V OL- xxxvii iHMHIHHIiIIIIi f Reduced Prices Sgar On reliable Furniture. About one' ||S| fourth as many pieces to show you as we had three weeks ago. Here is Sp| a list of the odds and ends we have One $15.00 Vernis Martin Parlor Chair for SIO.OO jill Above has a pretty decorated priDtl in tbe back. JSI the seat is upholstered in green Satin Damask. |||| One 514.00 Solid Mahogany Parlor Table for 57.50 jgj The leg* are joined together with a nea*. scroll JSS work in piace ot i lover sbelf. long . One $3.50 Rocking Chair. Antique Oak, for $2.00 Has Handle Seat and Polish Finish. jaj jaa Cane seat, antique finish One sl7 Mahogany Fnish Toilet Table for $7.50 Has a beveled French Plate Mirror, one long drawer pcS and a lower shelf. ! Campbell g f emplet on! I MWllll mi W WH»il W Wiß Clean-up Sale Continued! 0 Balance of January Devoted to Bargain Selling. 0 C& Our stock is still too large for invoicing and must be further reduced. CLOAKS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY. Special Clean-up Prices on Silks, Dress Goods, Table Linens. Crashes, Underwear and Hosiery. ALL WINTER GOODS SACRIFICED. REMNANT SALE Hundreds of Remnants of all kinds of Dry Goods and ail odd lots at bargain prices. L. STEIN 8c SON, 108 N. MAIN STREET, CUTLER, PA CTRIVING pOR pFECT! [A Men don't buy clothing for tiie j ji &,po«e or spending money. 1 hey d<-:.ir»%W. 11l •' j , "J '■ to get the beat possible results for money expended. Not cheap gor*ls-&- /J\ Abut good* as cheap as tliev can 1 teUtf,. s/k/f \ "'/ /'* < . 'sold fur fcnd made up properly. If £c \ 7 fcyou want the correct thing at the cor-/&* - A ' ' " ' ,1 ■ .Street price, call and examine onCef. i,. ~<*'•/ 'li 'j * -large stock of Heavy Weights, FallJT? \ \-U ' ■jß*and Winter Suitings and Overcoats j kI At ~ ij, latest Styles. Shades and * f ; 'Jj ' ♦♦ft**********# ' j Fits and WorkmanshiD IIK l!U^ Guaranteed [} ' / G F. KGCK, 142 NorthJMain Street, Butler, Pa 1| PAPES, JEWELERS. II Si i ' ™ oe \ DIAMONDS, * 00 ' WATCHES, J o w j CLOCKS, # o J JEWELRY, J £ £ * SILVERWARE, * *" * * SILVER NOVELTIES, ETC. J 2 u. We repair all kinds of 0 |! Broken Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc * <Jj eo # Give our repair department a trial. as We take old gold and silver the same as cash. * Z< PAPE'S, Jl Stop and Think Before You Act. Where an you going to buy your WALL PAPER? Our Mamm >th new line for 1900 is arriving daily. Never be fore- have you seen its equal in designs, colorings, quality and prit c. We can please you. Call and sec before you buy. Picture and Mirror Framing a Specialty. Paints, Oils. Varnishes, Room Mouldings, and Window Shades. Patterson Bros., 236 North Main Street, Butler, Pa Wick Building. Peoples' Phone 400 subscribe for the CITIZtN *- TIIE BUTLER CITIZEN. Adds His Evidence STORY IS THE SAME AS FROM OTHER SOURCES. ' Lots of Money Spent but no Returns Have Beer. Received The people in Pennsylvania willingly add their evidence to that which has al ' ready been given in favor of Morrow s Kid-ne-oids, the best remedy that has | ever been sold in this state for backache, kidney and urinary disorder?, s'eep'.es: ness and nervousne-- Our druggists re | port wonderful cures and state that Kid i ne-oids are daily increasing in the opin , ion of our people. Kid-ne-oids act dt ' rectly npon the kidiiej- and nerves and ' restore them to their natural condition. | Good kidneys make goofl blood, Sf od j blood makes strong nerves. Ksd-ne-oids i make goo* 1 , kidneys and strong nerves Mr. John Beigh'tol, 123 Du Bois street, | I>n Bois. Pa., says:—For years 2 was troubled with kidney disorders, and dur ing thii tiuie I tried different tindsof kid ney ren;edies, but never found anything that gave me relief like Morrow's K ' - ne-oids. Before taking Kid-ne-oid.- I suffered -vith a 'lull heavy pain in the small of my back which would t>e fre- 1 quanted by a sharp shooting i<ain just over the kidney extending up the spine to the shoulders, also urinary disturbance-, of an annoying nature Since taking Kid-ne-oids they have relieved me of these trouble- and I am feeling better in every respect. I will c nt-.nue to take Kid - ne-oids." Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not uills but Yellow Table!-, and sell ft fifty cent- H box at all druj; stores and at Redick & . Grobnian's drug store. Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac tured by John Morrow & Chemist.'. Springfield, Ohio Hioaiandf* are Trylup ft. In order to prove the great nierft of Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective c'ire for Catarrh and Cold in Iliad, we have pre p".red a generous trial Biz-- for 10 cents. Get it of your druggist or ner.d 10 cents to ELY BROS., 10 Warrea St., N. Y. City I suffered from catarrh of the wor-t KMU ever since a boy, and i never hoj i for cure, hut Ely's Cream Balm see . do even that. Many ac<juaiiit.-inr< tLa :i- 1 it with excellent results.— Oscar Ostruixi, 1" Warren Ave., Chicago, 111. ' Ely's Cream Bairn is the acknowledged cur-r for catarrh and contains no cocaine, mercury nor any irijnriuos drug. Pri'-e, W' cents. At druggists or by mail. Butler Sayings Bank ■LI tier. Pa. Ciipi-Jll - J60,1»»0.0r> Surplus and Profits - - if: 35,0 c*) 00 JO> I. PI'P.VIS Presider' J. IIEN'KY r KOS'T'JAN ... Vice-Pr.-sid-r t WM ( \ M PBKLL, Jr C»'l.i« r I>)UI~ H. STKtN ..'l<•'ler f)lUK''toltS (, I'urvls. .1. Hei.ry T.o'Uroan. W. U. Hran<Jon. W. A. .1 H. CtCTDbell. Tti*: Itutl*:r Savinscs H.'irik is the Banking Institution', ri Itutl r' ounty. '..-neral banking business transact.;)]. W<- toll'-lt accounts of t/ll preducers, rri<T chantH, farmers and others. AU bislness entrusted to us will receive i prompt attehMon. Interest i-alil on tlm«- 'leno»lts. TH K Butler County National Bank,: 1 iull er l^enn, Capitiil in - - fx *>/**).(*> ; Surplus ari<l Prolits - f 130,703.91 To.'.. Harttnan, President; J. V. Kilt,, ( President; C. A. Bailey. Cashier; , John O. MeMarlin, Ass't Cashier. / general banking hunin<' tranwie'l. ItiUir'ia*, pair! on turns fJ'-p*»sit*. \i'>n«ty 1 /,ined on appr # #vi:'l >«*<*urSt.y. We 1 ftvlt.