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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our Katie + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: April 2, 2011 [EBook #35757] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR KATIE *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David E. Brown and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">OUR KATIE.</span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus001.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p class="center"><span class="big">PUBLISHED BY THE</span><br/></p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,</span><br /></p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center">150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK.<br /></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">OUR KATIE.</span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus003.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p class="center">"She taught us how to live, and—Oh, too high<br /> +The price of knowledge—taught us how to die."<br /> +</p> +<p> </p> +<p>Katie was born in Ireland, but at an early age her parents emigrated to +this country<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> and settled in Brooklyn, not a great distance from the Lee +Avenue Sabbath-school. She was one of a family of ten children, of whom +several were older than herself, yet from her earliest childhood she +appeared to be a ruling spirit among them. Naturally quick and apt to +learn, she readily adapted herself to the manners and customs of the new +people she was with, and it was her earnest desire that her family +should do the same.</p> + +<p>Katie was not beautiful, nor even pretty, but there was an earnest look +in her large dark eyes, and an expression of frankness in her +countenance. Her amiable disposition endeared her to every one, and the +influence she possessed among both old and young was truly surprising. +At an early age she began to take charge of the younger children; and +here her care was like that of a mother.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> She was anxious they should +learn habits of order and cleanliness, and she used to offer some little +reward to the one who excelled for a certain length of time in these +virtues.</p> + +<p>It is related of Katie, as showing her obliging disposition, that when +at home, it was her custom on every Monday, the general wash-day, to +collect around her all the children of her acquaintance, and amuse and +entertain them, to the intense delight of their grateful mothers; for +the little ones all loved Katie, and would oftentimes yield to her a +more willing obedience than to those better entitled to receive it.</p> + +<p>Katie's connection with the Sabbath-school began with its organization, +her name being the tenth enrolled upon the register. And little did the +Secretary think, as he glanced upon the little Irish girl standing so +timidly before him, that beneath<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> that rough exterior was hidden such a +noble spirit as was afterwards manifested—nor that the humble name then +recorded was yet to be known throughout the land, and that its sound was +to bring tears into eyes which never beheld the owner.</p> + +<p>From the first, Katie manifested the most absorbing interest in the +school, which continued unabated till her death. The second Sabbath she +brought all her younger brothers and sisters; and during the entire +period of her sojourn here, though the school increased from ten to ten +hundred members, there was not one more regular and punctual in +attendance than they. None were more entirely devoted to the interest of +the school than Katie. It was to her more than meat or drink. No weather +was so inclement as to detain her from any of its meetings. There was no +clothing, however poor and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> dilapidated, which could not, under Katie's +skilful fingers, be made to assume an appearance of neatness, at least +long enough for her to attend Sabbath-school. Is not here a lesson for +many a richer child who, with every possible advantage, yet seizes upon +the slightest pretext for remaining absent from her class, careless +alike of the blessing she refuses and the pain she causes an anxious +teacher.</p> + +<p>Katie was always the first one of her class present, and here her sweet +disposition manifested itself most forcibly. Extremely neat in her own +person, the want of neatness in others annoyed her exceedingly, and that +any one should come to school with soiled clothing, or dirty face and +hands, was to her almost an unpardonable sin; therefore each new arrival +was scrutinized most closely, and the pump near the school-room has +witnessed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> many and many of her charitable ablutions. She generally +carried a small comb in her pocket, which she never scrupled to use; and +it was often difficult to recognize in the clean-faced, smooth-haired +child who returned with her from one of these cold-water expeditions, +the wretched little object she had "carried out."</p> + +<p>Katie was one of our home missionaries, and a more devoted, faithful one +it would be difficult to find. Her ardent love for the Sabbath-school, +and the instruction she there received, made her anxious that others +should share the same blessing. It appeared to be a rule of her life +never to come alone. Much of her spare time was occupied in searching +through the lanes and hovels for those unblessed with religious +influence, and bringing them in to the Sabbath-school. The locality in +which she resided was inhabited<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> mostly by the lower class of Irish +Catholics, who were bitterly opposed to the cause for which she so +unweariedly labored. Yet, although the difficulties she encountered were +neither few nor easily surmounted, she was very successful, and the +numbers which through her means were added to our school were very +large. It was her custom either to call for them herself at their homes, +or else meet them at some place she should appoint, and then with her +little band to start for the school, taking the pump in her way if she +thought it necessary.</p> + +<p>She was willing to be placed in any class, or to make any sacrifice the +superintendent required; and the welfare of the school was always +preferred to her own pleasure. No teacher ever had Katie in her charge, +but felt that she was indeed a blessing to the class. Studious and +attentive, she always knew her lessons<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> perfectly, and it was no +uncommon thing for her to repeat several hundred verses from the Bible +and hymn-book at one time.