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Stable Room For 65 Horses. ('.'A good class of horses, both drivers and draft horses always on hand and for sale under a full guarantee; and horses bought pon proper notification hy PEARSON B. NACE. Telephone. No. 219. •uANTEI) SKVERAI. UEICiIIT AND " lionest persons to represent us a* Mun agers In this and clow l.y counties. Salary 09W a year ami expenses. straight. hona fiue.iioniorc.no less salary. IVsltlon per manent. Our references, any liauk in any town. It Is mainly ofHce work conducted at home Kefcrenee. Enclose self-addressed 1 stamped envelope. Tut Dovrtsio.v Cokp»« v. 1 Dept.3, Chicago. BUTLER, PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4. H O.) . : t . i - : • • • • - A .4..•;. - • • • J • i . i> Advance <"o. •»/ Chicago. • • • CHAPTER IV. If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me Henry Maxwell paced his study back and forth. It was Wednesday., and he had started to think oat the subject of his evening service which fell upon that night. Out of one of his study windows he could see the tall chimneys of the rail road shops. The top of the evangelist's tent just showed over the buildings around the Rectangle. The pastor of the First church looked out of this window every time he turned in his walk. Alter awhile he sat down at his desk and drew ft large piece of paper toward him. After thinking several momenta ho wrote in large letters the following: "A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT JESUS WOULD PROBABLY DO IN THIS PARISH. "1. Live in a simple, plain manner, without needless luxury on the one hand or undue asceticism on the other. •'2. Preach fearlessly to the hypo crites in tli ■ church, no matter what their social importance or wealth. "8. Show in some practical form sympathy and love for the common peo ple as well ris for the well to do. edu cated. refined people who make up the majority of the church and parish. "4. Identify himself with the great can,:, a of humanity in soiao personal way that would cull for self denial and suffering. "5. Pre:.eh against the saloon in Raymond. "<>. Beconiu known as a friend r.:id companion of the sinful people in the Rectal! -tie. "7. Give up the Bummer trip to En ropo this year. I have be n abroat twice and cannot claim any sp c;a need of i >-t. I am well aud could foregc this pleasure, usin;? the money lor some one who needs a vacation more than I do. There are probably plenty of such people in the city. "8. What else would Jesus do as Henry Maxwell?" He was conscious, with a humility that once was a stranger to him, that his outline of Jesus' probable action was painfully lacking in depth and power, but he was seeking carefully for concrete shapes into which he might cast his thought of Jesus' conduct Nearly every point he had put down meant for him a complete overturning l of the custom and habit of years in the ministry. In spite of that, he still searched deeper for sources of the Christlike spirit. He did not attempt to write any more, but sat at his desk ab sorbed in his attempt to catch more and more of the spirit of Jesus in his own life. He had forgotten the particular subject for his prayer meeting with which he had begun his morning study. He was so absorbed over his thought that he did not hear the bell ring, and he was roused by the servant, who an nounced a caller. He hail sent up his name —Mr. Gray. Maxwell stepped to the head of the stairs and asked Gray to come up. "We can talk better up here." So Gray came up and stated the rea son for his call. "I want you, Mr. Maxwell, to help me. Of course ,you have heard what a wonderful meeting we had Monday night and last night. Miss Winslow has done more with her voice than 1 could, and the tent won't hold the peo ple. "I've heard of that It's the first time the people there have heard her It's no wonder they are attracted." "It has been a wonderful revelation to us and a most encouraging event in our work. But I came to ask if you could not come down tonight and preach. I am suffering with a severe cold. Ido not dare to trust my voice again. I know it is asking a good deal for such a busy man, but if you can't come say so freely, and I'll try some where else.'' "I'm sorry, but it's my regular prayer meeting night," said Henry Maxwell. Then he flushed and added: "I shall be able to arrange it in some way so as to come down. You can count on me. " Gray thanked him earnestly and rose to go. "Won't you stay a minute, Gray, and let us have a prayer together?" "Yes," said Gray simply. So the two men kneeled together in the study. Mr. Maxwell