<* you t/> op'-n an account with this bank. hIHFA'I JoHfpti Jfartrrian. Hon. ( W. ■. W dron l>r. M. Hoover. I.'. Mc- Sw « ii# y. !!. K. Atiiamn, <\'. ( «.iliris I. <i .-inliti. \.* Ilf- I' lf;L/lcit. \l. J in'-/in. *V. 11. Larkln, Harry H' ;m)« y. Or W. i'. | Mer'ariflie**. Ii« n Mavneth. V. IMtt.> New Drug Store. MacCartney's Pharmacy New Room. Fresh Drugs. Everything new and fresh. Prescriptions carefully com pounded by a Registered Pharmacist. Try Our Soda R A. MacCartney H.O.HAYS. L.H.HAYS.i PUT YOUR RIG UP AT l^ros.'! Livery and Sale Stable. Best Accommodations in Town. West Jcferson street, Butler, Pa I'cople'H Phone 109, Bell's Plionc S'j L. S. McJUNKIN, Insurance and Real Eslate Agent. 1 17 K. JEFFIiRSON. BUTLER, - PA. Pearson 15. Nace's Livery Feed and Sale Stable Rear of Wick House, Butler, Penn'a. Th« N I of hor • » an'l elans r l'/h al wavHon hand and f»»r hlr«- lf« st Juvornni'xl.tMonH In l'«wn f *>r p« rrn.i i n»int tKiar<JiiiiC awl Irantlcnt tra*l«-. H j al - ;n« Kuarant< * <i. Stable Room For 65 Horses. A K'uxi <■ hi ,H of horwn, lx»th drlvi rn and draft horif'4 always on hand and for sab under a full Kn:irani««'; an'l h«»rs« ■* IjoUKht l>on pro|>«-r uollfleallon l#y PEARSON B. NACE. Telephone. No. 21U. yUWTF.I' ll«»ne i fn;ni or w-iinan I«I »».»•.< 1 " for lark" leui.M . >alary *o. rt.Mnthly UIM! i I'Xpi-nnt-H, with lneji-as< ; |M»sltlon |><-Mn.irt , I-FIT . in»- 1 OH#- sflf-:iddreHs«-d st anii>«*d en V# |OJ#I • MA .N A'» I.K. I'A) t'axton bldK < '»il«:aj(o. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY OO 'IN HIS STEPS. ; r ■ ♦— j Eav. "Whal Would t \ U: • I us 9o?" ] i i : " :? i :: I ;; By Charles >L Sheldon. ; , • • "i> Cupyr'njtor'l n}*! ■! i. /■<■. b'jthr '• t- -*C. - '-'J ' * • •• iaMH lUHMf Co. ••/ CkieapoL tw* - • CHAPTER VnL What ii that to thee? Follow thou me. When Rollin started down the street that afternoon that Jasper stood li ickinsi out of his window, he was not thinking of Rachel Winslow and did not exjs-ct to see her anywhere. He had come sud denly upon her as she turned into the avenue, and his heart had leaped up at the sight of her. He walked along by her now rejoicing, after all, in a little moment of this earthly love he conld not drive ont of his life. "I have just been over to 6ee Vir ginia said Rachel. "She tells me the arrangements are nearly completed for the transfer of the Rectangle property." "Yes; it has been a tedious case in the courts Did Virginia show you all the plans and specifications for build , ings?" "We looked over a good many. It is astonishing to mr where Virginia has : mai: ; ged to get all her ideas about tliif ■ work. "Virginia knows more now about Arnold To; r:t>e ■ and east end London and institutional church work in,Amer ica than a : >■ d many professional slum I worker Si, h; ls-en sp -nuing nearly i all sni .inni in g-tting information.' ! Rollin was Isginning to feel rm.re at | ii- as t »ai!:ed over this coming j work f< h .anility It was safe coia : nion ??:•< . "Wli .t have you ls-en doing all sum | incr? I liav not se-n much of }< ,' ! Racli I lily u: i; d. and then her fac war!,; ! with its quick lli>h of tropical C-. . if >h-* mi 'it have im plied t( ch int-r -t in ! '■ Uin or t JO much r • f ! ■ t seeing liini oit« ner *"1 have i' n lm.:y. replied Rollin briefly "Tell m«* something about it.' per listed ii .'-; I Yon say so little Have I a right to a ;k ?' She put ' li n ■ ' :iy. turning to'. . - in to > - - "Ye--, f-.r' :..y,' 1. •! ..:i a jratel .1 "I • > certain Ijb i can I.i ;m u '. 1 h ivo been I ■ :ig t i f;i (1 . v. to l« .'!i the rn< :i I . n< ■ via them into more r> ■' .1 lii* .' I' vt lenlv, as if ho v,*ero •i al: >' ' - : t < 1 not v< nairo to 11 t . :b;ng "I have ) a a i>. •»:> r< f the Sfinie company to v.hicli yo-1 \ : d \ ir /inia be loj; ' coiitintsed I? a I uning again. "11l .•(: made '■.. p'.ei; ■to do *•1 believe J \s wo::' ! .!« ;ud it is iii trying to;.:. r Ii: • te.n that I have be. u doing my wor-:.' "That i •,/iiat 1 do not un * :• tand. Virginia toi l me alxint the other. It •e. i,n wonderful to think that yon are trying tok ' pth pie'ige v.,th Put what can you do \m!i the < inbmeii?" "You have as': me a oirect ques -1 tion, and I shall have to answer it now," replied Rollin, smiling again. I "Yon see, I:■ iad my ."If after that j night at tie tent, you r member" he spoke bnrri iy, and his voice trembled j » little "what pnrpose I could now i have in my life to redeem if, to satisfy ' my thonght of < hri fian di - ir,!< —liifi, i and tie- more I thonght of it the more I wax driven to a place where I knew I ! must take up this cross. Did you ever \ think that of all the neglected bein m ! in our ws ial »ystem none are quite so i completely left alone as the fast young | men who fill the clnbs and waste tie r time and money as I used to? The chnjehes look after the ]<oor, miserable creatures 1 ik-- tlio-e in the Rectangle, they make some effort to reach the : workingmen, they have a large con | stitnency among the average salary j earning people, they send money and 1 missionaries to the foreign heathen, hut i the fashion ible, dissipated yormg men 1 around town, the clubmen, are left out j of all plans for reaching and f'hri: tian ; izing, and yet no class of people needs ! it more. I said to myself: 'I know these j men, their good and bad qualities. I ' have been one of them. I am not fitted to reach the Rectangle people. I do not | know how. Put I think I could po-sibly reach some of these young men and boys who' have money and time to spend ' Hit that is what I have been trying to do When I asked, as yon ; did, 'What would Jesus doV that was jmy answer It has been also my ' cross.'' Rollin'ti voice was so low on the last | sentence that Rachel had difficulty in i hearing him above the noise around i them, but she knew what he had said, i She wan ted to ask what his mcthisls | were, but she