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For hereunto wtr ye called; beciuse Christ I alao suffered fcr you. leSTing you an example, i that ye should follow his steps. It was Friday morning, and the Rev. Henry Maxwoll was trying to finish his I Sunday morning sermon. He had been j interrupted several times and was ; growing nervous as the morning wore . i away and the sermon fjrew very slowly ! toward a satisfactory finish "Mary," he called to lii.s wife as lie went np stairs aft r the last interrup tion, "if any one comes aft' r this I wish yon would say that I am very bnsy and cannot come down unless it is something very important." "Yes, Henry. But I am going over to visit the kindergarten, and yon v.iil have the house all to yonrself. " The mini ter went up into his str.dy and shut th" door. In a few minnti - he heard his wife ro out. He settled himself at his desk with a sigh of relief and began to writ a His text was from I Peter ii. 21. "For hereunto were ye called; be cr.iif-e Christ also Differed for yon. 1 -jiv ing you an example, that ye should fol low hi- steps." He had < mpliasized in the first p.irt of hiss -Ji -n the atonement ;.s a per sonal sacritic -. calling attention t-<> the fact of .I yr suffering in various ways, in his life j.s well as i>i his dwath. He had gone to emphasize the atone ment from th-' side of example, giving ilia :r. "ious iVom the lif.■ and teacl.-'.ng of .T'-sus t>> showhowfaith in theChri t helped t-1 ? :Ve li<• -n bee in of the p.-it terti or < hai,.- ; i he displayed for tli n imitation. He was now m the third and 1i..-t ['lint, then ce-sity of follow ing Jesr.:i in i!i- • and e.\.:mpl He had jnst put down. "C!t St , what are l!? y ?'' aud was about to enumerate i>n in logical order when the bell rai sharply. It \.as one of those clockt.- j.'!; l .-lls and always went off as nc'-xk might go if it tried to strike 1 all at once. Henry I.'ar.woll sat nt liis desk and frowned a little. He made no move ment to answer the bell. Very soon it rang again. Then he rose and walked over to out 1 of his windows, which com manded a vi w of the front door. A man was standing oil the steps. lie was a yomvc ::;an very shabbily dressed. "Looks li' • a tramp." said the min ister. "I suppose I'll have to go down, and"— He did not finish tlio sentence, but went down stairs and opened the front door. There was a moment's panso as tha two men stood facing each other. Th- n the shabby looking young man said "I'm out of a job, sir. and thought maybe you might put me in the way of getting aom«; hing. " - I (ton i mm "t rena ming. Jol>S r.rn scarce," replied the minister, begin ning to shut the door slowly. "I didn't know but you might per haps be able to give me a Hue to the city railway or superintendent of the shops or something," continued the young iiuin. : hifting his faded hat from one hand to the other nervously. "It would be of no use. You will have to excuse me. I am very busy this morning. I hope yon will find some thing. Sorry I can't give you Home thing to do here. But I keep only a horse and a cow and do tha work my self. " The Rev. Henry Maxwell closed the door and heard the man walk down the steps. As he went np into his study he saw from his hall window that the man was going slowly down the street, still holding his hat between his hands. Th r, re was something in the figure so dejected, homeless and forsaken that the minister hesitated a moment as he stood looking at it. Then he turned to liis desk and with a sigh began the writing where he had left off. He had no more interruptions, and when his wife came in two hours later the sermon was finished, and the 100-e leaves were gathered up and neatly tied together and laid on his Bible, all ready for the Sunday morning service. "A queer thing happened at the kin dergarten this morning. Henry,"said his wife while they were eating dinner. "Yon know, I went over with Mrs. Brown to visit the school, and jnst aft er the games, while the children were at the tables, the door opened, and a young man came in, holding a dirty hat in liotli hands. He sat down near the door and never said a word, only looked at the children. He was evident ly a tramp, and Miss Wren and her as sistant, Mis.-; Kyle, a little fright ened at first, but ho sat there very quietly, and after a few minutes he Went out." "Perhaps he was tired and wanted to rest somewhere. The same man called here, I think. Did yon say he looked like a tramp?" "Yes, very dusty, shabby and gener ally tramplike not mOre than 30 or 33 years old, I should say." "The same man," suid the Rev. Henry Maxwell thoughtfully. "Did yon finish your sermon, Hen ry?" his wife nsk»d after a pause. "Yes. all done. It has l»een a very busy week with me. The two sermons cost me a good deal of labor." They will be appreciated by a large audience tomorrow, I hop-," replied his wife, smiling. "What are yon go ing to preach about in the morning?" "Following Christ. 