IN HIS STEPS. "What Would Jesus Do?H By OHAELES M. 8HELD0I. Oopy righted mid pnbHuhwl In book form by the Advance l'ublmhing Co. of Chicago. COKTISUED.1 Suddenly sho saw in the idle cari osity of the girls an opportunity. They hod never seen the rin anl winery of Raymond. Why shonld they not pee them, even if .their motives in going down there were dimply to puss away an uf teruoon ? "Very well; I'll go with yon. Yon must obey my orders and let me take yon where yon can see the most. " she said as she tntered the carriage and took the Kent beside the girl who had first suggested the trip to the Rectangle. "Hadu't we ltetter take a policeman along." said one of the girls, with a nervous luugh. "It really isn't safe down there, you know." "There's no danger. " said Virginia briefly. "Is it true that Rollin has been con verted?" asked the first speaker, look ing at Virginia curiously. It impressed her during the drive to the Rectangle that all three of her friends were re garding her with close attention, as if she were very pecnliar. "Yes; ho certainly is. I saw him myself on the night of the first interest shown, a week ago Saturday, " replied Virginia, who did not know just how to tell that scene. "I understand ho is going around to the clubs talking with his old friends there, trying to preach to them. Doesn't that seem funny 1" said the girl with the red silk parasol. Virginia did not answer, and the other girls were beginning to feel sober as the carriage turned into the street leading to the Rectangle, As they, ueared the district they grew more and tnore nervons. The sights and smells and eounds which had become familiar to Virginia struck the senses of these refined, delicate society girls as some thing horrible. Aa they entered farther into the district the Rectangle seemed to stare as with one great bleary, beer naked countenance at this fine carriage with its load of fashionably dressed yonng ladies. "Slumming" had never ieen a fad with Raymond society, and this was perhaps the first time that the two had come together in this way. The girls felt that, instead of seeing the Rectangle, they were objects of curi osity. Tbey were frightened and dis gusted. "Let's go back. I've Been enomgb, " said the girl who was sitting with Vir ginia. They were at that moment just op posite a notorious saloon and gambling house. The street was narrow and the sidewalk crowded. Suddenly oat of the door of the saloon a young woman reeled. She was singing in a broken, drunken sob that seemed to indicate that she partly realized her awful con dition, "Just as I am, without one plea," and as the carriage rolled past she leered at it, raising her face so that Virginia saw it very close to her own. It was the face of the girl who had kneeled sobbing that night, with Vir ginia kneeling beside her and praying for her. "Stop!" cried Virginia, motioning to the driver, who was looking around. The carriage stopped, and in a moment she was out and had gone np to the girl and taken her by the arm. "Loreenl" she said, and that was all. Tl J 1 1 i , I A a lue giri looaeu uiu uer nice, mm tier own onanged with a look or utter hor ror. The girls in the carirage were smitten into helpless astonishment The saloon keeper bad come to the door of the saloon and was standing there look ing on, with his hands on his hips, and the Rectangle from its windows, its saloon steps, its filthy sidewalk, gutter and roadway paused and with undis guised wonder stared at the two girls. Over the scene the warm sun of spring poured its mellow light A faint breath of music from the band stand in the park floated into the Rectangle. The concert had began, and the fashion and wealth of Raymond were displaying themselves np town on the boulevards. CHAPTER VI Tnt t earn to aet I sua at variance again! hU (that-, and the daughter agalant h.r mother, and tha daughter-in-law agaiaat har roolhaMn-law, and i man'a Ion ball bt they of kla own houae taai Be y therefor imitator of Ood, aa hvlored children, aad walk la lor ana aa Ohrlat alao lad 7011. When Virginia left the carriage and went to Loreen, she had no definite idea as to what she would do or what the result of her action would be. She sim ply saw a soul that had tasted of the joy of a better life slipping back again into its old hell of shame and death, a d beforo she had touched the drunken girl's arm sho had asked only one ques tion, "What would Jesus dot" That question was becoming with her. as with many others, a habit of Ufa She looked around now as she stood dose by Loreen, and the whole scene was cruelly vivid to her. She thought first of the girls in the carriage. 