An Alabaster Box

An Alabaster Box

We, said Mrs. Solomon Black with weighty emphasis, are going to get up a church fair and raise that money, and we are going to pay your salary. We cant stand it another minute. We had better run in debt to the butcher and baker than to the Lord. Mrs. Solomon Black was a woman who had always had her way. There was not one line which denoted yielding in her large, still handsome face, set about with very elaborate water-waves which she had arranged so many years that her black hair needed scarcely any attention. It would almost seem as if Mrs. Solomon Black had been born with water waves. Now dont you worry one mite about it, said she. Church fairs may be begging, but they belong to the history of the United States of America, and I miss my guess if there would have been much preaching of the gospel in a good many places without them. I guess it aint any worse to hold church fairs in this country than it is to have the outrageous goings on in the old country. I guess we can cheat a little with mats and cakes and things and not stand any more danger of hell-fire than all those men putting each others eyes out and killing everybody they can hit, and spending the money for guns and awful exploding stuff that ought to go for the good of the world. I aint worried one mite about church fairs when the world is where it is now. You just run right into your study, Mr. Elliot, and finish your sermon; and theres a pan of hot doughnuts on the kitchen table. You go through the kitchen and get some doughnuts. We had breakfast early and you hadnt ought to work too hard on an empty stomach. You run along. Dont you worry. All this is up to me and Maria Dodge and Abby Daggett and a few others. You havent got one blessed thing to do with it. All youve got to do is to preach as well as you can, and keep us from a free fight. Almost always there is a fuss when women get up a fair. If you can preach the gospel so we are all on speaking terms when it is finished, you will earn your money twice over. Run along. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 18140
Author: Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Release Date: Apr 10, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Kingsley, Florence Morse, 1859-1937

Illustrator: Mulford, Stockton, 1886-1960