How are you?"
I looked at him, but couldn't say a word, for I had almost forgotten
that I had a son. I opened my arms and the boy came with a rush, threw
his arms around my neck, and said, "I love you, dad."
I want to say here that this boy has never given me any trouble and we
have been companions ever since that night. He married a good Christian
girl and is in his own home to-day.
I heard a little laugh, and there were my sister and Mary taking it all
in. I could see then that it was a put-up job, this getting me to go up
to my sister's house.
Time passed and we were doing finely. One day we heard the boy playing
the piano, and we got him a teacher. In a short time he was able to play
for the smaller classes, the juniors. Then my friend Mrs. Bainbridge got
him a better teacher. He improved rapidly, and now he is organist in the
Fifty-seventh Street Presbyterian Church.
I tell you it pays to be a Christian and on the level. If I hadn't done
anything else but give that boy a musical education, it would have paid.
I'm proud of him.
MY FIRST SERMON
I remember the first meeting I ever led. It came about like this: I had
been sexton of Sea and Land Church about four years, was growing in
grace and getting on finely.
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