FINDING SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
Alice Freeman Palmer, once president of Wellesley, spent some time in her youth teaching a Sunday School class of young girls recruited from a city slum. One Sunday the idea came to her to ask those children, tragically dirty and unpromising, to find in their homes something beautiful, and tell the other children about it the next Sunday. When the next Sunday came, one bedraggled little girl who lived in a particularly dirty tenement said slowly: “I ain’t found nothin’ beautiful where I live except the sunshine on the baby’s curls.” Years later, long after Mrs. Palmer’s untimely death, her husband was lecturing at a University in the West. He was entertained in a distinguished home, and his hostess told him eagerly that she had once been a member of Mrs. Palmer’s Sunday School Class. She said, I can remember that your wife once asked us to find something beautiful in our home, and that I came back saying the only…
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