"It's with all these new inventions that the wrath
of God must fall on us. What were the children of Israel punished for, if
it wasn't for making a golden calf? I may have my sins, but I do remember
the tenth commandment: 'Honour thy father and mother that it may be well
with thee, and that thou mayest live long in the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee!' It's all very well to say we honour them, and then to be
finding out things that they never knew, and doing things in a way that
they never did them! My mother boiled soap with bushes, and I will boil
soap with bushes. If the wrath of God is to fall upon this land," said
Tant Sannie, with the serenity of conscious virtue, "it shall not be
through me."
"Let them make their steam-wagons and their fire-carriages; let them go on
as though the dear Lord didn't know what he was about when He gave horses
and oxen legs--the destruction of the Lord will follow them. I don't know
how such people read their Bibles. When do we hear of Moses or Noah riding
in a railway? The Lord sent fire-carriages out of heaven in those days:
there's no chance of His sending them for us if we go on in this way," said
Tant Sannie sorrowfully, thinking of the splendid chance which this
generation had lost.
Arrived at the soap-pot she looked over into it thoughtfully.
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