</p> + +<p>Her own recitations completed, her attention was next given to the other +members of the class; and if, as was too often the case, there were any +unprepared with lessons, Katie always considered it her especial duty to +assist them as much as possible, finding easy places in the Testament or +short hymns for them to learn. In this way many who would otherwise have +been totally deficient, were enabled to recite a dozen verses before +leaving the room.</p> + +<p>Her knowledge of Scripture was, for one so young, truly marvellous. +Every great historical event recorded on those sacred pages she knew by +heart. With the beautiful Psalms of David, the sublime prophecies of +Isaiah, and the solemn, yet<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> mysterious revelations of John, she was +equally familiar; and on being once questioned by a teacher in whose +class she was temporarily placed, where she had learned so much about +the Bible, she replied, "I learned it all in Sabbath-school." She could +commit to memory with great facility; and being very fond of reading, no +spare moment found Katie without a book or paper in her hands.</p> + +<p>Katie belonged, for some time, to an Industrial school in Brooklyn; and +the teachers and managers bear a willing testimony to the high character +she maintained while there. Diligent, attentive, and obedient, her +lovely disposition soon rendered her here, as everywhere else, a +universal favorite; while her prompt and efficient aid in all the minor +duties of the school, made her almost invaluable as an assistant.</p> + +<p>But<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> it is time to speak of Katie's spiritual life; and short as the +record must necessarily be, it is yet sufficient to prove that "not by +might, nor by power," but by the Holy Spirit alone are we made wise unto +salvation. When she first entered the school, the Bible was to her +almost a sealed book. True, she was not unacquainted with the name of +Christ, nor that he lived and died for sinners; but beyond the knowledge +of this simple fact, she was entirely ignorant. That she was personally +interested in the matter was something she had never dreamed of. This +life alone occupied all her thoughts; and it was left for a +Sabbath-school teacher first to open her eyes to the necessity of a +preparation here for the life beyond; to teach her the true significance +of that sorrowful life which Jesus led on earth, the thorny crown and +the agonizing death on the cross; to show her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> that it was for her sake +he suffered, for her sins he was numbered with transgressors. It was all +new to Katie, something she had never heard of before; and the interest +she at first manifested became more and more intense, as week after week +some new truth was unfolded, some new idea gained of the great plan of +redemption through a crucified Saviour.</p> + +<p>The influence of the Holy Spirit upon Katie's mind was like the rising +dawn, not a sudden change from midnight darkness to the full and glowing +splendor of noonday. She could not, probably, have given a connected +account of her experience, and pointed to the day and hour in which she +first felt the love of Christ, nor to the moment when for the first time +she felt the joy of pardoned sin through his perfect merits. All she +knew was, that whereas once she was blind,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> now she saw; and she was +content.</p> + +<p>One Sabbath a new teacher, in whose class Katie was placed a few months +previous to her death, took occasion privately to address her on the +duty of personal religion, urging upon her the importance of giving her +heart to Jesus while in her youth. With a bright, happy smile, Katie +replied,</p> + +<p>"Why, teacher, I do love Jesus now."</p> + +<p>"Well, Katie, I am glad; but you must love him with all your heart, so +much that you will be willing to give up all your own wishes for his +sake; to do any thing he requires, however hard it may seem, and to work +for him all your life; and to try and grow more and more like him every +day. This is the kind of love I mean."</p> + +<p>Katie humbly replied, "I think I love him a great deal, but I know it is +not enough—it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> is only a little child's love; but when I get older, +then I will love him as much as grown persons do."</p> + +<p>Only a child's love! The teacher's eye grew dim as she remembered the +words of the blessed Master: "Suffer the little children to come unto +me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven."</p> + +<p>Katie seldom spoke of herself. Deeds, not words, alone spoke of the +change within. Yet her life bore beautiful testimony to the profession +she made. And what better evidence could be required that the love she +professed was genuine, than that her life daily assimilated more and +more to the divine pattern which Christ hath given? He himself said, "By +their fruits shall ye know them."</p> + +<p>As may already have been inferred, Katie's parents were extremely poor, +with a large family of small children to support;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> and the father being +out of employment much of the time, they often wanted even the +necessaries of life, and it was no uncommon thing for Katie to go +supperless and hungry to bed. Therefore, as soon as she was old enough, +she felt that she must do something to assist her parents in supporting +the family. Only one path was open to her, and that was domestic +service. Unhesitatingly she availed herself of it. Whatever her strength +was equal to, Katie was willing and glad to do; and in seeking a place, +she had but one stipulation to make—which was, that she should be +allowed the privilege of going to Sabbath-school on Sunday afternoons. +Some kind friend procured for her a situation in New York, where she +would have light work and high wages. The distance appeared to make no +impression whatever on Katie, as she asked the usual question, "Can I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +go to Sunday-school every week?" On being told that it would not be +convenient to have her absent on that day, no persuasions could induce +her to accept it. And it was so in every instance.