166

CHAPTER XI.
THE NEXT THING 181

CHAPTER XII.
SETTLING QUESTIONS 197

CHAPTER XIII.
LOOKING FOR WORK 211

CHAPTER XIV.
AN UNARMED SOLDIER 227

CHAPTER XV.
MARION'S PLAN 243

CHAPTER XVI.
THEORY VERSUS PRACTICE 258

CHAPTER XVII.
THE DISCUSSION 275

CHAPTER XVIII.
THE RESULT 291

CHAPTER XIX.
KEEPING THE PROMISE 307

CHAPTER XX.
HOW IT WAS DONE 322

CHAPTER XXI.
RUTH AND HAROLD 337

CHAPTER XXII.
REVIVAL 355

CHAPTER XXIII.
THE STRANGE STORY 368

CHAPTER XXIV.
LONELINESS 385

CHAPTER XXV.
THE ADDED NAME 401

CHAPTER XXVI.
LEARNERS 418

CHAPTER XXVII.
FLOSSY'S PARTY 435

CHAPTER XXVIII.
A PARTING GLANCE 451

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THE CHAUTAUQUA GIRLS AT HOME.

CHAPTER I.

TREADING ON NEW GROUND.

THAT last Sabbath of August was a lovely day; it was the first Sabbath
that our girls had spent at home since the revelation of Chautauqua. It
seemed lovely to them. "The world looks as though it was made over new
in the night," Eurie had said, as she threw open her blinds, and drew in
whiffs of the sweet, soft air. And the church, whither these girls had
so often betaken themselves on summer mornings, just like this one--how
_could_ two or three weeks have changed it? They could not feel that it
was the same building.

Hitherto it had been to them simply the First Church; grander, by
several degrees, than any other church in the city, having the finest
choir, and the finest organ, and the most elegant carpets, and making
the grandest floral display of all the temples, as became the First
Church, of course; but to-day, this glowing, glorious August day, it was
something infinitely above and beyond all this; it was the visible
temple of the invisible God, _their_ Saviour, a