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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1880.
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Miss Louisa May Alcott.
I the Savior, or to Jesus, and the angels note and locking sorrowfully and
read the othera. Miss Alcott’s pub­
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who will accompany him at th»? judg­ lovingly at it, he said to the. filthy
lished works number eighteen volum­
She was born, it appears, in Ger­
There is a certain, courting—of ment when the fighteoua shall go into lucre:
es altogether, the united sale of whiçh
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mantown, Pa., bqt at two years of age in America alone amounts in roun
friendship, not for friendship's sake, life eternal—into the everlasting man-
“'When'we «sander part,
hut for thq sake of the unrighteous Sons—-I do not know. But it seems
It give« us inward pain,
* ■ ' her parents took her to Boston, and numbers to htfh' a million. This do«
six years afterward they removed to not include a novel which some ins
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«Bumm< n poeeessed by those whose clear, that since they are to “ receive
But we will «till be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.”
Concord, Mass., where they still ré-,
, »rienaship is sought.
you into everlasting habitations" they
has appeared in the “ No Name Se­
This’ fawning upon the rich and ari no earthly friends, tliey must be Doubtless he made the best use of side. When sixteen, Miss Alcott be­ ries.” The demand for her books to­
hanging around them for the piu jiose among the heavenly post- The whole that pathetic hymn which his covotous- gan teaching school in Boston, but day is as great as ever. Their cir­
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of gaining their favor is .the most parable resolves itself into an exhorta­ heart would allow and I will not gradually drifted out of teaching into culation abroad is also enormous, and
detestable of all sycophancy. This tion to righteously use the means—the deny that it was a Sacrifice for him to the more congenial work of writing ’they have been translated into Ger-,
, < kind of fna-king of friends—this fol­ talents—which (lod has entrusted to give even a littje ; yet I do deny that stories. It was- some time, though, man, French and Dutch. "
lowing for the loaves and fishes—U our use, in stlch a manner as by th.e sucfi“a "sacrifice is well pleasing to God before she made writing pay,, but at
Miss Alcott,although spending most
happily no# a very profitable business, use to secure heavenly friends who and doubt whether such giving would last fortune smiled upon her, and since of her time irf Concord, is more fre- ~
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unless it be so managed that both will receive us into the everlasting make to himsblf a single earthly then she has been exceptionally favor- quently in Boston, and prefers to call
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* ■ herself a Bostonian than to hail from
parties will be gainers,- after the mansions., It has something to do, friend, much more do I doubt that.it 'ed. •
In the war, like many other noble
example of the unjust Steward and his then, with the person’s*<ge|ting, tq would make for him friends who will
the American seat of philosophy.
>• master’s» -debtors in the? parable re- heaven ' If it hadn't I would not be receive his niggard .soul into the women,—to quote the Herald’s lan­ Most of her work has been done here ;
guage—Miss Alcott: volunteered as a the first part of “ Little Women ” was
“everlasting habitations.”
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corded in Luke xvi.
di-*[>osed to vyrite about it.
hospital nurse, and (was assigned to'
Now
if
we
can„decide
what
should
be-
The-Steward was commended
Akin to this is the 'parable of the
written at "the South Endj. and the
be
expended
on
our
household
it
one
of the most unpleasant hospitals— j ' second part in the Bellevnïie hotel oq
for
caiise he acted shrewdly, cleverly,
talents in which we arc taught that
one in Georgetown, near Washington, i
rBcncon street, her favorite quarters,
the slothful servant, who buried Jiia
wiiat
shouXT
be
devoted
to
the
main
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After„geveral month’s service the un- !
master not by the Savior—“ for,” adds talent instead of usiilg it, wascast’into
where she generally occupies pleasant
the Savior, ’“ the’ children of this outer darkness.' The notion which tenance of the ^oor saints and . what healthy „. surroundings told upon her rooms high yp, with a xide^view over
world are wiser inofe>hrewd) in tlirir some have entertained (perhaps to suit to the preachers, for generally- speâk- ! vigoraus constitution, and she hail a the jBoofs and harbor. She has- no
generation as respects 'their family, their pockets) that there is no danger ing our preachers are among the poor severe attack of typhoid fever, from regular study and is indifferent to her
as respects themselves, fienca more. of hying condemned for covetousness, saihts. (I would only suggest that the efiects of -which she never fully surroundings while at work. The
---- rfi------shrewd as re-peets their self-interest) no matter how- niggardly wl^aet" (as a •the “ poor saints,” who «are preachers, recovered. "Her “ Hospital Sketches,” style of pen, ink or writing papey is
al
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1 :i f. .. r. i light.