</p> + +<p>Though she began service at the early age of twelve years, yet in no +case did she ever fail of giving satisfaction. Faithful in the discharge +of her duties, active, and obliging, she invariably won the love and +esteem of all who employed her. But she did not change often. With one +family, the first she entered, she remained over eighteen months, and +then only left because sickness demanded her presence at home.</p> + +<p>She devoted all the wages she received to the wants of the family, never +retaining a penny for herself. Once when urged by her mother to do so, +Katie replied, "Yes, mother, just as soon as the children get fixed up." +But, poor child, this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> seemed a hopeless task—there were so many of +them, and little shoes will wear out, little frocks will get torn—so +that Katie never came home without finding it necessary to supply some +article of clothing. Yet she always did it cheerfully, thankful that it +was in her power to assist at any sacrifice. Thus this noble girl toiled +on month after month, looking for and receiving no reward, save in +beholding the happiness she conferred at home, and each day studying how +she might increase it. Surely of her it might well be said, "She hath +done what she could."</p> + +<p>About six weeks previous to her death, she obtained a situation in a +highly estimable Christian family in Brooklyn. And here she appeared to +grow more spiritually lovely, more tender and affectionate in her +manner, more thoughtful for the comfort and welfare of others than<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> +ever. The new friends with whom she was living had lately been called to +pass through peculiarly severe affliction. One after another of the +loved voices in that family circle had been hushed and silent in death, +and yet that dread messenger who had summoned them away still lingered. +The husband and father of that stricken band had for a long time been +ill, and all felt that in his death their bereavement was soon to be +complete.</p> + +<p>Katie soon endeared herself to every one in the house. She was to them +like an own child, and as such was treated. Seeing her destitute +condition, they at once furnished her with suitable clothing. Katie's +gratitude was unbounded, and the affectionate manner in which she always +spoke of them showed how truly she appreciated their kindness. Her quick +and ready sympathies were awakened as she learned of their repeated +trials,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> and by every means in her power she endeavored to console them. +A daughter near her own age, whom they had recently lost, appeared to +interest her most deeply. She never wearied talking of her, and would +frequently say to the mother, "I am sure I shall see and know your dear +R—— in heaven." With the invalid father, Katie was a great favorite, +and when she was not otherwise engaged, he loved to have her with him. +Katie would then take her little Bible and read to him the sweet +promises of Jesus, or sing some of the many beautiful hymns she learned +at Sabbath-school. Her simple comments on what she read at once amused +and interested him, while her glowing faith seemed to quicken and +increase his own. Who shall say that the ministrations of this blessed +child were not instrumental in lightening his pathway to the tomb; +dispelling the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> doubts and fears which cluster round it, and revealing +more distinctly the smiling face of Jesus to him who was so soon to pass +through the dark valley?</p> + +<p>A favorite hymn was the following:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">I can tarry, I can tarry but a night;</span><br /> + Do not detain me, for I am going<br /> + To where the streamlets are ever flowing;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.</span><br /> + <br /> + There the sunbeams are ever shining,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">I am longing, I am longing for the sight;</span><br /> + Within a country unknown and dreary,<br /> + I have been wandering, forlorn and weary.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'm a pilgrim, etc.</span><br /> + <br /> + Of that country to which I'm going<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">My Redeemer, my Redeemer is the light;</span><br /> + There is no sorrow, nor any sighing,<br /> + Nor any sin there, nor any dying.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'm a pilgrim, etc.</span><br /></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus022.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p>Katie was soon known to every child in the neighborhood. During her +hours of recreation she would gather them all about her on the steps, +and tell them stories from the Bible, talk about heaven, or sing with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +them from her hymn-book; and the eager attention which they gave her +proved that they were well entertained. Though living now at a distance +of over three miles from the Sabbath-school, yet she never failed of +being present, generally starting from ten to fifteen minutes earlier +then was otherwise necessary, in order to stop at home and see that the +other children were ready, for Katie would never consent to their being +absent. To be sure, she always had the whole of them to wash and dress, +but that was no hardship, for she was too active to allow of its +consuming much time, and in an incredible short space she would be seen +marching down the street with her little band in regular order, teaching +them a lesson to repeat as she went along; for in this, as in every +thing else, they depended entirely upon Katie.</p> + +<p>The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> last Sabbath Katie ever passed on earth found her in her usual +place; but her sad look attracted the attention of her teacher, who +kindly inquired the cause. With tearful eyes she replied, "The gentleman +I live with is very sick; we do not think he can live till next Sunday." +Her foreboding proved true, and on the following Tuesday he died. Then +it was that Katie seemed almost an angel of mercy. She not only consoled +them with words of hope and encouragement, but endeavored in every way +to relieve them of all care or thought, apart from the one great sorrow +which overshadowed them; while the delicacy and tenderness of feeling +she manifested throughout this whole trying season, would not have +shamed the most fastidious refinement. But at last it was all over. The +precious dust had been laid in its last resting-place, and now the busy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +cares of life may not longer be forgotten. The day after the funeral, +thinking that Katie looked pale, and that the air would do her good, +Mrs. D—— sent her out towards evening for a short walk. On her return +it was found that she had been several miles out of the way, to procure +something she knew the physicians had ordered for a little grandchild of +Mrs. D——, and which they had not known where to obtain. Thus was she +to the very last thoughtful and careful for others.