Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson-a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee.
But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around-fast. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns's charming tale is a classic. At least, uh, that's what Grandpa said.Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. But don't ast Him not to let fire burn, or say spare me from death. "Ast any such and God will give it to you. Ast, 'Hep us not be scared, hep us not be greedy, give us courage to try." I was really carried away. Grandpa said Jesus meant us to ast for hope, forgiveness, and all that. But I can say, 'Please, God, comfort me,' and I'll get heart's ease. Right now for instance, I could ast, 'Lord please raise Grandpa from the dead,' but it wouldn't happen. When Jesus said ast and you'll get it, He meant things of the spirit, not the flesh. He said we could trust that in the nature of things, without astin', we'll get lots of blessin's and happy surprises and maybe a miracle or two. "Grandpa didn't think Jesus meant, by that, that we should ast God for things, or for special favors.
Looking at the long rough box, I spoke timid, in a mumbled voice.
Well, but how could I just stop there? Those words were worse than nothing if I didn't tell what they meant to Grandpa. "'Seek and ye shall find knock, and it shall be opened unto you For every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.' We have the same message in the Book of Saint John," I said, sounding for all the world like a preacher." “Ask and it shall be given you,'" I began.
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