The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-28
II. FADING SUNSIiiN /.


.narttiur ~ Hmns if"'nr".
uHl,.s Is etst $50 tenement -" lives.
4 woman sore a..icta. Nnlo cod. !.t
wh, knows not size usiiee ~ r@tin.Hg
Nj, np, if yuu H44s rl..1 j.. tEt
nai9hharaaoi 10 lea yoA The ila
swect,,,. most t..:qaii lr.soa n L.. J
WAGER t*sy'.l al.,t,t VITA uaaaiIa.s,
Blind jennie
And il l.. ,rua as t~stecaii be. The light
mas gone forever FROM Zee eErz. a III It
rests 81, -. f)pe!.la ho3y, hat ON tAr
peaceful! soul and on the mind illanlei
are ilyll,s no doctors or laa&ician's s.3i
con.i r~onjarr W, ana Jennie. ".illHt
Jennie" evcrElrn.y'- Trend iii L,"H
street. bisks in ,~;erii"i Sunshine.
A simple little story i .lcpMit's. Il story
thai | might til fun of tears. | snrlosr.
and much se%nt!nlentality. But what i
the use of weeping if Jennie smiles: l.
II not better to rejoice that the little
heroine has found 50 much good to do i'll
the world which has SO little good 10
offer her:
She was struck By lightning many years
ago-at least. that is the cause her moth
| or gives Of her blindness. This mother,
with whom =. Ives. is II little figiitya 1T
times. and that is one Of Jennie's crosses.
bu, it is her nnlasging industry, going
about the streets pe,ldling soap. matches
and jilncracks. which pays the rent aid
br ngs bread to the poor tenement whici'
the two call hnn!e. The Il boys of.e1:
chase the old woman. taking advantage
Of her feeble mind. and harasS -.
greatly There is no crueler beast IN
the luu.,rs Of Asia than the bad boy
and II. has not the beasts excuse for
cruelty
After Jennie had been blind some time
the distiguring disease attacked her face.
It ate away her mouth and nose AN.
compelled her to Wear Il thick veil when,
ever she went out to I'll" church or Sglu-
aay school Doctors sad II was "A can
Ger and attempts were made by kind
friends to get Jennie admitted TO the
Cancer hospital. bnt the physicians there
said that it was no cancer. And SO. witt
that cruelty which sometimes marks the
conduct Of IL hospital attendants.
sworn to mercy and Kindness. poor Jen-
! ME WAS driven from one institution I"
another. and none would have her. None
! wonld have her! Shame be ii on the
name of every one.
And 50 she retrrated to the poor little
. tenement behind another tenement and
J prepared TO live ont her life as best she
might.
! And then began her Sunday school.
! She did not seek for scholars. They
came to her as the sparrows did to loo
for crumbs upon the window sill. They
were the children of the very poor
Some of them were of Hebrew birth
like Jennie. others were Roman Caiho
lies Others did not know ii they had
been born 70 amy creed. unless it Ners
) the creed OF poverty and anguish.
low they crowded into that ltt't
room. What comfort the. found the',
under the spell of the blind girl, VIII,
o seemed to them to talk with the tongue
of angels. How they awakened TIN
u echoes of a region which usually re
founded to che songs and curses Of TIN
drunken and the vile.
Two Sundays in Jennie's week-Sat
!. urlay for the Jews and Sunday for tn.
ientiles.
= One day IL little girl came up to TIN
room
= i want to come to Sunday school.
she said.
But there is no sunday school til
:. after dinner
. We'll. | amt going To have no dime
today. 70 ! guess Ill stay and wait
= You may be sure that she was mad
u welcome. and that she did have Dime
" that day with Jennie and her mother.
And that is the kind Of child who bt
longs to Jennie's Sunday school. Their
are fully 80 who belong to it, and VIII
- attend either one day or the other.
70 .Jennie's knowledge Of the Scripture
70 and Of the hymns sung in the 'missio
- and ut her home is marvellous. If til
= words of . hymn whose music attract
~ her are read to her several times, h n
members them forever after. The sing
!, ing is one of the great attractions to tn
little ones
The members Of Jennie's class do nc
meet 1t stated hours. but III in whel
n ever they desire.
- All. what a glorious thing it was tina
the hospitals turned Jennie from thel
inhospitable doors. She would ',ay
been SO useless in those warm and chez
=. full rooms-a recipient Of their aims an
~ nothing else. whereas she has turned hi
tenement into a temple and filled on
n of the darkest corners of the city wit
n the light and the grace Of God.
=. Hope Mission chapel keeps its eye o
!. Jennie and her mother and keeps IL
- wolf from entering at the door, as
would do sometimes if they were le
absolutely unaided. The good peopl
=. who are not overrich themselves. hel
~ them out with the rent and the coal ma
=, A few days & the missionary we,
~, shopping for Jennie. and this WAS VIII;
-. he bought after paying out = for II
rent: Quilt, $i.'N: cot, sl.a5: nnde
clothing. $l.s5; pillow, "A cents: sheet
s. cents: two cups and sancers and tw
he knives and forks. ~ cents. and was