| Show j AS Ye Have Haye Min II I I 1 t j Ui I II I t r f I II I r I I I MRS SUSA Y GATES a domain THROUGH T bounded by b no creed CI nor con condition co 11 women member o othe oC the Womans tread tho path ot oC practical philan philanthropy with patience year oar by b year ear bringing to stricken cheer chor of heart comfort of uC body and that of trust In human sympathy and an Gods Goda love Ire Unit that under Years faro and fude but tho cry of If want sickness goes on un ona uno a o ceaseless minor chord chort below light notes of oC worldly gain and pleasure and anI with aim to tu moot mcd this cry er an army of brave bla women have vo voa assumed a umed the tho nurses cap and apron that they thoy may curry canT skill and training Into households too poor otherwise to t churn such sueh precious privileges Many lany Incidents of oC pathos and tragedy meet young women others rs In Inspiring and uplifting with their of human succor Their mothers trod tills thorny patH without training h or uniforms to or vouch ouch for them They went out from their own homo problems with only such skill us ex ox experience and sympathy could bestow bestol Now when tho young havo taken this yolie upon thorn them the Uie cry ery comes com os up for moro and still more mON ot of trained and pa patient patient tient hands to smooth the pillow of pair and minister as only those may maydo do who vho havo specialized their studies crud and made mado skilful all their ministrations In these many chapters of pres ont day unwritten u history a single In Incident Incident will show the pressing need Tho young oung sat with her ear at atthe atthe the telephone Her Hm face waa white and her hel Ups lips pallid with day daya of active work and ami watching nights She was robed for her sleep and on a 11 table near her lay her uniform and anel toilet articles in m thick thiel confusion Too worn to put thorn thom i straight sho shu was jUHt retiring when thy telephone hell bell had summoned nor hor Harriot culled u a voice which tho girl recognized at once as ILS tho olee of oC tho superintendent of the tho nurses work can you go up to cast and do somo very ely disagreeable charity work What is tho trouble After Actor a lis ils listening pause you surely wont mo to go 10 to that terrible household again Why hy the husband of that poor woman Is I a keeper of oC ono one of the tho vilest saloons he has no claim on our char charIty Ity dresses like a It Judo smokes os lino cigars parades the streets with his hla cane which I veritably believe he lie uses use occasionally on his vleo why wh on earth should ho he subject her and us liS to a II raIse falso claim 7 Because ho Is a bruto Harriet came the mild voice of the super superintendent you OU surely would not leave her alono u In her 1101 light with death to tonight tonIght night I Yell Well It IC Its only for fal one on night or 11 eyen two tw what You Yo 11 want WI lt me ti tn stay sta for a It week weel at least und and he three Oh oil oh hat do you ou think I urn am modo of I have just ju t como a IL long 1011 typhoid caso casu and have ha not been homo an hour There Thero was a silence ft at tho other end en enof of the tho phone and then I will try y everywhere to ono else my dear dem and h r may 1 not to call you ou liny t Tho girl dropped tho receiver with a It great tIelt sigh of relief Then lh n the of or habit strong upon ller she arose and airel quickly repacked her hel small grip gl lI shivering slightly with Ith tho in tho tiny sitt en sl p wrapped herself close in a huge huo shawl and with her feet fe t th 1 t to the tho small drum stove sho pat pondering Sloop was out of tho thi question for or some time at III least Opening the tiny tin stove door the tho coals smiled back ut at her as they tho tell fell noiselessly lessly apart shivering Into a It hundred points of dull light os they thoY broke from theil banked foundation Harriet dear loar hat are you sitting up for fol asked a quiet behind her Tho little girl as ita she sho ro d Another charity case for f 11 me m maybe mother but ut I dont d ni want u to go I am rr so th d ami al l I 1 Jel n more than my share of charity work fork both this car list last Tl woman 10 hop her cro h ed cd down In front tr nt of at tho dim tire fire and