We used to see each other
often and have a good chat about things in general. He said he was going
to take charge of the Sea and Land Church and wanted me to come and be
the sexton. It would give me $30.00 per month, rooms, coal and gas. He
thought it would be a good thing for me to become reunited to my wife
Mary, and I thought so too, but she had to give her consent. We had been
separated for a number of years, and though I had been calling on her
for over a year she never took any stock in my conversion. Here I was
fifteen months a redeemed man, trying to get my wife to live with me
again. I prayed often, but I never thought she would consent.
CHURCH OF SEA AND LAND
I was married young, and she was only a girl, and though she loved me
she could not forget the misery and hardships she went through. I never
hit her in my life, but I wouldn't support her: I'd rather support the
rumseller and his family, all for that cursed drink. And I didn't blame
her for being afraid to chance it again. "A burnt child dreads the
fire." I had made her life very hard, and she was afraid. She was glad
to know that I had given up drink, but doubted my remaining sober.
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