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“The decision does not lay in your
hands, Dootor Boyd,” drawled a nasal
voice with an unconcealed sneer in it
ft was clean-shaven old Joseph G.
Clark, who was not disturbed, in so
much as the parting of one hair, by all
the adverse criticism of him which
daily press for the past few days. “The
rector has never, in the history of
Market Square church, been given the
control of its finances. He has
variably been hired to preach the gos
pel.”
Sargent, Cunningham, Manning, and
even Van Plocn looked at Clark in
surprise. He was not givem to open
reproof. Chisholm manifested no as
tonishment. He sat quietly in his
chair, his fingers idly drumming
the edge of the table,
chop beard was pink from the
dening of the skin beneath
“The present rector
of Market
in its deliberations so long as he is
the rector!” announced that young
man emphatically, and Jim
looked up at him with a jerk of his
head. Rev Smith Boyd was pale this
afternoon, but there was a something
shining through his pallor
made the face alive; and the
thing was not temper. Rufus
ning, clasping his silvery beard
firm grip, smiled encouragingly
tall young orator. “I have said that
I have, so far as I am concerned, re
linquished the building the cathe-
dral,™ the rector went “For this
there are two reasons. The frst
that its building will bring us
away from the very purpose for
the church ded; the w
of God with an humble and
heart! | am ready confess that |
found. on rigid seclf-analysis, my lead
ing motive in urging the building o
the new cathedral to been van
ity. I am also ready to confess,
behalf of my congregation and vestry,
{hat their leading motive was vanity!”
“You have no
me.” interrupted Chisholm
tonchops now
Man
at the
of
on
ich
was foun
to
have
on
authorit) y speak for
red
“Splendor 18 no longer the ex
property of religion,” resumed t!
tor, paying no attention
ruption. “If 1 thought,
the building of that
promote the sprea
a degree comn
flay, I would still
erection
1sive
rec
inter
that
would
pel in
to the
boweaver,
certhedral
1ensurate
} of Lhe
money does not
“30 right
science,” appr
up at the
with its carved cher
“The money
court,” declared
distorted
ket
dent
her
revel
trizl interest
seen the wh
cor? metl
Square church is
wish to ask you,
ket
oved Ma
wall
nning
old ut-beamed
1b brackets
belongs to Vedder
"to the
moral cripples which Mar
+ accel
under
Square chure
of
wing
ations
commerce
Gentlemen, ir he re
conc
cent
indus
have
ole
orate ant
' !
Mar
N ayed,
corporation
far the
Square church has been s
in its commercial deal
considerations?’
and g!
inga, by
He pal ised anced from man to
of his vestry Sargent and Ma
ning. the former of whom knew
plans and the latter of who
walting tor th
him in perfect
Floon eat placidly, with bis
hands folded over his creasecless vest
Willis Cunuingham, stroking his
gparse brown Vandyke. looked
comfortable. as if he had
been introduced into a rude brawl:
but his eye roved occasionally
Nicholas Van Ploon, who
mar
in had been
em to mature miled at
accord
quite
was two
sition of wealth,
valuation. Chisholm glared
“You'll not tind any money which is
not tainted,” snapped Joseph G Clark,
who regarded money in a strictly im
personal light “The very
have in your pocket may
direct from a brothel”
“Or from Vedder court”
the rector. “We have brothels there
though we do not
We have saloons there, we have gam
bling rooms there; and from ali these
iniquities Market Square church reaps
a profit!
dare you. Joseph G.
Chisholm. to answer me that
tion in the affirmative! No de
cent man would conduct the business
we do, for the reason that it would
voll his soul as a gentleman; and it is
a shameful thing that a gentleman
should have finer ethies than a Chris
tian church! In the beginning, | was
a coward about this matter! It was
because | wished to be rid of our re
sponsibility in Vedder court that |
first urged the conversion of that
property into a cathedral. We can
not rid ourselves of the responsibility
of Vedder court! If it were possible
for a church to be sent to hell, Mar
ket Square church would be eternally
damned If it took this added guilt upon
ud
have come
Clark.
I.
“This talk is absurd”
Chisholm. “The city has taken Ved:
der court away from us.”
