Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-09-03
SYNOPSIS.

SxsSSiN Norrlco WIN tne servant or!
ss r.. C s.a nssn on:
ren9s Of the task Of searching for help has
aoed ana
members Of the Marble Square church, the
course Of their domestic lives has been
Ia. T sr has just S let ana an Mr. Wssd
has advertised for another. Barbara Clark
applies for the position; Barbara Is an
hass e is saek sdhoo s:
Kind. she. with hss widowed mother. has
coa1inE she persuadss her mother to per.
init her to apply for the position Of servant
rirl which she obtains.
CHAPTER lI.-After four weeks OK
hearted and decides to give up her position
for many reasons. She notifies Mrs. Ward.
shs had s.sa and |. 'G Sssssa te s :tsy
tsfm TSs mint *
teacher. but decides to remain a. with HG The
Wards. bslieving she can be Of some good
Msr She rs has heart-to.hssrt talk with
sion that the difficult servant girl problem
is one that can be remedied, which they
R,an 70 do; Til. following Sunday she e
which she gladly does.
CHAPTER III.-The Aet Of tAs Wards in
taking their servant giA 70 church creates
6sT.: a yoqnE pres eh.l. "a, NsEssn, from rom
w. A aas III ..sSas.s 1s.rs
Mrs. Ward invites h6 . Jvaeh the follow
Ing Day. Barbara d eui}s Interested in
ston shs can ever socially s. IN . Mel 20
vane. !. wealthy member Of the the CT church Msi
ford society. and who is called scientific BE-
cause Of her liberal views toward servant
Eirls She takes quite q fancy to Barbara
ana they become very familiar.
CHAPTER Iv.-Barbara ana Mru. warn
visit Mrs.. vans 70 hold : conference to dis s.
S S%.s The h., se4Ey ; problem. The latters
ns.r..s IN H sSs nssyane tf fe.
lettering the conditions Of her class, and
IN this fact the reformers hnd their great
regularly and Is treated very politely. She
ignored by the majority Of them becauss
saa. is s :ssse f. Sc
has 's s. IN sG sss Mith
bstws.n tSe n1 pos III n'e q
tses 70 Sl.eoYT,g: he, N AZ ssod pYs.
6roaohes 10 Mr.. Vans : pan Sh'oh shs
.h SH !ap;c. v;nMrs: Clark had remarked
Inat society would not accept servant fiji
TX Sslp Il Mrs. sn 3. Rsrs b n,p sss
lattsr's friends At . social gathering At her
nome e The plan Is carried out and Bar
toe true. Mr.. Morton i there ana Is vary ~
x,na sha eSsssR to n. and after
::i. sse1l s.a Ms fWsT . atT o sa.
sson, comes hong from college and name.
ss:' e ,. SaEssrs s. Nth Ml.
drink Mr.. Ward Il, viii nes Ssisy au. .t 70
ssy s Bsr Gnas :Ss ma: s.In end
G fsI daYs st.1 r.ss ss:. home but
and ss f sa ~ S sr a:r
:nd Y, Whe had been taken 9tek and was con.
sof for 'E Ter e: v sas
ssnd di:,: Dgsins rs siokns.. and ate" aftss
les. apd !. finally forced to admit TO Ss +.
tpprnsd e 1--we rssardlsss Of the great gull ai
ways 10 shows 4 Is returned. .lthous fh1E Un.
known to her; Barbara Is greatly Interest,"
Hd IN - m Of school fer the train
ter advise. It's building in eoppectton with
ton. Barbara attends Christian Endeav-
6s3flRaRss sns distant alsfsstf!y
8,
turns and leaves the service, remsrkins to
Mr. Morton she will never attend another
while IN her present mental position.
Leave 4 e make v11 :es5r;nMs Merton fa svs9
DO rot m.. for 'e esve aaf % W. sna
Massain nx Barbara busies herself assoc
ta vaee f. hs fs sf syy snd sor: ss
plan and although mssting with ijttle On.
couragement she determines to keep on.
lowing Sunday. after the young peoples
meeting at the church. he calls on barbara
and her mother at their home on, as he
says. an important personal matter.
When Morton had gone, Barbara
slipped up to her room. Her happi-
ness was too great to be talked about.
The thought of what her lover, her
'lover," she repeated, had said about
service, about the image of herself
daily in that kitchen, made her trem-
BILE. She had tried to accust tom herself
to the thought of Christ's teaching
about service. Her study Of the diff
ferent passages in the Bible referring
to servants had given her new life on
the subject. 1t had all grown sweeter
and more noble as she went on. And,
now that her life had been caught
up into this other life, newer and
clearer revelation of labor and min
istry had come to her. Never had Bar
bara offered truer prayer of thanks
giving than the one that flowed out
Of her heart to God tonight. Never
had the depth and beauty of human
service meant SO much to her as now,
when human love, the love sanctioned
by Jesus and made holy by His bene-
diction, had begun to translate COM
mon things into divine terms.
In her Bible-reading that night she
found passage in the sixth chapter
of Second Corinthians that pleased
her very much. 1t did not belong
first of all to the service of house
servant; yet Barbara felt quite sure,
as she read, that; if Paul had been
questioned about it, he would have
said that the teaching applied just as
we'll to house-ministration as to min
istration anywhere else. This is the
passage which she read: "Giving no
occasion Of stumbling in anything,
that our ministration be not blamed;
but in everything commencing our
selves, as ministers of God, in much
patience, in Affections, in necessities,
in distresses, in strifes, in imprison-
ments, in tumults, in labors, in
watchings, in Hastings; in pureness,
in knowledge, in long-suffering, In
kindness, in the Holy Ghost, in love
unfeigned, in the word of truth, in
the power of God; by the armor of
righteousness on the right hand and
on the left by glory and dishonor. by