Libra Author:Eleanor Kirk Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. "I just wish I could talk with God," said Libra to herself, when once more alone in her own room. There is nobody else, and I can't find Him. I wonder, i... more »f I went to some minister, if he could put me on the right track. Why, I cannot endure to feel all out in the cold this way. Of course any good minister could tell a person who was willing to be taught something that would be of use. I'll try it. That Mr. Harkness I heard preach the other evening talked as if he knew all about things. I'll go to him." To will was to do, and a couple of hours later, Libra, looking like an angel that had strayed for a few moments from the heavenly fold, was shown into the minister's sombre library. " I don't suppose real, true Christians need any external light to make them happy, but I should suffocate and die in this mustyhole," the visitor told herself as she waited for the minister to enter. " I suppose this marks the difference between a sinner and a Christian, but I believe I would rather be a sinner in the sunshine than a saint in the shadow. Pugh! how it smells!" The clerical gentleman was large, portly, middle-aged, clean-shaven, handsome, and immaculately attired. He seemed the very personification of good-nature, a man that one would expect to find at his best at a choice dinner party. The man and his library were not related to each other. This was Libra's first thought, and it proved to be a correct one. "It will be pleasanter in the back parlor," the host remarked after the first formal greeting was over, and then arose and led the way to this apartment. "It didn't seem to me that you belonged in that room," Libra remarked, quite as if her companion were not a minister, and quite as if she had known him all the days of her life. This is always the way with the...« less