1 take np the atonement undi r t lie heads of sacrifice and example and then show the steps needed to follow his sacrifice and ex ample. " "I am sure it is a good sermon. I hope it won't rain Sunday. Wo have had so many rainy days lately. " "Yes; the audiences have been quite small for some time. People will not come out to ehurch in a storm." Tha Itev. Henry Maxwell sighed as h<- ■ iid it. He was thinking of the careful, la borious efforts he had made in pr par ing sermons for large audiences tint failed to appear. But Sunday morning dawned on the town of Raymond one of those pel i-ct days that sometimes come after 1. ng periods of wind and rain and nmd. Tie air was clear and bracing, the sky was free from ull threatening signs, and ev ery one in Henry Maxwell's parish pre pared to go to church. When the service opened at I I o'clock, the large building was filled with an audience of the I" t dressed, most comfortable looking peo ple in Raymond. The First church of Raymond bo lieved in having the best music that money could buy, and its quartet choir j this morning was a great source of pleasure fo th - e. .n-'i gut ion. The an them was ir-piring. All the music v.. « in keeping with tie- subject of the > r uiou. And the anthem was an elaborate adaptation to tli ■ most modern mi: of the hymn »l«n 4 rn> tre.s* Ijvo t.iL, n. All to leave an.! follow thee. Jnst before the sermon the s<,t>rnn:> sang a solo, the well known hymn: Where he K-a<!« me I will follow. I'll go wi.ii him. wit! him ail the way. Rachel Win-low looked very beauti ful that morning as he stood no f>e i hind the screen of carved oak which was signHic;mtly marked with the cm : blems <f the cro« and the crown. Her voice was even more be-antiful than In r face, and that meannt a great di al. There WM a general rustle of expecta tion over the audience as she arose. Henry Maxwell - ttled himself content edly iiehind tii ' pulpit. Rachel Win ■ low's singing always helped him. He generally arranged for a song before the sermon It made possible a certain inspiration of feeling that he knew made his delivery more impressive. People said to themselves they had never heard such singing even iti the Fir. ; t church. It is c.Ttain that if it had not been a church service her solo would have been vigorously applauded. It even : eemed to Henry Maxwell whea she s.it down that something like an at tempted dapping of hands or striking of feet on the floor swept through the church He was startled by it. As he rose, however, and laid his sermon on the open Bible he said to himself ho had been deceived. Of course it could not occur. In a few moments he was absorbed in his sermon, and everything else was forgotten in the pleasure of the delivery. No one had ever accused Henry Max well of being a dull preacher. On the contrary, be had often ln-en charged with being sensational, not in what l;e saiil so much as in his way of saying it. But the First church people liked that. It gave their preacher and their pari.-h a pleasant distinction t4i.it was agreeable. It was also true that the pastor of the First church loved to preach. He seldom exchanged. He was eager to he "in his own pulpit when Sunday came. There was an exhilarating half hour for him as he stood facing a church full of people and knew that lie hud a hear ing. He was peculiarly sensitive to variations in the attendance. He never preached well before a small audience. The weather also affected him decided ly. He was at his best before jnst such an audience as faced him now, on just such a morning He felt a glow of sat isfaction as he went on. The church was the first in the city. It had the best choir. It had a membership composed of the leading people, representatives of the wealth, society and intelligence of Raymond. lie was going abroad on !> tl"' TBOfttV'li in jllL. - '< TIT ft", and ihe circumstances of las pns torat". his influence and his position as pastor of the first church in the city - It is not certain that the Rev. Henry Maxwell know just how he could carry on all that thought in connection with his sermon, but as he drew near the end of it he knew that he had at some point in his delivery had all these feel ings. They had entered into the vt ry substance of his thought. It might have been all in n few seconds of time, but he had been conscious of defining Uis position and his emotions as well as if he hnd held a soliloquy, and his de livery partook of the thrill of deep per sonal satisfaction. The sermon was interesting. It wan fn 11 of striking sentences. They would have commanded attention printed. Spoken with the passion of a dramatic utterance that had the good taste never to offend with a suspicion of ranting or declamation, they were very effective. If tin' Rev. Henry Maxwell that morn ing f"lt satisfied with the conditions of his pastorate, the parish of First church also had a similar feeling as it congrat ulated ii: elf on