prayed like a child. Gray was touched to tears as he kneeled there. There was something al most pitiful in the way this man, who hail lived his ministerial life in such a narrow limit of exercise, now beggei for wisdoni and strength to speak a message to the people in the Rectangle. Gray rose and held out his hand. "God bless you, Mr. Maxwell. I'm sure the Spirit will give you power to night. " Henry Maxwell made no answer. He did not even trust himself to say that he hoped so, but he thought of his promise, and it brought a certain peace that was refreshing to his heart and mind alike. So that is how it came about that when the First chnrch audience came into tho lecture room that evening it was met with another surprise. There was an unusually large num ber present. The prayer meetings ever since that remarkable Sunday morning had been attended as never In-fore in the history of the First church. Henry Maxwell came at once to the point. He spoke of Gray's work aud of his mpiest. "I feel as if I were called to go down there tonight, and I will leave it with you to say whether you will goon with the meeting here. I think perhaps the best plan would be for a few volunteers to go down to tho Rectangle with me, prepared to help in the after meeting, and the rest remain here and pr;»y that the Spirit's power may go with us. " So half n dozen of tho men went with Henry Maxwell, and the rest of the au dience staid in the lecture room. Max well could not escape the thought as he left the room that probably in his entire church membership there might not be fonnd a score of disciples who were capable of doing work that would suc cessfully lead needy, sinful men into the knowledge of Christ. The thought did not linger in his mind to vex him as he went <«n his way, but it was sim ply a part of his whole new conception of tho meaning of Christian discjple abip When ho and his little company of volunteers reached the Rectangle, the tent was already crowded. They had difficulty in getting t<> the little plat form. Rachel was there, with Virginia and Jasper Chose, who had como in stead of the doctor tonight. When the meeting began with a song in which Rachel sang the solo and the people were asked to join in the chorus, not a foot of standing room was left in the tent. The night was mild, and the sides of the tent were up. and a great border of faces stretched around, lock ing in and forming part of the audience. After the singing and a prayer by one of the city pastors who were present Gray stated the reasons for his inability to speak and in his simple manner turned the service over to "Brother Maxwell of the First church. "Who's de bloke?" asked a hoarse voice near the outside of the tent. "De Fust church parson. We've got de whole high tone swell outfit to night" "Did you Bay Fust church ? I know him. My landlord has got a front pew up there," said another voice, and there was a langli, for the sj>eaker was a sa loon keeper. "T'row out de life line 'cross de dark wave!" began a drunken man near by, singing in such an unconscious imita tion of a local traveling singer's nasal tone that roars of laughter and jeers uf approval rose around him. The people in the tent turned in the direction of tho disturbance. There were shouts of "Puthimoutl" "Givethe Fust church a chance!" "Song, song! Give us an other song!'' Henry Maxwell stood up, and a great wave of actual terror went over him. This was not like preaching to the well dressed, respectable, good mannered people on the boulevard. He began to speak, but the confusion increased. Gray went down into the crowd, but did not seem able to quiet it. Henry Maxwell raised his arm and bis voice. The crowd in the tent began to pay some attention, but the noise on the outside increased. In a few minutes the audience was beyond Maxwell's control. He turned to Rachel with a sad smile. "Sing something, Miss Winslow. They will listen to you," he said and then sat down and put his face in his hands. It was Rachel's opportunity, and she was fully equal to it. Virginia was at the organ, and Rachel asked her to play a few notes of the hymn: Saviour, I follow on. Guided by thee. Seeing not yet the hand That leadeth me. Hutfhed be my heart and still; Fear I no further ill; Only t© meet thy will My will Khali be. Rachel had not sung the first line be fore the people in the tent were all turned toward her, hushed and rever ent. Before she had finished the verse the Rectangle was subdued and tamed. It lay like some wild beast at her feet, and she sang it into harmlessness. Ah! What were the flippant, perfumed, critical audiences in