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His mind was in great confusion. Never before had his own responsibility for this great evil looked him in the face with such a stern aspect and with such rebuking eyes. "By example and invitation nay, by almost irresistible enticements," continued Mrs. Birtwell "we tempt the weak and lure the unwary and break down the lines of moderation that prudence sets up to limit appetite.
Official standing gave him access to some of the wealthiest and best circles in the city, and his accomplished wife soon became a favorite with all who were fortunate enough to come into close relations with her. Among these was Mrs. Birtwell, the two ladies drawing toward each other with the magnetism of kindred spirits.
The smile he had expected to provoke by this sally did not break into the clergyman's face. "But I say," Mr. Birtwell added, "do the thing right, or don't do it all." "What do you call right?" asked Mr. Elliott. "The way it is done by other people as we did it last year, for instance." "I should be sorry to see last year's entertainment repeated if like consequences must follow," replied Mr.
It is like cutting the chain that holds a wild beast. The bound but not dead appetite springs into full vigor again, and surprised resolution is beaten down and conquered. To invite such a man to, an entertainment where wines and liquors are freely dispensed is to put a human soul in peril." "Mr. Birtwell may not have known anything about him," replied Dr. Angier. "All very true.
In her ardor the lady half forgot herself, and stopped suddenly as she observed that two or three of the company who stood near had been listening. Meantime, Blanche Birtwell had managed to get Whitford away from the table, and was trying to induce him to leave the supper-room. She hung on his arm and talked to him in a light, gay manner, as though wholly unconscious of his condition.
General Abercrombie, like many others that evening, felt unusually well satisfied with himself. Mr. Birtwell complimented him whenever they happened to meet, sometimes on his public services and sometimes on the "sensation" that elegant woman Mrs. Abercrombie was making.
"Happily," continued Mr. Elliott, "Mr. Ridley has risen from his fall, and now stands firmer, I trust, than ever, and farther away from the reach of temptation, resting not in human but in divine strength. Archie is in heaven, where before many days his mother will join him." "Why are you saying this?" demanded Mr. Birtwell. "You are going too far." His face had grown a little pale.
Birtwell. "They shun its doors. They stand afar off." "The Church must go to them," said Mr. Elliott "go as Christ, the great Head of the Church, himself went to the lowest and the vilest, and lift them up, and not only lift them up, but encompass them round with its saving influences." "How is this to be done?" asked Mrs. Birtwell.
Birtwell, with a bitterness of tone she could not repress, "you and I and some of our best citizens and church people, instead of trying to free the land from this dreadful curse, strike hands with those who are engaged in spreading broadcast through society its baleful infection." Mr. Elliott dropped his eyes to the floor like one who felt the truth of a stinging accusation, and remained silent.
The home libraries do a work for children in their homes that is quite distinct from all the other services we render as a society." Charles Wesley Birtwell was born in Lawrence, Mass., November 23, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He was general secretary of the Boston Children's Aid Society from 1885 to 1911.
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