the presence in the pul pit of this scholarly, refined, somewhat striking face and figure, preaching with such animation and freedom from all vulgar, noisy or disagreeable man nerism Suddenly, into the midst of this per fect accord and concord t "'tween preach er and audiente, there came a vi ry re markable interruption. It would be difficult to indicate the extent of the shock which this interruption measured. It was so unexpected, so entirely con trary to any thought of any person present, that it offered no room f<w argument or, for the time being, of re sistance. The sermon had come to a close. The Rev. Henry Maxwell had turned the half of the big Bible over upon his manuscripts and was about t< sit down HS the quartet prepared to rise and ling the closing selection, All for Jesus, all for .Tesus, All my being's ransomed powers, when the entire congregation was star tled by the sound of a man's voice. It came from the rear of the church, from one «.f the seats under tin- gallery The next moment, the figure of a man came out of ttie shadow there and walked down the middle aisle. Before the startled congregation real ized what was being done the man had reached the open space in front of the pulpit and had turned al>out, facing the people. "I've been wondering since I came in here"—they were the words lie used under the gallery, and ho repeated them —"if it would lie just the tiling to say a word at the close of this service. I'm not drunk, and I'm not crazy, and I'm perfectly harmless But if 1 die, as there is every likelihood I shall in a few days, I want the sati faction of thinking that I said my say in a place like this, before just this sort of a crowd.'' Henry Maxwell had not taken his seat, and he now remained standing, | leaning on his pulpit, looking down at j the stranger. It was the man who had come to his house Friday morning, the same dusty, worn, shabby looking young man. He held his faded hut in his two hands, ft seemed to be a fa vorite gesture. lie had not been shaved, and his hair was rough and tangled. It was doubtful if any one like this had ever confronted the First church within the sanctuary It was tolerably familiar with this sort of humanity out on the street, around the railroad shops, wan dering up and down the avenue, but it bad never dreamed of such an incident as this so near. There was nothing offensive in the man's manner or tone. He was not ex cited, and he spoke in a 1< »v but. dis tinct voice Henry Maxwell was eon scions, even as lie stood there smitt n into dumb astonishment at the event, that somehow the man's net ion remind ed him of a person lie had once seen walkiutf and talking in his sleen No one in th# church made any nio t; a t'>»' p the strai . r■ r in any v.. y ii:t rrupt h;;u. Perhai s the first -hi ok of his sudden appearance deepened into genuine p«r;!>.\ity concerning what was l.< -t to do. However that ma\ lie, he went on as if lie had no thought of int rruption and no thought of the nn- I usual element he had introduced into | thed*i rum of the First cli ireh sorv:. * and all the while he was spe.king j lb nry Maxwell leaned over the pulpit 1 hi- face growing more white and sad i very moment. But he made no move ment to stop him, and the people sat I smitten into breathless silence. One I other face, that of Rachel Winslow. from th • choir s. ats, stared, white and intent, down at the shabby figure with the fad; d hat. Her face was striking at any time. Under the pressure of the present unh nl of incident it was as personally distinct as if it had been framed in fire. "I'm nut an ordinary tramp, though I don't know of any teaching of J> ■■** • that makes erne kind of a tramp less worth saving than another. Do yon?' He put the question as naturally as if the whole congregation had been a small private Bible class. He paused I jnst a m« >ment :md coughed painfully Then he went on. "I lost my job ten months ago. I am a printer by trade. The Tiew linotype machines are beautiful specimens of j invent- n. but I know six men who ! have kilkd themselves inside of the year jn-t on account of those machines. Of course I don't blame the newspap< r for gating the machines. Meanwhile I what can a man do? I know I never learned but the one trade, and that's all I can do. I've tramped all over the i country trj ing to find something. There j are ag> «1 many others like me. I'm not complaining, am I? Just stating facts. But I was wondering, as I sat j there under the gallery, if what you ! call following .Tesns is the same thing j as what he taught. "What did he mean when he said, j •Follow me?' The minister said"—here | the man turned about and looked up at th<! pulpit- "that it was necessary for the disciple of .Tesns to follow his steps, and he said the steps were obedience, faith, love r.r l imitation. But I did not hear him till just wliat he meant that to mean, especially the last step. What do Chris;ians mean by following the steps if Jesus? I've tramped thaough this city for three days trying to find a job, and in all that time I've not had a word <>f sympathy or comfort except from your minister here, who said he was sorry for me and hoped I would find a job si mewhere. 