concert halls com pared with this dirty, drunken, impure, degraded, besotted humanity that trem bled and wept and grew strangely, sad ly thoughtful under the touch of tho divine ministry of this lieantiful young woman? Henry Maxwell as he raised his head and saw the transformed mob had a glimpse of something that Jesus would probably do with a voice like Rachel Winslow's. Jasper Chase sat with his eyes on the singer, and his greatest longing as an ambitious author was swallowed up in the thought of what Rachel Winslow's love might tome time mean to him. And over in the shadow outside stood the last person any tine might have expected to see at a gospel tent service, Rollin Page, who, jostled on every side by rough men and women, who stared at the swell in the fine clothes, seemed careless of his sur roundings and at the same time evi dently swayed by the power that Rachel possessed. He had just come over from the club Neither Rachel nor Virginia saw him that night. The song was over. Henr> Maxwell rose again. This time he felt calm. What would Jenus do? He spoke as he thought once he never could. Who were these people? They were immortal ■ouls. What was Christianity ? A call ing of sinners, not the righteous, to re pentance. How would Jesus speak? What would he say? lie could not tell all that his message would include, but he felt sure of a part of it, and in that certainty he spoke on. Never before had he felt "compassion for the multi tude." What had the multitude been to him during his ten years in the First church but a vague, dangerous, dirty, troublesome factor in society, outside of the church and his reach; an element that caused him occasionally an un pleasant feeling of conscience; a factor in Raymond that was talked about at associations as the "masses" in papers written by the brethren in attempts to show why the "masses" were not being reached. But tonight as he faced the "masses" he asked himself whether, after all, this was not just about such a multitude as Jesus faced oftenest, and he felt the genuine emotion of love for a crowd which is one of the best indi cations a preacher ever has that he is living close to the heart of the world's eternal life. It is easy to love an indi vidual sinner, especially if he is person ally picturesque or interesting. To love a multitude of sinners is distinctly a Christlike quality. When tho meeting closed, there was no special interest shown. The people rapidly melted away from the tent, and the saloons, which hail been exjierienc ing a dull season while the meetings progressed, again drove a thriving trade. The Rectangle, as if to make up for lost time, started in with vigor on its usual night life of debauch. Henry Maxwell and his little party, including Virginia, Rachel and Jasper Chase, walked down jwtst the row of saloons and deus until they reached the corner where the cars passed. "This is a terrible sj>ot," said Henry Maxwell as they stood waiting for their car. "I never realized that Raymond had such a festering sore. It does not seem possible that this is a city full of Christian disciples." He pan si si and then continued: "Do you think any one can ever re move this great curse of the saloon ? Why don't we all act together against the traffic? What would .Testis do? Would he keep silent? Would he vote to license these causes of crime and death?" Henry Maxwell was talking to him self more than to the others. He re membered that he had always voted for license, und so had nearly all of his church members. What Would Jesus do? Could he answer that question? Would Jesus preach and act against the saloon if he lived today ? How would he preach and act? Suppose it was not popular to preach against license. Sup pose the Christian people thought it was all that could be done to license the evil, aud so get revenue from a nec essary sin. Or suppose the church mem bers owned property where the saloons stood. What then 1 He knew that these were the facts in Raymond. What would Jesus do? lle went up into his study the next morning with thatquestion only partly answered He thought of it all day. Ho was still thinking of it and reaching certain real conclusions when The Evening News came. His wife brought it up and sat down a few minutes while he read it to her. The Evening News was at present the most sensational paper in Raymond. That is to say, it was being edited in such a remarkable fashion that its sub scribers had never Ix-en so excited over a newspaper before. First they had no ticed the absence of tlx- prizefight, and gradually it lx-gan to dawn upon them that The News no longer printed