The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-03
CHAPTER w.

CHAPTER w.
CARRIES Us STEP OR TWO ON IN THE
whats to become ofpoor me-"
This was the question with which
Ware accosted me, not long after the
events recorded in the last chapter.
"Why2 What do you mean ?" said
I, in. return.
II mean that you have erected the
most exclusive, bigoted church build
ing 1 ever saw, heard of, read of, or
dreamed Of"
why, Ware?'
Go ana mea<ure it Tor yourself
then, that's ALL"
Measure it p
eyes !; measure itv'
/ looked at the man as if I thought
| ne was demented, and he looked h,
me with the most comically-serious
| expression he could assume. And he
looked very handsome, too; that
will aver to my dying day-tall,
straight, neat-handed, small-footed
blpe,eyed, brown-bearded, bright-faced
thmeared, broad-shouldered, strong.
armed, noble Ware Anglesea-and
didn't I love him!
Eyes; measure it," he repeated;
''do you know that you have put up
an imposing structure that will &C
commodate, by nice mathematical
calculation. Just the ninety and nine
which went not astray?'
And the truth was that in altering
the design after our little St. Paupa
was begun, so as to allow little extrs
depth to the unpretending but nea'
little chancel, the capacity of The
building had been reduced from tht
one hundred and twenty-five person.
it was originally intended to hold, te
that of q much smaller number.
| A Sunday or two showing that tht
Sunday School would soon go to piece.
under the rapid numerical demorali
zation that had succeeded the depart
ure Of the Rev. Mr.. Winter, and tht
only way there seemed of preventing
this catastrophe was to sacrifice mysel
to the cause. There was no man in th,
place capable of assuming the head
ship of the school the only male
communicant being the Senior War
den, quack doctor who had read tw'
books and attended half u course o
medicine and hung out his sign,
I cannot describe the feelings. witt
which, that rainy day-did you eve
notice how conducive rainy days u
to meditation latter / had turned tn
subject over and over in my mind,
1 determined to assume, in propri
persona, the duties Of superintendent
eas Of the little Sunday School Of 81
Pauls; but assume them I did,,
i There was no little titteringg anon
the larger boys and girls Of the schoe
the following Lords day when I tai
ped the school to order and took m
place ,modest1y on the lowest step {
. the still unfinished chsncel, and b.
], gan to exercise my gifts, but S.ll th
tittering ceased in q moment and
felt quite encouraged. About twent
boys and girls were Ill I had prese1
:, and I managed to ''get through" th
hour that Sunday School tradition
y ally occupied without any more ser
GUS mishap than. forgetting tt
# Lords prayer in the closing servic
I have to record my own success
embarrassing as it is, my dears,-an
so I may as we'll say that in ten SUI
days our school not only had eve,
pupil back who had at any time a
tended, but had increased q baker
dozen over and above its prev
GUS maximum number. All tho
boys who had reached the chivalro1
period of their lives I had no troub
with whatever these I at once orga
lied into a class myself and distribute
the others into platoons under t
- charge of the other teachers. Of t
school. My chief difficulty, at fir
arosefrom the teachers themselves.
there is any one thing that a wom'
hates it is to have another wom
,, over her. I was not tyrannical in t
least, but was a woman over WON
and that was enough.
E Christmas approaching and
rector putting in an appearance, 1 4
"a gan to fear that the duties I had
sumed temporarily ! should have
perform permanently. My school
creased 50 rapidly that for. 2 time
- began to marvel what could be 4
10 cause Of. my unexpected popularity:
was now the ,first Of ,Negveumber. tu e
3E thereuppn issued q solemn edict t