“Only the property,” quickly cor
rected Rufus Manning, turning to |
Chisholm with sharpness in his deep |
blue eyes. “If you will remember, I
| tor Boyd came to us. | have waited
ever since his arrival for him to de-
velop to this point, and I wish to an-
his views.”
“Your own will
{ tion!" charged Clark,
ning with a scowl
bear
turning to Man-
not
go
with you!” flamed Manning. “We're
both old enough to think about that!”
Joseph G. Clark jumped to his feet
and, leaning across the table. shook a
thin forefinger at Manning.
{ point of my moral standing!”
| clared, his high-pitched nasal
| quavering with an anger he had held
| most of his life. “I can stand the at
| tacks of a sensational press, but whon
spiteful criticism follows me into my
own vestry, almost in the sacred
shadow of the altar itself,
| pelled to protest!
this vestry. once and for all, that my
moral status i8 above reproach, and
that my conduct has been such as to
receive the commendation of my Ma-
ker! Because it has pleased Divine
Providence to place in my hands the
| distribution of the grain of the fields, |
am constantly subject to the attacks
{ of envy and malice! It has gone so
far that I, last night, received from
Rev Smith Boyd, a request to resign
| fromm this vestry!” He paused 'n tri
mph on that, if he had made
against Rev. Smith Boyd a charge of
such ghastly infamy that the young
rector must shrivel before his eyes
‘1 have led a blameless life! 1 have
never smoked por drunk! | have paid
every penny | ever owed and fulfilled
every promise | ever made. | have
obeyed the gospel and partaken of the
sacraments. and the Divine Being has
rewarded me abundantly! He bas
chosen me, because of my faithful
stewardship, to gather the food of
earth from its sources and feed it to
the mouths of the hungry; and | shall
not depart from my stewardship
this church, because | am here, as |
am everywhere, by the will of God!”
W. T. Chisholm
this blasphemy,
dismay of it sat on every
even on that of Nicholas Van Ploon,
who was compelled to dig deep to find
his ethics,
i “You infernal old
Manning, recovering
“Was it
directed
whereby
as
or
not
the
Perhaps
shocked by
was
but
thief!”
from
wondered
his amaze
Divine Providence
to devise the
raliroads paid
dollars On every car
of wheat you shipped, and a dollar
bonus on every car of wheat your com
| petitors shipped? 1 could give you &
| string of sins as long as the catechism
land you dare not deny one of them,
because | can prove them on you! And
yet you have the offrontery say
! that a Divine Providence would estab
| lish you in your monopoly, by such
gcoundrelly means as you have risen
to become the greatest dispenser of
ied in the
propose to ride into heavea on
your universities and your libraries
and on the fact that you never amoked
nor drank nor nor gambled,
but when you come face to face with
| this horrible new god you have cre
lated, a deity whe would permit you
to attain wealth by the vile methods
you have used, you will find him with
a pitchfork in his hands! | am glad
| that Doctor Boyd. though knowing
your vindictive record, has had brav.
ery
tion from this vestry!
ceivea it!"
Joseph GG Ciark bad remained
| standing. and his head shook. as with
ment,
which
scheme
two
you
the
you rebate
to
AwWore
i of Manning
out his life
I “You will go first!” he shouted at
Manning. “1 am impregnable; but
You can be removed at any time an |
examination is ordered, for 1 have!
heard you, we have all heard you,
deny the immaculate conception, and
thereby the divinky of Christ, In
whom alone there is salvation!”
A hush like death fell on the vestry.
| Rev, Smith Boyd was the first to
break the ghastly silence.
“Gentlemen,” sald he, “1 do not
think that we are in a mood today for
further discussion. | suggest that we
adjourn.”
His voice seemed to distract the at:
tention of Clark from Manning at
whom he had been glowering He
turned on Rev Smith Boyd the re |
mainder of the wrath which marked
his first break into senility.
“As for you!” he snarled, “you will
keep your fingers out of matters which
do not concern you! You were hired
to preach the gospel, and you will con-
fine your attention to that occupation, |
preaching just what you find sanc-
tioned ne this “book: nothing more,
nothing lesa!” and taking a small vol.
ume which lay on the table, he tossed
it in front of Rev. Smith Boyd.