</p> + +<p>That evening after the rest of the family had retired, Mrs. D—— and +Katie remained in the parlor, speaking of the home their departed friend +had gained. Katie then took a small lamp in her hand, and sat down to +read. It is supposed that, overcome by fatigue, she fell asleep, when +the lamp slid from her grasp to the floor and ignited the bottom of her +dress. In<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> an instant she was enveloped in flames. Mrs. D—— seized a +rug and sprang to her assistance; but Katie, frightened, ran through the +hall into the yard, where she fell. By this time their screams had +brought assistance. The poor child was raised and carried into the +house, but every particle of her light summer clothing had been +consumed, and her body burned in the most shocking manner. Medical aid +was instantly summoned, and every thing possible done to alleviate her +sufferings, but it was at once perceived she could survive only a few +hours. Katie received the intelligence with a smile of joy, and +instantly remarked, "Now I shall indeed see your daughter, very, very +soon." She requested them to send for her own family, and also for her +Superintendent, that she might see them once again before she died, or +rather hear them, for her sight<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> was entirely destroyed. Her mother was +soon beside her, and her agony as she beheld her child was +heart-rending. Katie took her hand, saying, "Dear mother, please don't +cry so; if you do I cannot talk to you, and I have so much to say. See, +I am not crying. Oh, please don't." Katie then told her about the +accident, and how happy she felt in view of death; and said, "Oh, +mother, it is so blessed to feel that I am going to be with Jesus for +ever." Then, with a clear, sweet voice, she sung,</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"My heavenly home is bright and fair,<br /> +No pain nor death can enter there;<br /> +Its glittering towers the sun outshine,<br /> +That heavenly mansion shall be mine.<br /> +I'm going home, I'm going home,<br /> +I'm going home, to die no more."<br /> +</p> + +<p>All through those hours of terrible agony, not a complaint, scarcely a +groan, escaped her; but words of prayer and praise were continually upon +her lips. "Jesus<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> is my best, my only friend," she said; "he is close +beside me now, and I know he will not let me perish." Again she sung +this beautiful hymn,</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"Rock of ages, cleft for me,<br /> +Let me hide myself in thee;<br /> +Let the water and the blood,<br /> +From thy side a healing flood,<br /> +Be of sin the double cure,<br /> +Save from wrath and make me pure.<br /> +<br /> +Could my tears for ever flow,<br /> +Could my zeal no languor know,<br /> +This for sin could not atone;<br /> +Thou must save, and thou alone.<br /> +In my hand no price I bring,<br /> +Simply to thy cross I cling.<br /> +<br /> +While I draw this fleeting breath,<br /> +When my eyelids close in death,<br /> +When I rise to worlds unknown,<br /> +And behold thee on thy throne,<br /> +Rock of ages, cleft for me,<br /> +Let me hide myself in thee."<br /> +</p> + +<p>When she concluded, there was not a dry eye in the room. Perceiving that +she was sinking rapidly, the physicians ordered<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> stimulants to be +administered; but the moment Katie felt them upon her lips, she turned +away and absolutely refused them.</p> + +<p>"Don't you know," she exclaimed, "that I belong to the Band of Hope?"</p> + +<p>"But, Katie," urged her friends, "your superintendent would give it to +you himself, were he here now."</p> + +<p>"Well, when he comes and says so, then I will take it."</p> + +<p>"But, Katie, you may die before he comes, if you don't take a little +now."</p> + +<p>"Then I will die," exclaimed the noble girl, "but I won't break my +pledge."</p> + +<p>She appeared to appreciate every thing which was done for her, and her +expressions of gratitude were most touching. Several times she said, +"Oh, how I do love everybody, but Jesus best of all;" and then, with +clasped hands, she prayed. And as the words of holy trust fell<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> from her +lips, there was not one present but felt it was "well with the child."</p> + +<p>Her mind appeared to dwell much on the Sabbath-school: "I shall never +see it again," she once said, "but Oh, I shall see heaven so soon!" and +then, in a sweet, but feeble voice, she sang two verses of a favorite +hymn:</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"I'm travelling home to heaven above,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will you go? will you go?</span><br /> +To sing the Saviour's dying love,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will you go? will you go?</span><br /> +<br /> +The crown of life I then shall wear,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The conqueror's palm my hands shall bear,</span><br /> +And all the joys of heaven I'll share;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will you go? will you go?"</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Not a doubt or fear appeared to dim the glory of her faith. The last +hour, so terrible to many, brought to her only the most ineffable joy +and peace.</p> + +<p>Fearing that Mr. Johnson her superintendent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> would not arrive in time, +she left a most affectionate message for him.</p> + +<p>She then bade all her friends good-by, thanked them for the care and +attention shown her, and entreated them all to meet her in heaven. +Sinking back, she murmured, in an exhausted tone, "<i>Dear</i>, <small>DEAR</small> +Saviour."</p> + +<p>Mr. Johnson now entered, but too late, for it was thought Katie was +gone. She lay a few moments longer, silent and motionless; scarcely a +breath came from these parted lips to indicate that she yet lived. +Suddenly collecting all her remaining strength, with uplifted hand, she +exclaimed, in a glad, exultant voice, "Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh +grave, where is thy victory?" The raised hand slowly drooped upon her +bosom, a few fluttering breaths, and Katie was ours no longer.