Show A 8 PROPOSAL Hou fluty Gallant Gullant Nicholas let Won Ron J Pretty I lt Us U's Catherine From J. J L Harbour's Harbours A Hundred Hundred- 1 Year Old ear Old Church in Jul July St St. Nicholas There here aro are plenty pleat of talc tales I o of romance associated with this ct old century church a delightful description of which by the way you OU may reat read in Miss hiss Sarah Orno Orn J Jewett's charming story of The Thc Country Doctor Mr fir Ir Charles Brewster ter who aho has hal written much about old Portsmouth tells the thc story of a fir Mr Nicholas who proposed ed to a n Miss 1188 Moffatt In a unique way a a during a service er in the thc church lie Mr nou had become very ry much enamored o of the pretty Uy Miss Catherine Moffatt but like Ilke many another love love-lorn youth oath found It to Io offer her his heart and antI hand U by br a spoken word On Sunday morning ho he tt went ent to 10 old St. St Johns John's church and ond sat Rat in the Mo pew with l Il Mss Miss Catherine I IOne One fears that that his his hll mind was ryas not nol fixed on tho rho sermon for Cor or while chile it was wasn In fn n progress s young Nicholas las handed Miss lairs Catherine a Bible pencil i mark around some words in b the first verso verse of the tho Second Epistle of John These wor words s were feces Unto the elect 1 lady Indy The fifth firth verso terse of tho the same chapter chapt r was teas marked and it is as follows follows follows' fol fol- lows lows' And now I beseech he ee-ch ee thee lady not nut as though I wrote a- a anew new nett commandment com tom unto thee but that which a we e had from the beginning that w we the love one Otte another Miss 1 Catherine as she road read r ad these theRe words then she reflected for tor a few fett moments anti present presently the tho Bible Ilbe tt went ent enl back to young Nicholas with those these th s words Inthe In Inthe Inthe the book of or Ruth Muth marked Whither thou guest I r will go and where thou lodge t I 1 will lodge e th thy people shall be m my people and th thy shy God m my God Goll Where thou diest I tt will die tIll and there will I he be burl hurled burled t the Lord so do tome to tome tome me and more also If aught but death part thee and me Naturally enough a n wedding soon goon followed ed this unusual prop l l. l |