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than
the children,-of
man said to me,A' I’ll not gh e any­ should come in for the first.share}». which came froqi - this experience, immaterial to her, and she uses what­
glad it is —.-ts-ttrI 1 -irr-tpH? it wilFatways thing. I don't expect to pu-rchft.se my However, I insist upon, my former were' the first thin-- -which called ever is handiest at the moment. She
be the case: Ti.e mention of their salvation? I am a Christian." This ■statement, tliat the Scriptures make a -genëïal attention to her. -They yrere ( writes in a free, back-sloping hand
generation, th< ir * fajpily
implies notion is twifi sister to ,that doctrine I distinction between the “ poor saints ” | letters written fo the family at home. , and (imposes .rapidly, never making
Mr. Moncure.D. Conway was in Con­
that there is a higher family.—the which says : '“ Everybody was saved and the preachers. . ' :
, à copy of.her manuscript and rarely
cord-at
the time, and'was-so interest­
Buf
soipe
will
say
that
in
providing
children of light— w I mi are to exercise when Christ died for all, and all you
goirib back to change words or ex­
higher wisdom—even the wisdom have to do is to believe it, and when for .qur household we are to look, to ed by them that he. asked leave to pressions.— Boston lb rithl.
which is from above, which is-“(|>ure, you believe you aie saved, you are the future and “ lay up for a rainy print*them, and when Miss Alcptt re­
peaceable, full of g ’ xl fruits, without saved, and then yon should obey the day.” -Certainly the parable teaches covered .from her severe illness, the re­ — The (‘odedxrcto which is otriotet» in
partiality and without hypocrisy.”
Savior, not because obeifience has that very thing, but the way some lay quest was granted. Mr. Henry James England and nearly so in this country
The Steward's.shrewdness prompted
anything to do with your salvation» up one would-think that they looked- of Cambridge, the father of the novel­ seems id preserve its yig ir anting the
iim to use unlawfully * his master’s
but because you are saved.” . No’inore for some fearfully rainy weather— ist, told her that in -these, sketches Catholic., iùations of Europe. Last
property for hi- own aggrandizement
Was her true style. That Was -the
mischievous doctrine. • was
ever rainy years, instead of rainy days.
week two fatal duels occurred, <Tie be­
—to secure for. himself friends who-
first time, she said, that she had the
Now
we
come
to
another
seriole
preached.
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high born Spaniard«, and the
■WuldTSJsjA ■ him into , their houses
But we miisi not wander awlty’ question. Will the providing for our faintest idea of style ; her style was a other between well known, French*
•when he should be deprived of his
from, the " unrighteous tnammon,” if households make to’ourselves friends natural .commingling ot humor and nun.. Ini the first thh Marquis de
.stewardship. Head ..the parable and ~
we do we lose sight of the ¡»arable, for who will receive us into “the ever­ pathos.
Glivars killed the Count de Laidi. In
then read tin- Savior s’application'of.
The first novel of Miss Alcott that
the thoughtright use of riches. lasting habitations !" If we make the
the latter Henry Rochefort “fell under
itfrenu-ml ring that tin "dishonesty of
Among the many uses; made of this right kind of provision it will, if that appeared.under her name wa» ‘ Moods the sword of another French than- by
the Steward, the kind, of- friends he
world's goods even by t’hristians the provision tends Co their eternal wel­ of which she tells the stoay in “ Little tile* name of Koehlin. Ibichefort has
' seCtn. I. and th.- Way I.-- did it, all
Women." It was spoken of Highly
occupied a large share of public notice
worcLof Clod teaches as I conceive but fare—not otherwise.- But there are
belong to the children of the world
by Mr. Ticknor, when he read it in
an
hundred
ways,
invented
by
the
since hq published the banterne in
three, viz.: 1st. The provision fo’r
• and have no counterpart in the ap
the manuscript in its original form,
the days of Louis Napoleon. Banished
one’s own kindred . especially for his devil, of .«¡lending money on house­
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plicati' ii of th,- p.u.il,' ty the child-
but it was reconstructed at the re­ from France he returned with the fall •
own, household. 1 Tim. v. 8. 2nd holds which will be only-laying up
quest of Mr. Loring, who ¡lllhlisll-'d it.
’ ten of light. As in all -the parables- of 1
of the Empire, was a prominent com-
The provision for the poor.' Ps. xli. 1. curses'for the children in after years, After the gria^ p ■|;!,..r
our Lord, tlicr is here just one lead-!
by
not
teaching
each
child
-to
work
Gal. ii. 10 Acts xx. 35, et 'al. 3rd.