</p> + +<p>A solemn silence filled the chamber, unbroken<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> by even a single sob. It +was a season never to be forgotten by the few who stood round that lowly +couch. What, Oh what but the religion of Jesus could have stood the test +of that awful hour? What but his infinite love could have enabled her to +endure such terrible sufferings—to go singing into the swelling waves +of Jordan, and even as its billows closed over her, to send back the +triumphant cry, "Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy +victory?"</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class="big">TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:</span></p> + + <p class="blockquot">Obvious errors in spelling and hyphenation have been corrected + from the original:<br/> +<br/> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Page 20: <i>eomments</i> corrected to <i>comments</i><br/></span> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Page 29: <i>wont</i> corrected to <i>won't</i><br/></span> +<br/> + Punctuation has been corrected without note.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Katie, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR KATIE *** + +***** This file should be named 35757-h.htm or 35757-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/7/5/35757/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David E. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our Katie + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: April 2, 2011 [EBook #35757] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR KATIE *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David E. Brown and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + OUR KATIE. + + + + + PUBLISHED BY THE + + AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, + + 150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK. + + + + + OUR KATIE. + + + [Illustration: "She taught us how to live, and--Oh, too high + The price of knowledge--taught us how to die."] + + +Katie was born in Ireland, but at an early age her parents emigrated to +this country and settled in Brooklyn, not a great distance from the Lee +Avenue Sabbath-school. She was one of a family of ten children, of whom +several were older than herself, yet from her earliest childhood she +appeared to be a ruling spirit among them. Naturally quick and apt to +learn, she readily adapted herself to the manners and customs of the new +people she was with, and it was her earnest desire that her family +should do the same. + +Katie was not beautiful, nor even pretty, but there was an earnest look +in her large dark eyes, and an expression of frankness in her +countenance. Her amiable disposition endeared her to every one, and the +influence she possessed among both old and young was truly surprising. +At an early age she began to take charge of the younger children; and +here her care was like that of a mother. She was anxious they should +learn habits of order and cleanliness, and she used to offer some little +reward to the one who excelled for a certain length of time in these +virtues. + +It is related of Katie, as showing her obliging disposition, that when +at home, it was her custom on every Monday, the general wash-day, to +collect around her all the children of her acquaintance, and amuse and +entertain them, to the intense delight of their grateful mothers; for +the little ones all loved Katie, and would oftentimes yield to her a +more willing obedience than to those better entitled to receive it. + +Katie's connection with the Sabbath-school began with its organization, +her name being the tenth enrolled upon the register. And little did the +Secretary think, as he glanced upon the little Irish girl standing so +timidly before him, that beneath that rough exterior was hidden such a +noble spirit as was afterwards manifested--nor that the humble name then +recorded was yet to be known throughout the land, and that its sound was +to bring tears into eyes which never beheld the owner. + +From the first, Katie manifested the most absorbing interest in the +school, which continued unabated till her death. The second Sabbath she +brought all her younger brothers and sisters; and during the entire +period of her sojourn here, though the school increased from ten to ten +hundred members, there was not one more regular and punctual in +attendance than they. None were more entirely devoted to the interest of +the school than Katie. It was to her more than meat or drink. No weather +was so inclement as to detain her from any of its meetings. There was no +clothing, however poor and dilapidated, which could not, under Katie's +skilful fingers, be made to assume an appearance of neatness, at least +long enough for her to attend Sabbath-school. Is not here a lesson for +many a richer child who, with every possible advantage, yet seizes upon +the slightest pretext for remaining absent from her class, careless +alike of the blessing she refuses and the pain she causes an anxious +teacher. + +Katie was always the first one of her class present, and here her sweet +disposition manifested itself most forcibly. Extremely neat in her own +person, the want of neatness in others annoyed her exceedingly, and that +any one should come to school with soiled clothing, or dirty face and +hands, was to her almost an unpardonable sin; therefore each new arrival +was scrutinized most closely, and the pump near the school-room has +witnessed many and many of her charitable ablutions. She generally +carried a small comb in her pocket, which she never scrupled to use; and +it was often difficult to recognize in the clean-faced, smooth-haired +child who returned with her from one of these cold-water expeditions, +the wretched little object she had "carried out." + +Katie was one of our home missionaries, and a more devoted, faithful one +it would be difficult to find. Her ardent love for the Sabbath-school, +and the instruction she there received, made her anxious that others +should share the same blessing. It appeared to be a rule of her life +never to come alone. Much of her spare time was occupied in searching +through the lanes and hovels for those unblessed with religious +influence, and bringing them in to the Sabbath-school. The locality in +which she resided was inhabited mostly by the lower class