Sue hesitated.
“I guess I know,” said Jenny, hurriedly. “You prayed beforehand, and I forgot all about it. I do believe that makes all the difference in the world.”
XII.
WHAT COUSIN MATE SAID.
“For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword.”
“I don’t think reading the Bible to folks is any sort of use,” said Bell, coming out on the piazza where her cousin was sitting, the next Saturday night.
“Have you been trying it?” asked Miss Marvin.
“Why, yes; last Monday I went all the whole afternoon, and I never saw such hateful, disagreeable people in all my life,—they didn’t seem to care the least bit; and then Sue and Jenny went off berrying—”
“I met Sue this afternoon, and she says some little boy and his mother are coming to Sabbath School to-morrow.”
“They are? Dear me, I couldn’t get a single one to say they would come. I don’t think the Bible is so very powerful.”