Long ago grandmother had gone to her rest, and Christie was considered an old inmate of the hospital, yet still she kept to the old rule; and when she was, as she expressed it, a bad girl and felt cross, the neatly joined squares were picked apart and begun afresh. "I like it all," she said, as she often had before, "and there's lots of work in it, but I'll like the wrong side best." For it was to be lined with fresh, beautiful white, one of the ladies who visited having promised to provide white cotton for the purpose. "( Girls," Christie said after pricking her roughened forefinger for five minutes in silence, wouldn't you like me to tell you a story? Milly gave a sleepy assent, and Janie asked if it were true. "Well, yes, I guess so; I think I dremp it; but it don't matter. Now I'll begin. Once upon a time there was a girl, and she walked-" "They always walk," Milly said, and indeed Christie's heroines generally spent their life in climbing up and down hills, for her own plunging pro gress on account of the dislocated hip and the foot that never would go straight, it was little wonder she thought walking and still more running the most delightful pastimes. "Never mind," she said, in no way abashed by the interruption; she did walk all the way to -Japan." "What's that?" asked her hearers. "There are no white dresses here, Christie; they're all blue." Christie finished gravely, rather proud There was a long row on 'em, two and of the pain which had been severe two,, and they had white dresses on. enough for this remedy, as 'pickles," Oh, Miss Gray, I could wear a white being the strongest expression in use, dress!" was supposed to help in bearing twinges. One of the ladies came up and broke the silence which had fallen. Oh, my! so there ain't; but I'll tell Christie, you may go down to the you, Miss Gray, couldn't I wear a nightsecond ward." dress only for onct, you know, and I would keep it just as clean. I could have a number six, so it would be nice and long, and a bandage of something to tie it in round the waist to make it look like a dress." "Yes'm; and is it singing, Miss Scott ?" she asked, eagerly, for it was a great treat to go down to the organ and sing carols in her high, squeaky treble. "No, it isn't singing. Go quickly." Go quickly." One corner of the ward looked odd Christie spoke breathlessly lest she THERE WAS A RUSTLE ON THE STAIRS, AND MRS. FRERE AND AGNES CAME IN. "Oh, it's a beautiful place, a city, I guess; gra'mother had a tray as come from there, it was all shiny and flowers, you know, girls." "No I don't," Milly said provokingly, her sleepiness having made her cross. "I ain't seen flowers this long time." They're just lovely, I think," Christie said, clasping her hands and forgetting the girl in Japan who was still walking. "Onct when I was in bed with my hip, Mrs. Steele, a lady as used to visit, brought me a bunch of flowers, and they did me good, girls, though I'd been so bad all day I had to say 'pickles.'" might be interrupted before her plan was complete. Miss Gray could not help smiling as she answered kindly: "You would not. go to church looking like that, my dear; people would think you had forgotten to dress yourself; and, Christie, it doesn't matter what color we. wear, if our hearts are pure and clean to receive the Holy Spirit." "No'm, but still—” "The fittest way to prepare is by casting all wrong thoughts from your heart, and there you may have whiteness, for don't. you remember the hymn: 'That in the Father's courts my glorious dress May be the garment of Tby righteousness,' which means that Christ will make your heart pure and white. Now I must. go on duty, and you may go upstairs." Miss Gray looked at the clock, shook 1 "How do you do, Christie? Sewing still, I see. And what are Milly and "I don't 'zackly know. I don't hate Janie doing? Looking on? Some day, nobody." when you are better, you would both like to go for a drive, wouldn't you? But now I am going to take some one else. Who do you think it is? Christie, have you ever had a drive ?” Christie stood silent for a few minutes, swaying her maimed, crooked little figure, while she held fast to the footrail. Presently she looked up with a white face. "Oh, girls, it couldn't surely be that I'd have to do. Don't you remember the man Miss Gray was a-tellin' us about? He had to give up everything he had afore he could be a Christian. S'posin' I had to give my quilt away?" The children listened in awe-struck silence to this piteous wail, and were further alarmed when tears rolled down Christie's cheeks, for she was a womanly little maiden, and seldom cried. But just then one of the nurses came through the ward, and, seeing Christie in trouble, inquired the cause. "You silly childie," she said, kindly, of course you will not have to give up your quilt. If you want to be good, you must try harder to do just what you are told, and teach the little ones to do the same. You are a helpful child now, and I am glad you are going to be confirmed. If I were you I should work on my quilt now." So Christie dried her tears and curled herself upon the floor to stitch some gay patterns together. Her little world was quite bright again; the birds were singing outside in the tree-tops, and the sunshine streaming through the win leading into fairyland, where the ground lay in long reaches of light and shade, for there were dappled spots of shade cast by huge trees, with bright, sunshiny green beyond. Everything, even Nature, seemed to have put on a beautiful dress to receive the Holy Spirit. Only she might not prepare outwardly. Christie did not want to talk. She was content to be silent, taking all the beauty in, and noticing really much that escaped her companions. Why, she meant to remember about this day during her whole life, and Milly and Janie should have a chance to remember it also. She did not know if they had driven Yes, she knows all about it. Run for a long or short time, when they turned homeward. She was quite filled with gladness, and content, and thankfulness, and a full heart can hold no more; so Christie was hardly sorry to turn into the hospital gate. And Christie did run-such a queer, joyful hop and swing from bed to bed as must have shown to each owner that something very delightful was about to happen. 