ac counts of crime with detailed descrip tions or scandals in private life. Then they noticed that the advertisements of liquor and tobacco were tn-ing dropped, together with certain other advertise ments of a questionable character. The discontinuance of the Sunday paper caused the greatest comment of all. and now the character of the editorials was creating the greatest excitement. A quotation from the Monday paper of this week will show what Edward Nor man was doikg to keep his promise. The editorial was headed: "TUB MORAI> SIDE OF POLITICAL yUES TIONB. "The editor of The News has always advocated the principles of the great political party at present in power and has therefore discussed all political questions from a standpoint of exjKjdi ency or of belief in the party as opposed to other organizations. Hereafter, to be perfectly honest with all our read ers. the editor will present and discuss political questions from the standpoint of right and wrong. In other words, the first question will not be. 'ls it in the interest of our party T' or 'ls it ac cording to the principles laid down by the party ?' but the question first asked will be. 'ls this measure in accordance with the spirit and teachings of Jesus as the author of the greatest standard of life known to men ?' That is. to be perfectly plain, the moral side of every political question will be considered, its most important side, and the ground will be distinctly taken that nations as ►ell as individuals are under the san-e law to do all things to the glory of God as the first rule of action. "The same principle will be observed in this office toward candidates for places of responsibility and trust in the republic. Regardless of party politics, the editor of The News will do all in his power to bring the best men into power and will not knowingly help to support for office any candidate who is unworthy, however much he may be indorsed by the party. The first ques tions asked about the man, as about the measure, will be: 'ls he the right man for the place? Is ho a good man with ability?' " There had been more of this, but we have quoted enough to show the char acter of the editorials. Hundreds of men in Raymond had read it and rub bed their oyes in amazement. A good many of them had promptly written to Tho News, telling the editor to stop their paper. The paper still came out, however, and was eagerly read all over the city. At tho end of the week Ed «vard Norman knew very well that he iiad actually lost already a large num ber of valuable subscribers. He faced the conditions calmly, although Clark, the mauagiug editor, grimly anticipated ultimate bankruptcy, especially since Monday's editorial. Tonight as Henry Maxwell read to his wife he conld see in almost every column evidences of Norman's conscien tious obedience to his promise. There was an absence of slangy, sensational scare heads. Tho reading matter under the headlines was in perfect keeping with them. He noticed in two columns that the reporters' names appeared, signed at the bottom, and there was a distinct advance in the and style of their contributions. "So Norman is beginning to get his reporters to sign their work. He has talked with me about that. It is a good thing. It fixes responsibility for items where it belongs and raises the standard of work done, a good thing all around for public and writers." Henry Maxwell suddenly paused. His wife looked up from some work she was doing. He was reading something with the utmost interest. "Listen to this, Mary," he said after a moment, while his voice trembled: "This morning Alexander Powers, sui>erintendent of the L. HIKI T. R. R. shops in this city, handed his resigna tion to the road and gave as the reason the fact that certain proof had fallen into his hands of the violation of the Interstate commerce law, and also of the statu law, which has recently been framed to prevent and jrunish railroad pooling for the benefit of certain fa vored shippers. Mr. Powers states in his resignation that he can no longer consistently withhold the information he possesses against the road. He has placed his Evidence against the com pany in the hands of the commission, anil it is now for them to take action npon it. "The News wishes to express itself on this action of Mr. Powers. In tho first place, he has nothing to gain by it. He has lost a valuablo place volnn tarily when by keeping silent lie might have retained it. In the second place, we believe his action ought to receive the approval of all thonghtful, honest citizens who believe in seeing law obeyed and lawbreakers bronght to jus