of Irish +Catholics, who were bitterly opposed to the cause for which she so +unweariedly labored. Yet, although the difficulties she encountered were +neither few nor easily surmounted, she was very successful, and the +numbers which through her means were added to our school were very +large. It was her custom either to call for them herself at their homes, +or else meet them at some place she should appoint, and then with her +little band to start for the school, taking the pump in her way if she +thought it necessary. + +She was willing to be placed in any class, or to make any sacrifice the +superintendent required; and the welfare of the school was always +preferred to her own pleasure. No teacher ever had Katie in her charge, +but felt that she was indeed a blessing to the class. Studious and +attentive, she always knew her lessons perfectly, and it was no +uncommon thing for her to repeat several hundred verses from the Bible +and hymn-book at one time. + +Her own recitations completed, her attention was next given to the other +members of the class; and if, as was too often the case, there were any +unprepared with lessons, Katie always considered it her especial duty to +assist them as much as possible, finding easy places in the Testament or +short hymns for them to learn. In this way many who would otherwise have +been totally deficient, were enabled to recite a dozen verses before +leaving the room. + +Her knowledge of Scripture was, for one so young, truly marvellous. +Every great historical event recorded on those sacred pages she knew by +heart. With the beautiful Psalms of David, the sublime prophecies of +Isaiah, and the solemn, yet mysterious revelations of John, she was +equally familiar; and on being once questioned by a teacher in whose +class she was temporarily placed, where she had learned so much about +the Bible, she replied, "I learned it all in Sabbath-school." She could +commit to memory with great facility; and being very fond of reading, no +spare moment found Katie without a book or paper in her hands. + +Katie belonged, for some time, to an Industrial school in Brooklyn; and +the teachers and managers bear a willing testimony to the high character +she maintained while there. Diligent, attentive, and obedient, her +lovely disposition soon rendered her here, as everywhere else, a +universal favorite; while her prompt and efficient aid in all the minor +duties of the school, made her almost invaluable as an assistant. + +But it is time to speak of Katie's spiritual life; and short as the +record must necessarily be, it is yet sufficient to prove that "not by +might, nor by power," but by the Holy Spirit alone are we made wise unto +salvation. When she first entered the school, the Bible was to her +almost a sealed book. True, she was not unacquainted with the name of +Christ, nor that he lived and died for sinners; but beyond the knowledge +of this simple fact, she was entirely ignorant. That she was personally +interested in the matter was something she had never dreamed of. This +life alone occupied all her thoughts; and it was left for a +Sabbath-school teacher first to open her eyes to the necessity of a +preparation here for the life beyond; to teach her the true significance +of that sorrowful life which Jesus led on earth, the thorny crown and +the agonizing death on the cross; to show her that it was for her sake +he suffered, for her sins he was numbered with transgressors. It was all +new to Katie, something she had never heard of before; and the interest +she at first manifested became more and more intense, as week after week +some new truth was unfolded, some new idea gained of the great plan of +redemption through a crucified Saviour. + +The influence of the Holy Spirit upon Katie's mind was like the rising +dawn, not a sudden change from midnight darkness to the full and glowing +splendor of noonday. She could not, probably, have given a connected +account of her experience, and pointed to the day and hour in which she +first felt the love of Christ, nor to the moment when for the first time +she felt the joy of pardoned sin through his perfect merits. All she +knew was, that whereas once she was blind, now she saw; and she was +content. + +One Sabbath a new teacher, in whose class Katie was placed a few months +previous to her death, took occasion privately to address her on the +duty of personal religion, urging upon her the importance of giving her +heart to Jesus while in her youth. With a bright, happy smile, Katie +replied, + +"Why, teacher, I do love Jesus now." + +"Well, Katie, I am glad; but you must love him with all your heart, so +much that you will be willing to give up all your own wishes for his +sake; to do any thing he requires, however hard it may seem, and to work +for him all your life; and to try and grow more and more like him every +day. This is the kind of love I mean." + +Katie humbly replied, "I think I love him a great deal, but I know it is +not enough--it is only a little child's love; but when I get older, +then I will love him as much as grown persons do." + +Only a child's love! The teacher's eye grew dim as she remembered the +words of the blessed Master: "Suffer the little children to come unto +me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven." + +Katie seldom spoke of herself. Deeds, not words, alone spoke of the +change within. Yet her life bore beautiful testimony to the profession +she made. And what better evidence could be required that the love she +professed was genuine, than that her life daily assimilated more and +more to the divine pattern which Christ hath given? He himself said, "By +their fruits shall ye know them." + +As may already have been inferred, Katie's parents were extremely poor, +with a large family of small children to support; and the father being +out of employment much of the time, they often wanted even the +necessaries of life, and it was no uncommon thing for Katie to go +supperless and hungry to bed. Therefore, as soon as she was old enough, +she felt that she must do something to assist her parents in supporting +the family. Only one path was open to her, and that was domestic +service. Unhesitatingly she availed herself of it. Whatever her strength +was equal to, Katie was willing and glad to do; and in seeking a place, +she had but one stipulation to make--which was, that she should be +allowed the privilege of going to Sabbath-school on Sunday afternoons. +Some kind friend procured for her a situation in New York, where she +would have light work and high wages. The distance appeared to make no +impression whatever on