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Men who have been accustomed to warerooms
and offices occupying a block, are working cheerfully
in two small rooms, while planning to reach a position
to rebuild on the old large scale.
Women who have been accustomed to carriages
and servants and luxury are turning their accomplishments into the means of earning a living; teaching
music; doing fine sewing, acting as companions or
clerks, and performing their duties with cheerfulness
and courage and thankfulness.
And it is that amazing and glorious spirit which
has already rebuilt the city to such an astonishing
degree, and will build it up to be a far greater and
more beautiful city than it has ever been in the past.
These same people who are showing this colossal
courage no doubt used to make themselves miserable
over trifles; over the loss of a small investment; over
the incompetence of domestics; and the failure of a
tailor to fit a coat or gown properly doubtless caused
them unhappiness for days "before the quake."
It sometimes seems that it is because so many of us
waste life and emotion over the trifling worries of
existence that the great calamities are sent now and
then to wake the nobility in human nature, the real
heroism which comes forth in times of universal
disaster.
What a great and glorious world this might be if
we always kept the attitude toward one another which
prevails in the hour of flood and fire and earthquake!
If we forgot the foolish distinctions of classes, and
just thought of one another as God's children, all pushing forward to safety, all hungry for peace, all seeking
shelter in the arms of Eternal Love!
And if our hearts were always wide open to the
