The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22

father, grew into an educated refined
woman. with mission-that OF helping
her fellow men and women-before her.
Amanda Smith is her name. and she is
now in Seattle. working 10 make her
fellow creatures better and happier and
preaching the doctrines OF the meek and
lowly NaZarene.
Sister" Smith, she is lovingly
known by her fellow Methodists and by
the great majority of church workers.
is now the guest of Rev III. ID. Brown.
at his residence on Battery street. near
the corner of Third avenue north. She ar
rived in Seattle last night on his invita-
zion TO participate in a protracted te-
vivu meeting. and Is 10 be heard for the
first time in Seattle Sunday morning.
Mrs Smith has had a most interesting
career She has Travelled extensively
abroad. For eight years she iabored to
improve the people Of her race in the re-
public Of Liberia. She has visited Eng
land several times and has worked In the
cause of mankind in India Egypt and
other foreign countries. OF all these mat
ters. Mrs. Smith speaks with reserve and
motesty. however. In America she is best
known as one OF the most powerful evan
gelical workers of her day. In the thirty
years fhat she has spent I'm her work
she has visited every state I'm the coun-
try and has been heard at countless re-
vival and camp meetings throughout the
/ Union.
As was travelling west from Denver"
she said last night "a number of people
on the train inquired Of me my destina-
ton. I told them that coming TO
Portland and then 10 Seattle. Al the
mention Of Seattle the Inquiry came
quickly. Why. are YOU going TO The klon-
diksg'
You see. II was the association Of
ideas I, made II plain 70 me that Seat
tie Is the beginning Of that long and
hard Journey which so II any people have
determined - take this year.
when came to cross the Cascades
/ was amazed 10 find thn; on leaving
land where the grass and vegetation WAS
sere and brown and the earth covered
with a white blanket Of SNOW. | had ca
tered country OF perpetual summer
Such warm rains and such lovely green
lawns. such as We see in the East In
May and june How delightful Il must
be- 10 live In this favored region.
DO I think ths world Is any better
today than II Ha~ a quarter 81 century
ago. Well its All IA the way YOU look
al &. think that people in considering
that question should take account ~ all
the conditions and circumstances IL Won
look HrNsstfA Fphs YOU may ~ aae
conclusion that The devil has gor the whole
business and thar ~lckssanssz and gufpl-
egv rule the world. Hut u you look A
little deeper vou Nj, soon know that tire
Lord - living and that We has His peo-
pie syervw here There never WAS a tine
when - nsucn effort was hefag put far.h
all over The world by good Christian peo-
I pie tsvervv sero the woFk - the chure,,
i being pressed forward - say fhe
good f.era Is everywhere and blessed :
His name
"As I Was coming through Colorado
hooked With wonder ard ave az the great
pi3es and mountains of rock ard store
turned up ~ the Creator on every hand
{ Their We're towers and terraces II rock
castles and great valleys between. Then
realized What work Il was FOR the man
who built The railroad 20 lav out a pagh
hv which all those. natural obstacles could
- overcome I began 10 wonder az ths.
Cod-power that had hser made manifest
through the hrain and Ingenuity Of tn.
cfssl engineers We passed by deep rar-
yons AMI around winding CLUTCHES ara
back again on the high ground way abovs
where we had been bat short time 10
fore. And 70 think that We could b.
taken safely snd peacefully shrnnxs,
all those wonders of nature by the xk,ri
ana power Of the engineers brain thar