and other games as all children know. At
+about five o'clock the little visitors all went home.
+
+Some men passed along the road talking very loud and swearing. One of
+them had been drinking. Charlie and Bessie were looking at their mother
+as she was doing some evening's work when, in a very thoughtful mood,
+Charlie said: "Mamma, don't you wish you'd 'a' never had any children?"
+
+"No, Charlie. Why?" said she.
+
+"Well, so many people are so bad,--swearing and getting drunk. Suppose
+I should turn out that way. Really, I wish I'd die while I'm little."
+
+"So do I," said Bessie.
+
+"Why children, children, you must not talk that way. What would your
+papa and I do?" said their mother, almost choking on her words, for
+Charlie had said that a number of times before. "Who made you?" she
+asked.
+
+"God" they answered.
+
+"Well then," continued their mamma, "you ought to want to live as long
+as you can, so you could serve Him more. He wants us to do all the
+good we can."
+
+Both children went into the sitting room, and Charlie got his little
+account book and figured up how much money he had on interest, and how
+much the interest was, and counted how much he had in his bank, and
+then added it all up together. "Bessie" he said, "when I get big I'm
+going to go to college and pay my own way. See if I don't." Then they
+played together till they got into a little difficulty, and both ran
+out to "tell mamma" all about it.
+
+That night Bessie did not go to sleep as soon as usual. 'Twas the same
+the night before. She seemed troubled. Her mamma thought she was
+sick. Presently Charlie suggested, "Mamma, I'll bet I know what's the
+matter with Bessie."
+
+"Well, why don't you tell me, Charlie? I do want to know," said their
+mamma.
+
+"Bessie wants to join the church," he replied, and his little sister
+began crying in earnest, and soon cried herself to sleep.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+CHARLIE'S LAST DAYS.
+
+    "They who seek the throne of grace
+    Find that throne in every place;
+    If we live a life of prayer,
+    God is present everywhere."
+
+
+That much dreaded disease, scarlet fever, was the unwelcome visitor to
+many homes. Bessie was taken by it. While she was ill, Charlie was
+kept from school, lest other children should take it of him. Often he
+would steal over to the school house during school hours, and peep in
+at the window, unobserved, to learn who stood first in his classes. He
+often watched the spelling class as they stood up in recitation, could
+tell each pupils' standing, but he himself dared not enter. Those
+were long, long weeks for Charlie, that Bessie's illness continued.
+She grew very, very sick. Sometimes it seemed her little life was
+suspended on a silken thread,--a touch might cause it to snap, and she
+would be gone forever.
+
+Children converted are children still. Charlie was a boy, although a
+Christian. Often he came softly into the house, and when he would meet
+his mamma out of the sick room, he would say, "Don't you wish you had
+left Bessie be baptized when she wanted to? Suppose she should die."
+And his poor mother, almost broken down with care for her little girl,
+was made sick at heart by questions like that.
+
+On the doctor's daily visit Charlie met him at the gate, and would tie
+his horse for him, and then come with him into the house.
+
+Bessie had lain ill already four weeks. On Tuesday morning the doctor
+tied his horse himself and came in alone. Charlie was sick. The doctor
+said to him, "Well, Charlie, you've got it now. Does it scare you?"
+
+"No sir, it don't scare me," he said, "but I hope I won't have to be
+sick as long as Bessie."
+
+Both were soon hanging in the balances, Bessie in one room, Charlie in
+another. Charlie wanted to be taken over into Bessie's room, that they
+both might be sick together.
+
+Day and night the two little patients were closely watched. Charlie
+was heard making a noise, and they listened to catch the voice. He was
+suffering great pain but humming the tune in the hymnal, number
+118,--not saying the words, but just humming the tune. Often he would
+ease his pain with this heaven medicine. Twice he was heard to speak
+distinctly. Once he said "Lord" and again it was "heaven." His lips
+would move but no sound was heard. The sound was heard in heaven, I
+suppose. Angels responded to the call of that little child of God. On
+Friday morning, even before the rays of morning light began to come,
+his spirit was borne away to be with Jesus in the heavenly land.
