Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-16

gest Chautauquas in the country.
said to her one day: We'll, Mrs L., the
Lords going to do great things through
you"
oh" she said, Pm not going to do
personal work.
| why not?" L said.
She said: You know we Congrega-
tionalists don't believe in that"
l said: THE Lord does"
| Well" she said, that's for the Meth
odists and the Salvation Army"
1 said: SHOW me where God AL
mighty lets you Congregationalists all
sit around like knot on log and ex-
Epect somebody else to do your work"
WELL she said, II have never done
it," .-. 80
said: well, that may be true. Then
you've never done Gods work until you
do it,"
Shed been in the Congregationalist
church for twenty-seven years; she'd
walked in and repeated the Lords pray
! err; she'd sing Jesus. Lover of My
Soul" and it was a lie. Jesus was no
lover of her soul-he was a formal ac-
Quaintance she bowed to when she went
into her pew. That's all.
Thy kingdom come no, she didn't
want Gods kingdom to come for she
WASN'T lifting her little finger to bring
it. She didn't want 1t. No, sir
| finally kept nagging at her till she
promised me she'd go out and speak to
people about Christ, and / watched her
as preached and / could see her turn
pale and then red and then shed gasp
and fan herself. She was thinking
about the promise shed made. knew
it was going to be hard and saw her
get up when l asked, go out and
| speak to your friends and neighbors
l..
and speak to a fellow that sat on the
end of the seat and he shook his head
and 1t scared her. She walked back
and sat down. She thought she was
going to die of palpitation of the heart
and pretty soon she got up the courage
| to try again-she was game, bless her
heart. She went back and put her hand
on his arm and spoke to him, and he
recognized her. He felt honored to
think that a rich, brilliant society won-
an would take an interest in his soul,
a kind of roughneck L saw him reach
UP and wipe his eyes with his sleeve
! Che didn't have any handkerchief) and
] wipe his nose with his hand. That was
I the best he had He commenced to cry
and he followed her down the aisle
That was the first soul she had ever
won for Jesus Christine first one.
On the way home we saw a man lean
ing up against lamp post, IOCklnS
back and forth. This woman was a
cousin of Marshall Field in Chicago,
she had carte blanche whenever she
went 10 the store. She dressed fine
in silks and diamonds-and we saw
this fellow leaning under the LAMP post
She said. There's fellow drunk" She
took a look at him and said, That's
the husband of the woman that's done
my washing for eight years"
toll ra6 20 y i'm
about Christi"
Never did"
well, here's good chance
ION the street?".
Sure"
She said, He's come to my home
every Monday morning with a little
wagon and took away my soiled linen
and brought ii back on Friday, and I've
1 paid him and he's taken the money and
drank it up
He had staggered up to her door for
eight years. She had had her name on
the Congregational church records all
this time and had never said q word to
this man.
Lets talk to him"
She put one arm on his shoulder and
told him who she was and he burst
into tears, and she got down on her
knees with her silk skirts, and prayed
Christ 1 have been back to that town
within the last year. He owns his own
home, paid thirty-five hundred dollars
for it; he's got it paid for; he told me
he had sixteen hundred dollars in the
l bank. She won him to Jesus. Oh, I've
seen her gather up her skirts, step
over the back Of seats like that to get
in the middle to talk to somebody about
Jesus Christ.
y,nf Iav1or
ago. She spent her winters out in Cali
fornia, in Pasadena. 1 was out there
and the phone rang-I was at Los An
geles, at the Hotel Alexander was
over at the Alexander hotel when the
phone rang and she said, I'm going to
send the car over for you to come over
to lunch in Pasadena"
So we went over and when we got
through she said, 1--WE invited some
friends to come into the parlor and
want you to talk to them about Jesus.
1 stepped in, and / did, and there sat
the governors from three states; there
sat four members of the supreme court
of the states back in the east; there sat
college presidents and professors; there
sat brilliant men and wonderland
wealthy-she used her influence and got
them into the parlor and asked me to
talk religion of Jesus Christ to them.
Somebody said to her, Won't you
come and join our bridge party?"
She said. NO, I'm too aristocratic to
| play cards"
She was one Of Gods aristocrats.
Lincoln said, Stay with any man as
long as he is right; part company with
him when he is wrong"
| Therefore, you speak the right word
and you do the right deed at the right
time and you'll make it easier for the
| one next to you In this little world in
which we live And when you and I,
you in your small corner and in mine.
are on the watch to do this, this worii
will be better that we lived in 1t and
made our corner so full that II spilled
over-to the rest of them.