Let There Be Light
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Tears were streaming down Jenny’s face. “Oh, Dan! Oh, darling, I love you so very much!”
They sealed it with a kiss, then went inside to tell the Holdens and the Stevenses the whole story.
At one point, Mary Holden asked Jenny what she would do about Edgar Toomey.
Jenny drew a deep breath. “Well, Mary, since there is no way to prove that he murdered Papa, I will just leave him in God’s hands. Just this morning, while I was reading passages in the book of Romans that Laura had underlined, I came across Romans 12:19, which she had not underlined. It’s where God says, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ So, like I said, I’ll just leave Edgar Toomey in God’s hands.”
“That’s the way to do it, honey,” said Martha Stevens. “Let the Lord take care of punishing Edgar Toomey.”
Everyone at the table agreed.
The next evening, Jenny and Dan went to the parsonage and told the pastor and his wife the whole story. The Denisons rejoiced in God’s marvelous working, and it was set that Jenny would be baptized the next night in the Wednesday evening service.
Jenny and Dan left the parsonage and took a drive under the stars in his wagon. Jenny brought up Laura Denton, saying she had written to her that day and told her of how she had received Jesus as her Saviour. Again, she mentioned Laura having underlined passages in the Bible she gave her, and told Dan that Pastor Denison had used some of those very verses in his sermon last Sunday morning. “Remember, darling? Genesis 1:3: ‘And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.’ And 2 Corinthians 4:6: ‘For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.’ What a powerful connection there is between these two verses!”
“Amen to that, Jenny, darlin’! And praise the Lord for shining His gospel light into your heart.”
The Arizona sun was gleaming brightly out of a glorious blue sky on Saturday afternoon, October 14. But it couldn’t begin to outshine the glow on the faces of Dan Tyler and Jenny Linden when the pump organ was playing the wedding march and Jenny headed down the aisle toward the man she loved.
Jenny was dressed in a simple white organdy gown and carried a small nosegay made up of late summer desert flowers. She was a vision of loveliness to the smiling man who waited for her at the altar.
The congregation watched with pleasure as Jenny came to a graceful halt and looked up at her groom. Her face beamed and she smiled at him as he offered his arm.
Sliding her hand into the crook of his arm, she looked up at him and whispered, “ ‘And God said, Let there be light: and there was light!’ ”
A wide grin spread over Dan’s shining face as they mounted the steps to the platform, where Pastor David Denison waited to hear their vows.
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