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+Title: Self-Denial
+       or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society
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+Author: American Sunday-School Union
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+Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23478]
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+SELF-DENIAL;
+
+OR,
+
+ALICE WOOD, AND HER MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+The village school-house was situated on a pretty green, and surrounded
+by old elm-trees, and at a short distance and in full sight was a
+candy-shop, kept by an old woman, whom the children called Mother
+Grimes. Mother Grimes knew how to make the very best candies and cakes
+that ever were eaten, and almost every day she displayed in her
+shop-window some new kind of cake, or some new variety of candy, to
+excite the curiosity or tempt the palates of her little customers, who
+found it a very difficult matter to pass Mother Grimes's shop on their
+way from school.
+
+One day, just after the school-bell rang to give notice of the recess,
+a pretty little girl, by the name of Alice Wood, was seen very busily
+running about among the school-girls and whispering to one and another.
+Her object was to induce them to remain a little while after the school,
+as she had something to propose to them. Alice was a great favourite, as
+she was always willing to put herself to any inconvenience for the sake
+of giving any one else pleasure. So they all readily consented to stay,
+if it were only to please her.
+
+After school was out and the teacher had left, Alice collected the
+girls together and told them her plan. "Girls," said she, "last night I
+went to the missionary meeting, and some of you were there too. We heard
+a missionary speak, who has just come back from India, and he told us of
+the millions of poor degraded and ignorant people there, who have never
+heard of God or the Bible, and who worship idol gods of wood and stone,
+and sacrifice their children and themselves to these dumb idols; and he
+told us of millions in other countries who are just as ignorant and
+degraded, besides the multitudes in our own land who know nothing of
+the Bible or the way of salvation. I knew all this before, to be sure,
+for I have often heard it; but I never _felt_ it as I did last night;
+and when the missionary called upon us children and told us that we
+could do something to save these immortal souls, I felt, for the first
+time in my life, that it was my duty, by denying myself some
+gratifications and by trying to save money in other ways, to do all that
+I could to send the word of God to those who are perishing. Girls,"
+said she, with earnestness, "I could hardly sleep last night, for I was
+all the time going over in my mind the different ways in which I might
+earn or save something, and I thought if all our school were to feel as
+I did, and join me in this, we might collect a great many dollars a
+year."
+
+Here some of the older girls began to whisper to each other that they
+had no money to spare, and that their parents could not give them money
+every day to send to the heathen.
+
+"Now stop a little while, girls, if you please," said Alice, "till I
+just tell you what I want to have done. In the first place, I think it
+will be so pleasant to form a sewing Society, to meet on Saturday
+afternoons, and make bags and needle-cases and collars and many other
+things to sell; and I know my father will be delighted to have us put a
+box, with these things, in his store. Then, while we sew, I propose that
+one reads aloud from some interesting book or paper about missions and
+benevolent societies, and thus we shall all become interested in the
+intelligence, and be more willing to work and save to help the needy."
+Alice then, with a great deal of tact, proposed the names of those who
+should be President, Secretary, and Treasurer of their Society,
+selecting the very ones who had been opposed to her plan. One large girl
+was still dissatisfied, and declared she would not join them, till Alice
+moved that she should be appointed reader. This delighted her very much,
+as she read remarkably well; and now all were pleased, and Alice went on
+with her plan.
+
+"Now, about our laying up money, girls," said she. "I believe our
+parents are none of them very rich, and yet we contrive to get a great
+many pennies, in one way or another, to spend for our own gratification.
+How many pennies do you think go, in a year, from our school into Mother
+Grimes's pocket? Why enough to send a great many Bibles to the
+destitute. Perhaps enough to support a missionary, or educate a heathen
+child, or give a library or two to a poor Sunday-school. Just think of
+it, girls! Now I, for one, spend certainly a penny a day for candy. How
+many will that be in a year, Susy?"
+
+"Three hundred and sixty-five," answered little Susy Barnes.
+
+"Yes; three dollars and sixty-five cents will buy a great many Bibles
+and good books," said Alice; "and then my father gives me a penny a week
+for slate pencils. Now I am going to ask him to continue the penny a
+week; and then I am going to see how long I can keep a pencil, for I
+have been very careless in losing them. And in these, and other ways, I
+hope I can save quite a sum of money in a year. Now, girls, will you
+all think, between this time and tomorrow noon, how much you can save,
+and then we will put it all down together, and see how much we can hope
+to collect in a year?"
+
+The girls readily promised, and then, as they had stayed a long time,
+they all set off in haste for their homes, full of the new project of
+the Missionary Society.
+
+
+
+
+PART II.