did not know just how to , ask him. Her interest in his plans was : larger than mere curiosity. Rollin Page was so different now from the fashion able young man who had asked her to I his wife that she could not help | thinking of him and talking with him as if be were entirely a new acquaint- I ance. I They had turned off the avenue and I were going up the street to Rachel's i home It was the same street where j Rollin had asked Rachel why she could | not love him. They were both stricken by a sudden shyness as they went on. Rachel had not forgotten that da}', and Rollin could not forget it. She finally broke a long silence by asking bun what she had not found words for before. "In your work for the clubmen, with your old acquaintances, what sort of reception do they give you? How do yon approach them? What do they say ?" Rollin was silent when Rachel s(s>kc He answered after a moment "Oh, it depends on the man! A good many of them think I am a crank. I have kept my membership up and am in good standing in that way. I try to be wise and not provoke any unnece., sary criticism, but you would be stir prised to know how many of the men have responded to my appeal. I could hardly make you believe that only a few nights ago a dozen men became honestly and earnestly engaged in a conversation over religious questions I have had lb" great joy of seeing some 1 of the men give tip bud habits and be gin a new life 'What would Jesus do?' I keep i- iking it The answer comes | slowly, for I am feeling my way along 1 One thing I have found out the men are not fighting shy of me. I think ' that i a good sign Another thing I have actually interested wiiiid of theui in the Rectangle work, and when It is : started up they will give something to help make it more powerful, and, in addition to all the r<- t. I have found a . way to save Home of the young fellows 1 from going to the had in gambling " Rollin spol.-e with enthusiasm His I face /;... t r : f'oi w-d by Ins intcr< t in the ■ct which had now become a pinto hi ii il lib Rachel again noted tie- Iron,' manly, healthful tone of his speech. With it all the km v.- was a deep, underlying sri .u-n -- which frit the burden of the » -s even while car rving it with joy Th ■ next time she sp>.ke it was with a sv.-ift feeling of due to Rolliu and his new life. ••Do yon reuK-mbtr I reproached yon once for not having any purpose worth living for?" s.he asked, while her benn tifnl face seemed to Rollin more beau tifnl than ev. r when he had won snfli ci-nt -. If control to 1««>k np. "I w A ant to tay I feel th • need of saying, in jus tice to you now, that I honor run for yonr courage and your obedience to yonr promise. The lif. you are living now is a very noble one." Rollin tr. nib! d. His agitation was greater than lie c<>nld control. Rachel could not help seeing it. They walked along in silence. At last Rolliu said. "1 thank y<- i It lias l»een more than I can tell to hear yon say that. " He look'd into her face for one moment She read his love t' r her in that look, but 1. • did not speak. When they separated, Rachel went into the house, and. sitting down in her room, she put her face in her hands and said to herself "I am beginning to know what it means to lie loved by a noble ana I shall love Hollio Page. Iffa r all v. : BMIMI toTitiblov.-, have you n" — Shu- ro and wal.:"d LJ.I - :;nd forth.* She was d 'y m 1 N . .'iii less it w • evident to I. i'.-elf that her emotion was not that of r.-,.Tet or sorrow". Some how a gl d. n ;v>- joy had e - le to her. She bad entei> <1 another circle of ex pwience, and later in the day she re joiced with a very strong and sincere gladn- that her Ci ir-tian disc-ipit-ship found I(H.IU for thi crisis in her feel ing. It was indeed a part of it, for if she wer beginning tc> love Rollin it was the Christian man who hau won her heart. The other never would havo moved her to this great change. And Rollin as he went back treasured a hop • that had been a stranger to him since Rachel had said no that day. In that hope he went on with his work as th day sped on, and at no time was li- : succes.-i'nl in reaching and wiv ing his old acquaintance:-" than in the time that follow, d that chance iu< < ting with Rachel Winslow. Tie.- summer had gone, and Raymond was mice more facing the rigor of her winter season. Virginia had been able to ac< omplish a part of her plan for "capturing the Rectangle, " as she called it, but the building of houses in the field, the transforming of its bleak, bare a -poet into an attractive park, all of which was included in her plan, was a work too large to be completed that full after she had secured tlm property. Unt a million dollars in the hands of a person who really want! to do with it as Jesus would ought to accomplish wonders for humanity in a short time, and lli nry Maxwell, going over to the scene of the new work one day after a noon hour with the shopmen, was amazed to see how innch had been done outwardly. Yet he walked home thoughtfully, and on his way lie could not avoid the qn<wtioii of the continual problem thrust into hiH notice by tho saloon. How mnch had l»•••n done for the Rectangle, after all? Evi n counting in Virginfa's and Rachel's work and Mr. Gray's, where had it actnally counted in any visible quantity? Of course he f.aid to himself that the redemptive work begun and carried on by the lloly Spirit in his wowlerfnl displays of power in the First church and in the tent meetings had had its effect, on the life of Ray mond, hut as he wlked past saloon aft er saloon and noticed the crowds going in and coming out of them, as he saw the wretched dens, as many as ever ap parently, as lie caught t he brutality and squalor and open misery and degrada tion on conntlf sft faces of men and women and children, lie sickened at the sight. He found himself asking how much cleansing could even a million dollars j ton red into this cesspool accom plish ? Was not the living source of nearly all the human misery