The Yankee Champion — page 105: what you’re looking at

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98 THE YANKEE CHAMPION. “But tell me, Helen, do you, can you, love the man whom you ¢all father? Can you find it in your heart to honor him?”’ aoe ‘Do not ask me such a question,’’ urged Helen, in a plaintive tone. ‘‘I would not sin, even against such a parent. If he does wrong, that makes no ex- _cuse for us.” _ ‘‘But even God cannot love such a man,’’ re- sponded Gideon. ‘He does not love the sin, but yet he loves the sin- ner, for that sinner is his own child.’’ “Then suppose some being that was no child of God—some being of darkness born—should sin, and even turn his hand against the Supreme Being, how then? Could God love him?” ‘“‘Tf he had the love oF mortals, of course he could not.’’ ‘“Then,’’ continued the boy, in a lower and more | impressive tone, “‘suppose Silas Ryan was not our father.”’ The blind girl started and uitered a low cry. “Suppose Silas Ryan was not our father!’’ re- peated Gideon. “What mean you, brother? Speak! There is some- thing in your tones, in. your manner, that gives a strange power to your words. Do you speak lightly, or have you a meaning ?”’ “I have a meaning, Helen.’’ ‘‘And what is it? Oh, it cannot be that my dream of years is true!”’ ‘“What was your dream?”’’ The boy passed his arm around his sister’s neck as he spoke, and drew her head upon his bosom. ‘What was your dream, Helen?”’ ‘Brother, I have dreamed that I could see, and comicbooks.co!