The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-13
BORN TO SERDE
BY CHARLES NJ SHELDON
Auths, Of 1N STEPS, QUESTION CLASS"
EDWARD BLAKE"
BY CHARLES M. SHELDON,
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business sense inherited from her IA
Their.
"of course" replied Mrs. Ward, al
most sharply.
about my staying in the house"
began Barbara. ~ would much prefer
to go home at night, to be with my
mother"
81 don't think that can be managed"
Mrs. Ward spoke with some irritation.
81 shall need you in the evening very
often"
eve can arrange that after come"
Barbara spoke gently again. THAT Ia,
IL / am to come"
"Yes-yes"-Mrs. Ward looked at
Barbara very sharply-"yes, you can
come on trial; am glad to get any
one"
Barbara colored again, and the 9TH
er woman saw II.
| "Of course, did not meant mean
am just about discouraged over my
house keeping, and l am nearly down
sick over it,"
81 am very sorry" replied Barbara,
gravely. Mrs. Ward looked at her
doubtfully. 1t was one woman's sym
patty for another spoken in four short
words, but the older woman had had
her faith in servants SO rudely broken
so many times that she could not At
once accept the sympathy as real. She
kept coldly silent as Barbara rose.
"Shall l come in the morning?" she
asked.
yes, say nine o'clock"
81 will bring Prof. Whites letters
| then"
Mamma" cried Carl, at that mo-
ment appearing at the head of the
stairs, Lewis wants to know if that
hired girl is going to-"
There was a mufiled cry from the
bedroom upstairs as Carl suddenly dis
appeared, dragged back into the room
by the older brother. Barbara smiled
and said Good night" and went out,
saying to herself as she went down the
| steps: after all, the dragon was not
SO bad a l feared. / feel rather sorry
for the dragon keeper. Mrs. Ward her
self" on whose character and prob
able behavior, together with that of
her family, Barbara gravely dwelt as
she walked home.
She grew quite animated as she told
her mother the story of her adventures
so far. The matter of staying with
her mother evenings was "A subject of
earnest discussion. Both agreed that
il must be managed il possible. Bar
bara went over the interview and gave
her mother the best possible picture
| of Mrs. Ward.
81 am sure we shall get on very we'll,
She is a tired-out woman, irritable be-
/ cause of her nerves. But am sure she
! is a good woman when she is WE'LL
| Barbara concluded, innocently. "Ihe
children will bother me, ! have no
doubt. But l know | can get on. l
/ face, but not bad at all. Oh. the dragon
| is not what he's painted, mother"
"Not yet" said Mrs. Clark, in
prophecy.
NO, not yet" answered Barbara,
! cheerfully. She felt almost light
hearted To think she had position,
even if it was only that Of a servant.
! 1 ct SUt Hdu ntTStll Sdlu many llutS
| during her college course in the study
of social economies that service was a
noble thing. And, as she went up to
her room that night after a long and
| tender conference with her mother, in
which the two had grown nearer to-
gether than ever before, she seemed
to call to mind the many passages of
| the New Testament which speak of
Sosus not only as household servant
but even as "bond servant" And it
! came to her with heaven-born courage
that if the Son of God became "full
| grown" through His sufferings en-.
dured in ministering to others, why
might it not be the way in which she
and all other of Gods children should
develop their real lives and grow into
power as kings and queens in the King
| dom? 1t is doubtful If ever before
that evening Barbara had caught a
real glimpse of the meaning of serv-
| ice. She did catch something of it
now. She opened her New Testament,
! and 1t was not by chance that she
turned to the passage in Luke, twenty
second chapter:
And there arose also a contention
among them which of them is account
ed to be the greatest. And He said
unto them, The kings of the Gentiles
have lordship over them; and they that
have authority over them are called
benefactors. But We shall not be so;
but he that is greater among you, let
| him become as the younger, and he
that Is chief as he that doth serve. For
which is greater, he that stitch at
meat or he that serveth? Is not he
that stitch at meat? But am in the
midst of you as he that serveth. But
| We are they which have continued with
me in my temptations. And | appoint
! unto you kingdom even my Father
appointed unto me, that We may eat
and drink at my table in my kingdom"
(Luke 22:24-29.)
Then she kneeled and prayed:
Dear Lord, make me fit to serve,
use me to the glory of Thy kingdom in
the new life before me. Make me
worthy to be a servant, to be like nv