It was the Book of Common Prayer,
containing, In the last pages, the ar
ticles of Faith.
Clark seized his hat and coat, and
strode out of the door, followed by the
red-faced Chisholm, who had also been
asked to resign. Nicholas Van Ploon
rose, and shook hands with Rev. Smith
Boyd.
“Sargent has told me about your
plan for the new tenements,” he stut.
ed “I am In favor of buying the
property.”
“We'll
for
Sargent.
swing it
Jim
you, Boyd”
“I've been
that the new Vedder court will be a
great monument. There'll be no such
! magnificent charity in the world, and
no such impressive sacrifice as giving
up that cathedral! 1 think Cunning
ham will be with us, when it comes to
a vote.”
“Certainly,” interposed Nicholas Van
Ploon. “We don't need to make any
profit from those tenements. The nor
enough.”
“Yen,”
am
said Cunniugham slowly. “I
heartily in favor of the proposi-
“Comimg along, doctor?’ invited
Manning, going for his coat and nat
“No, 1 think not,” decided Rev,
He
table
was sitting at the edge of the
facing the Good Shepherd, at
still sparkled
crystalline light, and in his two hands
mon Prayer.
CHAPTE® XXX.
Hand in Mand.
Rev. Smith Boyd walked slowly out
into the dim church, with the little vo!
The afternoon sun
had sunk so low that the llumination
the stained-glass
cut off by the near buildings, and the
patches of ruby and of sapphire. of
emerald and of topaz, glowed now near
the of the slender columns, or
the dusky
tops
mellowed
the arches
it was hushed
serted.
spaces up amid
and silent
and far from the thoughts of
The young rector walked slowly
to a pew in the corner
pear the main entrance, and sat down,
still with the little Book of Common
Prayer In his band, and, in the book
the Articles of Religion. From them
alone must he preach; nothing more
and nothing less. That was the duty
for which he was hired. His own mind
intelligence, the reason and
the spirit hich God had
given him were for no other use than
the clever support of the things which
were printed bere And who had for
mulated these articles?
like
Rev, Smith Boyd sux
discovery that he
He was pri
and its creed!
Startied, now, he
thirty-nine Articles of Rel
one, slowly, thoughtfully
quickened conscience
at the door of Faith, and entered;
it did not drive out Faith
side by ride, but each gave something
to the other No, rather, Reason
stripped the mask from Faith tore
away the disguising cloak, and dis
played her in all her simple beauty
and gentle and belpful
was the faith he had been called upon
to teach? Faith in the thirty-nine Ar
ticles of Religion! This had been clev
erly substituted by the
an casey profession, for faith in God,
which latter was too simple of compre
henslon for the § of any
ganization
For a tong time Rev
in the corner pew, and when he had
book, all that had been be
hind the wall of his mind came out
and was sorted into heaps, and the
bad discarded and the good retained
He found a wonderful relief in that
He had lived with a secret chamber
in his heart, hidden even from him
self, and now that he had opened the
door, he felt free. Above him, around
him, within him, was the presence of
God, infinite, tender, easy of under.
standing; and from that God, his God,
| the one which should walk with him
there, de
men
up the
aisle
his own
and the soul »
Men; men
imself
Was DOt preac
aching the
hing
God! church
wont
iglon, one by
but
sweet
urposes or
| closed the
i through iife his friend and comforter
| and counselor, he stripped every shred
of pretense and worthless form and
useless ceremony!
“1 belleve in God the Creator; the
| Maker of my conscience; my Friend
The ereed of Gail!
For a moment the rector stood, tall
| and eréct, then be stretched forth his
| arms: ’
“1 know that my Redeemer liveth!”
he said, and sank to his knees,
Two high points he had kept in his
| faith, points never to be shaken; the
existence of his creator, his mercy and
his love, and the divinity of his son.
who died, was crucified and buried,
(and on the third day arose to ascend
| utito heaven. Reason could not de
stroy that citadel in a man born to the
| necessity of faith! Man must believe
some one thing. If it was as easy, as
he had once set forth, to believe In the
biblical account of the creation of the
| world as to believe in a pre-existent
| chaos, out of which evoluted the spirit
yof life, and all its marvels of growing
‘trees and flying birds and reasoning
men, It was as casy to g0 one step
further, and add the son to the father
land to the holy ost! Even chaos
must have been croated!
