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SALE
Five days of special prices, commencing
Tuesday, January 9,1900
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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<ersonal love for
themselves on the part of the firm.
Won't the result be more care, less
Waste, more diligence, more faithful
neasf"
"Yes; I think so. A good many other
business men don't, do they 1 1 mean
as a general thing. How about your re
lations to tho selfish world that is not
trying to make money on Christian
principles?'
"That complicates my action, of
course."
• 'Does your plau contemplate what id
cowing to bo known an co-op«ration t
"Yoa; us far ad I have gone, it (low
An I told yon, I am studying out my
details carefully. lam absolutely cou
vincod that Jesus in my place would !»•
absolutely unselfish Hu would love all
these men in his employ He would
consider the main purpose of all the
business to be a mutual helpfulMM and
would conduct it all sothatOod'a king
dom would Ih' evidently the ttr*t object
sought On those general principles, u*
I sav. 1 am working. I must have time
to complete the details. "
When Henry Maxwell finally left
Milton Wright, he was profoundly in<
pressed with the revolution that wa<
lie in tr wrought already in the busings
AM lie pa--«d out of the store he caught
MiiiM thingof the new spirit of the place
Tiii i•• was no mistaking the fact that
Milt Wright's new relations to his
flllpil Were liegilllliug. even aOMHitl.
after I<-- than two weeks, to transform
>* 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><pb» ~n Sun
■lay the subject of the sal.» n in Ray
m- tnl as lie n.iw hc'i.-Tnl J- sn< w nld
d- • He had never preached against the
siil.s n in this way >»-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<irons audience ever wa- The fringe
around the tent was deeper, and the
saloons were practically empty. The
Holy Spirit had come at last, ami Oray
knew that one of the great prayers of
his life was going to be answered
And Rachel her sinking was the
bewt. not wonderful Virginia or Jasper
Chiise had ever kuown They had come
together again tonight with l)r W> 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<loa. cIrUM. itltet*.
Ik. juk thj prunuM I twlisw,
O lunb of (igd, I com*, I rtetl*
The voice was as the voice of divine
kinging. and the Rectangle, fpr the
time being, was swept into the harbor
of redemptive grace.
[TO BE CONTISUKD-f
Hruoi For Her
"You've no idea how grateful I am to
you." sh«' said after he had proposed.
"lirateful!" he exclaimed. "Am 1 to
understand, then, that you accept me?"
"No; hardly that," she replied. "But
I have now had more proposals than
any other girl In our pet, and I can't
tell you how that pleases me."—Chi
cago I'oat.
The llaalnraa For Him.
Little Charles- Sister told mamma
yesterday you was born to be a poll
tit-lan.
Mr. Skimpfey A politician? I wonder
why she thinks so.
Little Charles She says you can do
so much talkln without comwlttlo
yourself. <'liii-ago Times Herald
Hllaalol HnmraU.
llanlou- He assured me he was very
sorry that 1 made myself appear so
ridiculous.
Melville- -That's all right. There are
a great many persons who are never
happier than when they are f.-ellng
sorry for Somebody else.- Hostou Tran
script.
Patron s|,.,«itl Have I*al4 la A -
vaaer.
"Tlie |H»rtralt," complained the pa
tron. "makes me look like ,H> 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