Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-16
TWO WAYS.
Which Do You Think Was the
 More Practical {?

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 Rev. Walter Cobbett was called to large and fashionable church in Philadelphia about twelve years ago. He was a young, sickly man, in deadly earnest in his work. In fact, his youth, pallor and fiery zeal gave force to his words which neither his thoughts nor character possessed; for he was but shallow thinker, and easily led by strong -willed companions
 The committee sent by the Rittenhouse Square Presbyterian Church to find a pas-
 tor discovered him by some odd chance in a mining village near Pottstown, and were greatly impressed by his eloquence. They
 were all rich, shrewd men, fond of the good
 things of life, from music to perfectly cooked dinner.
 "But, said Judge Lowe, TWO don't want
 a speculator or bon vipant, like poor old Dr.
 Cray, in the pulpit again. This young feI-
 low Is godly and full of zeal; q great orator.
 He not only knows in what he believes, but
 he will make us all believe it.''
 When Mr. Cobbett, with Milly and the baby, came up from Coalton, Mrs. Lowc and the other fashionable women were de- lighted with the simple, unwordly flavor of their speech and manner. ''So like the early Christians" Miss Agnes Lowe sad, who was an artist, and therefore an author ity on all early matters. They were invited to Q round of dinners and receptions, and then MT. Cobbett settled down in earnest to his work
 Young Leidy, one of his college chums who had just been ordained, spent a week with him, and the two men together tramped through the worst quarters of the city, from Naudain street to St. Mary's. They were both sympathetic, excitable and unused to the miseries of a great city. They went from the filth and laziness of the quarter given up to 'Dagos," to the negro slums, and from them to the vast mills, in which most of the operatives were saucy girls of from twelve to twenty years old. At night they discussed these scenes to- | gether.
 Nothing was so terrible to me-" said ! Walter, "as those wretched Italians, content like animals to lie filthy and starving in tho sun all day."
 "The mlll women seem to me tho more desperate case," said James Leldy, s'be- l cause they have sloughed off the brute.
 They are sharp and intelligent. They faunt out in the evenings, each with her | beaded dress and pinchbeck jewelry, going | with 'her gent to the quarter-dollar soci- | abIes or variety theaters. They come so near to responsibility and usefulness, and yet are going straight to ruin!''
 My church must go to work at once," | said MT. Cobbett.
 He spoke with certain assurance of Suc- l cess. The membership of his church was | 50 large and could number so many mill
 ions! Such a great broom would surely | soon clean these Augean stables! | Mir. Leidy was silent for long time. He l said then: ''Walter, I have almost deter l mined to refuse the call to Pittsburgh, and to give myself up to work among these 1 people. The board will send me as mis- | sionary.n
 "1t is very good in you, Mir. Leidy, but 1t is impossible, Tho board pays it's city missionaries only the wages of 8 laboring | man, and you have no slea what 1t costs to | live here! Very different from Coalton." II should go down among the laboring
 men and live as they do," said Mir. Leidy. ''If 1 am to help them, must be with them. Besides, there may be a certain help to | them in seeing how an educated man l would live on the same income as their own"
 "I fear you will find example slow means | of grace, James," said MT. Cobbett. ''If l can interest my people, we can make tre- | mendous united assault upon the sIums Working -lnen's' clubs, industrial schools, societies for boys, young women and moth-
 CTS. have dozen ideas.''
 l When he was alone with his wife he said |: l ''Poor Jiml 1 feel he will be sorely disap- l pointed in that Quixotic venture. wish he
 had such enginery as ours to bring to bear upon the forces of evilr"
 l Never did two men attack the forces of evil with more earnest faith or tender pity for ill=doers than these two young clefgy=
 men, But their methods ot attack were
 widely different.
 James Leidy, when appointed city mis- sionary, rented two rooms over bakery | down in the Neck. One was his sleeping room; in the other he held service, taught school, and in the evenings welcomed the men and boys who came there to read the papers or to offer them advice. He reached
 them one by one. The baker, Gus Schell- 1 ing, drunken, good-natured fellow, was
 hiS, first ally. He deplored to James the fact that A'a lot of half-growh boys was goin, to the devil gambtin' in that neigh Borrhood, r and willingly went to work to en-
 tiee them to the house that they might be
 converted. 4 singing.cipB was the bond
 by which James held them together. It re- l quired months to win them to decent ways and honesty, but it took years to convert | Gus to a sober life. During those years he
 reckoned himself "the preachers right hand man." Through the boys he laid hold l on the fathers, shrewd mechanics who looked upon religion as "wimmen's busi-
 Aess,D ,D peg sars whose only trade was trick erv. saloon Keepers and professional thieves. l The hold was often: but sligbt,'and led to nothing. But the worst thief or sot usually has some feeling for his son. and respect |UPHoLSTERIN NC