The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-19

have been well worth transferring. A
woman missionary. Drowling siealthily
through tho ward, approached her.
She was nne OF those frequent creature.
who delight to put Christianity in the
form Of q conundrum.
THE MISTAKE. MISSIONARY.
"Haye you found Josus?" she asked
in an cxasperating purr meant to bo
gentle, but as soothing to the girls
lacerated nerves as a long whispered
conversation in sick room ia TO an in
valid.
May Using to you?" asked the mis-
mo" said Della; you may so and
take walk"
Nevertheless she sang, and Della sur
vived and fed to THE Bend"
Last April she went on missionary
duty in Auburn prison. where TWO OF
her old friends were serving fifteen year
sentences. Her talk there, taken ut tine
time in shor hand, ia in thought and
expression refreshing contrast to the
stereotyped cant, OF the professional
convert. Here is an example OF her
strong simplicity. It describes how
Mrs. Whittemore took her into the
back parlor and prayed with hcr when
che came to the Door OF Hope with the
withercd .osc in her hands.
81 went in with her ana she put her
arm around me, and, Eneeling down be
side 4 chair began praying, and in the
prayer she kept telling some one how
bad Was, and she says, Now, God,
you can make her better and you can
love her, and don't know what else
she suid. but while she was PRAYING ]
was saying to myself, who is she tell
ing on me?' and l thought she was
crazy"
What "realist" could make moro
exact photograph, both OF the spiritual
and physical aspects OF the'sceuc, than
the girl herselfT 1t is literature.
a BIT OF HER PHILOSOPHY.
Hero is bit from the same talk OF
her philosophy:
~ tell you, when first We start to
serve the dovil it may be diamonds, but
it soon comes down to glass it may be
gold, but it soon comes down to cop
pers; it may be silks, but We viii soon
lind ourselves in rags"
This was her valedctory to the Au-
burn prisoners. There are number
OF ccntlomGn paid from 500 10 500 Il
Sunday Oh Murray Hill for "pu!pi. e!o-
Quenco" that is FIAT, stale and uuprolita-
bic beside this OF Della Loughlin's.
~ want TO ask you. before close, to
pray for me, and come what will,
though friends turn from me, though it
means death, though it means separa-
ton, we still have Jesus Christ to look
to and he never forsaSes us, for nc said:
When thy father and thy mother for.
sake thee, thon | will take thee up
| want to tell you that, God helping
me, God keeping me, l will 90 OH to
tho end"
Picture iiyou can, this fairyslim girl
with her fine face and tender eyes, her
voice charged with sad sincerity-for
friends and father and mother had
deemed her change OF religion us deem
an oflense as her early sin-ringing this
message and this vow out to the con.
Victs oil Auburn. Picture it. 1t is Il
much better preaching picture than the
Savonarolas and John Knoxes and Mar
tin Luthers Of the artists stock.
She has gone on to the end, but she is
no precedent. There arc no more BLUE.
birds" in Mulberry Bend and no moro
Della Loughlins on Lenox Hill. She
was OF the kind that must seek the
depths or scale the heights. Hers wls
The heart OF fire. Hers was the poets
soul. She was typical OF nothing but
herself, so rare product that ii you
look in Maple Grove next spring you
may find, perhaps, that with her, as
with the kate" of another woman
poet, tho grass cen is greener that
grows on her grave"