Milford chronicle., 1893-02-24
reaiIfo1,d ChronicIe
.DlNu SUNSHINE
BLIND JENNlE's PATHETIC STORY OF
WAYS OF DOING GOOD.

She Has Built Temple IN a Tenement,
where She Holds Sunday school Each
Saturday and sunday-she Has Scattered
Sunshine In Many Homes.
In a little east side tenement she lives.
woman sore afflicted unto God, - yet
who knows not the nature Of repining.
Ah, moi If you ask any child Of the
neighborhood to tell you the happiest.
sweetest, most tranquil person in it,
wager they'll shout with unanimity.
Blind Jenniep
And it is true as true can be. The light
has gone forever from the eyes, a blight
rests on the feeble body, but on the
peaceful soul and on the mind illumed
are lights no doctors or magician's skill
could conjure up, and Jennie, blind
Jennie" everybody's friend in Lewis
street, basls in eternal sunshine.
A simple little story is Jennie's, story
that might fill full of tears, suppose,
and much sentimentality. But what is
the use Of weeping if Jennie smiles9 Is
It not better to rejoice that the little
heroine has found so much good to do in
the world which has so little good to
offer her?
She was struck by lightning many years
ago-at least, that is the cause her moth
er gives Of her blindness. This mother, !
with whom she lives, is little fighty at !
times, and that is one Of Jennie's crosses, |
but it IS her unAagging industry, going /
about the streets peddling soap, matches
aud jimcracks, which pays the rent and
brings bread to the poor tenement which
the two call kome The bad boys often
chase the old woman, taking advantage
Of her feeble mind, and harass her
greatly. There Is no crueler beast in
the jungies Of Asia than the bad boy.
and he has not the beasts excuse for
cruelty.
I After Jennie had been blind some time
the disfguring disease attacked her face.
It ate away her mouth and nose and
compelled her TO wear a thick veil when
ever she went out to the church or Sun
day school. Doctors said it was can
Ger, and attempts were made by kind
friends to get Jennie admitted to the
cancer hospital, but the physicians there I
said that it was no cancer. And so, with
That cruelty which sometimes marks the il
conduct Of our hospital attendants. a
sworn to mercy and kindness, moor ,Jen- n
ME was driven from one institution to v
another, and none would have her. None a
would have her Shame be it on the s.
lame Of every onei h
And so she retreated to the poor little p
behind another tenement and c.
prepared to live out her life as best she
night
And then began her Sunday school. :,
he did not seek for scholars. They n
anne to her as the sparrows did to look al
or crumbs upon the window sill. They u
Iere the children of the very Door. 81
ONE Of them were of Hebrew birth. eA
ke Jennie, others were Roman Catho- 40
es. Others did not know if they had dll
cen born to any creed, unless it were
le creed of poverty and anguish. y
How they crowded into that little Lre
oml What comfort they found there dis
lder the spell Of the blind girl. who hr'
emed to them to talk with the tongue hlr
angelsl How they awakened the pia
hoes of q region which usually re- hoi
1nded to The songs and curses Of the kee
unken and the yilel sue
Two Sundays in Jennie's week-Sat- awi
day for thu tlWs and Sunday for the tih'
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