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JANUARY, 1909.
and our lives with faith in men and women; let us remember that
there is much of good in the worst of them, if we will only look for. it
and encourage it with courtesy and kindness and charity. Let us
put implicit faith in our Maker and Redeemer, remembering that
“aZZ things work together for good to them that love God” and keep
His commandments.
Let us believe, and tenaciously cling to the belief, that everything
that comes into our lives is for the best, if we but conscientiously
strive to know the right and earnestly endeavor at all times to do our
full part towards maintaining the right. Let us never forget that—
“ There is so much bad in the best of us,
And so much good in the worst of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us,
To talk about the rest of us.”
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Fur Woman’s Work.
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
I**
'HEY were sitting on the little half
enclosed balcony that overhangs
the side entrance to the gymnasium. Inside,
the farewell dance of the year was in prog
ress. Elizabeth did not dance, and when
she had grown tired of observing the others,
Rob Castleton had asked her to sit with him
on the balcony.
At first they had talked gaily of many
things—of the thousand and one incon
sequential happenings that go to fill up
college days. But gradually the magic of
the night, that strangely subtle yet whol
ly inexplicable influence of familiar objects,
seen by moonlight, hushed their laughter
and held them enthralled.
“Here let me stay forever, there it a
spell upon me.” Something like this was
in the thoughts of both, though neither
voiced it. Away in the distance, dimly
discernible against the horizon, the moun
tains showed in jagged outline; each dear,
familiar object on the old campus stood
clear, even if a bit unreal, in the silvery
whiteness; through the gently waving
willows at the foot of the slope, fleeting
glimpses of the little river flashed; the
fragrance of roses and Scotch pinks floated
to them from the beds below; a sleepy
sparrow twitted drowsily in the ivy on the
walls beside them; the sound of music and
laughter came to them—muffled and dis
tant —as a thing apart from the dream
world in which they two now dwelt alone.
“It seems strange,” Elizabeth heard her
self saying, “that we shall not be coming
back.* The note of regret in her voice
aroused her companion to mild protest.
“Yes, a bit, perhaps; but you could not
wish this sort of life to last indefinitely,”
he spike with a slight rising inflection,
half incredulously. “There’s so much be
yond this to live for, to strive fori College
days are at best but stepping stones to our
real work; they will eoon be to us as a
dream untold—as remote as that.’’
The girl’s mood was so different! She felt
an unreasoning sense of loss; she did not
answer for a time, and they were silently
thinking. Presently, to be saying some
thing, and not wishing to recur towhat
she knew to be a morbid view, Elizabeth
said: “You are going to the University in
the fall, I think you told me.”
Rob Castleton, who had been gazing out
over the moonlit world, turned to her a face
aglow with enthusiasm. In that one
silent moment his thought had rushed on
through the years. He saw himself admit
ted to the bar; saw great crowds moved
by his powerful arguments; saw himself
always fighting for the right, the advocate
of Justice and equity There was in his
thought no touch of regret for the passing
of what had been
“May I tell you of my plans, my ambi
tion, Mies Elizabeth? Would you care to
know?” He spoke with boyish eagerness,
it would be good to talk of all the things
he meanttodoand be to this sweet-temper
ed, intelligent girl beside him: she would
be a sympathetic listener, he knew, and to
night he did so want someone to know him.
The girl felt his fine enthusiasrr—felt
the prophetic optimism of his attitude, and
was moved by it. Elizabeth had been
dubbed the “Class Puritan,” and now, as
■he sat so quiet, the dark hairs waving
away from her fair brow and coiled low at
the back, Rob Castleton’s mental comment
was: “How that name suits her! Is she
pretty, or is she not? What is it about her
that so attracts a fellow?’’
Then Elizabeth’s voice recalled him:
“Indeed I do care; tell me about it, for it
must be good to have a real life-work call
one.’’
And there in the moonlight they talked,
as many a man and maid have done before;
he pouring out the tale of his hopes, his
desires; she listening with a rare sym
pathy that inspires confidence, speaking
occasional words of encouragement—assur
ances that he will live up to his high re
solves, and so, by her belief in him,
strengthening his every noble purpose.
’Twas even so the “lair lady’’ of ancient
romance sent forth her true knight to re«
dress wrongs, to battle valiantly lor the
right. ’Tis the age-old tale: a woman’s
unselfishness in putting bravely from her
own sense of discouragement, her own
longings for some definite work, while she
spurs to nobler effort a man who can in
no wise comprehend her poignant sense of
impotence. Always it is woman’s little
part to hold up the hands of the workers.
To Elizabeth—as to many another before
her—what an insignificant part it seemed?
Once, during a pause in Castleton’s
talk, Elizabeth—her mood of restless long
ing deepened by contrast with his hope
ful outlook—voiced something of her feel
ing, and ended rather lamely with the
time-worn phrase, “there’s so little a girl
car. do!”