tice. In a case like this, where evidence against a railroad company is generally understood to be almost impossible to obtain, it is the general belief that the officers of the road are often in posses sion of criminating facts, but do not consider it to be any of their business to inform the authorities that the law is being defied. "The entire result of this evasion of responsibility on the part of those who are responsible is demoralizing to every young man connected with the road. The editor of The News recalls the statement made by a prominent rail road official in this city a little while ago that nearly every clerk in a certain department of the road who understood how large sums of money were made by shrewd vi< >lationst»f the interstate com merce law was ready to admire the shrewdness with which it was done and declared that they would all do the same tiling if th»-v were high enough in railroad circles to attempt it. [This was actually said In one of the general of flees of n great western railroad, to the author's knowledge. ] "It is not necessary to say that such a condition of business w destructive to all the nobler and higher standards of conduct, ami no young man can live in such an atmosphere of unpwnislied dishonesty and lawlessness without wrecking his character. "In our judgment, Mr. Powers did the only thing that a Christian man can do. He has rendered brave and use ful service to the state and the general public. It is not always an easy matter to determine the relations that exist l«- tweeli tho individual citizen and his fixt-d duty to the public In this ca»e there is no doubt in our mind that the stop which Mr Powers h.-is taken < m mends it-elf to every man who lieli< vew in law ami its enfaronMßl TVn titiK-s when the individual must act for the people in ways that will mean sac rifice and loss to hint of the gravest character Mr Powers will be misun derstood ami misrepriwented. Imt there is no question that his course will lie approved by every citizen who wishes to see the greatest corporations as well as the weakest individual subject to the rame law Mr Powers lias done all that a loyal, patriotic citizen could do It now remains for the commission to act npon his evidence, which, we under stand. is overwhelming proof of the lawlessness of the L. and T L*-t the law lie enforced, no matter who the persons may be who have been guilty. " Henry Maxwell finished reading and dropped the paper. "I must no and see Powers. This is the result of his promise. " He rose, and as he was going out his wife said: "Do yon think, Henry, that Jesns would have done thatT" Henry Maxwell paused a moment. Then he answered slowly: "Yes; I think he would. At any rate. Powers has decided so, and each one of us who made the promise understands that he is not deciding Jesus' conduct for any one else, only for himself." "How about his family? How will Mrs. Powers and Celia be likely to take it?" "Very hard. I have no doubt. That will be Powers' cross in this matter. They will not understand his motive." Henry Marwell went out and walked over to the next block, where the su perintendent lived. To his relief, Pow ers himself came to the door. The two men shook hands silently. They instantly understood each other without words. There had never been such a bond of union between the min ister and his parishioner. "What are you going to do?" 9enry Maxwell asked after they had talked over the facts in the case and considered them well. "You mean another position? I have no plans yet. I can go Pack to my old work as a telegraph operator. My fam ily will not suffer except in a social way." Alexander Powers spoke calmly, if sadly. Henry Maxwell did not need to ask him how his wife and daughter felt. He knew well enough that the su perintendent had suffered deepest at that point. "There is one matter I wish you would see to," said Powers after awhile, "and that is the work begun at the shops. So far as I know, the com pany will not object to that going right on. It is one of the contradictions of the railroad world that the Y. M. C. A. and other Christian influences are en couraged by the roads, while all the time the most nn-Christian and lawless acts are tieing committed in the official management of the roads themselves. Of course it is understood that it pays a railroad to have in its employ men who are temperate and honest and Christian. So I have no doubt the mas ter mechanic will have the same cour tesy extended to him that I had in the matter of the room and its uses. But what I want you to do, Mr. Maxwell, is to see that my phyi is carried out. Will