+
+In the morning Bessie's papa was sitting by her bedside, looking sadly
+on the little form of his only child. "Papa," she said "why don't you
+have the door open in Charlie's room? He'll be so lonely with the door
+shut." But he made no reply. "Papa," she continued "why do you stay
+here with me? Take care of Charlie. I'm afraid he's going to die."
+
+Little by little her papa told her then, all about it, and she bathed
+her fevered pillow with her tears.
+
+The doctor came. He knew the fact without being told, and he sat down
+and wept.
+
+Sunday, Charlie's little form was laid away to rest in the cemetery
+at Waynesboro. And at the same time when that sorrowful little company
+were journeying thither, the little readers of the _Young Disciple_
+were reading his letter all over the land. The letter is given below,
+but we will add the date, not the date that it was written, but the
+date it was read, the date of his burial.
+
+His life is closed in this world, but the influence of it will go on
+forever. Three dates will tell the story of that life.
+
+        Birth, March 31, 1880.
+
+      Second Birth, Nov. 27, 1892.
+
+    Borne to glory, March 10, 1893.
+
+
+THE LETTER.
+
+  Ringgold, Md.
+
+  March 12, 1893.
+
+    Our family consists of a dear kind papa and mama, sister Bessie
+    and myself. We all attend church and Sunday-school regularly. Our
+    Sunday school has closed for this season, but will open again in
+    the spring. Papa and mamma and myself are members of the Brethren
+    church. I am twelve years old. I am studying hard to get a good
+    education, and I hope to grow up to be a good man; and when Bro.
+    W. B. Stover goes to India, I feel as though I would like to go
+    out to him in his missionary work. I will close now by asking an
+    interest in the prayers of all the faithful.
+
+  Charlie Martin Newcomer.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+BESSIE.
+
+
+Four weeks after the close of the life of her little brother, Bessie
+was able to be out of bed and around about the house once more. With
+the return of her health grew her anxiety for the church. And in a
+comparatively short time, Bessie was received into the church by
+baptism. She was but a mere child, 'tis true, and that is what she is
+yet. But what is to be done with the children? Is the church not for
+them? Did Christ not die for them? Does "all the world" exclude
+children? What does "in" signify, in "bringing up children in the
+Lord?" What does "come" mean, when the Savior says "Suffer the
+children to come unto me, and forbid them not"? and what is the
+meaning of those last three words?
+
+In the Antietam church were a good many good Christians who looked
+rather doubtfully on the question of children in church. The little
+girl spoken of in the beginning of chapter five was the first of the
+children in that congregation to join the church. Others followed, and
+when Charlie died _in the church_, all were so much rejoiced in his
+triumphant faith, that the matter was practically no longer a question
+at all. Very many little Christians now bring blessing to the
+congregation, and they are often the best in the family to which they
+may belong.
+
+I questioned Bessie the other day to learn more of her present
+position, now that she is in the church. I will give to all, the
+benefit of her good answers.
+
+"How old are you, Bessie?"
+
+"Ten years."
+
+"Some people think ten years is too young to be a member of the church."
+
+"I don't think so."
+
+"Why?"
+
+"Because I think they can do right just as good as older people."
+
+"When were you baptized?"
+
+"Last summer in July."
+
+"How do you know that you love Jesus?"
+
+"Because,--well, I just know it."
+
+"Suppose sometime you should sin, then what?"
+
+"I'd just pray to God to forgive me."
+
+"Are you sure He'd forgive you?"
+
+"Yes sir. The Bible says so."
+
+"How does it come you did not want to wait till you grew up, like many
+others do?"
+
+"Because I might die and not be saved."
+
+"Suppose at school some of the other scholars tease you, then what?"
+
+"I wouldn't say nothing."
+
+"How long did you want to join the church before last summer?"
+
+"O, I often thought about it. I was under conviction a good while."
+
+"What does it mean to be under conviction?"
+
+"Well,"--and I saw that I had asked a harder question than I thought.
+After thinking a moment she said, "I just feel like crying all the time."
+
+"What about, Bessie?"
+
+"About things I done wrong."
+
+"What things?"