they songht to relieve untouched as long us these saloons did th<-ir deadly but legiti mate work? What could even such un selfish Christian discipleship as Vir ginia's and Rachel's do to h- sen the stream of vice so long as the great spring of vice und crime flowed as deep and strong as ever? Was it not u prac tical waste of lieuut.ifnl lives for these young women to throw themselves into this earthly hell when for every soul rescued by their sacrifice the saloon made two more that needed rescue? He could not escape the question. It was the same that Virginia had put to Rachel in her statement that, in her opinion, nothing really would ever be done until the saloon was taken out of the Rectangle Henry Maxwell went back to his parish work that afternoon with added convictions on the license business lint, if the saloon were u factor in the problem of the life of Raymond, no less were the I'irst church and its little company of disciples who had plcdgeil tliem ' Ives to do as Jesus would do. Ib-nry Maxwell, standing at the very center of the movement, was not in a position to judge of its power as some one from the outside might have done, hut Kaymond itself felt the touch of this new diseipleship and was changed in very many ways, not knowing all the reasons for the change. The winter had gone, and tho year was ended, the year which Henry Max well hud fixed us the time during which the pledge should be kept to do us Jesus would do. .Sunday, the anni versary of that one a year ago, was in many ways the most remarkable day the First church ever knew. It was more imjiortaiit than the disciples in the First church realized. The year had made hi tory HO fa t, and so serious that the people were not yet able to grasp its significance, and the day itself, which marked the completion of a ; whole year of such discipleship, was characterized by such revelations and coufc- ions that the immediate actors ' in the events themselves could not un j derstand the value of what had been done or the relation of their trial to tint rest of the churches and cities in tho j country It hupl>encd that the week before that anniversary Sunday the Rev. < 'al ] vln Uruce. 1) l> of the Nazareth Av | ejiue church, ('hicago, was in Ray inond, where he hud come on a visit to j some old friends and incidentally to sen his old ( '-miliary clu mat. Ib-nry Max well. He was present at the I'M I (lmi'li and was an ' weediiiglv at ten live and interested spectator Hi a< count of events in Raymond and e»-p. daily of that Sunday, may throw more light on the entire situation than anv j dtsc i; :i ;i < . • c-.t-d fro:aother soared. Dr. Brr.ce's statement is therefore here I given. [Letter from Rev Calvin Bruce, D D.. i.f '.lie Nazareth Avenue church. Chicago, t.- R v. Philip S Caxton. D. D.. New York city] "Mv DI:AR CAXTON —It is late Sun day night, 'out I am so intensely awake | and so overflowing with what I have | seen and heard that I feel driven to i write you now some account of the situation in Raymond as I have been studying it and as it has apparently come to a climax today So this is my only excuse- for writing so extended a letter at this time. "Yon remember Henry V LSW.II in the seminary. 1 think you said the last time I visited you in New York that you hail not seen him since we gradn ated. He was a refined, scholarly fellow, you r.-member, and when lie was called to the First church of Raymond within a y,. r after leaving the seminary I said to my wife: 'Raymond has made a go J I choice. Maxwell will satisfy them as as< rtnonizer.' He has been years, and I understand that up to a yi ar ago he had gone on in the regular course of the ministry, giving good sat isfaction and drawing a good congrega te ,n to his morning preaching service His church was counted the largest, most wealthy church in Raymond. All the be t p [i" attended it. and most of tliem belonged. The quartet choir WKS fatuous for its music, especially for it- <«iprano. Miss Winslow. of whom I shall have more to say, and. on the whole, as I understand the fact. Max well was in a comfortable berth, with a very good salary, pleasant snrronnd ings. not a very exacting parish of re fined, rich, respectable people, such a church and parish as nearly all the young men in the seminary in our time looked forward to as very desirable. "But a year ago today Maxwell came into his church on Sunday morning and nt the close of his service made the astounding proposition that the mem bers of his church volunteer for a year not to do anything without first asking the question. 'What would Jesus do?' and. after answering it. to do what in their honest judgment he would do, re gardless of what the result might be to them. "The effect of this proposition as it has been uiet and obeyed by a number of the members of the Fir-t church of Raymond has b -en so remarkable that, as you know, the attention of the whole country has been directed to the move ment I call it a 'movement' because from the action taken today it seems probable that what has ltccn tried here in the First church in Raymond will reach out into the other churches and cause a revolution in church methods, but more especially in a new definition of Christian discipleship. "In the first place, Maxwell tells mo be was astonished at the response made to his proposition. Some of the most prominent members in the church made the promise to do a: Jesus would. Anions them were Edward Norman, the editor of The Daily News, which has made such a sensation in the news paper world; Milton Wright, one of the leading merchants in Raymond; Alexander Powers, whose action in the matter of the railroads against tin- in terstate commerce laws made such a stir about a year ago; Miss Page, one of Raymond's 1< uding society heiresses, who has lately dedicated her entire for tune, as I understand, to the Christian daily paper anil the work of reform in the slum district known as the Rec tangle. and Miss Winslow, whose repu tation as a singer is