Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-07
"Are you preaching at lne7' asked
Mrs. Winslow slowly. Rachel under

care you preaching at met" asked
Mrs. Winslow slowly. Rachel under
stood her mother words.
mo; I am preaching at myself, /" she
replied gently. She paused u moment
as if she thought her mother would say
something more and then went ont Of
the room When she reached her own
room. she felt that, SO far as her moth
.er was concerned. she could expect no
sympathy or even fair understanding
from her.
She kneeled down 1t is safe to say
that within the two weeks since Henry
Maxwelis church had faced that shah
by figure with the faded hat more mem
beers of his parish had been driven to
their knees in prayer than during all
the previous term of his pastorate.
When she rose. her beautiful face
was wet with tears. She sat thought
fully q little while and then wrote "a
note to Virginia Page. She sent it to
her by a messenger and then went down
stairs again and told her mother that
size and Virginia were. going down to
the Rectangle that evening to sec Mr.
and Mrs Gray. the evangelists
Virginia S uncle, DR.. West viii go
with us if she goes, have asked her to
call him up by telephone and go with
us, The doctor is a friend of the Grays
and attended some of the meetings last
winter.
Mrs Winslow did not say anything.
Her manner showed her complete dis
approval of Rachel's course. and Rachel
felt her unspoken bitterness.
About Z o clock the doctor and Vir-
ginia appeared and together the three
started for the scene of the White Cross
meetings.
The Rectangle was the most notori-
GUS district in all Raymond. 1t was in
the territory close by the great railroad
shops and the packing houses The Stun
ans tenement district of Raymond con-
gested its most wretched elements about
the Rectangle. This was barren field
used in the summer by circus COM
panies and wandering showmen. It
was shut in by rows of saloons, gam
bling hells and cheap. dirty boarding
3
and lodging houses.
The First church of Raymond had
never touched the hectangle problem.
II was TOO DIRTY, TOO coarse 100 slnfui,
too awful, for close contact Let us be
honest There had been an attempt to
cleanse this sore spot by. sending down
an occasional committee of singers, of
Sunday school teachers or gospel Wis
i,ots from :, various cr''rches. put me
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