+
+
+The next day, as soon as school was out, the little girls, of their own
+accord, crowded around Alice, who stood with a pencil and piece of paper
+in her hand, ready to put down their names, and the sums they each
+thought she could save. Several of them thought they could save a penny
+a day, instead of giving it to Mother Grimes; some a penny a week, and
+some a penny a month. Alice told them, that if some of them could only
+give a penny a year, she would gladly take that; and then, that they
+might not be ashamed of giving so little, she read to them the story of
+the "widow's mite." And when the girls laughed, because one little girl,
+whose mother was very poor, said, "She would bring a penny _if she could
+ever get one_," Alice kissed her, and said,
+
+"Perhaps, Kitty, your penny will be as acceptable, and do more good,
+than hundreds of dollars from some very rich man who does not miss it at
+all. At any rate you shall come into our Society and help us sew."
+
+Rachel Brown said "she was sure _she_ did not spend much money for
+candy."
+
+"No! and why not, Miss Sugar-tooth?" said little Susy Barnes; "because
+you always keep close to Alice Wood, as you go home from school, and you
+know that the one that is nearest to her will always have half of her
+candy."
+
+"Hush, Susy," said Alice, "I can tell you that no one will have half of
+my candy after this, as I do not intend to buy any; and I am sure Rachel
+can save a good deal if she chooses, for our Society."
+
+Clara Hall said, her father had promised her a quarter of a dollar if
+she would have an ugly double tooth drawn, that had ached for some time.
+
+"But," said Clara, "the provoking thing aches the worst at night, and
+then I think I will certainly have it out in the morning, but when the
+morning comes it is sure to stop aching." Once or twice she said she had
+gone to the dentist's door, but her courage failed. "But," said she,
+"Alice, the very next time it aches as hard in the day as it does
+sometimes in the night, I shall come with the tooth in one hand, and
+the quarter of a dollar in the other, for the Society."
+
+Sally Bright said, their next neighbour had cut her hand very badly, and
+had promised her a penny a day, for milking her cow for her, as long as
+her hand continued lame; and those pennies should all come to Alice.
+
+Charlotte Green said, her father had promised her half a dollar if she
+would leave off biting her nails. "And now," said she, "I mean to try in
+earnest to break myself of this habit, that I may have something too to
+give."
+
+"Well, girls," said Jane Prime, "my father, you know, keeps a large
+nursery, and he gives me three cents a quart for peach stones and plum
+stones; and he says he will pay that for as many as are brought to him.
+So here is a fine way for any of you that choose to make money, as long
+as fruit lasts."
+
+Alice Wood now reckoned up the promised sums, and said,
+
+"I think, girls, if we all keep the resolutions we have formed, that by
+only saving the money that we should spend in other ways, and giving it
+to the society, we can pledge ourselves to give altogether fifty dollars
+a year; and with our Sewing Society, and the many other ways that have
+been mentioned of earning a little money, I should not be surprised if
+we should raise it to one hundred dollars a year. Just think what a sum
+that would be, and how much good it may do, if we give it in a right
+spirit, and with prayers for the blessing of God to accompany it. For
+you know the missionary said the other evening, that we might give a
+great deal of money, merely for the sake of having it published, or from
+some other improper motive, and if it should do good to others, it would
+not do any to ourselves; but that even a little given from a right
+motive, and with fervent prayer for the Divine blessing, might
+accomplish great things, and would return in mercy upon the head of the
+giver. For, said he, (and these words are from the Bible,) 'He that hath
+pity upon the poor, _lendeth_ unto the Lord, and that which he hath
+given, _will he pay him again_.' And, 'The liberal soul shall be made
+fat, and he that watereth, shall _himself be watered_.'"
+
+As the girls went home, they all kept on the side of the road opposite
+to Mother Grimes's shop; for the old woman had a bad temper, and a very
+loud voice, and they were all afraid of hearing from her if they passed
+her shop without stopping to buy something.
+
+"What on earth is the matter with the children?" said old Mother Grimes
+to herself. "Here, these two or three days past, hardly a soul of them
+has been near the shop, and my candies are getting quite old." And
+Mother Grimes went to work, and cracked nuts, and boiled new molasses,
+and made nicer candies than ever; but all to no purpose.
+
+Rachel Brown did say to Alice Wood one day, "See, Alice, what beautiful
+candy Mother Grimes has put in her shop-window to day." But Alice only
+said, "Rachel, we have now a better use for our money; let us waste
+nothing, but save all we can, so that we shall not feel, when we meet
+our fellow-creatures at the last day, that any of them have perished
+through our neglect, or because we were so selfish that we could not
+deny ourselves a small gratification for the sake of supplying their
+need."