you? You unaerstand what the idea was in general. You made a very favorable impression on the men. Go down there as often as you can. Get Milton Wright interested to provide something for the furnishing and ex pense of the coffee plant and reading tables. Will you do it?" "Yes," replied Henry Maxwell. He staid a little longer. Before he went away he and the superintendent had a prayer together, and they parted with that silent hand grasp that seemed to them like a new token of their Chris tian discipleship and fellowship. The pastor of the First church went home stirred deeply by the events of the week. Gradually the truth was growing upon him that the pledge to do as Jesus would was working out a revolution in his parish and throughout the city. Every day added to the serious results of oliedience to that pledge. Henry Maxwell did not pretend to see the end. He was, in fact, only now at the very beginning of events that were destined to change the history of hun dreds of families, not only in Raymond, but throughout the entire country. As he thought of Edward Norman and Rachel and Mr. Powers and of the re sults that had already come from their actions he could not help a feeling of intense interest in the probable effect if all the persons in the First church who had made the pledge faithfully kept it. Would they all keep it, or would some of them turn back when the cross be came too heavy ? He was asking this question the next morning as he sat in his study when the president of tho Endeavor society called to see him. "I supi»ose I ought not to trouble you with my case," said young Morris, coming at once to his errand, "but I thought, Mr. Maxwell, that you might advise me a little. " "I'm glad you came. Go on, Fred " Henry Maxwell had known the young man ever since his first year in the pas torate and loved and honored him for his consistent, faithful service in the church. "Well, the fact is I'm out of a job. Yon know, I've l>een doing reporter work on The Morning Sentinel since I graduated last year. Well, last Satur day Mr. Burr asked me to go down the road Sunday morning and get the de tails of that train robbery at the junc tion and write the thing up for the ex tra edition that came out Monday morning, just to get the start of The News. I refused to go, and Burr gavt me my dismissal. He was in a bad tem per. or I think perhaps he would not have done it. He has always treated me well before. Now, don't you think Jesus would havo done as I didt I ask because the other fellows say I was a fool not to do the work. I want to feel that a Christian acts from motives that may seem strange to others sometimes, but not foolish. What do you think?" "I think you kept your promise, Fred. I cannot believe Jesus would do newspaper work on Sunday, as you were asked to do it." "Thank you, Mr. Maxwell. I felt a little troubled over it, but the longer 1 think it over the lietter I feel." Morris rose to go, ami Henry Max well rose and laid a loving hand on the young man's shoulder. "What are you going to do, Fred'f" "I don't know yet. I have thought some of going to Chicago or some large city." "Why don't you try The News?" "They are all supplied. I have not thought of applying there." Henry Maxwell thought a moment. "Come down to The News office with me and let us see Norman about it. " So a few 'liinutes later Edward Nor man received into his room the minister HIHI young Morris, and Henry Maxwell briefly told the cause of their errand. "I can give yon a place on The Nevrs. " said Edward Norman, with his keen look softened by a smile that made it winsome "I want reporters who won't work Sundays. And, what i.l mot*. 1 am making plan* fur a sj»-< i*l kind of re|>>rting which I hclii'Vf vouiir Morris herr can develop !»-< i ■«- h. is ill sym|wtthy with wh.it wild do." He a»iKWil M. Ms a definite task, arid Henry Maxwell ~tHrt«»l lm.-k t. hi* •tody feeling that kind <>f satisfa< tion - and it in a very dwp kind which ; man feel.* when he has l«e»-n evi n parti, instmin. ntal in finding an nnernpl. y «*i person a situation Hi' had intended to go Imck to hi* study, bat on his way home he paaaed by one of Milton Wright's ttorni He thought he would simply step in and shake hands with his parishioner and bid him gislspeed in what he had heard he was doing to put Christ ?nto his business bet when he went into the office Milton Wright insisted on d. tain ing him to talk over some of his new plans. Henry Maxwell asked hu.