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The Witch Hypnotizer by Zena A. Maher
The Witch Hypnotizer by Zena A. Maher
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The next morning our Witch opened her Bible and read as she was wont to do before any new undertaking. Her eyes rested on these lines:
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Luke xi, 13.
She knelt and prayed long and earnestly for an abundance of this Holy Spirit to guide and help her. She took her birds and started out.
I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them. Ezekiel xxxvi, 27.
Her first stopping place was at a dwelling that stood back some little distance from the street and was surrounded by flowers.
What drew her attention most was the appearance of a little child whose innocent face reminded her that purity still existed. She entered the grounds and rang the bell.
A young woman opened the door and kindly invited her in. The Witch made some remark about the pretty boy outside, when she saw an expression of pain flit over the lady's face. Something wrong here, she thought.
Yes, the child was hers; she had loved not wisely but too well, Her betrayer, a prosperous business man who was as yet unmarried, was allowed to move in the very best of society, but the finger of scorn was pointed at her from all sides.
She was the only daughter of parents who thought very fondly of their lovable grandchild, still felt keenly the disgrace that had been brought upon the hitherto spotless family name.
Does the seventh commandment demand more obedience from one sex than the other? It reads as if it was spoken to both alike. Our Witch learned the man's name and business address, and departed.
CHAPTER V.
She was so in sympathy with this family that she felt in a hurry to get to work, and so signalled a passing car to stop, and entered. It was well filled, but two seats remaining unoccupied she seated herself in one of them.
Presently a little colored girl came in and took the other. A high-bred dame sitting next elevated her aristocratic nose and pulled her skirts aside as if fearing contamination.
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken. Jeremiah xiii, 15.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! Proverbs xxx, 13.
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of Hosts. Jeremiah 1, 31.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs xvi, 5.
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah xiii, 11.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down. Isaiah ii, 11.
Why draw this color line so tightly? What of this outer covering? Have not these people immortal souls which may be white as the whitest; and in many cases, brilliant talents?
The Witch remembered a circumstance where a king of oratory, holding a high official position, was debarred from sitting at table with a ship's crew on account of this same color, which was only a heavier shading; and is not all creation a matter of shadow and coloring?
The next morning our Witch opened her Bible and read as she was wont to do before any new undertaking. Her eyes rested on these lines:
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Luke xi, 13.
She knelt and prayed long and earnestly for an abundance of this Holy Spirit to guide and help her. She took her birds and started out.
I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them. Ezekiel xxxvi, 27.
Her first stopping place was at a dwelling that stood back some little distance from the street and was surrounded by flowers.
What drew her attention most was the appearance of a little child whose innocent face reminded her that purity still existed. She entered the grounds and rang the bell.
A young woman opened the door and kindly invited her in. The Witch made some remark about the pretty boy outside, when she saw an expression of pain flit over the lady's face. Something wrong here, she thought.
Yes, the child was hers; she had loved not wisely but too well, Her betrayer, a prosperous business man who was as yet unmarried, was allowed to move in the very best of society, but the finger of scorn was pointed at her from all sides.
She was the only daughter of parents who thought very fondly of their lovable grandchild, still felt keenly the disgrace that had been brought upon the hitherto spotless family name.
Does the seventh commandment demand more obedience from one sex than the other? It reads as if it was spoken to both alike. Our Witch learned the man's name and business address, and departed.
CHAPTER V.
She was so in sympathy with this family that she felt in a hurry to get to work, and so signalled a passing car to stop, and entered. It was well filled, but two seats remaining unoccupied she seated herself in one of them.
Presently a little colored girl came in and took the other. A high-bred dame sitting next elevated her aristocratic nose and pulled her skirts aside as if fearing contamination.
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken. Jeremiah xiii, 15.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! Proverbs xxx, 13.
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of Hosts. Jeremiah 1, 31.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs xvi, 5.
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah xiii, 11.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down. Isaiah ii, 11.
Why draw this color line so tightly? What of this outer covering? Have not these people immortal souls which may be white as the whitest; and in many cases, brilliant talents?
The Witch remembered a circumstance where a king of oratory, holding a high official position, was debarred from sitting at table with a ship's crew on account of this same color, which was only a heavier shading; and is not all creation a matter of shadow and coloring?
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