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When God Saved the Brewer's Boy
When she played, I knew her heart was in the music.
By LOJJIS T. TALBOT as told to MILDRED M.. COOK Copyright 2944, Mildred M. C ook
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CHAPTER VIII ^ T ^ H E MONTH of May, in Texas, has a gentleness about it. I met JL her there—in May. She came to prayer meeting, in the little church in Paris, Texas, where I was the pastor, ana to which I had just returned after a long absence in St. Louis and Australia, due to the illness and death of my brother. While I was away, she had been engaged as church organist. Early for the meeting, she came into the room before others were there. I saw her enter—dark hair framing a small round face. When she spoke, her voice had a softness that I liked. Seeing me, she could have been either shocked or else amused, for I was seated at the organ, making a joyful noise in a manner that was
scarcely a musical accomplishment. But if either mirth c. surprise moved her, she did not show it—and from the very beginning I thought vaguely: Here is somebody that can understand me. People began to assemble for the meeting. I went to the pulpit to take charge, and she slipped into her place at the organ with such quietness and grace as to be almost unobserved. I heard her play; there was skill and finesse in her music, and her heart was in it. After the meeting, I in quired about this Miss Audrey Hogue, and upon learning that she would give music lessons to a small group of pupils, I arranged at once for les sons with her to be taken twice a week! . -• ■
In various ways, I learned that she had been among the many whose spiritual lives had grown, like an unfolding flower, under the warm winr someness of Joseph Flacks, the He brew Christian who had preached in my church during' the weeks of my absence. When I thought of her, I told myself again, as I had many times before, that Joe Flacks was one of the choicest friends I ever had. His short, squat figure had first become familiar to me at the Moody Bible Institute where our rooms were close together *and our activities even closer. Later, when I had felt my presence extremely necessary to the then new r Continued on Page 2651
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