Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-04-10
SHE WAS JUST A GIRL
ny JOE L. POPE.

had passed through the Amarillo schools had qualified herself
as an Office assistant She had become proficient and earned
good salary She seeumbed 10 the frivolous life about her She
moved with the gay with the unconccrnd She awokc when the
tragic aspect vi her condition forced itself upon her She sy
gcd against losing game and finally admitted first TO herself
and then TO the world through her retirement that she had lost
In her overwhelming after the bacess the path
stretching IN front OF her. that mpnctrale and endless
gave way for ray light She turned TO the Salvation ARMY
for help With tenderness unsurpassed by a loving mother
Captain Louise lobrook took the poor broken fra thing 10 her
heart Words of cheer and comfort poured her sckn-
ed soul Like great liquid ranrops the parched grass these
sweet cyying ucranccs fell her torn aud bleeding heart
They balm OF hope they wholesome and fragrant of
promise They opened wide the door Of another chance With
gadnc with the aacriy. with the eagerness with which
drowning grabs straw this fair misguided girl seized
her opportunity She cmped her life OF its bitterness she threw
back the shutters Of her darkcncd soul and the sunlight OF Gods
eternal love flowed in, bringing peace rest Joy.
Her lie transformed she sheltered beneath the hand
Of Captain louise the gracious lady of reoraon' The fact
that the fruits OF her sin be manifested to the outer
world that world OF which she in reality longer part
robbed her OF gancss She accepted bitter cup OF her
angresson with rudc and forbearancc She went down
the valley shadows Of death She heard feeble wall OF
her flesh She realized the call motherhood throughout
the ages Her soul washed clean She was sanctiied to
lie OF service for others
With heart and hands attuncd the noble impulses OF re-
deening being angel OF mercy could have been gentle
more feeling csoucciu than this formerly shattered hui
wreck Having been removed before her supreme test came
famous Pcsng drive with its gs;cing whiteness cmba,c
Of purity hay and blessing By Captain Louise this girl became
verabc bcncico Soon after her cunvalesccce there
bought the Home dead than alive Mexican in
FAINT Skiu ply and trained nurses following examna
ton OF the tiny mite OF humanity rendered dead than alive
through exposure and maeatment shook their heads and UNI
esltngy said there mo hope" But the redeemed one
the ewhe hopeless would have She put beneath
the ra little body Of the foreign babe her tender yet
ternrcd hands while her heart went in loving TO Him
diyau in of
Al through the long and trying night she s;cadast She
would not lessen her grasp upon the promises Of the Universal
Father hear those who call upon Him. and while with nube
denes her hands performed the tasks her willing feet
the crrands OF the sick ward her soul petition insisted on
iimen, OF her prayer for the restoration Of suffering
little With the first rosey blush OF morning the bcauti
mi landscape the to her prayer The
broken the dreamy luminous slowly opened dnpled
miniature. oveucd hands ousretchcd and despite the
fact that patient and understood the native tongue OF
each other the voice OF love whispered mutual melody OF re-
ocing tina; neither of them through Time and Eternity will
misunderstood!
So there in sunkssed Fl Paso there where two re-
publcs and in blend there where God smiles
upon bses the broken directs the dropping spirit
eyes look upward there where the atmosphere OF His spirit
pevadcs the Salvation Army Home this tortured human thing
has been transformed sanity being whose kindly acts OF
mercy have goried the institution OF which become an
important part
She Just girl your mine but mothers
darling fathers pride Then the Grassland stunned
by humiliation loved wondered they could afford"
shelter her and share her disgrace aud the world Nor
they TO be blamed Their other children their other relatives
their other friends all these rushing forward surgng
thrOng of for consideration protesting against the
Scarlet SIM OF sister OF cousin OF end She first
terpet know their inner thoughts. She the first with
nhapercd vision perceive clearly than her
physical eyes revealed that they suddered the prospect
Without with affection for her family and friends cling
ing her added burden OF sorrow she fled open
door-thc Salvation Army
BeaucouS day splcnors of worlds take the
place OF the hdcounes OF her night oil humiliation and sorrows
Touched and essuec;cd by the hand God her real self
being The black mantle OF shame vanished and in its stead
there appeared robe OF Respondent whitenessa robe OF
selfish service for others. through Christi