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Title: The Island of Faith

Author: Margaret E. Sangster

Release Date: August 25, 2004 [EBook #13282]

Language: English

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The Island of Faith

By MARGARET E. SANGSTER

1921




To M's M and Chance




Contents

I. INTRODUCING--THE SETTLEMENT HOUSE

II. THE QUARREL

III. CONCERNING IDEALS

IV. THE PARK

V. ROSE-MARIE COMES TO THE RESCUE

VI. "THERE'S NO PLACE--"

VII. A LILY IN THE SLUMS

VIII. ANOTHER QUARREL

IX. AND ANOTHER

X. MRS. VOLSKY PROMISES TO TRY

XI. BENNIE COMES TO THE SETTLEMENT HOUSE

XII. AN ISLAND

XIII. ELLA MAKES A DECISION

XIV. PA STEPS ASIDE

XV. A SOLUTION

XVI. ENTER--JIM

XVII. AN ANSWER

XVIII. AND A MIRACLE

XIX. AND THE HAPPY ENDING




I

INTRODUCING--THE SETTLEMENT HOUSE


There is a certain section of New York that is bounded upon the north by
Fourteenth Street, upon the south by Delancy. Folk who dwell in it seldom
stray farther west than the Bowery, rarely cross the river that flows
sluggishly on its eastern border. They live their lives out, with
something that might be termed a feverish stolidity, in the dim crowded
flats, and upon the thronged streets.

To the people who have homes on Central Park West, to the frail winged
moths who flutter up and down Broadway, this section does not exist. Its
po

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