The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
one LittIe Mor.hiper.

One lonely little worshiper. whose
eyes were hig and gray, whose brown hair
braids and whose dress reached just TO
her shoe tops, had 10 say the amens and
make the responses FOR the great, rich
parish OF St. ChrysOstOm one morning
not very long ago, says the chicago
Chronicle.
II was shortly before go o'clock that
Dr- SnlNely's congregation came tripping
up DearDorn avenue with a lite REQ
prayer book under its arm. And the con-
gregatOn. pushing open the big swung
door. saw with some misgiving that the
dozen OF so worshipers. who usually are
present at the weekday morning service,
had not yet arrived. But she, neVerthe-
less, up-toed shyiy down the aisle and
slipped into her accustomed seat, which IS
Just to the right Of the chanceI steps, and,
having knelt TO say the silent prayer for
forgiveness and grace, she waited. Ten
minutes passed and fifteen minutes and
twenty minutes, but still nobody came TO
morning prayer. But II never occurred
10 her II the rest Of the world saw ht
not TO worship she, too, might be justified
In emitting the duty. So she looked stead
lastly up at the great stained windows
where the sun streamed through in "a
diant patches OF purple and gold.
Just as she was beginning TO think she
must nave made mistake about the
hour for service, DR.. Snively looked in
from the Vestry. When he spied the con-
gregauon he smiled very tenderly and
came down to the pew where his faith
ful parishoner sat. And she looked up
go away, Edith, for we will have service
in a few minutes" Then he went back 10
the Vestry, aud soon reappeared clad in
MS YeStments. He knelt at the altar an
instant in prayer. and then rising. and
turning toward the congregation. which
also had risen, he spoke that solemn ex-
ordlum Of morning service, which begins:
The Lord is in His holy temple; let all
the earth keep silence before Him"
Ihen, as the ritual says ii shall be-
the minister shall kneel and say the
Lords prayer, the people still kneeling
and repeating it with him." After that
Dr. Snively said: 20 Lord, open Thou our
lips, and the very small person in very
scared voice said: And our mouth shall
show forth thy praise"
Then they said the anthem and the
psalms appointed for the day, and of the
psalms it happened that one was petition
IN which David invoked the direst penal
ties on his enemies, and the words of it
sounded very strange as the child uttered
them, skipping the hard, long ones and
rible maledictions.
The glorias, the TIE Deum, the lessons
OF the day, the creed and all the other
offices of the service followed, not a thing
being skipped or sighted by the priest
or the little girl who were worShipping all
alone in the beauty of holiness. And when
il came to the beautiful prayer of St
ChrYsostom the minister repeated with
peculiar solemnity that part of the pc
tition which says: And Thou who dost
cree together in Thy name Thou wilt
grant our requests, fulfll now, o Lord,
the desires and petitions of Thy servants
as may be most expedient for them"
Then he blessed the kneeling child very
gently and the congregation, departing at
peace with all the world. was soon on it's
way to Lincoln Park, where the skating
was said to be very good.