Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-16

on by them.
 The mothers were more easily reached and less easily held. They cried grateful tears when they met the good minister who had made Sam respectable boy, or kept Joe out of Moyamensing; they came to the Wednesday evening service. and sang the hymns with loud fervor. Sometimes James suspected that they were just as drunken, as slatternly and as vicious in their homes as before. But he had hardened himself against disappointment. In some fashion those people gradually took him and his teaching into their homes and lives. They sentfor him to marry them, to get them out of jail, to bury their dead when the diph- theria ragged in Pin Court, ''Parson Leidy'' was called in before the doctor, he being just at hand, ''and such a famous nurse." Tom Farrel, when he was sentenced to death, and urged to call in a minister, ''reckoned that Leidy was the best of the lot;" and the grim Scotch weaver, Samp- son, came to him in the dead of the night to tell him, with stern eyes and quivering jaw, his suspicion that his little Aggy was going to the bad
 'Dear, dear! James; this is dishearten- ing," said Mir. Cobbett, when he came down to visit his old chum. ssYou have been living here like a pauper for a year, and what have you accomplisheda But three communicants! No hope yet of build ing chapelr'
 "l am coming nearer to them every day." said Leidy. 'I make myself one with them. l try to drag them up, step by step.'
 ''These little individual efforts of course suffer by comparison with great organized work" said Mir. Cobbett, with slight tone of patronage. "Now, when our church be- gins her assault upon outside vice, you will | find themoral atmosphere in this part of the city clear up very rapidly"
 ''What are your planS?"
 "1n the first place, organization. I have drilled my people ready to work We are going to have a sewing-school mission Sunday school, an industrial school for the boys, working mans club, a mothers as | sociation, q young girls guild for mutual | improvement, societies for the promotion of temperance and personal purity. These are | all to be superintended by the members of the church. It would gratify you, James, to see how zealously the most fashionable matrons and gayest girls take hold of the idea. They are eager to begin.''
 ''And who are the people on whom they are to work!"
 ''Whol" MT. Cobbett waved his hands widely. ''All the thieves, Magdalens, dis charged convicts, paupers None will be turned away. Our machinery is complete. can not but believe, James, that the re- form which we shall accomplish under God will be very great-''
 "When do you begin, Walter?"
 'As soon as our church building is com pleted. It is to cost eighty thousand dol l lars"
 s'That is a large sum-"
 'The lot cost us thirty thousand. But it l was great bargain. It is in the rear of the | church, in the most desirable part of the 1 town. We could sell it now for double that sum. It will be the most complete building ! for parish work in the country. There will 1 be apartments for all the schools, library, | gymnasium, reading-rooms, all perfectly equipped. We have fifty thousand sub- scribed. The remainder comes in slowly. l You do not look satisfied, James. thought 1 you would rejoice in this great movement"
 'How are you going to bring the thieves and paupers up into your great buildingl" said Leidy, abruptly. ''It stands in the most fashionable quarter. They live miles away from it. The mountain will not go to Mahomet."
 "We shall see, my dear sir,,' said MT. Cobbett, with a complacent laugh. II am surprised at Leidy," he told his wife, afterwards. ''He suggested trifing, diff | culty as Q block to our whole work.''
 When Mrs. Cobbett heard what it was she said, with an uneasy look: II had i thought of that"
 A year later Mir. Leidy dined with the 1 Cobbetts, and went to a church meeting afterwards. It appeared to him that the re- l lations between pastor and people were strained. MT. Cobbett urged vehemently the payment of forty thousand dollars still due on the school building. The women of the church had been working energetically to that end. They had held fairs, straw berry festivals and bazars of all nations. They had given concerts and organ recitals They had gone from house to house solicit ing subscriptions
 'sNow," said Judge Lowe, sthe fact is that they are tired. The building was much more costly than was expected; the whole energy of the church has been di- rected into paying for this huge structure and for the appliances for teaching the dan- | gerous classes; while, as we all know, the | dangerous classes do not come to be taught. My opinion is that we had better sell out the
 whole concern, pay off the mechanics who have liens on it, and give the remainder of the money to foreign missions.
 Mir. Cobbett quickly brought up some oth- | CT subject for discussion. Judge Lowe met him when the conference was over, and laughed as he saw his pinched, anxious face
 ''rm sorry worried you,'' he said ''But tell you, Mir. Cobbett, this fad of yours is dead weight. The church can not carry it. We have made mistake somehow" he said turning to Mir. Leidy. ''The wretch edly poor will not come to us They like the privacy and darkness of their holes, like rats. The classes are filled with the chil- dren of well-to-do mechanics, who can af- ford to have them taught at ordinary schools. The ladies collected number of mill girls, who came two or three times in fine clothes, and spent their time in staring at the gowns and hats of their teachers. As soon as they had displayed their own fin cry and learned the latest spring fashions they dropped off I found six young ladies assembled to teach the sextonis daughtet yesterday. The whole thing is a failure.'l
 When the two clergymen were back in the study Walter turned to his friend.
 isWhy should it be a failurel'' he said, passionately. ssThese people need help, and we have it to give. Look, for instance, at the thousands of deceived girls in this city. We are told that there is no way open for them but utter ruin or death. We open ways for them. We are ready to teach them bookkeeping, chlna painting, cooking-to | give them dozen honest means of support.