now national, but who, in obedience to what she has de cided to be Jesus' probable action, has devoted her talent to volunteer work among the girls and women who make np a large part of the city's worst and most abandoned jiopulation. "In addition to these w -11 known people has lieen a gradually increasing number of Christians from the First church and lately from other churches in Raymond. A large proportion of these volunteers who pledge themselves to do as Jesus would comes from the Endeavor societies. The young people say that they have already embodied in their society pledge the same principle in the words, '1 promise him that I will strive to do whatever he would have me do.' This is not exactly what is in cluded in Maxwell's proposition, which is that the disciples shall try to do what Jesus would probably do in the disci ples' place, but the result of an honest obedience to either pledge, lie claims, will be practically the same, and ho is not surprised that the largest numbers have joined the new discipleship from the Endeavor society. " I am sure the first question you will ask is, 'What has been the result of this attempt, what has it accomplished, or how has it changed in any way the regular course of the church or the com munity V "You already know something from roportsof Raymond that have goneover the country what the results have been, but one needs to come here and learn something of the changes in individual lives, and especially the change in the church life, to realize nil that is meant by this following of Jesus' steps so lit erally. To tell all that would be to write a long story or series of stories. I am not in a position to do that, but I can give you some idea perhapsof what has hapi>eiicd here from what has lx-en told me by my friends and Henry Max well himself. "The result of the pledge upon the First church has 1.-een twofold it has J brought about a spirit of Christian fel i lowship which Maxwell tells me never before existed and which now impresses him as tieiuK very nearly what the Christian fellowship of the apostolic churches must have been, and it has divided the church into two distinct groups of members. Those who have not taken the pledge regard the others lis foolishly literal in their attempts to ! imitate the example of Jesus. "Home of them luivo drawn out of I the church and no longer attend, or they have removed their membership entirely to other churches Some are an internal clement of strife, and I heard rumors of an attempt on their part to force Maxwell's resignation I do not know that this element is very strong in the church. It has been held in check by a wonderful continuance of spiritual power, which dates from the first Hunday the |>|cdge was taken a year ago. and al>»> by the fact that no many of the mo-'t prominent members have been identifU-d with tli" move ment. "The effect on Henry Maxwell is Very marked I heard him preach at jur state association four years ago. lie impre <d me at the time ax having consideraiih) power in dramatic deliv ery. of which le- hiinseif w;i» oiiiewhat conscious Hiv, sermon was well writ ten and al»• iniled in wht Ile . iiiimiry students um-d to call 'fine passages.' Tile died "I it WM" what tile average congregation would la. l plea ing This morning I heard Maxwell preach again for the fir'.t time since then I shall spealt of that f'lirtlin on ile is not the same man llegjvi- iin tie impre ion of one viio has d through a crii is i.f revolution Ile t• I! iin- t his rcvolu t ion i iimi'l' in rll nof Cbri tin II iii ill li lip. I • ri. inly has -hanged II mn of lib* "J., view His at ly opposite to t!i one h" > ntrrtaincd a year a go. and in his . :it • -thought of hi- mini-try. his pr.l; it -.mi parish work I fiud he has made a complete I change. So far as I can understand, j th<' i<i-*ii that is moving him on now is j the idea that the Vliristianity of onr tini'-s must represent a mort literal im itation of Jesus, and especially in the element of suffering. He quoted to me in the corns:* of onr conversation sev eial times the verse from Peter, 'For hereunto were ye called, because Christ also suffered for yon, leaving yon an example, that ye should follow his steps.' and he seems filled with the con viction that what our churches need today more than anything else is this j factor of suffering for Jesus in some j form. "I do not know that I agree with him altogether; hut, my dear Caxton, , it is certainl) astonishing to note the results of this idea as they have im pressed themselves upon this city and upon this church. "You ask how about the results on the individuals who have made the I pledge and honestly tried to be true to it. Tho.-e results are, as I have said, a part of individual history and cannot ite told in detail Some of them I can ; give vou. so that you may see that this > form of discipleship is not merely sen ; timent <>r fine posing for effect. "For instance, take the case of Alex ander Powers, who was superintendent of the machine shops of the L. and T. R. R. here. When he acted upon the evidence that incriminated the road, he lost his position, and, more than that, I team from my friends lu re his family and social relations have become so changed that the family no longer ap pear in public. They have dropped out of the social circle where once they were so prominent. Py the way, Cax ton, I understand in this connection that the commission, for one reason ami another, postponed action on this case, and it is now rumored that the L. and T. R It will pass into a receiv er's hands very soon. The president of the road, who, according to the evi dence submitted by Powers, was the principal offender, has resigned, and complications which have arisen since point to the receivership. Meanwhile the superintendent has gone back to his old work as a telegraph operator. I met him at the church yesterday. He im pressed me as a man who had, like Maxwell, gone through a crisis in char- ' acter. I could not help