Fully satisfied, Rev. Smith Boyd
:
| and Father”
walked Into the vestry, and wrote his
! resignation from the rectorship of Mar
i kot Bquare church, for he could no
| longer teach, and preach, faith—in the
-
Ytnirty+ nine articles of religion! With:
in kis grasp he had held a position of
weailth, of power, of fame! He scarce
ly considered their loss; and in the
ease with which he relinquished them
be knew that he was self-absolved
fromm the charge of using his con
science as a ladder of ambition! [If
personal vanity had entered into his
desire to build the new cathedral It
had been incidental, not fundamental
It made him profoundly happy to know
this with poaifiveness.
He called up the house of Jim Sar
gont, and asked for Gall
“Come over,” he invited her. “I
want to see vou very much. [I'm in the
church. Come in through the vestry.”
“All right,” was the cheerful reply.
“I'l be there in a minute.”
He had been very sly! He was tre
mendously pleased with himself! He
had kept out of his voice all the long
ing, and all the exultation, and all the
love! He would not trust even one
vibration of his secret to a cold tele
phone wire!
He set the door of the vestry open
wide, Within the church, the organist
had conquered that baffling run in the
mighty prelude of Bach, and the great
dim spaces up amid the arches were
pulsing lu ecstasy with the tremendous
harmony. Outside, upon back
ground of the celestial strain, there
the
ing. The doves of spring had returned
to the vestry yard
Just a moment and Gail appeared
poised in the doorway, with a filmy
pink scarf about her shoulders, a sim
ple frock of delicate gray upon her
slender figure,
about her oval face, a faint flush upon
her cheeks, her brown eyes sparkling.
her red lips smiling up at him,
Hie had intended to tell her
but instead, he folded her In bis
af she nestled there, content
long, happy moment they stood,
the world of thought: and then
looked up at him, and laughed
“ly from voice
much,
ar. ux,
rs: 2
1 knew it
said
He
ETave,
ste
laughed then he
but
great happiness in
resigned
Was
with her;
there was the |
Erew
ight of the
§ gravity
wy have
That
known.
“And
was not
him
struggle
“1 ses ny
down
not
Way
at her: "and there are no til
for me. 1 sh ver change
shall aig Sab n
the
to gut
“And
t the
we 1
wWoric
and there
iu greatest
remit
tears in hen
that be
at him for
x}
he softly
work shall
up
“To shed
beauty
the
ever swept the wurla without its at
tendant supernatural phenomeus. so 10
great spiritual revival has ever swept
the world without its concreted symbol
which men might wear upon their
breasts. The cross! What shall be its
successor? A ball of fire in the sky?
Who knows! If that symbol of man's
spiritual rejuvenation, of his renewed
nearness to God, were, In reality, a
ball of fire. Gail, I would hold it up in
the sight of all mankind though it
ghriveled my arm!”
The thin treble note stole out of the
organ loft, pulsing its timid way amoung
the high, dim arches, as if seeking a
lodgment where it might [lasten its
tiny thread of harmony, and grow iuto
a song of new glory, the glory which
had been born that day in the two
earnest hearts beneath in the avenue
of slender columns. The soft light
from one of the clerestory windows
flooded in on the compassionate son of
man above the altar. The very air
seemed to vibrate with the new in.
aspiration which had been voiced in the
old Market Square church. Gall gazed
up at Smith Boyd, with the first con
tent her heart had ever known; con
tent in which there was both earnest
ness and serenity, to replace all her
groping He met her gaze with eyes
in which there glowed the endless love
which it is beyond the power of speech
to tell. There was a moment of ecstasy,
of complete understanding, of the per
fect unity which should last through
out their lives. Io that harmony, they
walked from the canopy of dim arches
out through the vestry, and beneath
the door above which perched the two
gray doves cooing. For an instant Gall
looked back into the solemn depths,
and a wistfuiness came into her eyes
“The ball of fire.” she mused.
shall we it in the sky?”
