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Sunday Eve. March 15. 96. Dearest Love, Who do you suppose spent the afternoon with me from 3 to 6 oclock? Mr. Justin M. Waugh. We got well acquainted, and I like him Clarence - he is a wonderfully changed man since you knew him I fancy - Is very enthusiastic over social settlement work, and is succeeding in doing much
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good amongst a vry rough class of men. He asked me all about your settlement work and wished very much to compare notes with you. He said that he had come to the conclusion that there was nothing worth while in life but to do the most good possible to your fellow men and advance the cause of Christ This I fancy was not the tone of your old classmate, But you would have been amused to hear how closely he questioned me
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about you, - to try and discover whether you had ever fallen from your high ideals, - whether you had succeeded in going through medical college without smoking - I was so proud to answer, yes, and to hold you up as my ideal of what a christian gentleman ought to be. He made me sing, song after song to him, and when he left, such kindest messages, and wishes for your success, to you. How dreadfully those wild bats leave their traces in a face, Oh darling
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thank God for your guarded youth, because, if things had been otherwise, if you had not been the man that you are - with your life pure, there never would have been any husband in the world for me. I wonder if a man thinks of that when he sells himself to the devil he is spoiling the life and completeness of the one woman God intended for his wife, for if she is right minded she would never marry a man with a soiled page in his life. Well, my own pure love, goodnight, God bless thee and keep thee in all thy ways. Grace