Katie, as she asked the usual question, "Can I +go to Sunday-school every week?" On being told that it would not be +convenient to have her absent on that day, no persuasions could induce +her to accept it. And it was so in every instance. + +Though she began service at the early age of twelve years, yet in no +case did she ever fail of giving satisfaction. Faithful in the discharge +of her duties, active, and obliging, she invariably won the love and +esteem of all who employed her. But she did not change often. With one +family, the first she entered, she remained over eighteen months, and +then only left because sickness demanded her presence at home. + +She devoted all the wages she received to the wants of the family, never +retaining a penny for herself. Once when urged by her mother to do so, +Katie replied, "Yes, mother, just as soon as the children get fixed up." +But, poor child, this seemed a hopeless task--there were so many of +them, and little shoes will wear out, little frocks will get torn--so +that Katie never came home without finding it necessary to supply some +article of clothing. Yet she always did it cheerfully, thankful that it +was in her power to assist at any sacrifice. Thus this noble girl toiled +on month after month, looking for and receiving no reward, save in +beholding the happiness she conferred at home, and each day studying how +she might increase it. Surely of her it might well be said, "She hath +done what she could." + +About six weeks previous to her death, she obtained a situation in a +highly estimable Christian family in Brooklyn. And here she appeared to +grow more spiritually lovely, more tender and affectionate in her +manner, more thoughtful for the comfort and welfare of others than +ever. The new friends with whom she was living had lately been called to +pass through peculiarly severe affliction. One after another of the +loved voices in that family circle had been hushed and silent in death, +and yet that dread messenger who had summoned them away still lingered. +The husband and father of that stricken band had for a long time been +ill, and all felt that in his death their bereavement was soon to be +complete. + +Katie soon endeared herself to every one in the house. She was to them +like an own child, and as such was treated. Seeing her destitute +condition, they at once furnished her with suitable clothing. Katie's +gratitude was unbounded, and the affectionate manner in which she always +spoke of them showed how truly she appreciated their kindness. Her quick +and ready sympathies were awakened as she learned of their repeated +trials, and by every means in her power she endeavored to console them. +A daughter near her own age, whom they had recently lost, appeared to +interest her most deeply. She never wearied talking of her, and would +frequently say to the mother, "I am sure I shall see and know your dear +R---- in heaven." With the invalid father, Katie was a great favorite, +and when she was not otherwise engaged, he loved to have her with him. +Katie would then take her little Bible and read to him the sweet +promises of Jesus, or sing some of the many beautiful hymns she learned +at Sabbath-school. Her simple comments on what she read at once amused +and interested him, while her glowing faith seemed to quicken and +increase his own. Who shall say that the ministrations of this blessed +child were not instrumental in lightening his pathway to the tomb; +dispelling the doubts and fears which cluster round it, and revealing +more distinctly the smiling face of Jesus to him who was so soon to pass +through the dark valley? + +A favorite hymn was the following: + + I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger, + I can tarry, I can tarry but a night; + Do not detain me, for I am going + To where the streamlets are ever flowing; + I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger, + I can tarry, I can tarry but a night. + + There the sunbeams are ever shining, + I am longing, I am longing for the sight; + Within a country unknown and dreary, + I have been wandering, forlorn and weary. + I'm a pilgrim, etc. + + Of that country to which I'm going + My Redeemer, my Redeemer is the light; + There is no sorrow, nor any sighing, + Nor any sin there, nor any dying. + I'm a pilgrim, etc. + +[Illustration] + +Katie was soon known to every child in the neighborhood. During her +hours of recreation she would gather them all about her on the steps, +and tell them stories from the Bible, talk about heaven, or sing with +them from her hymn-book; and the eager attention which they gave her +proved that they were well entertained. Though living now at a distance +of over three miles from the Sabbath-school, yet she never failed of +being present, generally starting from ten to fifteen minutes earlier +then was otherwise necessary, in order to stop at home and see that the +other children were ready, for Katie would never consent to their being +absent. To be sure, she always had the whole of them to wash and dress, +but that was no hardship, for she was too active to allow of its +consuming much time, and in an incredible short space she would be seen +marching down the street with her little band in regular order, teaching +them a lesson to repeat as she went along; for in this, as in every +thing else, they depended entirely upon Katie. + +The last Sabbath Katie ever passed on earth found her in her usual +place; but her sad look attracted the attention of her teacher, who +kindly inquired the cause. With tearful eyes she replied, "The gentleman +I live with is very sick; we do not think he can live till next Sunday." +Her foreboding proved true, and on the following Tuesday he died. Then +it was that Katie seemed almost an angel of mercy. She not only consoled +them with words of hope and encouragement, but endeavored in every way +to relieve them of all care or thought, apart from the one great sorrow +which overshadowed them; while the delicacy and tenderness of feeling +she manifested throughout this whole trying season, would not have +shamed the most fastidious refinement. But at last it was all over. The +precious dust had been laid in its last resting-place, and now the busy +cares of life may not longer be forgotten. The day after the funeral, +thinking that Katie looked pale, and that the air would do her good, +Mrs. D---- sent her out towards evening for a short walk. On her return +it was found that she had been several miles out of the way, to procure +something she knew the physicians had ordered for a little grandchild of +Mrs. D----, and which they had not known where