TRE can
Bee
Obstinate Man Determined Not to Ad
mit That the Dictagraph Had
Helped Him,
A certain
who is
young man of
oft
in
0 hard of hearing that he
graph
with hin to beip Dim
of his friends
of his rural re
conversation
Some
bi fartser
ed Lo be a
the cinity who tad
for ihe
nt
ars
Was
aemnon
through
tried them all
he sald
Jour ear
Iggested the
a while
those things
| have and none of them
any
‘Put th
anyhow #0
farmer hes
good,
is wp oO and try it
visitor
and then put
ment to Dis ear
» Of the Columt
tated
one end of
To the
deal fa of replied
in a tone ily
Can you hear what | say?
‘Nope. | cant
hinge dont the
Would
»
ustiru
thi when
above a WwWiisper
bear a word
any good
you acknowledge it if they
would belp you?” was then asked Dim
t of
ck prompiliy Ler
tainly | would, but | cant hear a word
Ray
The Co
ack
frie:
umbus the instru
put
his pocket and sau
his rural LOpCless Case
Flying War Horse
A correspondent of the Milan “Cor
riere reports the follo
story
An Italian
through
Isonzo
della Sera
i tenant
the vi
He dismounted
temporary quarters the
of his regiment
When
recently rode
one of lagen
front
on
the of
and
com
mander
horse (Oo a tree
shell and a moment
explosion
Austrian
later a terrible
The shell had struck a small buliding
on the opposite side of the streel. An
immense cloud of smoke and dust rose
and when it disappeared the horse of
a large
followed
He Folded Her in His Arms.
to the great dim nave, where
sadows still quivered with the under
echoes of the mighty Bach prelude, “1
have been thinking much of the many
things you have said to me,” he told
her,
for a new religion, but for a rebirth
of the old; that same new impulse to
wards the better and the higher life
which Christ brought into the world. 1
have been thinking on the mission of
him, and it was the very mission to
the need of which you have beld so
firmly. He came to clear away the
thorns of creed which had grown up
between the human heart and God!
The brambles have grown again. The
time is almost ripe, Gall, for a new
quickening of the spirit; for the see
ond coming.”
She glanced at him, startied.
“For a new voice in the wilderness,”
she wondered.
“Not yet,” he acawered. "We have
signs in the hearts of men, for there is
a great awakening of the public con
science throughout the world; but be
fore the day of harvest arrives, we
must have a sign in the sky. No great
spiritual revival has ever swept the
world without ite attendant supernat
ural phenomena for mysticism is a
part of religion, and will be to the end
of time. Reason, by the very nature
of itself, realizes its own limitations,
and demands something beyond its un
derstouding upon which to hang its
faith, 1t is the need of faith which
distinguishes the sou! from the mind.”
“A sign,” mused Cuil, her eyes aglow
with the majesty of the thought.
“It will come,” he assured her, with
the calm prescience of prophecy it
self. "As no great spiritual revival has
“The air pressure caused by the ex
had lifted the animal from
the ground and thrown it on the fat
roof of a nearby house, where it was
found almost unhurt. [It was no easy
job to get the horse to the street
again, as this could only be accom
plished with the aid of a large crane ”
Origin of Grain as Measure.
The grain. as a measure of weight
has its name from being originally the
weight of a grain of wheat. A statute
passed in England In 1266 ordained
that 32 grains of wheat, taken from
the middle of the ear and well dried
should make a pennyweight, 12 of
which should make an ounce, while
12 ounces were to make a pound
The pound. therefore, consisted of
1,680 grains. But several centuries
later the pennyweight was divided into
24 grains. which makes the troy
pound 3,760 grains. The pennyweight
was the exact weight of a silver pen
ny The standard grain was pre
scribed by act of parliament in the
reign of George IV,
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loudly, for the benefit of the rigid
church members connected with the
MeCormick Theological seminary.
across the street: “No, Charles
Henry, | shall never play poker with
you again on Sunday night. much
to the chagrin of Charles Henry, a
model man who never ioduiged no
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