thinking of him as being good material for the church of the first century, when the disciples had all things in common. "Or take the case of Mr. Norman, editor of The Daily News, ne risked his entire fortune in obedience to what he believed was Jesus' probable action and revolutionized his entire conduct of the paper at the risk of a failure. I send yon a copy of yesterday's paper. I want yon to read it carefully. To my mind, it is one of the most interesting and remarkable papers ever printed in th" United States. It is open to criti cism, but what could any mere man attempt in this line that would be free from criticism? Take it all in all, it is so far above the ordinary conception of a daily paper that I ain amazed at tho result. He tells me that tho paper is beginning to be read more and more by the Christian people of the city. He is very confident of its final success. "Read his editorial on the money question ; also the one on the coming election in Raymond, when the question of license will again be an issue. Both articles are of the best from this point of view. Ho says he never begins an editorial or, in fact, any part of his newspaper work without first asking, •What would Jesus dot' The result is certainly apparent. "Then there is Milton Wright, the merchant. He has, I am told, so revo lutionized his business that no man is more beloved today in Raymond. His own clerks and employees have affec tion for hint that is very touching. During the winter, while he was lying dangerously ill at his home, scores of clerks volunteered to watch or help in any isissible way, and his return to his store was greeted with marked demon strations. All this has been brought about by the element of personal love introduced into the business. This love is not mere words, but the business it self is carried oil under a system of co operation that is not a patronizing rec ognition of inferiors, but a real sharing in the entire business. Other men on the street look upon Milton Wright as odd. It is a fact, however, that while lie has lost heavily in some directions he has increased his business and is to day respected and honored asono of the best and most successful merchants in Raymond. "And there is Miss Winslow. Hhe has chosen to give her great talent to the poor and wretched of the city. Her plans include a musical institute where choruses and classes in vocal music shall Ist a feature. She is enthusiastic over her life work. In connection with her friend Miss I'ago she has planned a course in music which, if carried out, will certainly do much to lift up the lives of the people down there. lam not too old, my dear Caxton, to be in terested in the romantic side of much that has nhu been tragic here in Ray mond. and I must tell you that It is well understood there that Miss Wins low expects to lie married this spring to a brother of Miss Page, who was once a society leader and clubman and win. was converted ill a tent where his wif< that is to be took an active part in tin service. I don't know all the details ol this little romance, but I can imagini there is a little story wrapped up in it, and it, would be interesting reading il we only knew it all. "Tin e are only a few illustrat .tron of results in individual lives owing to obedience to th" pledge. I meant to have spoken of President Marsh of Pin coin college. lie is a graduate of my iilma mater, and I knew him slightly when I was in the senior year lie has taken an active part in the recent, mu nicipal agitation, and his influence in the city is regarded as a very large factor in the coming election lie 1111- pli ■ .-d me, as did all the otlierdisciplcs in this movement, as having fought out some hard questions and as having taken up some real burdens that have canned and till do cause that suffering of which llenry Maxwell speaks, a snf fering that does not eliminate but does appear to intensify a positive and prac tical joy. "lint I am prolonging this letter, possibly to your weariness I am un nble to avoid the feeling of fascination whii h my cut ire stay here has increased I want to tell jon something of the meeting in the First church today "A." I siid I le-ard M ixwell preach At bit earn I i•q 11 • t I had preached for him tin- S indnv before, and this was the first time I bad heard him since flu-a oc in t 'on four years ago 11 imi> r mi in this morning was as different from In sermon tie n an if it bad been thought out and preached by some one living on another planet I was pro foundly tombed. 1 believe I actually shed tears once Others in the emigre nation were moved like myself His text wa 'What i« that to thee? Ko| low thoii fne ' And it was a most, un usually impn ive appeal to the < 'liris tians of Ravmoiid to o!sty Jesus' teach and follow in his str jis. regardless of what others nii;.'ht do. I cannot give you cv n the plan of the sermon. It would take too long. At the clu.-e of the service thi re was the usual after meet ing that has become a regular f> ature of the Fii>t church. Into this meeting have come all those who made the pledge to do as Jesus would do, and the time is spent in mutual fellowship, con fession. questions as to what Jesus would do in special cases and prayer that the one great guide of every dis ciple's conduct may In 1 tho Holy Spirit. "M ixwell asked me to come into this meeting. Nothing in all my ministerial life. Carton, has so moved me as that meeting. I never felt tho Spirit's pres ence so powerfully. It was a meeting of reminiscences and of the most loving fellowship. I was irresistibly driven in thought back to the first years of Chris tianity. There was something about all this that was apostolic in its simplicity and Christ imitation. "I asked questions. One that seemed to arouse more interest than any other was in regard to the extent of tho Christian disciples' sacrifice of personal property. Henry Maxwell tells me that so far no one has interpreted the spirit of Jesus in such a way as to abandon his