'Drive on. Don't wait for me. I am going to see my friend here home, " she said, calmly enough The girl with the red parasol seemed to gasp nt the word "friend" when Vir ginia spoke it She did not say any thing. Tho other girls seemed speech- km 'Oo on. I cannot go back with yon, " said Virginia. The driver started tho horses slowly. One of the girls leaned a little out uf the carriage. 'Can't we that W de yon want ombt t oman t we "No, no!" sxeUimed Virginia "Yon cannot be of any as. to me. " The carriage moved on. and Virginia was alone with her charge. She looked np and around. Many faces in the crowd were sympathetic. They were not all cruel or brutel The Holy Spirit bad softened a good deal of the Rectangle. "Where does she livef" asked Vir ginia. No ono answered. It occurred to Vir ginia afterward, when she had time to think it over, that the Rectangle showed a delicacy in its sad silence that would have done credit to the boulevard. For the first time it flashed upon her flint tlie immortal being who was flung like wreckage upon the shore of this earthly hell called the saloon had no plate that could be called home. The girl suddenly wrenched her arm from Virginia's grasp. In doing it she nearly threw Virginia down "Yon shall dot touch me! Leave me! Let me go to hell ! That's where I lie- long! The devil is waiting for mel See him!" sho exclaimed hoarsely, r-he turned and pointed with a shaking tin ger at tho saloon keeper. The crowd laughed. Virginia stepped up to her and put her nrm about her. "Loreen," sho said firmly, "come with me. You do not belong to hell. You belong to Jesus, and he will suve you. Come." The girl suddenly bnrst into tears. She was only partly sobered by the shock of meeting Virginia. Virginia looked around again. "Where does Mr. Gray live?" she asked. Slie knew the evangelist board ed somewhere near that tent A number of voices gave her the di rection. "(Johns, Loreen. I want you to go with me to Mrs. Cray's." sho said, still keeping her hold of the swaying, trem tiling creators, who still moaned and sobbed and now clung to Virginia as before sho had repulsed her. So the two moved on through the Rectangle toward tho evangelist's lodg ing place. The sight seamed to impress the Rectangle seriously. It uevcr took itself seriously when it was drunk, but this was different. The fact that one of tho most beautifnlly dressed girls in Raymond Was taking care of one of the Rectangle's most notorious characters. who reeled along under the influence of liquor, was a fact astonishing enough to throw more or less tiiKiuty and im nortauce alsmt Loreeu herself. The event of Loreen stumbling throngh the gutter dead drnnk always made the Rectangle laugh and jest, but Loreen staggering along with a young lady from the society circles up town sup porting her was another thing. The Rectangle viewed it with soberness and more or less wondering admiration. When they reached Mr. Gray's board ing place, the woman who answered Virginia's knock said that both Mr. and Mrs. Gray were out somewhere and Would not be back until 0 o'clock Virginia had not planned anything farther than a possible appeal to the Grays either to take charge of Loreen for awhile or find some safe place for her until she was sober again. She stood now at the lodging after the woman had spoken, and she was really at a loss to know what to do. Loreen sank down stupidly on tho steps and buried her face in her arms. Virginia eyed the miserable figure with a feeling that she was fearful would grow into disgust. Finally a thought possessed Virginia that she could not resist. What was to hinder Loreen from going home with her? Why shonld not this homeless, wretched creature, reeking with the fumes of liquor, be cared for in Vir ginia's own home, instead of being consigned to strangers in some hospital or house of charity? Virginia really knew very little about any such places of refuge. As a matter of fact, there were two or three such institutions in Raymond, but it is doubtful if any of them would havo taken a person like Loreen in her present condition. But that was not the question with Virginia just now. "What would Jesus do with Loreen?" was what Virginia faced, and she finally answered it by touching Loreen agaa "Loreen, come! You are going home with ma Wo will take the car here at the corner. " Loreen staggered to her feet and, to Virginia's relief, made no trouble She had expected resistance or a stubborn refusal to move. When they reached the corner and took the car, it was nearly fall of people going up town. Virginia was painfully oonscious of the stare that greeted her and her compan ion as they entered, but hur thought was directed more and more to the ap proaching scene with her