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Mistress Truelove Taberer, having read in a very clear and gentle voice

the Sermon on the Mount to those placid Friends, Tobias and Martha

Taberer, closed the book, and went about her household affairs with a

quiet step, but a heart that somehow fluttered at every sound without the

door To still it she began to repeat to herself words she had read:

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of

Godblessed are the peacemakers"-Winter sunshine poured in at the s and door Truelove, kneeling to wipe a fleck of dust from her wheel, suddenly, with a catch of her breath

and a lifting of her brown eyes, saw in the Scripture she had been

repeating aand application hitherto unexpected

"The peacemakerthat is one who makes peace,--in the world, between

countries, in families, yea, in the heart of one alone Did he not say,

last tihty world and all its

strife; that if I were alith hiaze fixed "If it were a call"--she murmured, and for a moment bowed her head upon the wheel; then

rose fro tasks When they

were over, she took down froray hood that ly framed her wild-rose face; then ca forth to walk by the

creekside," she said, in her sweet voice "It us MacLean"

"If thee does," answered one tranquil Friend, "theewill be held in this house"

"Truly," said the other tranquil Friend, " er and resistance and the