The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-24
ESTERED MOTHER OF ASWAN
DAN or ARC MUST HAVE BEEN A
IBOTHER, MRS. BROWN THINKS.
er Chrissy Is Bound to Go Into AL the
World and Preach the Gospei-Got
as Far as Peekskill-Heathen Enough
in Avenue A, Says Mother Brown.

Christine Brown, the girl In short dresses
no started for Africa last Friday morn
~ by way OF Albany to become mis-
onary and got as far as Peekskill, spent
aturday night in st. Gabriel's Convent
Peekskll. Her brother brought her
pine last evening.
lShe was too tagged OFT to talk about
er experiences and the tears came too
asily. She lay in bed at her home. 28e
venue A, and read "Ot the Imitation OF
brist." by Thomas a Kempis, while Mrs.
town. practical, hard working woman,
Iho has been puzzel all Christnes Ire
: the little girls rapt interest In religious
latters, told Christmas story, her eyes
Instantly on the serious face bent over
Id Kempis's book.
Il never did know what to make OF
hrissy," said the Mother. "She never
las like any Of my family, all sensible
blks who went to church twice of Sun
nv. but who never let their religion get
! on them, 80 to speak. Maybe she gets
er leanings from one Of her fathers peo-
10, who was a circuit rider in the West
bout fifty years ago. He was pretty
luch of preacher, too, they say, with
most sincere belle. in hell fire and dam
btion and all those things that ministers
blight on these days. It's kind OF curious,
ut Chrissy looks like the old circuit
der, too
Mrs Brown exhibited with some pride
b ancient daguerrotype of a tall. lean,
hrk man with features hard as iron and
eep set eyes that fairly burned in the
lded, yellow picture.
THAT child" she continued, has never
,ken a bit of interest in anything but
unday schools, churches, saints, old
,shioned religious books and things that
rdinary children are glad to keep as far
way from as possible. Just take look
t Christmas library now"
She pointed to q revolving bookcase.
Fox's Book Of Martyrs" Abide in Christ"
Pilgrims Progress" Chronicles Of the
Ichonberg- Gotta Family a half dozen
Iooks Of sermons by Sturgeon. Beecher
nd other famous divines, three or four
poks Of hymns and Bible so worn and
humbed that its ancient covers were on
he point Of falling away from its tattered
raves, made up part Of Christmas library
here WAS also DisraslPs -Coningsby,'
very old edition Of Paul Clifford" COM
hete set of Addison, the poems Of Alexander
lope, Charles Reades works with 1t Is
lever Too Late to Mend in a conspicuous
hace and two histories, one OF Catholicism
nd the other Of Professionalism. There
tas also biography OF Martin Luther.
bout the only books in the lot that savored
h the ordinary little girl were Alice in
Wonderland" and Through the Looking
lass.
aYou see never objected to the child 8
lrnny tastes" said the IT other, even when
he used to run off TO go to Sunday school
then she was four years old, or used to
boil her eyes by reading church books
b lamplight until or O'Clock in the
looming. Her health has mover been good,
Et YOU SEQ we all have to work In this
kmiiy and when Christine got to be 10.
his year, thought she ought to learn
| trade of some Kind TO do her part. l
lot her placed in the Manhattan Trades
lchool to learn pasting and labelling.
lidn't want her to learn sewing. The Lord
,elp any woman that has 20 make her Nv
ng with the needle.
Before that had taught Chrissy to help
NE with my work" Mrs. Brown showed
hat work with much pride. She oolors
book illustrations for o publishing house at
|hree-quarters Of a cent page. By work
bug very hard ten hours day and coloripg
In incredible number Of illustrations she
Fan soret'res rake o. cents.
We'll, do YOU know that while she took
10 the work like a duck TO water. and showed
b lot of artistic ability, couldn't get her
to touch picture that was not about bouts, some ne
the Crucifxion, or Of martyrs fighting
beasts in a Roman arena, OF Madonna,
br ANYTHING Of that kind, why Chrissy
Eould turn out things that made the pub
Fishers open their eyes. But other pictures
/ II oh her
how to make ornamental baskets Of col
ored reeds. She used to sch them and send
her money to missionary societies for the
relief Of the heather, although the Lord
knows the child needed it badly enough
herself But he she again ssdn abe care sasn i. ae
pretty things, the ribbons and bows and
pretty clothes that girls usually are crazy
about. She thought 1t wasn't right TO- wear
ANYTHING but black and white. and the
planest things. did get her to buy q red
hat not long, ago. It was the only bit Of
child has opened books and showed me in
black and white where religious folks dead
and gone a hundred years had said that 1t
was a sin to wear anything that caught the
eye e'G s srt cE istine to the trades school,
kind Of hoping that it would take some
of the funny ideas out Of her head. But
she hated the school work and used to come
home and say she didn't want TO be any
thing but a missionary. She said she felt
Il cali to tell the heather in Africa about
the word of God The Lord knows / think
there are enough heather right here In New
York-right here on Avenue Ali anybody
wants to get busy in that line, and told
he7 so, hut she would read to me some
more out of her religious books, where some
old saint had said that it was the duty OF
man to drop his own affairs and go to save
the lost ones. Then l would quit ar guine.
] always knew il was no use with that kind
Of evidence against me. l don't believe a
mother ever lived who had such time with
her daughter.
"Sbn heard last summer about camp
meeting in the Heidelberg Mountains,
somewhere near Albany. She wanted to
go light of. | don't hold much by camp
meetings. Sometimes they are places
whTe Young folks 90 TO fiirt and carry on,
ut Chrissv read me this;
"The purpose and desire ia that every one
Who comes 10 the ca.np may have awakened
or strengthened in her life a desire to know
Jesus Christ better and so attain the greatest
rossitle happiness and usefulness in the
Y orld
so took water again. What could !
do with that kind Of argument against me:
'hrissy went to the place, the Young Wo-
ma, : Camp it was called. There she met
very nice young woman named Miss
lucy F.. Jones of 32 Elk street, Albany.
She just fell in love with Miss Jones and
told her all about her desires to be a mission
ba her