1 sup* ose it is because you get so imposed on by the professii nal tramp that you have lost your int rest in the other sort. I'm not blaming anylody. am I? Just stat ing facts. Of course I understand you can't all go out of your way to hunt up jobs for people like me. I'm not asking you to. but what I feel puzzled about is what is meant by following Jesus. Do you mean that you are suffering and denying yourselves and trying to save lost suffering humanity just as I un derstand Jesus did? What do you mean by it ? I see the ragged edge of things a good deal. I understand there are more than 500 men in this city in my case Most of them have families. Mj wife died four months ago. I'm glnd she is out of trouble. My little girl is staying with a printer's family unti I find a job. Somehow I get puzzled in luxury and singing, 'Jesus. I my cross have taken, all to leave and fol low thee,' and remember how my wife died in a tenement in New York city, gasping for air and asking God to take tii little girl too Of course I don't ex pect you people can prevent every ona if-* dying of starvation, lack of jiroper .lsliment and tenement air. But v.hat does following Jesus meant I understand that Christian people own a good many of the tenements. A mem ber of a chsrcli was the owner of the me where my wife died, and I have wondered if following Jesus all the way was true in his case. I heard some people singing at a church prayer meet ing the other night. "All for Jesus, all for Jesus, All my being's ransomed powers, All my thoughts and all my doings. All my days and all my hours, "and I kept wondering, as I ♦at on the stvps outside, just what they meant by it. It seems to me there's an awful lot of trouble in the world that some how wouldn't exist if all the people who sing such songs went and lived them out I suppose 1 don't under stand. Bnt what would Jesus do? Is that what you mean by following his steps? It seems to me sometimes as if tin; people in the city churches had good clothes and nice houses to live in, and money to spend for luxuries, and could go away on summer vacations and all that, while the people outside of the churches, thousands of them, I mean, die in tenements, and walk the streets for jobs, and never have a piano or a picture in the house, and grow up in misery and drunkenness and sin." The man gave a queer lnrch over in the di rection of the communion table and laid one grimy hand on it. His hat fell upon the carpet at his feet. A stir went through the congregation. Dr West half rose from his seat, but as yet tin? silence was unbroken by any voice or movement worth mentioning in the audience. The man passed his other hand across his eyes and then, without any warning, fell heavily forward on his face, full length, up the aisle. Henry Maxwell spoke, "We will con sider the service dismissed." He was down the pulpit stairs and kneeling by the prostrate form before any one else. The audience instantly rose, and the aisle was crowded Dr. West pro nounced the man alive. He had fainted away. "Some heart trouble," the doctor also muttered as he helped to carry him into the pastor's study. Henry Maxwell and a group of his church members remained some time in the study. The man lay on the couch there and breathed heavily. When the question of what to do with him came up, the minister insisted upon taking hiui to his house. Ho lived near by and had an extra room. Rachel Winslow said: "Mother has no company at pres- , ent. 1 am sure \y< would lie glad to give him a place with us." She looked strangely agitated. No one noticed it particularly,. They were all excited over the strange event, the strangest that First church people could remember. But the minister insisted on taking charge < f the man, and when a carriage came the unconscious but living form was carried to his house, and with the ; entrance of that humanity into the minister's spare room a new chapter in Henry Maxwell's life began, and yet no one, himself least of all, dreamed of the remarkable change it was destined t< make in all his aft«*r definition of Chris tian disciph sliip. The event created a great sensation in the First church parish lv*pli j ' talked of nothing else for a week. It 1 was the g. lieral impression that tie ' man had wandered into the church in a J condition of mental disturbance caused by his troril !.