p. 602 | DOING ALL SHE CAN by Dr. W. A. Spencer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 38.

DOING ALL SHE CAN.

By Dr. W. A. Spencer

TWENTY-TWO years ago a German moved up the Ohio River, and had only seven hundred dollars and an interest in a superannuated sawmill. That man has been so blessed of God for his generous giving that to-day he is worth thirty millions of dollars. He has a beautiful young daughter, who is a graduate of the best woman's college in this country, a master of Latin, Greek, German, French, Italian, as well as being very proficient in music and art. What is she doing? Is she dawdling about in fashionable society, or running from resort to resort, crossing the water every summer to pick up some dude or some sickly foreign count or some pseudo prince, that she may bestow her fortune on him and share the disgrace of his name? Hear what she is doing. If her father should die to-day, her check would be worth at least ten millions of dollars. She is the unpaid missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the city of New York, down in the lowest and most neglected part—climbing up the stairs of tenement houses, three, four, five, six stories, to minister comfort and salvation to those who are in want and sickness and sin. She is searching there for jewels for her Master's crown. She is a lineal descendent of the Son of Man, who left his glorious home on high to come down on earth and win men to God.