The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-04-19

now behind, now before, now to the
right, and now to the left OF "Dimples."
as she Invariably called him in her own
mind.
If she did not understand all he said.
she assimilated enough to carry into
the life that had been grim and mean
beyond imagining. perceptions of the
/ beauty of cheerfulness and unselfish-
ness, that by slow degrees expressed
/ themselves, IN acts-outward and visible
/ signs of the inner melting of her heart
of ice.
Gradually she came to know, through
the lips of this man whose brightness
had first attracted her. and whose
earnestness now commanded her re-
spect that the real purity and lowell
ness of the Christian religion is in the
life and teaching of its great Master.
which is rooted in an unselfishness and
has but one representative.
Let us listen to what the Doctor says
upon the subject this morning, under
! the heading of "Chrst's New Doctrine"
Since thine selishness in
cludes. and unselfshness excludes. all
sin. it is manifest that the eradicate
/ of selfishness by the development of
love is the one thing necessary for our
salvation. Christ taught that
there was but one duty-that of love.
The charm of his own personality,
his own loveableness. was the new mot
i've which Christ introduced into the
world. He knew that we could not
/ begin with universal love, and so he
endeavored to create in US an enthus-
! iasm for Himself. We must inevitably
] grow like one whom We supremacy love.
And whoever loves Christ will
/ feel Christ's enthusiasm for humanity.
/ Affection for the Saviour once implant-
/ ed in the individual heart, will, in time,
impel its possessor to universal love.
Emerson says, Love viii ac-
complish what force will never acnieve'
Love would put new face on this
weary old world, In which we dwell too
long as pagans and enemies. An &C.
( ceptance of the sentiment of love
throughout Christendom for a season
would bring the felon and the outcast
to our side in tears, with the devotion
of their faculties to our service. This
great. over grown, dead Christendom Of
ours still keeps alive at least the name
: of our love of mankind. But some day
amity will be dissolved in universal
sunshine
Some of the sunshine of which the
Doctor spoke seemed day by day to be
melting the frost of Sarah Shrubsole's
heart, to be slowly penetrating the
crust of sullen discomfort in which she
had wrapped her spirit, enshrouded
against all the world.
Such love as Sarah had felt in her
arid life had been a brief passion for
worthless man which she had burned
herself withal. but of the universal
love, the love of her kind. she had
known nothing.
BY degrees she came to linger long
While the boys were at their food, to get
some comprehension of their natures,
and, in some vague way, to feel
sort Of motherhood for them ALL since
any one of them might be her own
flesh and blood. though neither her eyes
nor instinct could affirm it,
And nearly every Sunday she got a
word or two with"Dimples." She knew
by now that she was not the only poor
woman to whom he was kind; that
many of his hours of hard-won leisure
were spent by sick beds, to which he
carried the highest spirits and bright
est words, though he might be in
wardly suffering from the melancholy
with which such tempera ments as his
are usually cursed.
Humbly. sure ptitiously even, she
tried to initiate his example.
whatever become to Sairey?" said
one neighbor, to another, about three
months after Sarah Shrubsole's first
visit She's a new woman since she
took to going to the Foul. Hing. Yet
she holds to it she don't go there to
see Sammy, for though he's her own, she
can't pick him out from the other b'ys
there-but her heart do seem mighty
Kind all at once, and though once she
was as cross woman as ever drove a
man to drink and bad company, now
she'll put her tailoring by and starve,
If a neighbours sick and wants help.
Lord! 1t makes one thing of the story
in the Bible where a Teller smites the
rock and out gushes a stream of pure
spring waterr'
one Sunday, many months after
Sarah's first appearance, DR.. "Dimples"
saw an unfamiliar face beside her, a
face battered and terribly the worse
for wear-sickly. too, withal, as if the
hand of disease gripped him fast. He
was neatly shaved and washed, his
clothes, too, though poor, were tidy.
but for such care and the order he dis
played, he was visibly beholden to the
woman, who stood beside him, and upon
whom he evidently both physically and
mentally leaned.
man in her best of days, but some in
ward peace within her that morning
wrought her features into harmony.
and made them a pleasant sight upon
which to dwell.
The mans eyes seldom left the gal
lery In which the boys sat; from one
to another of the distant faces his ewes
roved. baffled and rejected by the uni
form lines of face and dress.
He'd be nearly eight by now.
wouldn't he?" whispered Sarah Shrub
sole's husband, in her ear, and Sarah.
her face cloudy for a moment, nodded
"Y es. when the preacher rose. for
nWhlle ne made no impression on his
new hearers ears. But presently a
word, repeated. aroused his curiosity.
What's pessimsm?" he whispered.
to his Wife
-grumbling." she said.
promptly, Whereupon he listened.
we nave seem" said the preacher.
that the pessmists underestimate hu
/ man pleasures. Hartmann quietly puts
| down work amongst the miseries of ex-
iStence, ignoring altogether the enjoy
ment which frequently attends it. And.
on the other hand, he does nor make