+
+One day a knot of little girls were so bold as to pass directly by the
+candy shop. The old woman stood in the door, and called out to them as
+they passed, and asked them why they never stopped now. "See," said she,
+"all my nice candies melting in the sun; and nobody but the flies to eat
+them."
+
+"We have found something better to do with our pennies, Mother Grimes,"
+answered little Susy Barnes, who was the leader of the party, "than to
+spend them in getting the tooth-ache, and making ourselves sick; and we
+have all made up our minds that we will not buy any more candy." The old
+woman flew into a passion, and talked so loud, that some of the little
+girls were for running off, but Susy stood her ground undaunted.
+
+"I'll tell you what, Mother Grimes," said she, "if you will give up
+selling candy, and keep slates, and pencils, and pens, and sponges, and
+all such useful things for sale, we shall all be much more likely to
+stop here, than to go all the way round to the booksellers."
+
+But Mother Grimes's wrath only increased the more, and as she showed
+some signs of coming out after them, Susy was glad to join the
+retreating party; and they all darted off without looking behind them,
+and did not consider themselves perfectly safe, till they were seated at
+their desks in the schoolroom. Mother Grimes soon found that it was
+useless to try to tempt the little school-children any more, so she
+determined to move off to some other place, "where," as she said, "the
+children had no such foolish notions in their heads."
+
+And now the Sewing Society was started; and such a cutting and fixing,
+and bustle as there was, till enough work was prepared to give them all
+something to do! And then, when the one appointed began to read to them
+the interesting accounts from the papers, even those that at first felt
+no interest, but joined merely for the sake of being made officers in
+the Society, became so much interested, that they too were willing to
+practise great self-denial for the sake of aiding in sending the gospel
+to the destitute. And now who can estimate the good that one such little
+Society may accomplish? It is like casting a little pebble into the
+smooth water; at first small circles are formed about the spot, but they
+widen and increase, till we cannot see where the influence of that
+little pebble upon the water ends. So it may be with this little
+Society, but we shall never know, till the secrets of the last great day
+are disclosed, how much good such an association may have accomplished;
+how many souls the Bibles thus sent forth may have converted; and then,
+too, how much good these converts may have done in teaching the way of
+life to others, and these again to hundreds and thousands more!
+
+Children, is it not worth while to try and see if you cannot yourselves
+do something, and induce others to join you, and see how much money you
+can save, and make in the coming year? Do not ask your parents for money
+just to throw into a box, but give that which you would have spent in
+some other way. And then see if you have not ingenuity enough to find
+out some plan of earning money for the sake of doing good with it.
+Depend upon it, your interest in benevolent objects will increase from
+the very moment that you deny yourself for the sake of giving to others.
+Think what it would be to have even _one soul_ saved from among the poor
+benighted heathen, to rise up in the last great day, and call you, yes
+_you_, my little reader, blessed. Try it, and with daily prayers for the
+blessing of God upon your efforts, see what you can do for the heathen;
+remembering, that "he that converteth a _single_ sinner from the error
+of his way, shall save a _soul from death_, and shall hide a multitude
+of sins."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+_Good Resolutions._
+
+
+        Though I'm now in younger days,
+          Nor can tell what shall befall me,
+        I'll prepare for every place
+          Where my growing age shall call me.
+
+        Should I e'er be rich or great,
+          Others shall partake my goodness:
+        I'll supply the poor with meat,
+          Never showing scorn nor rudeness.
+
+        Where I see the blind or lame,
+          Deaf or dumb, I'll kindly treat them;
+        I deserve to feel the same,
+          If I mock, or hurt, or cheat them.
+
+        If I meet with railing tongues,
+          Why should I return them railing?
+        Since I best revenge my wrongs
+          By my patience never failing.
+
+        When I hear them telling lies,
+          Talking foolish, cursing, swearing,
+        First I'll try to make them wise
+          Or I'll soon go out of hearing.
+
+        What though I be low and mean,
+          I'll engage the rich to love me;
+        While I'm modest, neat, and clean,
+          And submit when they reprove me.
+
+        If I should be poor and sick,
+          I shall meet, I hope, with pity;
+        Since I love to help the weak,
+          Though they're neither fair nor witty.
+
+        I'll not willingly offend,
+          Nor be easily offended;
+        What's amiss I'll strive to mend,
+          And endure what can't be mended.
+
+        May I be so watchful still
+          O'er my humours and my passion,
+        As to speak, and do no ill,
+          Though it should be all the fashion.
+
+        Wicked fashions lead to hell,
+          Ne'er may I be found complying
+        But in life behave so well,
+          Not to be afraid of dying.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors were repaired.
+
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