-lf if this was the Milton Wright he u*.sl to know, eminently practical, business like, according to the regular code of the business world, and viewing every thing first and foremost from the stand point of "Will it pay?" ' There is no use to disguise the fact Mr Maxwell, that 1 have been com pelled to revolutionise the whole rueth 1 of my bnsineM since I made that prom ise. I have been doing a great mnuv things during the last 20 years in this store that I know Jesus would not do. but that is a small item compared with the number of things I begin to believe Jesus would do. My sins of commission have not been as many as those of omis sion in business relations. " "What was the first change y< >n made?" asked Henry Maxwell. lie frit as if his sermon could wait fur him in his study. As the interview with Mil ton Wright continued he wa* not so »are hnt he had found material for a sermon without going hack to his study "I think the first change I hail to make was in my thought of my em ployees. I came down here Monday morning after that Sunday and asked myself 'What would Je»us do in his relation to these clerks, Imokkeepers. office boys, draymen, salesmen? Would he try to establish some sort of personal relation to them different from that which I have sustained all these years ? I soon answered theqnestion by saying, 'Yes.' Then came the question of what it would lead me to do. "I did not see how I could answer it to my satisfaction without getting all my employees together and haviw a talk with them. So I sent invitations to all of them, and we hail a meeting out there in the warehouse Tuesday night "A good many things came out of that meeting. I can't tell you all. I tried to talk with the men as I im agined Jesus might It was hard work, for I have not been in the habit of it. and I must have made mistakes. But I can hardly make you believe, Mr. Max well, the effect of that meeting on some of the men. Before it closed I saw more than a dozen of them with tears on their faces. 1 kept asking. 'What would Jesus dot' and the more I asked it the further along it pushed me into the most intimate and loving relation* with the men who have workt-d for me all these years. Every day something new is coming up, and I am right now in the midst of a reconstructing of the entire business, so far as its motive for being conducted is concerned. lam so practically ignorant of all plans for co operation and ita application to business that I am trying to get information from every possible source. I have late ly made a special study of the life of Titus Salt, the great mill owner of Bradford. England, who afterward built that model town on the lianks of the Aire There is a good deal in his plans that will help. But I have not yet reached definite conclusions in regard to all the details. I am not enough used to Jesus' methods. But see here." Milton eagerly reached up Into one of the pigeonholes of his desk and took out a paper. "I have sketched out what seems to me a programme such as Jesus might go by in a business like xuine I want you "to tell me what you think abont it." "WHAT JKSIB WOULD PROBABLY DO IX MILTON WRIGHT'S FLACK AS A BI'BLNESS "1 He would engage in business for the purpose of glorifying God and not for the primary purpose of making money. "2. All money that might be made he would never regard as his own. but as trust funds to be used for the good of humanity. "3. His relations with all the per sons in liis employ would lie the most loving and helpful Ho could not help thinking of them all in the light of souls to l»e saved. This thought would always bo greater than his thought of making money in business. "4. Ho would never do a single dis honest or questionable thing or try in the remotest way to get th« advantage of uny one else in the same business. "5 The principle of unselfishness and helpfulness iu all the details of the business would direct its details. "0. Upon this principle he would shupo the entire plan of his relations to his employees, to the people who were his customers and to the general busi ness world with which ho was con nected. Henry Maxwell read this over slowly. It reminded him of his own attempts tho day before to put into a concrete form his thought of Jesus' probable ac tion. He was very thonghtfnl as he looked up and met Milton Wright s eager gaze. "Do you believe you can continue to make your business pay on those li lies ?' "Ido Intelligent unselfishnessought to be wiser than intelligent selfishness, don't yon think 1 If the men who work as employees begin to feel a jHTional share in the profits of the business and. more than that, a i* T o 1 Tuts wa# apparent in the I'drwt »i ■! fj of th* clerk* " If Mi I- ii Wr. .lit k<-« i»» he wtQ b. one lit th- ui -f induential pr. aebera in It.i *: n.i satd Henry M&xw-ll t.» hit -.if wlwa h. -reached his «tady. Tho •ji. «;».