Show THE CIRCUIT RIDERS WIFE I This weeks w ks issue of ot the Saturday Evening Post will contain the conclusion conclusion conclusion sion of the story called The Th Circuit Riders Wife Vite It may m y be called a astory astory astory story because it relates a succession of df J Incidents But it is a great deal more than that It is a human document of ot more value than anything that has been published by any magazine or paper In inthe Inthe the he past ten years The authors name names Is s withheld by tho the publishers but the authors talent cannot be concealed There is an Episcopalian woman who marries an enthusiastic and devout young oung Methodist minister and goes gos with him to that service which begins and ends on the circuit She has left leU untold the years of ot Williams strength when he be held pulpits In towns and cities but every problem that can vex tho the struggling minister who gets I poor pay and walks in be before tore fore ore his God are depicted with a skill that is beyond all criticism and with a power jower which seems fairly to Illumine the simple words Through all of 01 it tho the woman retains the tho standards of measurement birth and training gave her ler Religion was not to her ber the tragic and intense as aa to her flue nug band and his fellows She is reverent unfailingly pure and pious but she never leaves the earth In her experience and her husband rarely comes town down downto to it Religion pure and has rarely been better described than in inthe Inthe Inthe the words of ot this gifted glUed writer She never agonized in prayer and she never had the witness of ot the spirit in the sense of that rapture which leads to shouting But here is a passage that m Illustrate her thought to the Father I was tired and discouraged with be being beIng being ing up so much at night and with anxiety anxiety anxIety for fear William would have to give ghe up his work A preacher In our church cannot get even the little It af at affords affords fords from Crom the superannuate fund until he tie has been on the superannuate list a year and if It he gives up his work in inthe Inthe inthe the middle of the previous year that means he must go say sa eighteen months without resources That is a long time when you have not been blen able to save anything and when you are old and sick So I was sitting in the kitchen door of the parsonage one morning after William had had a particularly bad night wondering what God was going to do To about It for I J felt we wo could not expect help from irom any other source The agnostics may say what they please but If It you OU get cornered between old age and starvation you will find out that there is a real good God who numbers the remaining hairs of your head and counts the sparrows fall William and I tried Him and we know There were terrible times toward the last when we never could have hae made it it if It had not been for just God I Tie The story In the main Is not somber as that extract might make you think It Is not particularly merry merI but the quality of humor is not all strained cut And very often one ono reads It with that t at mingled laugh and sob which pays the highest possible tribute to good writing The Circuit Riders Wife has made madea a sensation among American readers and It Is like to live long For it is a whole page of ot human nature and a fairly intimate view Into the country from whose bourne no traveler oer er returns |