The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-15
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I'VE have not time to show in detail
how this fact gives the ministry new
opportunities. The illustrations of it
are all about US in the new and prac-
teal share the church is taking in hu
man life. But the word ministry is a
very large word. 1t refers not only to
the man who works in a pulpit, but to
any life that is spent in service. And
L have been thinking of a practical op-
portunity that waits for some college
young woman who has imagination and
intelligence and love enough in her ma
ture to realize and grasp it.
Here is this servant girl problem.
Who has ever made any real serious
attempt to solve it? If I were a young
woman with a college education, young,
that is to say, not over twenty-one or
two, blessed with perfect health, posi-
bly, with some money at my disposal to
use in doing what would be necessary
to carry out my plans, I would choose
for my life work something like this.
Il would go out to service in some
city or town. I would do the kitchen
work in some family, do its housekeep-
ing, its cooking, it's dishwashing. its
hard, necessary drudgery, and do it
with all my ability to the glory of God.
I would learn from actual experience
the actual work that a servant in a
family must do. And become familiar
with the whole question so far as the
present relations that exist between the
servant and the mistress of the house
are concerned. Gradually / would try
in similar service and bring about a
simple organization of a practical kind
between the Christian girls and the
Christian women who need their serv-
ices And in time l believe a move
ment could be begun in this way that
would destroy the unjust, unchristian
social stigma that prevents hundreds of
young women working in a family in
stead of in a store.
There is a wonderful field of useful
ness and power open to the man or wo
man who chooses music for his life
work. Last winter a company of men
and women numbering some of the best
players and singers in this city went
over into Tennesseetown and gave
concert at a nominal price. Some of
the people in Tennesseetown still speak
of that concert as an event in their
lives. And yet it was SO easy for the
musicians to do. Why should the best
things in life be generally so far away
from the people that need them most?
1.-The Lord Jesus Christ had some
very poor material as a teacher. A
stupid, unresDOnsive, narrow minded,
selfish lot of men for the most part
We're the apostles when they started in
that School Of the Kingdom, with no
apparatus. no books even, no wealth
or culture, but they turned the world
upside down after they had come out
of that school and most of them died
for the love of the truth they had been
taught in it. That was because the
teacher was one who saw in the work
of teaching more than the books could
give more than technical skill could
impart, more than knowledge Of facts
could inspire. The teacher who sees
today his opportunities can make the
history of the United States.
IF you choose the authors life it will
not be because of the money you can
make out of it. There are hardly a
hundred men in the whole world who
can make much money by writing books
or magazine articles. Authorship as
profession is an exceedingly precarious
and uncertain means of making a phys
ical living. The number of people who
are writing something is simply enorTn-
Gus. The quantity of material accept
ed and stored away in the papers and
ma gaines is almost incredible.
"A curious illustration of that fact came
into my personal experience a few weeks
ago. In 1891 l wrote an article for New
York paper. 1t was accepted, and, as the
rule with that paper was not to pay until
the article was printed, I waited patiently,
although gradually as the years went by
I forgot what the article about. A
few weeks ago 1 received that article back