-s and that all tin- time Im j was talking he was in a strange de lirium of lever and really ignorant of his surroundings. That was the m> **t charitable construction to put tij "ii his | 1 action It \%the general agreement I 1 also that there was a singular alisence ' 1 ot anything tatter or complaining in what tin- man had said. He had through out spoken in a mild, apok getic t ne, all: -t a- if h* were • ue f the conirre gation seeking for light on a very diffi cult subject. The third day after his removal t< the minister's lnuse there was a marked change in his condition. The doctor spoke of it and offered no hope. Satur day morn in x he still lingered, although he had rapidly failed as the week drew near to its close. Sunday morning just before th clock struck I he rallied and :wsked if his child had come. The min ister had -f nt for her as soon as he had been able to secure her address from some letters found in the man's pocket. He had Ken conscious and able to talk coherently only a few moments since hi- attack. "The child is coming. She will lie here." Henry Maxwell said as he sat there, his face showing marks of the strain of the week's vigil, for he had insisted on sitting up nearly every night "I shall never see her in this world." the man whispered. Then he uttered with gr< at difficulty the words "You have be<*i good to me. Somehow I feel as if it was what Jesus would do." After a few moments ho turned his head slightly, and In-fore Henry Max well could realize the fact the doctor | said. "He is gone." The Sunday morning that dawned on : the city of Raymond was exactly like the Sunday of the week In-fore. Henry Maxwell entered his pulpit to face i>ne of tli" largest congregations that had ; ever crowded First church. He was i haggard and looked as if he had just risen from a long illmvs. His wife was j at home with the little gi-rl who had come ii the morning train an honraft »r her father died He lay in that spare room, his troubles over, and Henry Maxwell could seethe face as he opened I the Bible and arranged his different notices "ti the side of the desk as he had 1 been in the habit of doing for ten years. The service that morning contained a new element No one could rememlier when the minister had preached in the morning without notes. As a matter of fact, lie had dono so occasionally when be first entered the ministry, but for a long time he had carefully written out every word of his morning sermon and nearly always his evening discourse as well. It cannot Is- said that his sermon this morning was very striking or im pressive. He talked with considerable hesitation. It was evident that some great idea struggled* in his thought for , utterance, but it was not expressed in the theme he had chosen for his preach ing. It was near the close of his sermon that he began to gather a certain strength that had been painfully lack ing at the beginning. lie closed the Bible, and. stepping out nt the side of the desk, he faced his people and began to talk to them about tlio remarkable scene of the week before. "Our brother"—somehow tl words sounded a little strange coming from Henry Maxwell's lips—"passed away this morning. I have not yet had time to learn all his history. He had one sis ter living in Chicago. I have written her and have not ye* received an an swer. His little girl is with us and will remain for the time." He paused and looked over the house. He thought he had never seen so many earnest faces during the entire pastor ate. He was notable yet to tell his peo ple liis experiences, the crisis through something of his feeling passed from him to them, and it did not seem to him that he was acting under a careless impulse at all to go on and break to them this morning something of the messagu he bore in his heart. So he went on: "The appearance and words of this stranger in the church last Sunday made a very powerful impression on me. lam not able to conceal from you or myself the fact that what lie said, followed, as it has been, by his death in my house, has compelled me to ask as I never asked before, 'What does fol lowing Jesus meant' I am not in a po sition yet to utter any condemnation of this people or, to a certain extent, of myself, either in onr Christlike rela tions to this man or the number he rep resents in the world. But all that does not prevent me from feeling that much that the man said was so vitally true that we must face it in an attempt to answer it or else stand condemned as Christian disciples. A good deal that was said here last Sunday was in the nature of u challenge to Christianity as it is seen and felt in our chnrches. I have felt this with increasing emphasis every day since, and I do not know that any time is more appropriate than the present for me to propose a plan or a purpose which has been forming in my mind as a satisfactory reply to much that was said here last Sunday. " Again Henry Maxwell paused and looked into the faces of his people. There were some strong, earnest men ami women in the First church. The minister could see Edward Norman, editor of the Raymond Daily News. He had been a member of First church for ten years. No man was more honored in the community.' There was Alexan der Powers, superintendent of the rail road shops. There