earthly jxissessions, give away all his wealth or in any literal way imitate the Christians of the order, for exam ple, of St. Francis of Assisi. It was the unanimous consent, however, that if any disciple should feel that Jesus in his own particular case would do that there could be only one answer to tho question. Maxwell frankly admitted that lie was still, to a certain degree, uncertain as to Jesus' probable action when it came to the details of house hold living, the possession of wealth, the holding of certain luxuries. It is, however, evident that very many of | these disciples have repeatedly.carried their obedience to Jesus to the extreme | limit, regardless of financial loss. There | is no lack of courage or consistency at this jHiint. It is also true that some of the business men who took the pledge have lost great sums of money in this imitation of Jesus, and very many have, like Alexander Powers, lost valu able positions owing to tho impossibility of doing what they had been accus tomed to do and at the same time doing what they felt Jesus would do in tho same place. In connction with these cases it is pleasant to record the fact that many who have suffered in this way have at once been helped financial ly by those who still have moans. In this respect I think it is true that these disciples have all things in common. Certainly such scenes as I witnessed at the First chnrch at that after service this morning I never saw in my church or any other. I never dreamed that such Christian fellowship could exist in this age of tho world. lam almost in credulous as to the witness of my own senses. 1 still seem to bo asking myself if this is the close of tho nineteenth cen tury in America. "But now, dear friend, I come to tho real cause of the letter, tho real heart of the whole question as the First church of Raymond has forced it upon me. Before the meeting closed today Htejis were taken to secure tho co-oper ation of all other Christian disciples in this country. I think Henry Maxwell took this step after long deliberation. He said as much to mo one day when I called upon him and we we re discuss ing the effect of this movement upoii the church in general. " 'Why,' he said, 'suppose that the church membership generally in this country made this pledge and lived up to it. What a revolution it would cause in Christendom 1 Bnt why not? Is it any more than the disciple ought to do? Has he followed Jesus unless ho is will ing to do this? Is the test of disciple ship any less Unlay than it was in Jesus' time?' "I do not know all that preceded or followed his thought of what ought to be done outside of Raymond, but the idea crystallized today in a plan to se cure the fellowship of all the Christians In America. The churches throngh thoir pastors will bo asked to form disciple gatherings liko the one in the First church. Volunteers will be called for in the great liody of church members in the United States who will promise to do as Jesus would do. Maxwell sjioke particularly of the result of such gen eral action on tho saloon question. lie is terribly in earnest over this. He told me that there was no question in his mind that the saloon would be beaten in Raymond at the election now near at hand. If so, they could go on with some courage to do the redemptive work begun by the evangelist and now taken up by the disciples in his own church. If the saloon triumphs again, there will be a terrible and, us lie thinks, unnec essary waste of Christian sacrifice. Hut, however we differ on that point, he has convinced his church that the time has come for a fellowship with other Chris tians. Surely, if the First church could work such changes in society and its surroundings, the church in general, if combining such fellowship, not of creed, but of conduct, ought to stir the entire nation to a higher life and a new con ception of Christian following. "This is a grand idea, Coxton, but right here is where 1 find myself hesi tating. I do not deny that the Christian disciple ought to follow Christ's steps as closely as these hero in Raymond have tried to do, bnt I cannot avoid asking what tho result will be if I ask my church in Chicago to do It. I am writing this after feeling the solemn, profound touch of the Spirit's presence, and 1 confess to you, old friend, that I cannot call up in my church a dozen prominent business or professional men who would make this trial at the risk of all that they hold dear. Can you do any better in your chnrch? What are wo to say that the church would not ri'Spond to the call, 'Come and suffer?' The actual results of the pledge as obeyed here in Raymond are enough to make any pastor tremble atid nt the same time long with yearning that they might occur in hisown parish. Certain ly, never have I seen a church so signal ly blessul by tho Spirit us this one. But am I myself ready to take this pledge? 1a I; the question honestly, and I dread to face an honest answer. I know well enough that 1 would have to change very much in my life if I under took to follow his steps so closely. I have called myself a Christian formally years. For the past ten years 1 have enjoyed a life that has had coinpara tively little suffering in it. lam lion ostly I say it living at a longdistance from municipal problems and the life of the j the degraded and the aban doned. What wonld the obedience to thi < pledge dciiialulof me? I hesitate to answer. My chnrch is wealthy, full of well to do. satisfied people The stand ard of their disciphwhip is, I am aware, not of a nature to respond to the call to suffering or personal loss. I say, 'I am aware ' I may be mistaken. I may have erred in not stirring their deeper life ''avion, my friend, I have spoken my iimio t thought to you. Shall Igo back to my |s-oplo next Sunday and stand up before them In my large city church and nay, 'l>et us follow Jesus closer; let. us walk in his steps, where it will ci -t us something more than it is 10- ting UM now; let us pledge not to do anything without first asking. 