Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-09

to, sing LIE a soft, fearful way, L was
a wandering sheep
''Then, while the singing was going
| on, one row Of women stood up and
walked slowly past the casket, and as
| they went by each one placed flower
t of some kind on it. Then they sat down,
and another row filed past, leaving
their flowers All the time the singing
continued softly, like rain on a tent
cover when the wind is gentle. It was
one Of the simplest aud at the same
time one of the most impressive sights
I ever witnessed. The sides of the tent
were up, and hundreds Of people who
could not get in stood outside, all as
still as death, with wonderful sadness
and solemnity for such rough looking
people. There must have been hun
dred of these women, and I was told
many Of them had been converted at
the meetings just recently. cannot de-
scribe the effect of that singing Not
man sang a note, all women's voices,
and SO soft and yet SO distinct that the
effect was startling.
''The service closed with another solo
by Miss Winslow, who sang There
were ninety and nine,' and then the
evangelist asked them all to bow their
heads while he prayed. I was obliged,
in order to catch my train, to leave
during the prayer, and the last view I
caught of the scene as the train went
by the shops was a sight of the great
crowd pouring out of the tent and
forming in open ranks while the coffin
was borne out by six of the women. It
is a long time since have seen such a
picture in this unpoetica1 republic. .
If Loreen's funeral impressed pass
ing stranger like this, it is not difficult
to imagine the profound feelings Of
those who had been so intimately con-
nected with her life and death. Moth
ing had ever entered the Rectangle that
had moved it so deeply as Loreen' s body
in that coffin, and the Holy Spirit
seemed to bless with special power the
use of this senseless clay, for that night
at the meeting he swept more than a
score of lost souls, mostly women, into
the fold of the Good Shepherd.
It should be said here that Henry
Maxwell's statement concerning the
opening Of the saloon from whose win
dow Loreen had been killed proved
closed Monday and Tuesday while the
authorities arrested the proprietor,
charged with the murder, but nothing
could be proved against any one, and
before Saturday Of that week the saloon
was running as regularly as ever. No
one on the earth was ever punished by
earthly courts for the murder OF Loreen.
No one in all Raymond, including
the Rectangle, felt Loreen's death more
keenly than Virginia. 1t came like a
distinct personal loss to her. That short
week while Loreen had been in her
home had opened Virginia. s heart to
new life. She was talking it over with
Rachel the day after the funeral. They
were sitting in the hall Of the Page
mansion.
81 am going to do something with
my money to help these women to a
better life. - Virginia looked over to the
end of the hall where the day before
Loreen' body had lain. 81 have decid-
ed on a good plan, as it seems to me. T
have talked it over with Rollin. He
win devote large part of his money to
the same plan.
GLOW much money have you, Vir-
ginia, to give in this way?'' ASKED
Rachel Once she would mover have
asked such a personal question. Now it
seemed as natural to talk frankly about
money as about anything else that be
longed to God.
81 have available for use at least
$3.50, 900. Rollin has as much more. It
is one of his bitter regrets now that his
extravaganza habits of life before his
conversion practically threw away half
that father left him We are both eager
to make all the reparation in our pow
Or. What would Jesus do with this
money! We want to answer that ques-
tion honestly and wisely. The money |
shall put into The News is, [ am con-
fdent, in line with Jesus probable &C
ton. 1t is as necessary that we have a
daily Christian paper in Raymond,
now that we have the saloon
influence to meet, as it is to have a
church or college. So am satisfied
that the $500, GOO that Mr. Norman
will know how to use so well will be a
powerful factor in Raymond to do as
Jesus would do.
"About my other plan. Rachel, I
want you to work with me. ROllin and
L are gong TO Duy up q large part Oh
the property in the Rectangle. The field
where the tent now is has been in liti-
cation for years. We mean to secure
the entire tract as soon as the courts
have settled the title For some time I
have been making SPECIAL study Of the
various forms of college settlements and
resident methods of Christian work and
institutional church work in the heart
of great city slums I do not know that
I have yet been able to tell just what