to obtain. Thus was she +to the very last thoughtful and careful for others. + +That evening after the rest of the family had retired, Mrs. D---- and +Katie remained in the parlor, speaking of the home their departed friend +had gained. Katie then took a small lamp in her hand, and sat down to +read. It is supposed that, overcome by fatigue, she fell asleep, when +the lamp slid from her grasp to the floor and ignited the bottom of her +dress. In an instant she was enveloped in flames. Mrs. D---- seized a +rug and sprang to her assistance; but Katie, frightened, ran through the +hall into the yard, where she fell. By this time their screams had +brought assistance. The poor child was raised and carried into the +house, but every particle of her light summer clothing had been +consumed, and her body burned in the most shocking manner. Medical aid +was instantly summoned, and every thing possible done to alleviate her +sufferings, but it was at once perceived she could survive only a few +hours. Katie received the intelligence with a smile of joy, and +instantly remarked, "Now I shall indeed see your daughter, very, very +soon." She requested them to send for her own family, and also for her +Superintendent, that she might see them once again before she died, or +rather hear them, for her sight was entirely destroyed. Her mother was +soon beside her, and her agony as she beheld her child was +heart-rending. Katie took her hand, saying, "Dear mother, please don't +cry so; if you do I cannot talk to you, and I have so much to say. See, +I am not crying. Oh, please don't." Katie then told her about the +accident, and how happy she felt in view of death; and said, "Oh, +mother, it is so blessed to feel that I am going to be with Jesus for +ever." Then, with a clear, sweet voice, she sung, + + "My heavenly home is bright and fair, + No pain nor death can enter there; + Its glittering towers the sun outshine, + That heavenly mansion shall be mine. + I'm going home, I'm going home, + I'm going home, to die no more." + +All through those hours of terrible agony, not a complaint, scarcely a +groan, escaped her; but words of prayer and praise were continually upon +her lips. "Jesus is my best, my only friend," she said; "he is close +beside me now, and I know he will not let me perish." Again she sung +this beautiful hymn, + + "Rock of ages, cleft for me, + Let me hide myself in thee; + Let the water and the blood, + From thy side a healing flood, + Be of sin the double cure, + Save from wrath and make me pure. + + Could my tears for ever flow, + Could my zeal no languor know, + This for sin could not atone; + Thou must save, and thou alone. + In my hand no price I bring, + Simply to thy cross I cling. + + While I draw this fleeting breath, + When my eyelids close in death, + When I rise to worlds unknown, + And behold thee on thy throne, + Rock of ages, cleft for me, + Let me hide myself in thee." + +When she concluded, there was not a dry eye in the room. Perceiving that +she was sinking rapidly, the physicians ordered stimulants to be +administered; but the moment Katie felt them upon her lips, she turned +away and absolutely refused them. + +"Don't you know," she exclaimed, "that I belong to the Band of Hope?" + +"But, Katie," urged her friends, "your superintendent would give it to +you himself, were he here now." + +"Well, when he comes and says so, then I will take it." + +"But, Katie, you may die before he comes, if you don't take a little +now." + +"Then I will die," exclaimed the noble girl, "but I won't break my +pledge." + +She appeared to appreciate every thing which was done for her, and her +expressions of gratitude were most touching. Several times she said, +"Oh, how I do love everybody, but Jesus best of all;" and then, with +clasped hands, she prayed. And as the words of holy trust fell from her +lips, there was not one present but felt it was "well with the child." + +Her mind appeared to dwell much on the Sabbath-school: "I shall never +see it again," she once said, "but Oh, I shall see heaven so soon!" and +then, in a sweet, but feeble voice, she sang two verses of a favorite +hymn: + + "I'm travelling home to heaven above, + Will you go? will you go? + To sing the Saviour's dying love, + Will you go? will you go? + + The crown of life I then shall wear, + The conqueror's palm my hands shall bear, + And all the joys of heaven I'll share; + Will you go? will you go?" + +Not a doubt or fear appeared to dim the glory of her faith. The last +hour, so terrible to many, brought to her only the most ineffable joy +and peace. + +Fearing that Mr. Johnson her superintendent would not arrive in time, +she left a most affectionate message for him. + +She then bade all her friends good-by, thanked them for the care and +attention shown her, and entreated them all to meet her in heaven. +Sinking back, she murmured, in an exhausted tone, "_Dear_, DEAR +Saviour." + +Mr. Johnson now entered, but too late, for it was thought Katie was +gone. She lay a few moments longer, silent and motionless; scarcely a +breath came from these parted lips to indicate that she yet lived. +Suddenly collecting all her remaining strength, with uplifted hand, she +exclaimed, in a glad, exultant voice, "Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh +grave, where is thy victory?" The raised hand slowly drooped upon her +bosom, a few fluttering breaths, and Katie was ours no longer. + +A solemn silence filled the chamber, unbroken by even a single sob. It +was a season never to be forgotten by the few who stood round that lowly +couch. What, Oh what but the religion of Jesus could have stood the test +of that awful hour? What but his infinite love could have enabled her to +endure such terrible sufferings--to go singing into the swelling waves +of Jordan, and even as its billows closed over her, to send back the +triumphant cry, "Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy +victory?" + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + + + Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. + + Obvious errors in spelling and hyphenation have been corrected + from the original: + + Page 20: eomments correct to comments + Page 29: wont corrected to won't + + Punctuation has been corrected without note. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Katie, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR KATIE *** + +***** This file should be named 35757.txt or 35757.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/7/5/35757/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David E. 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