was Donald Marsh, president of Lincoln college, situated in the suburbs of Raymond. There was Milton Wright, one of the great mer chants of Raymond, having in his em ploy at least 100 men in various shops. There was Dr. West, who, although still comparatively young, was quoted as authority in special surgical cases. There was young Jasper Chase, the author, who had written one successful book and was said to be at work on a new novel. There was Miss Virginia Page, the heiress, who through the re cent death of her father had inherited a million at least and was gifted with unusnal attractions of person and in tellect AM, IK it least of all. Rachel Winslow from her seat in the choir glowed with her jiecnliar l>eauty of light this morning because she was so intensely interested in the whole scene There was some reason perhaps, in view of such material in the First church, for Henry Maxwell's feeling of satisfaction whenever lie considered his parish as lie had the previous Sunday There was a large nnmbcr of strong in dividual characters who claimed inein liership there. But as lie noted their faces tliis'm ruing Henry Maxwell was simply wondering how many of them would respond to the strange proposi tion he was about to make He con tinued slowly, taking time to choose his words • arcfully and giving the peo pie im impression they had never felt before, even when lie was at his best, with his mo t dramatic delivery. "What I am going to promise now in something which ought not to appear , unusual or at all impossible of execu tion. yet I am aware that it will be so regarded bv a large number perhaps of ' the members of the church But, in order that we may have a thorough j understanding of what we are consid ering. 1 will put my proposition very J plainly, perhaps bluntly 1 want volun teers from the First church who will 1 pled e themselves earnestly and honet-t ' ly for an entire year not to doanything without first asking the question, 'What would Jesusd<'t* And after ask- ! ing that que lion each one will follow ' Jesus as exi.ctly as he knows how, no matter what the results may be. I will, " of course, include uuaelf in this com ' jiaiiv ..f volnntom and shall take f. r granted that my church here will is-t I*' surprised at my future o ndn. t as la.sod nj« ti this standard at a«ti.-n and will n.-t <•;•; » hdum if they think Christ w a!<l do it lUt* 1 mad* HIT meaning clear T At the rkw of the •service here I want all those Difiubm of the church who are willing to join tuch a (niuptDjr to remain. ud we will talk «.ver the detail* of the plan. • Hire, tto will be. What would Jeans dot' Oar aim will be to act just an he would if h w.Tf in onr places. regard less of immediate results. In other word*, we pr. ;*<se to fallow Jnana' »t. {*i Hb closely and aa literally a- we believo h taught his disciple*todo. And th.-«e who volunteer to do this will pledge themselves fr.r ;:ii entire year. begin nitiK with today so to act. " Henry Maxwell panscd again and looked over his church. It is not easy to describe the sensation that such a simple j>roposition apparently made. Men glancr'd at one another in aston ishment It was not like Heary Max well to define Christian discipleship in this way. There was evident confusion of thought over his proposition It wa» understood well enough. btit there was apparently a (Treat difft recce of opinion as to the application of Jews' teaching and example. Henry Maxwell calmly closed the servit' with a brief prayer. The organ ist 1 sgan his poet]tide immediately aft er the benediction, and the people he gan t< •go ont. There was a great 41eal of conversation Animated groups stood j all over the church discussing the min ister's proposition. It was evidently provoking great discussion. After sev eral minutes Henry Maxwell asked all who expected to remain to pass into the lecture room on the side He him self was detained at the front of the church talking with several persons there, and when he finally turned around the church was empty He walked over to the lecture room entrance and went in He was almost startled to see the peo ple who were there. He had not made np hi* mind ahout any of hi* members, but he had hardly expected that so many were ready to enter into such a literal testing of their discipleship as now awaited them. There were perhaps 50 members present. Among them were Rachel Window and Virginia Page. Mr. Norman. President Marsh. Alex ander Powers, the railroad superintend ent ; Milton Wright, Dr. West and Jas per Chase. The pastor closed the door of the lec ture room and stood before the little group His face was pale, and his lips trembled with emotion It was to him a genuine crisis in hisow'.i life and that of his parish No man can tell until he is moved by the Divine Spirit what he may do or how he may change the cur rent of a lifetime of fixed habits of thought and speech and action Henry Maxwell did not. as we have said, yet