The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-04-09
THURSDAY, APRIL 9TH 1914
A Real Human-Event Story


mea ming associated with these tw'
words, and what a power for goot
when brought into use. It takes ava!
. that desire to end it all and implants
hope in the breast; it takes the faller
woman or the degenerate man from
1.-THE cess pool of crime and places
him or her feet on the bedrock OF
purity; a touch of it enkindles in the
breast the fire of manhood and wom-
anhood; it sets to tune the song birds
of life; it dispels darkest clouds and
reveals the silvery strand under
meath; in short it bids the spark of
manhood or womanhood to kindle
anew and light the pathway of life.
This train of thought brings us to our
story, a real human-event story, hap
pening within our own county the past
year
Twenty years ago beautiful young
lady, the daughter of we'll known
| Methodist minister, graduated from
college, soon afterwards she was mar
ried. All went we'll until about ten
years ago, when the husband became
a dope fend and failed to provide for
his family as he should. Things went
from bad to worse, the husband and
father degenerate, the wife an enc
my to womanhood, the children, street
gamins. In the meantime they NOV
ed to High Point, but the reputation
of the woman caused her and her off
spring to be asked to "move on" They
located in a nearby town a year ago.
A few weeks ago a drunken brawl in
which three High Point boys were the
participants, caused notice to be again
taken of this woman. The officers
found her and the three children in
destitute circumstances, barely
enough clothing to protect their bodies
from the cold, only bread to eat, on
fire nothing to suggest the name of
home, a picture of despair and degre-
dalton so sad that cold type fails to
chronicle. The boy II years of age
and two girls, aged 10 and 5 respec-
lively, housed together, all refinement
gone and witnesses to a life Of infan,y.
The woman was taken to the police
station and here's where the reforma-
ton began, here's where sympathy
and love played it's drama in life. A
sweet, christian lady heard of it all.
She got busy. Her religion was. gen
uine, she was not afraid to soil her
hands. The woman was sent to a
house of correction instead Of to the
workhouse, the boy was taken in
charge and pointed in the right direc-
ton, the girls taken into this ladv's
home, clothed, fed and looked after TN
til they can be properly placed, end
will no doubt make useful citizens
and some day me thinks >there will be
great reunion. The mother will
again come into her own and the chill
dren will look with honor upon her in
stead of reproach. And it all came
about through love, sympathy, crown
ed by christianity, the key that opens
the palace of real happiness to all.
This brings to mind that:
No one never knows what a little
act of kindness will amount to.
The highest may have to come down
sometimes, so it don't pay to sheer at
or treat with contempt some of Gods
less fortunates.
Many wealthy man refuses to de-
vote one cent to cases of poverty and
distress, yet some day (who knows)
his loved ones may need the aims he
new refuses to extend to others.
No man liveth to himself,
No man dieth to himself.