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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ompanionship. Heeffaced the past; he cared not for thefuture. St. Stephens was as if it hadnever been. The bishopric dropped be-low the horizon. Pie, at forty-five, wasstill a youth; she, not yet thirty, was agirl. Life, pressing and human, wastheirs; they could not escape it. It waspart of the sunset hour. If life mightalways be such—simple, full, abiding! You will come to us ? We need you! I do not see the way clear. No, Mr.Archibald, I think my work lies here.I am told that I really succeed with thesecountry folk; that I have a (way withme which opens the heart of the hungrywomen—those who for years have livedon the hillside or in the valleys of thesemountainous regions, knowing, unknow-ingly, eternal truths, but who are abso-lutely out of touch with humanity in itshighest sense. It is not the Prayer-bookthat I take to them. Over on MoatMountain and across Chocorua in thetownship of Passaconaway the women donot need a deaconess. They need just awoman friend! Can you understand?
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Half-tone plate engraved by W. H. Clark YOU WILL COME TO US ? WE NEED YOU Vol. CIX — No. 652.-79 634 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. But cant you see, dear friend, thatthe women of my parish need you,too? The church can turn out deacon-esses by the dozens as to bones, but itcant make spirit. Come to us in Sud-bury. We need you now; these countrypeople can wait. Why, I need you! She looked up, surprised. There hadbeen no word of personality betweenthem, if the ever-recurring1 personalitythat emanates between two strong* na-tures which come together with inexpli-cable interest can be eliminated. I have written to-day to Mrs. Dorrs-Flathers, the fairy godmother of ourparish, he continued. It was her wishto create a deaconess at St. Stephens.Now I am ready to carry out her wishto the very letter. I have written atlength, trying to impart to her TheodoraHart, and what a remarkable person Ithink her. You do not object? I havenot trespassed too far, have I, in sharingwith my kindest Sudbury frie

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