asked softly When Yb h l q as a Ii Relief et 30 0 cloty l ty teacher cr wo yo did all tho sick nursing therb thero was to t do ro was was rio no share for f r us It vas fils nil all allBut nut But mother thel conditions ris are ar so dif ferent now People P fire are just the th same Children die d 9 and nd women OIn 1 suffer And if youth 1 s c old ty h to go at It teachers nave to your In for fi charity h 1 i iAH AH All for r loyc loy Aye did not ft It charity charlt It w 3 love JOe in lie l at a deaths el ath door scream in III agony then thon 2 i if stretched to lo finest Onest point and I indeed to by your OU while you minister Pay Is not measured by pain Do you recall the day you graduated There was a L In III tho room as thu mother molher walled waited for memory to call callup up UI tho glowing scene tho crowded plat lorm the tho music the tho and tho thu burning words of which mado her hOl daughters cia U teem a It very poem ot or dedication The fhe gill I had Imd urn not thought about tho e days dILS for fOl fora a il long time And sho had Ill been the thu thes speaker s of or her and hut had said suld to thu Iho that she would follow further in hers and an th Saviors footsteps though they the lead through Mother she said as if IC to crowd that other othor thought out I am Si SlI anxious to earn enough to buy huy you yuu a cont this winter You havo worn this old ohl fur for 10 years car or Is IK It 20 O And nd father needs underwear and an all ovar coat It II takes so much to tn keep koep the tho boys boy und wo havo always been eln strul struggling gling poor Why h i 1 often 1 could bring you yuu a bit hll ot If the things 1 sometimes set gut to tu cut out nurs nursing lug ing It l only you OU are well dear I an am happy happ Wo Vie living II vI III the life you ou see Hut not from choice It wll tako ua us four more y irs IrH to pay off tho note on the thc house and then there uio 1110 so many things 1 want to got get for you both Who Vho is the lady lad you au are arc called to nurse asked the mother I Lad udy tho thu miserable wife ol ola of ofa a disreputable with neglected dirty children I nursed nur d her with her Ilor last ono six weeks ago for charity charlt For lovo lo corrected her mother And now sho is III sick again She Sho is 3 not refined nor oven religious donl dont belong to any uny church I guess No creeds In suffering dear for wo aro all Gods children Our Om societies havo solved the problem of relieving I the tho wants of oc tho poor p or and their treas treasuries uries ures are aro bursting with gifts But It Itis is 15 this problem of ol suffering poor that faces us now In this city It If you ou recall that burning of your parly Jarly vows to consecrate your lIfo to Gods Go s ser Bar service vice vleo you OU can no better WILY way to 10 travel tr d that long und sacrificial road rO lIl than tho ono that crosses tho chamber of oC sickness and death When Iho tho heart heartis is tender t through though loss or grateful for Co recovery then indeed may you OU plant tile the light of faith fulth and a 1111 hope in soil Not through charity but love Tho whole orld is IK starving and groan groanIng groanIng Ing under tho yoko ote of struggling pall pau pauperism and galling galUn and foolish charity Deir Daru what you must glo to God and therefore to the least of His children Is yourself not your money nor your our time nor 1101 oven elen your 01 grudging service You must give glo yourself ours ln Again till tho of oC the tho room brooded fruitfully over tho th two crouching c wo women women men There dear elar its tho telephone voice of tho superintendent Hu again over the wire Ire every evory nursa in this city eil both and Ind charity aro aN working double d time till The Jh city Is full of pain and amI disease al ease and yet yut most peo people pc 1110 i rem em to know or euro little lies at III their very vcr doors Did you say Hay you ll would 1 go Harriet rI tf 1 was sura you would not tall fail mo 1110 Good Goo girl lay go with Ith you ou And tho th coals rih il apart Ilio o here helo and there thero In hurried prep for tin th young soldier of Christ to buckle on her armor armol and faro fare forth f once moro into tho conflict conti let with death where tho thi angels of faith anti and went too |