know himself all that he was passing through, but he was conscious of a great upheaval in his definitions of Christian discipleshlp, and he was moved with a depth of feeling he could not measure as he looked into the faces of these men and women on this occa sion. It seemed to him that the most fitting word to he spoken first was that of prayer. He asked them all to pray with him. and almost with the first syllable he uttered there was a distinct presence r\t t)>a SJnirif — 1 *- 4 V - prayer went on thin grew in power. They all felt it The room was filled with it as plainly as if it liad been visible. When the prayer closed, there was a silence that lasted several mo ments. All the heads were bowed Henry Maxwell's face was wet with tears. If an andihle voice from heaven had sanctioned their pledge to follow the Master's steps, not one person pres ent could have felt more certain of the Divine blessing. And so the most seri ous movement ever started in the First church of Raymond was begun "We all understand." said Henry Maxwell, speaking very quietly, "what we have undertaken to do. We pledge ourselves to do everything in onr daily lives after asking the question. 'What would Jesus dot" regardless of what may be the result to us. Some time I shall be able to tell yon what a marrel ous change has come over my life with in a week's time. I cannot now But the experience I have been through since last Sunday has left me so dissat isfied with my previous definition of discipleship that 1 have is-en compelled to take this action. I did not dare be gin it alone. I know that I am being led by the hand of Divine love in all this. The same Divine impulse must have led you also. Do we understand fully what we have undertaken?" "1 want to ask a question," said Rachel Winslow Every one tnrned toward her. Her face glowed with a beauty that no love liness could ever create. "I am a little in dontt as to the source of our knowledge concerning what Jesus would do. Who is to decide for lue just what he wonld do in my case? It is a different age. There are j many perplexing questions in onr civi- ] lization that are not mentioned in the i teaching of Jesus. How am I going to . tell what he would dol" "There is no way that 1 know of," < replied Mr. Maxwell, "except as we i study Jesus through the medium of the Holy Spirit You rememtier what Christ said speaking to his disciples ahout the i Holy Spirit: i " 'Howbelt, when he, the Spirit of I Truth is come, he shall guide yon into all the truth, for he shall not speak < from himself. But what things soever I he shall hear, these shall he s{H-ak. and I he shall declare unto yon the things that are to come. He shall glorify me, i for lie shall take of mine and shall de- < clare it unto you. All things whatso- < ever the Father hath are mine; there- I fore said 1 that he taketh of mine and 1 shall declare it unto you.' "There is no other test that 1 know I of Wo i-hall all have to decide what < , Jesus would do after going to that 1 source of knowledge. " 1 "What if others sav of us when wo < do certain things that Jesus would not « do w>?" asked the snjierintendent of ' railroads 1 "We cannot prevent that, bnt we 1 must be absolutely hvnest with our- ' selves. The standard erf Christian action cannot vary in most of our acts." "And yet what one chnrch meinls-r thinks Jesus would do another refuses ' to accept as his jxissible course of ac- ' tion What is to render our conduct 1 uniformly Christlike? Will it be possi ble to reach the same conclusions al ways in all cases?" asked I'reaiilent ' Man* ' Henry Maxwell was silent some time i Then h; answered "No; I don't know that we can ex I js'ct that But when it comes to a gen 1 nine, hones', enlightened following of 1 Jesus' Steps I cannot believe there will ® be any confusion either in our own " minds or in the judgment of others, t We must be fri-e from fanaticism on 1 one hand and too niurh caution on the " Other If Jesus' example is the example t for the world, it certainly must l>e 1 feasible to follow it But we need to I 1 remember this great fact—aftet we ' have asked the Spirit to tell us what P .1 • ns would do and have received an ' answer to it we are to act regardless <-f " the r< nits to ourselves. Is that under " u No. 49 ' r ' t All til faces in the r>*n were rv.«*4 , toward the minister :& Jmn Mwnt I There was no tnt« s lerstaading iif pr. ; >iti. n Henry Maxwell's tut „ qmv. r-d **ain a* he n. ted thepfesid nl 9 of the Endeavor scii-ly, with wtrnl , member*, seated hat k <<t the older a«« , and w.>mea They remained a little longer talk ing over detail* and vi.iutiji :m* , and agr.-sl to report to one another ev . , ery week at a regular meeting the te . ] suit of their experiences in following r 1 J'sus in this way Henry Maxwell i prayed again And a#ain. as before the , Spirit made himself manifest Every head remained bow. da 1 ng time They [ Went away finally in silence. There was a feeling that prevented speech Henry Maxwell shook hands with them all as they went out Then he w.