If there are any little
orphan children here to-day, I should be glad if they would
come up to the front and shake hands with me."
Now Miss Minerva always faithfully responded to every
proposal made by a preacher; it was a part of her religious
conviction. At revivals she was ever a shining, if solemn
and austere, light. When a minister called for all those who
wanted to go to Heaven to rise, she was always the first one
on her feet. If he asked to see the raised hands of those
who were members of the church at the tender age of ten
years, Miss Minerva's thin, long arm gave a prompt response.
Once when a celebrated evangelist was holding a big
protracted meeting under canvas in the town and had asked
all those who had read the book of Hezekiah in the Bible to
stand up, Miss Minerva on one side of the big tent and her
devoted lover on the other side were among the few who had
risen to their feet. She had read the good book from cover
to cover from Genesis to Revelation over and over so she
thought she had read Hezekiah a score of times.
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