Middletown transcript., 1893-05-20
moving toward it. "What is the

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mo performance Tonight. Leading
lady fell down in faint in the green
room. They have found out that she
is dead. Heart gave out all in
minute" said another, land there was
no one to take her place."
The crowd increased and befole Tom
could force his way out, an ambulance
rolled slowly away from he side en-
trance and Kate shuddered at the out
line of a human form that filed her
vision for moment as it passed.
"Never mind, Coz, said Tom cheer
lily. Lets try another place. We
can't have such CHASTITY luck again.
It's very inconsiderate of the woman
to choose just the night to make her
exit when we wanted to be amused"
''Hush, Toni How can you joke in
sight and sound of such dreadful
thingl'
''l'm not joking; I am only trying to
keep my pretty cousin from hysterics
over person not worth thought"
''Sbe was woman, Tom."
"Yes, but what a womanl She
drank like fish, and off the stage
she smoked and swore. Her pretty
daughter is on the stage, too, and l
heard Dick Elwood say she was coming
on the same way. She was to dance
and sing tonight. Iwish you had seen
her; she looks little bit like you.
But where shall We go, Kate?,'
Nowhere, Tom, thank you.
realydon't feel like being amused any
more"
They we're passing an entrance on
Forty-second street. A light streamed
out on the pavement, chorus of many
voices, some manly and loud, some
Nomanly, but not very sweet. was sing
ing heartily. The words broke
strangely upon Kate's ear, as if from
another wolld-quite unlike this
thronged and lighted street. She paused
involuntarily.
Rescue the perlshing, care for the dying
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave"
"It's Saint BIS Rescue Mission.
Want to go in?"
No" But as they passed on the
words rang after her:
"Care for the erring ones. tenderly lead them.
Jesus Is nercitui. Jesus will save"
"Yes, Tom, let US go in. II want
to see what it is like"
And it was like nothing she had ever
seen or heard. There were men and
women, too, with sin-scarred faces and
work grimtd hands speaking with tears
of he power to save that was holding
them back from the pit. There were
young men, even lads, bloated and
blear-eyed. There were women and
girls. too, whose faces wore the mark
of many an evil day; and some of these
prayed and praised aud pleaded for and
with others, coming iremblingly ard
half blindlyto Que who was mighty 10
save.
There we're ladies there, gentle of
face and voice, and Grtat- Heart Of a
leader, who having been saved from
drink and sin himself, seemed to have
but one thought, and that how to res
cue the perishing. And he talked in
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the simplest way Of the Win one Chap
ter, of the order to which Kate be-
longed. The little cross was on his !.
1T is one Of the sweetest privileges
Christ gives u.s." he said, ''that Of :
sharing His blessed work. His heart :
is loving, bent on saving, and He
divides up the precious wanderers. as it
were, and says TO you and to me: Find
,ne. Bring one home to my fold and
@ Me, the Shepherd. Each of you
sho love Me, prove it by seeking and
owing ard bringing one back to my
leart. There is only one way to win !
Htm. Suiv ohC Aunu ny NAi1u lucy :,
will come. Go into their wilderness /,
sfter Il EN-, and be to them what Christ !,
vas 10 the friend beloved. They may
.ome. UP out of the wilderness then :
Gaming on your arm and your heart,
md so find their way even into His
Ieart which yearns over them, waits
or them-waits for us to bring them !.
me by one"
The words were very simple. Kate
,neW it all before, but this touched
Ter strangely. Life looked so le.l and
o sad from this new outlook that !,
showed her how near to each other : !,
walked death and pleasure, how hard :
ife must have been to souls like these
,athered in this PLACE; how different
rom any life she knew about or could =
hare. As she listened her eyes soft =
med with tears, her heart with prayers
has seemed to fill it for these, the :
the SHINING, the weak for
whom her Master cared enough to die.
f He could die surely she might live to 7 !
elp Him in His work of saving :, :.
hem. Perhaps she could win one. v
And suddenly there rose before her
,ision face that Tom had said was
title like her own, the face of the d
notherless girl who was going as lie
aid, the same way the mother went. a
'erhaps-perhaps-who knewp He, q
he Christ who loved her would let her
elp win this one, this one, already
Away on the mountains it
lid and bare, away from the tender b
hepherd's care" Her mother was b
cad, poor child. Perhaps there was no Il
lie to care very much. Perhaps God
'ould show her how to let her know
he cared. 1t is too long story to tell 8:
he wondrous way He showed her how p
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