'What would Jesus do?' If I should go Is'fore them with that message, it would Mo 5 « Strang'' and startling Bnt why? Are we not roallyjtofollow him all the way? What is 11 to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean to imitate him? What doetf it faiean to walk in his stops?" The Rev. Calvin Brnce, D. D., of the Na/.aii tli Avenue chnrch, Chicago, let his jH'ii fall 011 the jiaper. He had come to tin? parting of the waysi and his question, he fi-lt sure, was the question of many and many n man in the min istry and in the chnrch. He went to his window and opened it. He was op pressed with the weight of his convic- I tions. and he felt almost suffocated with tlie air of the room. He wanted to see the stars and feel the breath of the j world. The night was very still. The clock i in the First chnrch was striking raid i night. As it finished a clear, strong | voice down in the direction of the Rec j tangle came floating tip to him as if ' loroo 011 radiant pinions: "Must J.sus bear the cross tlone An»! all the world pro free? So! Tin-re's a cross for every one. Ami there's a cross for roe." It was the voice of one of Gray's old converts, a night watchman at tho packing houses, who sometimes solaced his lonesome hours by a verse or two from some familiar hymn. The Rev. Calvin Bruce tnrned away v from the window, and after a little hesitation he kneeled down. "What would Jesus do? What wonld Jesus do?" Never had he yielded himself so completely to the Spirit's searching re vealing of Jesus. He was on his knees a long time. lie retired and slept fitfully, with many awakenings. He rose before it was clear dawn and threw open his window again. As the light in the east grew stronger he repeated to himself: "What would Jesus do? What wonld he do? Shall I follow his steps?" The • sun rose and flooded the city with its power. When shall the dawi uf a new discipleship usher in the con quering triumph of a closer walk with Jesus? When shall Christendom tread more closely tho path he made? It is the way the Master trod. Shall nut the servant tread it still? With this question throbbing through his whole being the Rev. Calvin Bruce went hack to Chicago, and the great crisis of his Christian life in the mill istry t uddenly broke irresistibly upon him [TO BE CONTINUED.J THE COOK UNDERSTOOD. snld She Dill Aii>-tiny, bnt Sequel I'rui ed Her Ulatakea. von Kunils. concert master of the Pittsburg orchestra, and his bride hail a humorous experience during their lit Kuropeau tour. Tliey visit ed France. England and (Jermauy and wound i p in Vienna, where they found a charming little hotel to stop at. Wandering around that city one aft ernoon. they <nine across a stall In the market where several jsmall but ex ceedingly tempting watermelons were exposed for sale. • "I'hose are the lirst watermelons 1 have seen since we left home," said Mis. von Uunits. "Let's buy one and tal.e it to the hotel." They bought one and had it delivered at the hotel, where the landlord and the landlord's wife and the cook re garded it somewhat as a curiosity. They had seeu watermelons before, they said, but had never tasted one. "How do you cook them In Ameri ca?" inquired the landlord. "Is it cook ed, boiled or roasted?" The Pittsburg tourist explained that all the cook would have to do would be to have the melon good and cold for them In the morning, ready for breakfast, and they would eat It tlicu. They suggested Ice as the best way to cool It. The cook said she understood perfectly what to do. Next morning when Mr. and Mrs. von Kunlts came down stairs to break fast the watermelon was awaiting them on Hie table. It was actually sweating. It was so cold. "I can't resist the temptation to eat a slice of It right now," said Mrs. von Kunlts. "It looks so appetizing." Then she picked up a knife to cut the melon and discovered that It had already been halved through the mid dle. Opening It, she fouud that the cool; had scraped out all the Inside of the melon anil tilled the shell with cracked lee. The Plttsburgers laughed until the landlord and Ills wife and cook came In to see what was the matter. "Well," explained the cook, "I tried to take out all the seeds, but couldn't I do It without removing all that nasty red stuff with them. I threw that part away because I never Imagined that anybody would eat that." —Pittsburg Press. Not Heart Trouble. Coming down on a Kuclld car the other day a man with a high col lar of an old fashioned shape, a gray chin whisker and a derby hat a size too small for him occupied the extreme front seat. He was a nervous man and attracted the attention of the pas sengers on tho seat opposite by Ills queer starts and grimaces. At Case avenue the car stopped to let a Wade park car swing by and then started up again with a very un pleasant Jerk. When the Jerk came, the man on tho front seat suddenly slipped his hand Inside Ids coat, an expression of sharp pain crossed his face, ho breathed heavily and seemed to grow pale. An alarmed and sympathizing man on the opposite seat leaned forward. "11l nit trouble?'' he anxiously asked. The other man glared at him. "Heart trouble nothln," he growled. "1 busted th' point off my lead pen cil!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Ffiira of the VaJr^f# "Have you not read the handwriting on the wall?" cried the warning volco In terrifying accents. The man of sin puled. "I>.» you have reference to my wife's cooking school diploma?" ho asked faintly, with ashen Hps. The fears of the vulgar mind, It will l>e observed, are moved by tho literally concrete rather than the figuratively abstract Detroit Journal. l-'.ilucntlnir the Women. "Why Is It that you always keep your neat while women have to stand?" one Harlemlte said to another on the way home by elevated train. "I do It with malicious Intent," was the reply. "I am helping to educate wo men to watt for the next train."
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