The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
HER LEISURE.
Continued from Page s.

that they have eaten. The higher We
rise in the scale OF lie the less time
ought to be required for supporting our
own life. Ii Is probably we'll to spend
bali hour at the table, yet there are many
well persons who have sustained life by
giving not over fifteen minutes in the
entire day to eating. j nsention this not
as commepdabie but as indicating the
scale OF humanity. Similarly in regard
TO clothing. Presume that the race In
it's highest period OF intellectual develop
ment did not give OYER five minutes in
the entire day to assuming their gar
ments; and many still think
THE SIMPLE GREcIAN KNOT
Is the most elegant manner OF dressing
the hair. i can CONCEIVE OF q society
which shall not leave out OF its life any
necessary or beautiful feature, but shall
still have every day hours OF the noblest
leisure-the leisure for ministry. And
the highest order of civilization will he
that which devotes least time 10 the per-
son and most to the race.
Whenever n woman's leisure Is so spent
that she habitually gives large parts OF IL
to her own mind or body she forgets the
business of the Christian In the world
not to be ministered unto but to min
lister. / cannot resist the conviction that
those women make the correct use OF
their leisure, who, curtailing unnecessary
and ignoble matters in their own home
as much as possible, make the nesert
p laces in human hearts to blossom by
their presence-by an attempt, in short,
to bring the over burdened world into the
delights OF leisure. Your rest is most
nobly spent IN bringing rest to your sis
ter. And 1t is "a pleasure to me to know
that so many women, not only In, but
out OF, the church, are trying 10 invite
into the pleasure of their spare after
Moons wan faces and dark spirits, bring
in hat,, int ha rfr nf
an hours release.
1t is remarka BILE that II q notable phi
lantbropist from Jesus downward ap-
pears, he finds those ready to lionize him.
But the desire Of Jesus is TO direct men d
attention to the same class OF society He
is looking toward. We have had Mrs.
Booth with US. Shall we complete our
characters by being merely spectators OF
the noble realism which she has exhibit
ed, just as our feelings are reused by the
READING OF A PATHETIC DRAMA
like King Leaar? wish to see all women
especially those naming Christ as Lord
AS nobly disposed as some are. / long
TO see a religion that will make us feel
the incongruity OF remaining away from
prayer meeting because Ii 10 stormy, and
going elsewhere in the same night because
one wants to 60. AT the same times here
are many who are willing TO give their
whole life to the summons OF the Red
Cross in Turkey. Where Is the minor
heroism that cannot bring itself TO give
one tenth OF its life &c blessing the city
OF Providence? Why Is it go dilncult 10
obtain helpers in any canvas OF love and
message OF peace even in the better resi-
dence districts OF this city? Why Is the
human heart 80 blind that because IL Is
not called to stand Loyalty beneath the
cross of Jesus IL Will not see the nearer
demands upon its surplus energy and
ll~ ,.,1Nr t..s
angels 10 be entertained unawares?
We find leisure for that We love most
When man comes 10 me with some pro-
posal that does not appeal TO me i say II
have no time for Ii, - and speak truly.
Every true man or woman knows OF
deeds OF mercy that may absorb ono's liie-
utterly. So true is this that nobody en-
gagged to any extent in benefcence can
give one-tenth the time TO blessed SER
vices that one plainly sees need attention.
could tell you OF missions, of chari-
table homes, of lonely and desolste and
hungry souls In this parish and city, of
TEN THOUSAND CRYING NEEDS
from one side of our country to the other
nay, extending into other lands that
might easily consume all the waking
hours of tweDty-fold my weak power.
And IL is because the world wants to he
blessed, IL is because the rewards OF love
in me at the spectacle of Christian men
and women who need to be urged and
pointed ana beckoned into Christly use
Of their days.
The Christ is being crucified every day.
There is wrong and scathe in every street
and among our own relatives and friends.
There IL indifference and even contempt
in a world into which the Lords glory
has not yet been welcomed. When / see
q woman, beautiful, educated, we'll gown
ed, well-to-do and having little important
work to do, yet blandly conducting her,
self as If the world had no woe or need,
pity her sluggish, dodging soul from
the bottom OF my heart. Oh woman,
the worship of God consists in making
His world place into which His Christ
shall come again. 1t consists in a new
ordering of society,a revival of the first
century spirit, pruning away of elabo-
rate living in our homes, that, escaping
the animal, we may have hours for the
contemplation of the great hearts, and
for the evolution of redeemed society
into which the glory of God shall enter
as an afternoon topic ana the biography
of the son OF Goo as an evening study,
when the places Of trouble shall be bet
ter known 10 our willing feet than the
present Maccas OF our selfish sense; when
we shall delight in sitting at Jesus feet,
ana doing all our
RESTING WITH THANKSGIVING
and all our working with praise; when
we shall not see our homes, our society,
our private matters SO large, as TO obscure
Him who tolls up new Calvary over; when
we shall keep within the circle OF His
suffering, and early watcn the glory of
His awakening and GO say TO His disci-
Piles. "ie is risen from the deao"; when
We shall leave our fishing, our report, onr
receipt of custom, our fiocks and go even
unto Bethlehem; when we shall forget,
under tn, ascending Lord, the meat and
drink, the waking and sleeping, the buy
ing and selling and 60 into all the worlu
having leisure; always for this-to give TO
live, TO proclaim the gospel TO every crea-
ture; when as the word OF the Lord comes
summoning You TO devote the choicest
hours and dearest passions of your life to
Him, you shall say, believing, "Be it un-
10 me according 10 Thy word, and all
of An i'm,