* r -•* ast*. hi* «■ nfinnaacw in this when h>* l»*an to lum ny i.y it. as was p. ~«ibW fltmij M.xwi U pray,si that th.- H.4t Spirit, who had s! 'in hinwrtf with growing j».w.r in the c» iiipraj of th* Fir«t chnrch disciples, might abide I..ug with them all. and with that prayer -m his lips ami m his heart he be if an the prep aration of a sermon in whb h he was Koin* to pre 'nt to his pe>»-f..re He knew that the thine* he shoubl say woald lead to serious re-nits Nevertheless he went ..ii with his work, and every «en t. nee he wrot. .»r shaped was prwwW w-ith ti»- tjn.-sti ii, "Would J«*tm say that • i »n, ein the roots' of his study be went down on his knr.ii No one ex cept himself r..nld kn.'W what that iiiianr to him When had he done that in tli.- preparation of sermons befora the change that hml come into his thought of .li-. tpb-hipf As be viewed his ministry now he did not dare to preach without praying fur wisdom. He no Imngor thought of his dramatic de livery and its eff**ct on hi* audience Th-- great .[n.-stion with him now was. "What would Jesus do?" Saturday night at the Rei-tangle wit nessed some of the moot r.-markaM* scenes that Mr (tray and his wife had ever known The met tinic hail intensi fied with each r.ight of Rachel's sing in if A stranger passing through the R«* tangle in the daytime might have heard a gind deal about the meetings in one way and an> .ther It cannot be said that up to that Satnniay night there was any appreciable lack of oaths ami impurity and heavy drinking. The Rec tangle would not have acknowledged that it was growing any letter or that even the Ringing had softened its con versa tion or its outward manner It had t«»> much Irn-al pride in Win* "tough " Hut. in spite of itself, there was a vie! ling to a power it had never measured and did n..t know well enough to resist beforehand. l tray had recovered bis voice, so that Saturday h«' was able to speak. The fact that he was obliged to use his voir* can-fully made it mt-wsiry for the pe«»- ple to )>e very quiet if th»>y want**) to hear (iradually they had come to nn der-tand that this man w# talking these many weeks and using his time and strength to (five them a knowledge of a Saviour, all out of a perfectly un selfish love for them Tonight the great crowd was as quiet as H»-nry Mas well# d *c A who had spent all his spare time that week in the Rectangle with some char ity cast's Virginia was at the organ. Jasper sit ill a front seat bsiking up at Rachel, aud the Rectangle swayed a* one man toward the platform as ahe sang "JiMt u I an . wit Soot onr |1«. Bui that thy Mood »a» iM tor at Ami that th u hidM n«t c..m« to tl»- O Unb of Uod. I cwat, I WOt!" (iray said hardly a word He stretch ed out his hand with a gesture of invi tation. and down the two aisles of the tent bmken. sinful creature*, men and women, stumbled toward the platform. One woman ont of the street was near the organ. Virginia caught the look of htr face, and for the time in the life of th»* rich girl the thought „f what J«ra» was to a sinful woman came with a sudden ness and power that were like nothing but a new birth Virginia left the or (Can. went to her, looked into her face and caught her hands in her own. The other girl trembled, then fell on her km-es. sobbing, with her head down iij* in the back of the bench in front of her. still clinging to Virginia. And Vir fcinia. after a moment's hesitation, kneeled down by her, and the two bead* were bowed clow t- "gather. Bat when the people had crowded in a double row all about the platform, most nf them kneeling and crying, a man in evening dress, different from the others, pushed through the seats all 1 came and kneeled down by the side of the drunken man who had disturbed the meeting when Henry Maxwell Bjioke He kneeled within a few feet of Rachel Winalow. who was still singing softly, and as she turned for a moment and looked in his direction she was amazed to see the face of Rollin Page! For a moment her voice faltered. Then •he went on "Ju*t u I ID thou wilt iKtin. Wilt walctta*, |*r rents!"* "Well, that was all the money 1 hail." replied the artist a|H»logetlc«lty. ltelrolt Journal. Oehednlr Tint. Hungry Traveler (at railway dining •tatloni How soon will the train start, rood actor? Conductor I'll start on time today. 1 ain't got uiucli appetite.—New York Weekly A lirral Help. I'arke- Doa't you tlud It a great thing to have a telephone In yoar hon«"' Ia ne Yea, sir.' My neighbors tell m» they couldn't get along without It. — Ltfls