If She Can, Cannot the Young People in Your Church?
By Mrs. L. T. Crisler
LAST week I received from a sixteen-year-old girl a neatly written paper giving some intelligent answers to the review questions on the book "From Exile to Overthrow." For the benefit of some who have been making excuses for not taking the Reading Course, I wish to tell you something of the busy life of this young girl as recently told me by a friend. This energetic girl has worked hard under very great difficulties. She works regularly in a weaving mill. Living a long distance from the mill, and having to walk to and from work, she has to arise very early in the morning. With a mother in poor health, and younger children in the family, you can imagine some of the duties which would fall to the oldest daughter. Notwithstanding all this, she is faithfully observing the morning watch, and trying to commit the book of Romans to memory. Not satisfied with this, she is studying hard at night. She attends an arithmetic school two nights in the week, and is also trying to do some work in English. She kept her grammar, Morning Watch Calendar, and Bible at the mill, so that she might study during spare moments. Recently the superintendent asked her not to do this. She feels the loss of these moments for study. She has not given up her morning watch or her studies, but is improving her spare moments at night. We understand her father often tells her she has not time to read. Many visitors at the home on Sundays make it impossible for her to study, so, in order that she may be alone, she has been invited to spend her Sunday afternoons in this friend's room. The girl is very anxious to attend one of our schools, where she can be fitted for better service, and is willing to work her way through if possible.