-nt to nis own study rrincn back <rf the pulpit and kneeled down. He IS i mained there alone nearly half an hour | When be went h><me. he went istn the room where the dead N«ly lay. As be looked at the face he cried in his heart again for strength and wisdom, but not even yet did he realise that a move ment had N « n begrtn which would lew) to the most remarks Me series of events that ths city of Raymond had ever known |ro as aTnxm.) SHEEP PENS. A Circular Carral nklek Slalelm Time and Ukor la Fe*4laa. Sheep tneo are divided somewhat la opinion as to the best manner of han dling sheep when ptvparltfg them far market. Some prefer square or ot>- long pen*, but a number of flo feeders build their peus on the geaaral plan of a circular incli»*«ire. The l»atly Drovers' Telegram gives an account, which 1 tears upou this point, of the farm and feeding peus of one at the ™ 9 —' - v ; " > $ qcartkr ssi-nmr or ctarrxAa eomxxL. most successful sheep men of the Rocky Ford region, who hoys south western lambs and pre|sires them for msrket. It is stated that of the farm and the remainder is used for pens, barns and residence. The tnanoer In wlfleh the corrals and feed lots are ar ranged is an admirable one for caring for sheep, aud It would be a hard mat ter to devise a Bore practical arrange ment. The corral Is circular In shape and has a smaller pen In the renter. Ra diating from this center pen to the out side are fences, as shown In the rot. which divide the outer portion of th# corral Into 12 different pens. These outside pen* are called hay peas, where the sheep remain when not In the corn pens, two smaller pens In the center. At the Immediate center of the corral Is located the corn bin or crfb Water Is furnished by means of a reservoir an<l pli»es. which are connected with each pen, necessitating the use of six hydrants, one for each two pens The feeding |teus are connected with gates to the hay »r outer pens. Feed Is given twice a day. and It usually takes three hours each time to handle the 12 pens. Two pens are fed at the same time, one pen on each skte of the dividing fem-e, thus minimising both lalior aud time. All the corn used is carefully weighed each day as It Is fed This Is a |«>lnt that a good many feeders overlook. A pair of hand scales Is kept at the pens, and not a grain of corn more than the determined weight is given. The accumpan)lng diagram shows a little more tliau a quarter section of the whole arrangement. Improvement of Takaw*. Little Is known of the chemk-al pro port ions of the ioltacco leaf, particular ly those which contribute to the flavor ami aroiua It Is certain that the ex reliance of the leaf and Its adaptation to market demands are not depemlent, except l:i a very general way. upon the amount of ulcotine It ha* long been known that certain of the potaaslu-ii salts cannot Is" used at all for the pro duction of high type* of cigar tol<ac«-o. as they give the leaf a p«>or burn. It Is furthermore an old experience of tobaei-o growers that excessive nlti. * enoiiH manuring tend* to produce a large leaf of inferior i|uallty, contain ing au lin reased amount of nicotine Dr. I/oew of the agricultural depart ment Is said to nave found that there exist ou the Florida leaf two kinds of oxidizing euzyms, distinguished as to bacco oxidase and tobacco pero*lda«e. Comparison with the Connecticut leaf has demonstrated to his satisfaction that it la on the difference in these enzyuis and on their presence or ab sence that the difference In flavor aud aroma depends Having demonstrated to his satisfaction the presence of tie se enayms and their effect on tobacco. I»r. Loew is now engaged in the attempt to so employ them as to produce the fla vor of Florida leaf lu Connecticut to bacco. Waste I.lmr I'ros ssasr Fs»«srle» The value of refuse lime from l»-et sugar factories varies widely, dep» nd ing chiefly upon the amount of water which It coutaina. says Professor II J Wheeler, who also tells In Rural New Yorker how to use this material aa fertilizer This lime waste should nev er lie spread upon the surface of the ground while It is In a wet condition, or It will cake and Interfere with ita proper Incorporation with the soil It should not lie put In heaps upon grsss where it la desired that the grass should not be destroyed, it la be»t to apply it In small piles in the late au tumn and allaw It to freeae and He until spriug It then crumbles and is spread and worked Into the soil aa thoroughly a» jaissltde. If preferred, it may be placed In some convenient place In long plies and worked over at intervals of a few weeks, by which process It l>ecouics flt to apply after a few months Aside from the difH- tilty of applying it and the small amount of time actually present, the use of this material Is satisfactory.
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