munj.st leader during their occupation
i “ Little Women, much attention was
ing tbi>uglit) and it was never intended j
of Paris, was banished on the suppres­
The support/>f the Gospel. 1 Cof. ix- 1 for itself; and by forgetting tliat each
naturally* . attracted to it. ■ It was
that, to uh b r-tan-i. a parable we
11-18. Gal. vi. (!, et al, (observe that ' methber of the household soon comes
sion of the revolt, escaped and **has
should sk -for. something to corres-, the 3rd is not included in the 2nd, for ! umier the teaching of the parable written when Miss Alcott was e!gh
since plotted revolutibn across the
teen ye.ii> oLL <hie < -
Mr Alcott
pond to every feature of the parable—
French frontier." 'A few; weeks since a
it was nevA- intended that preachers “make to youyselves fjiends” and
! came to Mr. Niles, of 1. iln-rts Broth­
every eiieuiustanee arid allusion in it ;
son of the Rochefort was engaged in a .
should be patipers'’or beggars, even •then each should act for himself.
on -, stories by
—like the preacher, who speaking of |
If the dead could arise from their ers, with a volume
: communist broil in“ Paris and was .
tent-making is unekpedient).
I his daughter.
Mr Niles «aid that
the grain of- uiu«i.ai>l seed grSwing
graves
and
hear
their
children
quar
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Now we who claim’ that the Bible
pommelled by the police. This caused
into a larjt- n-.-e. intested that there
! collected short ptories- ba dly y
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the enraged father to w rite a savage
alone
shall govern us in
in faith uuu
and relling over what .they had left behind,
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was a defimhdv fixed number of«?
| atid suggested thaf Miss Ate: tt write
, 1 practice; have special need to give they would wish they had given more
! and threatening letter to the chief of
branches and !•
- ot> that tree, and , ». ,
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. . . _ . nn - azrx zwx to the poor and to the church, instead - a istory of New England lit« ; Miss
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heed to the
above, and nr.r
riot-have too
police. Koehlin, conceiving himself
- that each br -ue ,... m each leaf repre-1 '
Sedgwick had recently ! ■ -'.d per­
I Hwwy outlets tor our money. Let fis of begetting in their offspring the love
insulted in some way by the letter,
sented souietuiiu in. the church, whilef-
haps she might be her : i-- - >r- He
I carefully consider these things, for by of money, under the pretence of pro­
challenged the old communist. The
the birds ie-to»_ ,- h tie1 lyanches re­
wanted a story alxiiit .
hut Miss
( "Tightly nving our means in these three viding for their households. It isl
result is that a stOrïny, restless life has
presented th>- -.¡oied - wlio would rest
Alcott said, she knew n .m about
most
unfortunate
for
brethren
to
spend
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directions we will lay up our treasures
been quenched in blood, .and French­
upon and ev<-n r. < ive food from the
I girls; boys were her favorite- No,
in heaven. It is plain that, if these all upon their households, for it may
men have Tlisgtaced their civilization-
church, and >. et not acknowledge it; <. ,
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ifTere were plenty of l><~ T ter boys ;
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ii- I be tjie outlets for our money, we must be a curse to their children, but what 1
i before the world.— EcimjeUrt.
this would be to make shocking'
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,
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is given to the poor and to the church Mr. Niles -jjant>«l a b k for girls.
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I not ■>v* lit it all out through
one
channel.
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—“ George Èliot,” the novelist, that
nonsense of the
parapje?-
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is always a safe investment. Besidés, Miss Alcott said she would writ ■ ulioiit
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wkk! *3 £h»± | ! K a lnan spend all his income, on
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the church needs your cheeriul con­ Lf„.ir,„ii..
— tls Steward wa* iax seeing, or shrewd
household be w... not have the
tributions. 1 do not belieye in beg­ things they used tc de H . Niles Mr«. Crou. Tbtre wai.alvayi loaetb
fiotigh to make, dishonestly to be ' blessing attached to giving to the'
to overlook and forgive in her way of m
told her to go .".Lead, and the result
rying
him h
Wre, but still to make to himself I P°°r> an<’ f0
preaching of the ging money from the world, neither i ...... »k,.
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t Oil \>
IV omen.
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first |»iul ..I-
ut u Litt»
, for ought we know. >o mafiy yi
do I believe in hewing money from v wasthe ft«.,»
friends
—
such
as
they
were
—
by
thel
Gospel.
Lt
luiX
be
that
a
mans
in-
friends—such as they were
Christian«. They should give cheer­ He was pleaded with the manuscript.! When Mr. Lewes died, a year and a ha
use of What had been entrusted to t come is so littfe that it can be profit­ fully. I would not aisk a" Christian Amd show e d it
h is
at | aE°> we read ;
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him. Now the very manner in which ably spent on his own household. for money a second time unless he the sea-shore, who went wild with de­
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“ The terrible grief to which Miss Evans-
the Savior introduces the lesson to. his Yes, but then a part of it can be more misunderstood me. All that a Chris­ light over it. He offered Mi-s Alcott fell a prey was regarded as still farther
proving the strength and fatness of that
profitably spent on the poor saints
disciples ("'and I say unto you
tian wishes to know in this matter is $1.00(1 ouiight for it, but told her intense love which was at once 'the oause
and
in
supporting
the
Gospel.
