Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-07

turned around. I know my story is
true!
We'll / know, but you know what
the federal authorities might do"
Yes, but they do not say that they
can see anything wrong. 1t has al
ways been said that if the press could
get my name on a headline they could
Isen thousands of dollars worth OF
lpapers more than they could other
wise.
someone said they saw you in such
and such a place"
Yes, one day | believe l was re-
ported in at least a dozen places at
the same time. Everybody knows that
lSister Mcpherson and that means
pretty well the country round O say
this very humbly, but / do not think
| any woman, a chautauqua speaker an
actress or any other public person,
4 has ever spoken to the millions OF
people that / have) = anyone who
! knows me at all knows it would be
utterly impossible for me to disguise
myself / have spoken in buildings
seating IA, 16 and 20 thousand people.
In Balboa park I have spoken again
ana again to 10000 people 1t is i'm,
possible for me even to go in to lpur-
lchase a glass of orange juice but
lsomeone comes up and says:
/ "Oh, hello, sister. What are you
1doing? Buying some orange juice?
Are you warm today?"
| One day 1 was rather tired. Hav-
ling been working incessantly and not
having had a very good appetite or
tany time to eat, l slipped into a little
/ restaurant, thinking 1 would have a
little piece of steak. I had ordered
la nice juicy one and had a baked
potato with butter on it and a little
red pepper on otp, thinking I would
at least enjoy meal 1 had my hat
pulled down over my face and hoped
Il would not be recognized and dis
turbed.
why it is Sister McPherosn!' a
voice exclaimed.
oh! Discovered!
"I have been looking for you. /
want you to pray for my uncle. He
has cancer"
Always Discovered
Couldn't you wait until later,
| Gear?" 1 asked
"Oh, no. I won't bother you. You
go ahead and eat while / talk. Re-
ally, you know he is in terrible
condition. The cancer is on his neck
and it is all raw. 1t looks like-why,
it looks as raw as that beef steak"
/ Oh! 1 guessed 1 did not want any
dinner after all.
One day my mother and I were or
our way to Ventura to attend to our
branch work there. We stopped to
get some gas at little station, and
| the car was no more than at stand
still when a voice said:
| "Why, it is Sister Mcpherson! God
i bless you!"
1t would be impossible for me to go
| anywhere and people not know me,
either by my face or my voice. | re-
member over at the Rose Bowl lady
friend had insisted / and my mother
| should come and see the graduating
exercises, which were very beautiful.
when mother and I had slipped in
without being recognized. We were
dressed in street clothes and went in
without being noticed. I mention our
gratefulness at not being recognized,
for it is real relief to go places
, sometimes without being singled out
and remarked upon; but just to slip
in and sit down like other folks. We
sat through the exercises, and then L
! leaned over and whispered:
Mother, I think we better be go
ing"
Others had been talking all around
us; but quick as flash several voices
said:
There is Sister Mcpherson"
They had heard my voice over radio
and they knew it instantly.
How foolish it would be to think
Sister Mcpherson wou10 leave her
beautiful temple, leave her school, the
administration building, the plans for
the new Bible hotel, her beautiful
mother who is the finest little lady
on earth, and her own two beautiful
children.
(Come here, Roberta and Rolf, and
stand beside me).
Presents Children
| Here is my little girl who was
born in China when was missions
| ary there, born a month after her
father, my dear husband, Robert Sem
| pie, went home to glory. She was
lleft in my care. Robert looks down
upon her and holds me responsible, l
think. How could I leave her-a little
girl with bonny curls and brown eyes
and the beautiful little soul that
Roberta has? Then here is my little
boy who is SO tall; ne is almost a
man now. He, too, was left in my
care, for me to be bot-l father and
mother. How absurd thing it is to
| saw wou1d leave themi
! When I want a rest I know you will
give it to me. don't need to run off
and spend the rest Of my life lodging
to try to keep from being recognized
fWell, Sister, you may have been
sick
If I had been 1 would have asked
you to pray for me.
maybe it was amnesia."
Well, 1 don't think there is any