The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-03-24
what I'm talking about. girls, because it was

what I'm talking about, girls, because it was
part of my duty to fix work for them, and
sometimes it was plain, ugly old work
Aunt Jane, down in the kitchen, would give
US an apron to make, or sun-bonnet, and
I'd hand it to girl who was waiting for
work, and say, "Belle, will you do this to-
day, dear?" Now maybe all the girls round
Belle would be working with bright silks and
worsteads, and of course Belle didn't Vant
to do it, but she never said she didn't like it,
never looked cross, just went to work bright
ly, and did her best. What was it, do you
think, that made them so earnest and unset
fish? They were just like all the other girls
that you Know But Eli tell you our secret,
so when you start your little Society, 1.-The
Earnest Worker" or The Busy Bees, or
something like that, you can begin right
away to succeed. We just kept on asking
God to bless US, and He kept on doing at!
He answered our prayers by making Lily
and Katie willing to do anything that needed
to be done, whether they liked it or not.
You see I've got so much to tell you, that
if don't use fewer words, wont leave room
for anybody else to say their say; so l must
hurry on. Every year we kept table at
the Agricultural Fair, and another at the
Ladies Spring Festival, until we got strong
enough to have Fair by ourselves. Then
we did all the plain sewing we could in be-
tween-times, and in the summer took two
months holiday. If anybody wants to know
more of our rules and plans, and what we
did and tried to do, just let them write and
ask US, and we'll be perfectly delighted to
show you how to start yOasr SOcety-but as
there is not room here to tell of all our pleas
ant Fairs and happy meetings, I'll end my
little story by copying from our journal an
account of what the Society has accomplished
since it began work in the Fail of 1869.
"Cotbes for the poor, SIS; Christmas
tree for Sunday School, Domestic Missions
$40; for Using Mob, afterwards applied to
Hangchow school house, $50; for Mrs. In
slee's children, $40; chapel chair, (Domes-
tic Missions) $40; Sunday School Christ
mas tree Domestic MissiOns) $40; for
Using Mob afterwards applied to Dzens
half years salary S45; for poor widow
and children, $50; wood for poor family,
SIS; Christmas cheer for poor, S.; Mrs
Randolph's school house bell, SIS; for DR..
Kalopothakes, $5; for repairs on home
church, $50; for Dzen, by Miss Kirkland,
back pay, which had been waiting an oppOr-
tunity to be sent) $50; for 'Dzen, Through
Mr.. McIlwaine) $50; parting gift to mis-
8ionary, So; for Spanish papers for Mr..
Graybilps Sunday School, $40; Deems hall
years salary, March, 1875, S55." So that
in five years this little band of workers has
made $44S! Count it up for yourselves,
girls, and see.
l have talked quite enoug about these
girls now, and will only add that stirred by
their example seven other little Societies
have gone to work in Virginia, in Kentucky,
and in Missouri even, and they too have lit
tie histories worth telling Before the eight
cen hundreds are out, perhaps this little
plant of Lucys will have some "trat't, an
hundred fold" And now girls listen to
me minute longer-turn your dear faces
this way, and hush the merry laugh and talk
little while yet. l have told you the 'oay
you can work, now let me tell you solemn
why. The heather sOho are living nO,0, de-
pend on yOu sOhO are living nO'0, to tell them
of Saviour! Someday, whether you do
anything or not, the.whole earth will be filled
with the knowledge of the Lord, as the wa
tiers cover the great deep, but these poor
heather who live in to-day's sunshine, shar-
ing it with you, girls, cannot be saved except
by you. China will one day cast her idols
to the moles and the bats, for the mouth of
the Lord hath spoken it; but unless we send
the Gospel at once to those swarming mil
lions it will come too late for them Oh be-
gin Make your plans to-day, and devote
some part of all your to-mOrrOws, as long
as you live, to helping in this great work
And when we all get to the " Home, Sweet
Home" what delight it will be to see those
saved by our efforts, crowding in from the
East and the West and from the Isles of the
Sea, to the Joy of the Lord G.