66 'Oh, children! just think of it, I'm going out for a drive with Mrs. Frere!" Christie Lawrin's goin' for a drive," cried a chorus of voices, and a curious circle gathered round her as she sat on the floor, pulling on her jacket with eager, trembling fingers. No one thought that in an hour or two it would be over, and Christie home again before tea. It was as if she were going far away to a new and beautiful world, and a little envy was mingled with pleasurable excitement as they watched her depart. Mrs. Frere's little daughter was in one corner of the carriage, and Christie was installed in the opposite one, from which she smiled ecstatically across the soft cushions and warm rug upon her opposite neighbor. "Isn't it a lovely day?" Agnes began, for want of something better to say; for though she had often seen the little lame girl in the hospital, it was much harder thing to talk to her here, since Christie was altered by her broad hat, and seemed too happy to talk. a 'Isn't it, though? The loveliest day I ever knew-altogether." "Have you ever been before?" she asked Agnes, as they parted. "Where? At the Park? Oh, yes, almost every day. Isn't it lovely?" "Yes, indeed," Christie said; "but I'm glad I haven't been every day, for it wouldn't ha' been so much." The ward was very still when she went in, for the children had taken their chairs during the time of silence before supper, so it was pleasant to slip quietly into her corner and think of all the day had brought. Then, when the bell rang, she went down with the others, and ate what was given to her, in blissful unconsciousness whether she were tasting bread and jam or dew-drops and daisies. Several days after this a wonderful plan occurred to Christie, which had the effect of making her work at those patches during every spare moment, and one evening the great secret was confided to Milly. "Don't you think it 'ud be honest ?" she began, half-hesitatingly. "Mrs. Frere would give me the cotton for my very own, so I thought I might just sort o' put it round me to make a dress, 'twouldn't hurt it, you know, and I don't believe she'd mind." "Because you're going for a drive?" "Yes, that's enough to make it nice; Milly was awe-struck and horrified, but then, 'sides that, I'm going to be but Christie was not to be turned from confirmed." her purpose, so early and late toiled "Are you? Why, I'm so glad. So diligently to accomplish her beloved am I?" She was having instructions from Are you going to wear a white the rector during this time, so wonderful new thoughts and truths were worked in with the even stitches. dress?" 66 I don't know. May I, mamma?" "I haven't thought of it. Yes, I think so, dear; it would be very nice." Oh, my!" Christie sighed, softly, and neither Mrs. Frere nor Agnes could know of the longing that lay beneath the words. "Dear me, these must be visitors,' Milly remarked a few minutes later, for the children had stopped singing, and were standing silent; so Christie dropped her work and rose also, just as a familiar face came round the corner of the ward. The little girl's face brightened as she They drove through the busy streets hobbled forward, for Mrs. Frere, the until they reached a shady avenue, doctor's wife, was the person who had which seemed to Christie like a vista end. Christie," Mrs. Frere said, taking a chair and drawing the little girl to her, "you must tell me what this is." So with many tears Christie told of her long-cherished plan, and if Mrs. Frere could not restrain a smile at the thought of the odd little figure going into chapel trailing yards of white cotton, she did not let Christie know. Very kindly and gently she pointed out how impossible this would be, and then told the little girl that she need not mind about the dress in which to receive her divine guest. Was that not a white day for Christie when she took those solemn vows upon her, and in the strength of the gift that came to her hoped to live purely before Him in this life, that she might be fit to walk before Him in white in His heavenly kingdom? art. ART. A very edge of the sand. Of the four prizes Indeed a dozen prizes could have been honorably awarded as well as four, and the general concurrence in this opinion will in some degree reimburse the disappointed. Amateurs and connoisseurs need not dread the inconvenience or time required for a visit to this collection. It is richly worth a careful and deliberate study, which we shall resume another week. OFFERINGS FOR MEXICO. Contributions in behalf of the work of the Church in Mexico are earnestly solicited, and may be forwarded to the treasurer of THE Prize Fund Exhibition of pictures at the delightful rooms of the American Art Association, Broadway and Twenty-third street, is a fine illustration of what intelligence, public spirit, and a judicious outlay of money may accomplish for the advancement of native The result, which is exceptionally important, has been secured without the usual attempts to manufacture or manipulate public opinion. With singular quiet and reticence, the collection has been made, and the doors of the most interesting exhibition of American pictures yet announced have been thrown open for the people, without fuss or pretension. There are no traces of cliques or aesthetic cranks. A number of gentlemen in different cities made their subscriptions, which reached such a sum that some ten thousand dollars were in hand for the prize-purchase of four the League aiding that work, Miss M. A. pictures, valued at $2,500 each, to be selected STEWART BROWN, care of Brown Bros. & Co., from the present competitive exhibition, which 59 Wall street, New York. will remain at the Art Rooms until July. The collection will then be removed to the cities, in turn, which shared in the venture. We learn that Louisville is first in order. It will interest our readers to learn that the movement has proved so successful that measures are well matured for another competitive exhibition next spring. Proposals have already been submitted to the leading American artists at home and abroad for contributions, and it seems not unlikely that an experiment so modestly inaugurated may ripen into a permanent agency of the highest value for the encouragement of native art. More than five hundred pictures were submitted to the committee, who accepted but one hundred and fifty-seven. These, however, from the prevailing size of the canvases, present the surface of five hundred ordinary works. It is "Just think, Christie, if you were quite pure and white within, and then if the Holy Spirit came with the bright-possibly a misfortune that competition should ness of His presence, how little it would matter what you wore when you had so much that was really white about you. Will you try to think of this to-night, and go to bed happily, like a good child ?" 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