Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
CHAPTER III.

good servants and some supplies ana some
furnishing for the little vine-hung house,
through the help of an English friend In
Jerusalem, we we're more than comfortable.
And as the quiet and restful season passed
on 1 saw to my delight that the roses of
health were again blooming in her glorious
face. Indeed she was now almost entirely
well; and she certainly now was the most
divn nelly beautiful being that man ever be-
held.
Yet, for all her beauty and tranquility 1
could see plaiuly that she still had on her
mind no uncommon care. Surely something
was about to transpIre; and I felt that what
ever it was she wanted In some way to wash
her hands of it all and escape from it to her.
sell; to be herself entirely, to live her own
lite. Surely there was battle in her great,
brave heart between duty and desire, or
rather between some sort of obligation or
promise or covenant in the past and her
dream OF peace and quiet Christian practice
in the future. And I knew this not entirely
from intuition. For you must know that
not one hour of our time had been wasted
here. We read, wrote, talked or toiled on
in the path we had undertaken to travel to-
gether constantly. She had made swift ad-
vancement toward the light, once having be-
held the steady light of Christ's serene life
and simple teachings before. And now as
The flowers came back and the wood doves
called from the woods on the hill, she
seemed to be the most perfect Christian l
had ever known. But it would be tedious
10 tell how or in what way these evidences
of simple Christian duty manifested them
selves. Let us go forward with the story of
her life and work.
And to what church did this thoughtful
and serenely beautiful young convert in
cline? To nonel To no church in exist
ence on this earth did she look with favor,
or even with perfect patience.
Indeed, her creed was simply the Sermon
on the the Mount And repeating and prac-
ticing this day after day till it became her
daily bread and part of her life, she had at
last decided that it was simply impossible
to follow the life and lessons Of Christ, even
afar off and at the same time belong to any
organized church. She asserted that the
Christian of to-day was simply compelled
BY his surroundings to be a hypocrite, and
that everything around him helped to make
him a Pharisee. In truth, she made it
very clear that the mass of the professed
followers of Christ are to-day ex-
actly such "hypocrites and Phari-
see" as the Savior described and
denounced. But not in bitterness did she
say all these things. A deep pity and earn
est sympathy lay in all she said. She did
not blame now. She pitied now; but she
blamed mans master; his organized society.
It was only now and then and through her
flashes Of singular observation on society
and the Sermon on the Mount that l got a
glimpse of the weight of care that surely
lay upon her great soul and of which have
more than once spoken.
By reference to nv journal see that it
was on the evening of the 21st of March that
she announced her final determination to
leave the Old World to its Idols and try to
build up q model Christian city some
where inthe new.
Of course there were days and nights of
conversation now on this subject. She
wanted to begin right down at the bottom.
She wanted to teach men to listen to the
Lords Prayer: to say, to feel "Iead us not
into temptation" She felt that just so cer-
tain as that man is man, he must fall if
tempted. If be should have the temptation
of envy, aVarice, ambition and all the un-
told sins before him, he would fall, and
would continue to fall, as he has fallen for
all the ages that he has been. She knew
that history to the end of time would be
only this weary round and repetition of the
pitiful woes of men, the miserable follies of
unhappy women, the endless toll of pale
faced and feeble children if these Temptations
that man forces upon man forever remained.
Her noble resolution now was to lead us
not into temptation" Her one aspiration
now was to make it possible for man, in one
place on this earth at least to live the life
of q Christian instead OF the life of a
Phsrisee and hYpocrite. "Ah, yes" she
cried, 'at last am l beginning to see the
light 1t is through pity that we can prav
for those who despitefully use us. For
when q man wrongs another he wrongs him
lfte1fold as much. And when we feel
this we cannot but help pitying the man
who does wrong. For no man can do wrong
to bis fellowman, no matter how bad he
may be, without not only wronging his own
soul but making himself more wretched
tenfoId than the man whom he has wroaged.
Therefore, should we pray for those who
despitetully use us. And yet the world will
not arrive at this plane of thought and
action till we have first removed the con-
tinual temptations to possess the property,
the money of men, and even the dominion
over men,"
"And bow shall this be done, Princess?"
"Simply by following Christ: Sell all
thou hast and give it to the poor and follow
me-"
1t was midnight She arose and came ND
close to my side. Sat by q table, where Law
our books and papers. Leaning over she
laid her two worn hands on mine, Her
heart beat audibly and her bosom made me
warm as she spoke.
Il shall abolish property; obliterate the
lines that men have drawn around the
things which they possess for their few days
on earth, and thus with one stroke will cut
of nearly all the 10000 temptations that en-
compass the mass OF men. This one thing
alone will make true Christianity almost
possible. Follow this idea far out and far
on in every branch, and YOU can see peace,
content love, hovering like dove all about
in the dim and dreamful distance"
Having decided as said before to abandon
the Old World and draw out to herself in
the New such choice spirits as she desired.
the next thing was to choose the site of her
contemplated city. She wisely decided to
keep within the temperate thermal belt
which has as a rule embraced civilization
IN its circuit of the globe, and her ewes were
liked upon Mexico and the adjacent desert
regions of the Southwest Territories of the
United States.
Fortunately, I knew more of the wild
regions about which she now desired in
iormation than any man living. Maps were
made, charts were daily drawn now. The
Ilans Of the great work were fast drawing
oward completion. The civilization of the
Nztecs, wherein Cortez had found all lands
nd all large properties held in common, ap-
esled to her. We would go there first. We
would gather what Information we could for
be great new work; with an eye at the same
me to the procuring of large tract of un-
cupied land in some remote desert region
her in Mexico or Arizona. She would
lyelF choose the poorest Ianda Her