The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-14
AN OBJECT LESSON
GIRLS DESIRE FOR MANIFESTO.
TON FULFILLED.
Simple Incident Proved to Her That
Love Was Still the Ruler Of
the Universe--Her View y
Broadened.

The girl was not quite happy. She
had just been refused a favor which
she had asked of somebody who ought
to have granted 1t, and the refusal
ranked. Besides, she did not know
how that which she desired was to be
accomplished. IF love-" she thought,
lis the principle of the universe, why
Is 1t not manifested"
She made a struggle with self-pity,
encouragement, resentment and sew
eral other imps that were offering
themselves to be bowed down unto as
rulers of man and as powers able to
overthrow good, and went on her way,
according to the New York Press.
Her errand took her into far Harlem.
When it was completed she turned
homeward, when suddenly the heavens
opened and splashing, heavy down.
pour of summer rain flooded the
streets, almost without warning. The
girl had barely time to take hasty
refuge in doorway.
- 1t proved to be the entrance to a
wine shop. The. girl was a Puritan in
every fiber. Wine and sin were syn
onymous to her. OF people who pur-
veyed such iniquity she had never
known anything. They and their kind
were for the other side of the street
from her. She was vaguely alarmed
at finding herself in their vicinity. She
glanced around with misgivings. In
their open doorway she saw the pro-
prietors of the shop-a mild-faced
Harlemite and his wife, smiling kind
ly on her. Come in out of the wet"
suggested the man, with easy hospital
ity The girl accepted, and stood
with the couple, looking out of the
open door at the storm.
On the curbstone, under a tree that
stood in front of the wine shop door,
they saw tiny sparrow. Apparently
it had dropped or futtered down from
the tree and it was either injured or
too drenched or frightened to fly or to
escape from the pelting rain. In its
extremity it hoped for the open door,
reckless of the presence of human
creatures.
Take it up" said the woman
softly
The big wine seller stopped and ten
derby lifted the little, dripping creature
in his hand.
1T is not hurt" he said. "Only wet,
cold and trembling. 1t is young bird,
not quite able to take care of itself"
The woman brought a warm, soft
cloth and they wrapped birdie up.
The man put it carefully on desk and
the woman banshed the family cat.
The girl watched them care for the
bird, with many thoughts surging
through her mind. She knew that she
had seen him face to face, and she re-
membered the angels injunction to i'm.
petuous Peter, Call not thou any
thing which God has made common or
unclean."
Then the storm cleared and the girl
went on her way. The next day she
returned to the wine shop to express
her appreciation and to learn what had
become of the bird.
after 1t got dry and warm, it flew
into the window" the woman told her
land when we saw that it wished to be
out we let it CO."
Love-" said the girl to herself, "is
still the ruler of the universe and not
sparrow falleth to the ground with
out my Fathers care"
Her desire that love might be mani
tested had been answered-not to the
personal self, but to that which looks
for his infinite manifestation and sees
1t in the face of his brother man.