Excerpts from the Journal of Dick Sprouston
28th August, 1927
Miriam and I have come back to our home. I was making a difference in Arkham, but with Miriam’s health, I need to focus on being here for her while I still have her…
10th March, 1926
…I miss Miriam something fierce. I know it’s likely my imagination, but when I walk the woods and creek where we met, I swear I occasionally hear her humming "How Great Thou Art". I miss her voice singing that hymn. It was a sound to sooth the soul.
17th May, 1926
A professor named Rhoades and his wife Abigail along with some students came up this way from the Miskatonic university. He explained he thought perhaps this valley was home to a lost settlement from the 1600s. His enthusiasm for this area is refreshing from the usual judgements I see from city visitors. They are setting up at the Jarvey farm to begin their search which they are going to start just west of town.
13th June, 1926
Professor Rhoades seems quite excited. After almost a month of no additional findings beyond the skeletons, he found something that is leading them further up the creek. He came into town looking for camping gear from Baxter’s and had a fervor that was contagious. I can’t wait to see what he finds.
15th June, 1926
More sounds of dynamiting coming from up the creek. I shake my head at it. How could someone looking for signs of a lost settlement try to find it by blowing things up? I suppose the Professor would know best. I’m still hopeful he will find something, though. It would be great to have something that could bring prosperity to the people here.
17th June, 1926
I said goodbye to the last of the students heading back to Miskatonic. They are all so tight lipped about what the professor found. I plan on taking a walk up the creek tomorrow to see for myself. I’ve been dreaming about Miriam these last few days. It’s almost like she is here with me. I feel like I just need to open my eyes quickly enough to see her laying in the bed next to me.
20th June, 1926
God has done wonderful things for us. Like the rock at Horeb, God sent forth his divine presence to let the waters run forth. I saw Abigail, but in the waters I saw who she truly was. Miriam has returned to me. Faith has carried me through to the promised land.
23st June, 1926
Professor Rhoades is showing his lack of faith. He wants to take Miriam away from me. He’s a fool, a miracle isn’t met to be put under a basket. What’s worse is the Carmody brothers. They seek to take God’s grace that is poured out for all the faithful and wager into divine preference for themselves. I will need to find a way to prune that branch. God send me the answer to my prayers. Help me to bring about your kingdom on this earth.
6th July, 1926
The Carmody’s are becoming more and more a problem. They are close to the holiest of holies and they squander the gift. At least Rhoades has disappeared. I’ve been tending the flock God has graced me with. They all are coming to see the blessed Mother for what she is. The truth and the way and the life. Miriam comes to me in my dreams constantly now. I hear her beating heart in time with the land and see it for what it is. The second coming of God into this world. My flock sees it too. There isn’t a one of them that won’t make sure the kingdom of God is well established.
21st July, 1926
Another of the faithful fell to those bastard Carmody’s. I don’t understand why Miriam let’s them exist. Like rain, her blessing falls on the righteous and the wicked. Damn the Carmody’s… They seek to be at her side, she’s my WIFE!! I’ll be damned if anyone tries to get next to her before I do. We had to sacrifice Baxter today. He was devoted, but she was hungry and he was willing. I hear his heart beat eternally in her heart.
15th September, 1926
Each time I drink of the sacred water I feel her closer to me. The Carmody’s are false prophets that she suffers, but my people are the true disciples. We’ve stored enough of the holy waters. Soon I will send them out like Jesus. Two by two, they will carry the second kingdom to this sinful world. I just wish there was a way to remove the distraction of the Carmody’s. Miriam, my Mother, guide me in this. Let me be your TRUE prophet. Help me to follow the path you’ve laid before me. Jessica screamed. She was the first to do that. Miriam took up the call with her many mouths and gave voice to Jessica’s spirit well into the night.
24th September, 1926 (yesterday)
Finally! Mother be praised, she has answered my prayers! Some men from the city, obvious sinners seeking to defile this place, arrived. They will deal with the false prophets. And then my disciples will feed them to her. One last meal before the pilgrimage. Before the chosen people will bear the Mother of all to the sinful world. I have seen Her glory shining across the ages. I have walked the past, present and future in Her presence. She will be everywhere when my disciples are done. I will stay behind. My flesh will sustain her as the congregation goes forth to make disciples of all nations. Mother be praised. The spirit is willing and the flesh is weak.