Rob Castleton had much of the sym
pathetic quality which he so loved in the
girl: herein lay the secret of her attractive
ness to him, did he but know it. He was
quick now to catch the desolate little
note in her voice. He leaned toward her,
and for an instant touched her hand as it
lay idly on the balustrade.
“Miss Elizabeth, my dear friend,” his
voice was low and very gentle, “there will
always be much for you to do; for a girl
like you there always has been. Why, the
boys you have helped through college, Just
by the standard your own work has set,
this gives you some claim to fame already;
a fellow’s ashamed not to do his best when
you are about. You don’t need to worry
about a life-work; j ust go on being your
own sweet self, living your own unselfish
career, and you will beat most of the mis
sionaries, according to my way of think
ing.”
As he finished speaking he arose, and
lifted Elizabeth’s scarf, for it was time to
go. With misty eyes Elizabeth looked up
at Rob Castleton Just for a fleeting instant,
and said in a voice that trembled:” Thank
you for saying that, but—isn’t it rather a
passive part to play?
“No, truly, 1 think not; any way it’s the
hardest part, and the most worth while; a
man never could do it, no man ever has!’’
With a quick movement Elizabeth stood
up; he threw the gossamer scarf about her
and offered his arm; she laid her hand
lightly upon it, and they stood a moment
looking over the moonlit campus.
“We have reached the parting of the
ways,” murmured Elizabeth, and then
with a nervous laugh: “When you are a
great lawyer, will you remember your old
friends?”
I’d like to think that the ways might
meet again,” he answered, with eyes fixed
on the dim horizon; he was marveling at
the strange feeling of regret that had sud
denly come upon him. What a blind idiot
he had been to think he would be wholly
glad to go—to part from old associations! ■
“It would take a great, a good man to be <
worthy of—” he broke off abruptly and J
glanced down at the people streaming out ‘
of the doorway below; after a moment he j
said in a conventional voice: “I suppose
we do not really forget old friends, but *
when we are out in the world in other
scenes and with new duties I fancy there ’
s less time to keep up with each other • A
The girl’s face grew suddenly whiter 1
in the moonlight, and she shivered.
“You are cold,” said Rob with remorse; j
“I’ve kept you too long in the night air!’’
Woman's Work.
and the hand that drew the scarf more
closely about her was trembling. His
somewhat incoherent thought was: “If I
were through law school and had won my
place—but, to think of asking a girl like
Elizabeth to wait indefinitely for such a
fellow!’
Man-like, in self-abasement, it did not
occur to him that such a girl might prefer
to wait for such a fellow.
As for Elizabeth, the world and all
therein seemed to be whirling away from
her; for an instant she grew faint, her
head whirled, she scarcely knew if she
were standing or falling. To her com
panion she seemed quiet, composed; the
same unfathomable Elisabeth he had al
ways known, and it was over in a mo
ment.
In silence they turned toward the light
ed corridor and passed with the crowd
down the stairway and out across the
campus. Marguerite Caldwell
For Woman’s Work.
Reflections.
H
s —Francis Quarles.
Build a little fence of trust
r Around tc-day;
Fill the space with loving work
And therein stay:
• Look not through the sheltering bars
Upon to-mortow,
God will help thee bear what comes,
’ Os joy or sorrow.
' —Mary Frances Butts
3 Let us d> our duty and pray that we
9 may do our duty here, now, to-day; not in
r dreamy sweetness, but in active energy;
j not in the green oasis of the future, but in
9 the dusty desert of the present; not in the
j imaginations of otherwhere, but in the
j realities of now.— F. W. Farrar.
3 Rest is not quitting
The busy career:
Rest is the fitting
, Os self to one’s sphere.
j ’Tis loving and serving
The highest and best:
’Tis onward, unswerving;
And this is true rest. _ Goethe
j Man is larger and stronger than his en-
I vironment. No burden was ever heavy
enough to crush manhood out. No sor-
. row was ever greater than the heart can
3 bear. never made a coward, nor has
, He anywhere held up as a model a nature
3 that would break under sorrow. The
j whole book of Job centres around this
single test: that no affl ction or evil could
t crush him. Man is not a worm to betrod
den down, but a child of G_>d. He is made
j to have dominion, to put all things under
I his feet. The agonies of Gsthsemane may
I fall with frightful weight, but they cannot
j crush him. The cross will hurt, but can
not harm —D. 0 Mears
> Yet a little while,
i Yet a little way.
We shall reap, and rest, and smile,
All the day.
Up! let’s trudge another mile.
1 —Rossetti.
O. f ten by reason of the crowd of world
ly affairs and our own spiritual stat
ure, we cannot see Christ. But there are
sycamores in the road by which He will
pass. He has given us the means of grace—
* Scripture, prayer, ordinances, trees plant
’ ed by the wayside. Let us ascend; we
shall not only see Christ, but He will come
and abide with us.— William Wadsworth.
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