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Show EMMA ABBOTT'S WILL. Nine churches profit by her goneroj-ity goneroj-ity and thay will uot regard the money as unclean because it was earned in a successful career on the stage. Kansas City Journal. Emma Abbott's will, in directing the cremation of her body, as well as in leaving nearly $50,000 to nine different churches, is one of tho curious developments develop-ments (if not one of the "pointers" of a queer time. I lard ford Times. The dead singer vindicates, in her bequests, be-quests, the helpful and kindly life that she lived. Her earthly possessions, after suitable provisions for members of her family, are devoted to uses that harmonize perfectly with the teachings of tho Naarene. Brooklyn Citizen. It isn't often that the church is a legatee leg-atee of tho theater; but no church neeil be ashamed to accept the bounty of so honest, noble and charitable a woman as Emma Abbott. She was a credit to the profession that is too often thoughtlessly thought-lessly misrepresented. Boston Record. Emma Abbott, the opera singing who was not afraid to substitute "Nearer, My God to Theo," for the jewel song in Faust, nnd courageous enough to talk back in meeting to a minister who had unjustly assaulted stage performance, was pronounced in her religious proclivities. pro-clivities. She showed this in her will, by leaving $5000 to each of nine churches which she liked, and tho rest of her estate to various chartiablo institutions. in-stitutions. Lowell Courier. Admiration or Emma Abbott increase in-crease now that the prlovfsions of her will have beeu made known. Never was a largo fortune disposed of in a manner to accomplish more good. Vanity dieted the founding of an institution insti-tution which should bear her name, but instead, after having provided for her immediate relatives, she divided the bulk of her fortune among charitable institutions "already founded aud al-named. al-named. Kansas City Times. Will the churches accept these bequests be-quests aud continue to denounce all who utilize their dramatic talent in public as essentially bad and demoralizing demoraliz-ing in their inlluence? Or will they admit ad-mit that, while there is much evil iii the lower class of dramatic entertainments, it is possible that some who portray life and character on the stago may be pure in motive and conduct and os worthy of respect as tho best in other walks of life? Rochester Herald. |