St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-03

n to arrange into a suit of rooms thi
y will represent an ordinary house. M
9 plan is to have it so arranged and the
t teach housekeeping and cooking to CIR
who will afterward go out to service
l The course will be six months long l
} that time l will teach plain cooking
, neatness, quickness and love of goo
, work
''Hold on, Felicial /" TIE bishop inter
, rupted. This is not an age of mira
cles 3"
"Then l will mako it one, " repliet
Felicia II know this seems like an i'm
possibility, but | want to try it, I know
a score of girls already who will tax,
the course, and if we can once establish
something like an esprit de corps among
the girls themselves l am sure it will
be of great value to them. l know al.
ready that the pure food is working a
revolution in many families. "
Felicia, if you can accomplish half
of what you propose to do. it will bless
this whole community" said Mrs.
Bruce. 81 don't see how you can do it,
but say God bless your as you try. "
$50 say we all I" cried DR.. Bruce and
the bishop, and Felicia plunged into the
working out Of her plan with the en-
thuslasm of her discipleship, which ev-
cry day grew more and more practical
and serviceable.
1t must be said here that Felicia's
plan succeeded beyond all expectations.
She developed wonderful powers of per-
suaslon and taught her girls with aston
lshing rapidity to do all sorts of house
work. In time the graduates of Felicias
cooking school came to be priced by
housekeepers all over the city. But that
is anticipating our story The history
OF the settlement has never yet been
written. When it is Felicia part will
be found of very great Importance.
The depth of winter found Chicago
presenting, as every great city of the
world presents, to the eyes of Christen-
dom that marked contrast between
riches and poverty, between culture,
refinement, luxury, ease and ignorance,
depravity, restitution and the bitter
struggle for bread 1t was a hard win
ter, but gay winter. Never had there
been such a succession Of parties, recep-
tlons balls, dinners, banquets, fetes
gayeties; never had the opera and the
theater been SO crowded with fashion
able audiences; never had there been
such a lavish display of jewels and fine
dresses and equipages, and, on the 9TH
er hand, never had the deep want and
suffering been 50 cruel, so sharp, so
murderous; never had the winds blown
50 chilling over the lake and through
the thin shells Of tenements in the
nelghDorhood OF the settlement; never
mad the pressure for food and fuel and
clothes been so urgently thrust up
against the Peep e of the city in their
most lmportunate and CHASTITY form.
Night after night the bishop and DR..
Bruce, with theirhelpers went out and
Helped to save men and women and
children from the torture of physical
orivation, Vast quantities of food and
clothing and large sums of money were
donated by the churches, the charitable
ocleties, the civic authorities and the
benevolent associations, but the personal
ouch OF the Christian disciple was very .
lard to secure for personal work.
Where was the dscipleship that was
beying the Masters command to 20 it.
elf to the suffering and give itself with {
is gift, In order to make the gift of '
alue in time to come? The bishop t
ound his heart sink within him as he
aced this fact more than any other. :
len would give money who would not
hink of giving themselves, and the r
honey they gave did not represent any :
cal sacrifice because they did not miss }
). They gave what was the easiest to 5
I've, what hurt them the least Where
Id the sacrifice come in? Was this fol !;
wing Jesus? Was this going with +
I'm all the way? He had been to many +
TENDERS OF his own wealthy and arts v
ocratlc congregation and was appalled,
} find how few men and women of that c
luxurious class in the churches would tC
sally suffer any genuine inconvenience II
II the sake of suffering humanity. l
Is charity the giving of wornout gar y,
tents? Is it ten dollar bill given to o.
aid visitor or secretary of some be- a
eVolent organization in the church? fl
nall the man never go and give his cl
Ut himself? Shall the woman never n
eny herself her reception or her party d
her musical and go and actually a
'uch the foul, sinful sore of diseased y,
lmanlty as it testers in the great me- -
opolis? Shall charity be conveniently h
ld easily done Though some organiza "
on? Is it possible to organize the af- tt
ctlons SO that love shall work dis 81
5reeable things by proxy? bi
ALI this the bishop asked as he plunged 81
'eper into the sin and sorrow of that
tier winter. He was bearing his cross W
18th JOY, but he burned and fought n
thin over the shifting of personal W
We by the many upon the hearts of the CT
W. And still, silently, powerfully, re- II
5tlessly, the Holy Spirit was moving E
rough the church upon even the arts tt
cratic wealthy, ease loving members, &C
no Stunned the terrors of the social
'oblem as they would shun a con. G.
gious disease.
Continued next week al