+
+"O well, little things in school. I'd get angry sometimes, and do
+wrong things at home, and I was not very good, and-and--I wanted Jesus
+to forgive me."
+
+"What did you want to be baptized for?"
+
+"For the remission of my sins."
+
+"How did you learn to give that for the reason?"
+
+"I read it in the Bible."
+
+"Are you sure, Bessie, you realize what you're doing?"
+
+"Yes sir."
+
+"How often do you pray?"
+
+"Every evening and often in the day time."
+
+"Do your parents have family worship?"
+
+"Yes sir."
+
+"What part do _you_ take?"
+
+"We all read verse about, and then papa and mamma take turn about in
+leading in prayer, and I always close with the Lord's prayer."
+
+"Didn't any body coax you to join the church?"
+
+"No sir. Charlie and I used to talk about it a good many times when we
+were by ourselves. That was before either of us was converted."
+
+"Now, then, are you happy, Bessie?"
+
+"Yes sir."
+
+"What are you going to do when you grow up?"
+
+"Be a seamstress, I guess. I'd like to be a missionary if I could."
+
+"Do you realize a change of heart?"
+
+"Yes sir."
+
+"How does it seem?"
+
+"It seems nice."
+
+"But, think well, and tell me several points wherein you are different
+now from what you were before you became a Christian."
+
+"I feel more happier, and--and--I love Jesus more, and--He loves me
+more, and--and--I don't want to do any wrong things, and--"
+
+"What would you be willing to do for the Lord?"
+
+"Most anything."
+
+"Suppose the church should ask you to do something you did not want to
+do?"
+
+"I'd just do it."
+
+"What part of the Bible do you like the best?"
+
+"The New Testament."
+
+"Why?"
+
+"'Cause it tells more about Jesus."
+
+Then Bessie added that she likes that about green pastures, and at
+once repeated the entire twenty-third psalm.
+
+Children in the church is no late idea. Children, I mean, not babes
+nor infants. Polycarp, who afterward was bishop of Smyrna, and a
+martyr, was converted in the year 80, when he was nine years old.
+
+Justin Martyr says many, in early days, became disciples in childhood
+and were uncorrupted all their lives.
+
+Matthew Henry, whose commentary is so highly regarded by all Bible
+students, was converted in his eleventh year.
+
+Isaac Watts, whose hymns abound in all hymn books, was converted in
+his ninth year.
+
+Bro. James Quinter was converted when he was 17 years old, and was
+called to the ministry at 22, and the present secretary of our General
+Mission Board was converted at the age of 12. And I doubt not, many
+among our best workers were converted very early in life.
+
+Yesterday I received a letter from a little child just entered upon
+her ninth year. She says:--"Dear brother Stover, I can answer your
+letter and say I am on the Lord's side. How happy I am, how I would
+like for you to have been here when I was baptized. I could hardly
+wait till the time came. I have got what I have been wishing for two
+years, and that is to work for the Lord. I go to prayer meeting, and
+always try to have a verse.
+
+  "---- ----."
+
+Children, too often, do not receive all the credit they deserve in
+some directions. In a little book on the "Conversion of children" the
+following incident is given. A father was reproving his son for not
+giving attention to the sermon.
+
+"Father, I heard all the minister said."
+
+"I do not believe it. You were gazing all over the church during the
+service."
+
+"But, father, I heard all the minister said."
+
+"I cannot believe it, for it seemed to me you hardly looked at the
+preacher; your eyes were oftener fixed upon the rafters than the pulpit."
+
+"But, father, I did hear all he said, and I can tell it to you."
+
+"Let me hear you try it."
+
+He then began and astonished his father by giving the text, the heads
+of the sermon, and _much_ that was in it.
+
+"I declare, you did hear the sermon after all."
+
+"I told you I did, father, and now I can tell you exactly how many
+rafters there are in the roof, for I counted every one of them during
+the sermon!"
+
+The Lord Jesus told Peter to feed His sheep, but before that He said,
+
+    "FEED MY LAMBS."
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note
+
+
+  * Spelling and punctuation errors have been corrected.
+
+  * Text enclosed between equal signs was in bold face in the
+  original (=bold=).
+
+
+
+
+
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