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The Gold that Glitters - Emily Sarah Holt
Emily Sarah Holt
The Gold that Glitters
The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender
Published by Good Press, 2019
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EAN 4064066193867
Table of Contents
Chapter Two.
Chapter Three.
Chapter Four.
Chapter Five.
Chapter Six.
Chapter Two.
Table of Contents
How Jenny fared the first evening.
Well, for sure, Aunt Persis will be some fain to see you!
said Tom Fenton, as he and his uncle, old Anthony, went forward up the hill. But whence come you, now, Uncle? Are you very weary? Eh, but I’m glad you’ve won home safe!
God bless thee, my lad! Ay, He’s brought me home safe. A bit footsore, to be sure, and glad enough of rest: but gladder to be suffered to do His will, and minister to His suffering servants. Whence come I? Well, from Kidderminster, to-day; but—
Dear heart! but you never footed it all the way from Kidderminster?
No, no, dear lad. A good man gave me a lift for a matter o’ eight miles or more. But, dear me! I mind the time I could ha’ run nigh on a mile in five minutes, and ha’ trudged my forty mile a day, nor scarce felt it. I reckon, Tom, lad, thou’rt not so lissome as I was at thy years. Well, to be sure! ’Tis all right; I’m only a good way nearer Home.
They walked on together for a few minutes in silence. Tom’s thoughts had gone back from the momentary pleasure of welcoming his uncle, to whom he was greatly attached, to his sore disappointment about Jenny.
What is it, Tom?
said the old man quietly.
Oh, only a bit of trouble, Uncle. Nought I need cumber you with.
Jenny Lavender?
was the next suggestion.
Ay. I thought not you knew how I’d set my heart on her, ever since she was that high,
said Tom, indicating a length of about a yard. I’ve never thought o’ none but her all my life. But she’s that taken up with a sorry popinjay of a fellow, she’ll not hear me now. I’d always thought Jenny’d be my wife.
Poor Tom’s voice was very doleful, for his heart was sore.
Thou’d alway thought so,
said the quiet voice. But what if the Lord thinks otherway, Tom?
Tom came to a sudden stop.
Uncle Anthony! Eh, but you don’t—
and Tom’s words went no further.
My lad, thou’rt but a babe in Christ. ’Tisn’t so many months since thou first set foot in the narrow way. Dost thou think He means Jenny Lavender for thee, and that thy feet should run faster in the way of His commandments for having her running alongside thee? Art thou well assured she wouldn’t run the other way?
Old Anthony had spoken the truth. Tom was but a very young Christian, of some six months’ standing. He had never dreamed of any antagonism arising between his love to Christ and his love to Jenny Lavender. Stay—had he not? What was that faint something, without a name—a sort of vague uneasiness, which had seemed to creep over him whenever he had seen her during those months—a sense of incongruity between her light prattle and his own inmost thoughts and holiest feelings? It was so slight that as yet he had never faced it. He recognised now it was because his heart had refused to face it. And conscience told him, speaking loudly this time, that he must hold back no longer.
Uncle Anthony,
he said, in a troubled voice, I’m sore afeard I’ve not set the Lord afore me in that matter. I never saw it so afore. But now you’ve set me on it, I can’t deny that we shouldn’t pull same way. But what then? Must I give her up? Mayn’t I pray the Lord to touch her heart, and give her to me, any longer?
The old man looked into the sorrowful eyes of the young man, whom he loved as dearly as if he had been his own son.
Dear lad,
he said, pray the Lord to bring her to Himself. That’s safe to be His will, for He willeth not the death of a sinner. But as to giving her to thee, if I were thou, Tom, I’d leave that with Him. Meantime, thy way’s plain. ‘Be ye not unequally yoked together.’ The command’s clear as daylight. Never get a clog to thy soul. Thou canst live without Jenny Lavender; but couldst thou live without Jesus Christ?
Tom shook his head, without speaking.
To tell truth, Tom, I’m not sorry she’s going away. Maybe the Lord’s sending her hence, either to open her eyes and send her back weary and cloyed with the world she’s going into so gaily now, or else to open thine, and show thee plain, stripped of outside glitter, the real thing she is, that thou mayest see what a sorry wife she would make to a Christian man. No, I’m not sorry. And unless I mistake greatly, Tom, the time’s coming when thou shalt not be sorry neither. In the meantime, ‘tarry thou the Lord’s leisure.’ If He be the chief object of thy desire, thy desire is safe to be fulfilled. ‘This is the will of God, even our sanctification.’
They turned to the left at the top of the hill, and went a few yards along the lane, to a little cottage embowered in ivy, which was Anthony’s home.
Wilt thou come in, Tom, lad?
"No, Uncle, I thank you. You’ve opened my eyes, but it’s made ’em smart a bit too