Here
of her lajxe from social
aeems't > recognize a necessary ^liffer-
how best to use his means to the glory she had better run the risk and take a and justification
And it was considered the most
ence in the two situations; as if he comes thè meaning of the Savior’s of God, and I simply urge that there royalty. A thousand dollars seemed grace.
natural thing in the world that she should
— should-say: “although you. are the- words, “ deny yourself ”—here is the are only three way«. 1st. By pro; a large sum to Miss Alcott at that announoe her intention of abstaining flop
writing in the future. Even thos*
children of the light and of the day meaning of «aerile». , It is no sacrifice viding for his own household, and he' time, and she had a narrow escape, all
who bad been disposed to see an tigly car­
"for those to give who have plenty
and hence can do no such furtive
but luckily she decided for the royal­ icature of George Lewes in the “ Cassan-
(have it to spare). Where now is a should not be always pt this. ” It is a
low ” of Miilillemarch felt that their judg­
acts, as characterized the unjust
ty. The success of the book was ment had bees unjust, and that here really
poor widow wh(i gives two mites and poor kind of a household that cannot
Steward, yet I say to you : “ Make to
phenomenal, ami the presses could not was a case of true love that would b*
this her all? Some, I fear, have, provide something for itself. 2nd. By
'true beyond the grave. The publication
yourselves friends of the mammon of
run- fast enough to supply the demand otTheojtluudus Such did not materially
sought to imitate the poor widow by giving to the poor, especially to the
unrighteousness "--use this world's
shake this belief. Everybody who thought
giving a mite when they might have" poor saints. 3rd. By giving to those Of coarse a second volume was called about the matter at all felt that in the
goods-with which• God has entrusted
for, and „tetters poured .in npon the very effort to deaden her grief hard work
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given an abundance, i They forget the who preach the Gospel.
you—use yotlr ' 'money (mammon)
author
beseeching her to continue the would be a relief and comfort. Bdt now,
It.
is
very
sad
to
know
that
so
meaning of those mites. For the
this ‘w/dow’ of a suddiu has abandoned
which is called “ the mammon of un-
story.
Many were Jrutn little girls, her weeds and bestowed her.se!f upon a
much
of
what
God
has
entrusted
to
benefit of these I would ask, Where
righteousness because the jhildren of
and ran like this :
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genuine husband In the face of this ec­
now are the noble,
earnest,
aav»za~;
.«»Ji
ij generous us is being given to the devil to
centricity of genius the faithful love and
this yvorld make an unrighteous use souls who would lay all their treasures’ fursc us wlth
'. j Wo ijill soon be no
Hiss Ai.i OTT:—If you do not write bitter grief theories wholly break dowh.”
' . of it, use it in a righteous way, and in
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I rmcr Ar upward
stewards, but we will have to another volume of “Little Women,”
The lover and husband is a Lon Jun
at Qie Apostles feet ? . I say there, is
such a way that by the use of it you
give an account of our stewardship. and tell us more about Jo, and make banker, forty yoars old and in comfortable
no
sacrifice
in
giving
"
what
one
can
will make to yourselves friends—such
Miy* we so use our Master’s goods Laufa marry Meth, 1 will never read circa instances. Mrs. Lewes had a good*»
spare,” unless indeed the one who
another of your books as long as I live. income, and was 61 when thia now expe­
friends as will, when you fail—when
that we shall make to ourselves friends
Yours very resyectfully.
spares
a
little
has
the
love
of
money
rience happened to her. It is not quite
. you die—receive you into the ever­
who will receive us into the “ ever­
' M amie B rown . >
in
him,
in
which
case,
1
doubt
not
it
settled whether this is another instance in-
lasting habitations—friends of a
lasting -habitations.”
So a second volume was written; which she has been ” crossed in love," or
nobler, better sort than earth affoiUs, would be a sacrifice for him to give
O. A. C arr .
this was followed by “ An Old-fash­ not. It is hoped that sbo ma.v endure it •
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and who will give you a welcome that any— even a little. It was rejiorted
Colombia, Mo.
ioned Girl,” and then came ** Little many years. But then, •'George Eliot,’*’
of
a
rich
man,
who
was
asked
to
give,
no earthly friends can give. I do not
is a candidate for a saintabip in the calen­
—Grief count! the minute« ; h«|pineM Mei|.” All of these had an immense dar of " Positivists,” and it is thair privi­
■ think it possible to name these friends. that he reluctantly made up his mind
sale, for everybo ly wlto ha 1 read one lege to make ths most of her — The Past/lti-
forgets them.— Matlame Woille;/.
Whether the reference be to God and to part with a little, so, bolding up a
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