grandmother. What would Mme. Page say when she saw Loreen? Loreen was nearly sober now, but she was lapsing into a state of stupor. Vir ginia was obliged to hold fast to her arm. Several times she lurched heavily against Virginia, and as the two went np the avenue a carious crowd of peo ple turned and gased at them. When she mounted tho steps of the handsome house, Virginia breathed a sigh of re lief, even in the face of the interview with her grandmother, and when the door shut and she was in the wide hall with her homeless outcast she felt equal to anything that might now coma Mme. Page was in the library. Hear ing Virginia come in, she oanie into the hall. Virginia stood there supporting Loreen, who stared stupidly at the rich magnificence of the furnishings around her. "Grandmother" Virginia spoke without limitation and very clearly "I have brought one of my friends from the Rectangle. Site is in trouble and has no hoiua I am going to care for her a little while." Minn. Page glanced from her grand daughter to Loreeu In astonishment "Did yon say she was one of your friends?" she asked in scold, sneering voice that hurt Virginia more than any thing she had yet felt "Yes: I said so." Virginia'! faca flashed, bat she seemed to recall tha verse that Mr. Gray bad used for one " am Hale mud Hearty How," writes C. R. Mil!, of Marshall, Mich., "a living proof of the diicacy of Dr. Miles' Hcdit Curt;. 1 have suf fered 20 years from heart trouble, and became so bad ! could not lie down to sleep. Physicians failed to help me, and 1 was advised to try Dr.Miles' Heart Cure, which benefited me from the first. 1 continued using it and now am i:i perfect healih." DR. MILES? is sold hy all druggists on guarantee fin-t bottle benefits or money back. Book on heart and nerves sent free. Dr. Miles Modical Company, Elkhart tnd. of his recent sermons. "A friend or pur lioani ami sinners, " Surely Jesus would ao this Unit sue was doing. "Do you know what this girl is?' asked Mine. Page in an angry whisper, stepping near Virginia. "I know very well. Sho is an ont cast Yon need not tell me, grand mother. 1 know it evon better tiian you do. Hhe is drunk at this minute. But eho is also a child of God. I have seen her on her knees repentant, and I have seen hell reach out its horrible fingers after her attain, and, by the grace of Christ. I feel that the least I can do is to rescue her from such peril. Grand- mother, wo call ourselves Christians. Here is a poor, lost human creature without a home, slipping into a possible eternal loss, and we have more than enough I have brought her here and shall keep her. " Mme Page glared at Virginia and clinched her hands. All this was con trary to her social code of conduct How could society excuse such famil iarity with the scum of the streets? What would Virginia's actions cost the family In the way of criticism and the loss of standing and all that long list of neosssary relations which people of wealth and position must sustain to the leaders of society ? To Mme. Page so ciety represented more than the church or any other institution. It was a pow er to be feared and obeyed. Tho loss of its good will was a loss more to be dreaded than anything, except the loss of wealth itself. She stool erect and stern and con fronted Virginia, fully roused and de termined. Virginia placed her arm about Loreen and calmly looked her grandmother in the face. "You shall not do this, Virginia. Yon can send her to the asylum for helpless women. We can pay all the si nenses. We cannot afford, for the sake of oar reputations, to shelter such a person. " "Grandmother, I do not wish to do anything that is displeasing to yon, but I am going to keep Loreen here to night and longer if I think it is best " "Then you can answer for the conse quence. I do not stay in the same house with a miserable" Mme. Page lost her self control. Virginia stopped her before she could speak the next Word. "Grandmother, this house is mine. It is your home with me as long as yon choose to remain, but in this matter I shall act as I fully believe Jesus would In my place. I am willing to bear all that society may say or do. Society is not my God. By tho side of this poor, lost soul I do not count the verdict of society as of any value. " I shall not remain hero, then, " said Mme. Page. Sho turned suddenly and walked to the end of the hall. She then came back and said, with an emphasis that revealed her intense excitement and passion: "You can always remember that yon have driven your grandmother out of your house in favor of a drunken wom an. " Then, without wafting for Vir ginia to reply, she turned again and went up stairs. Virginia called for a servant and soon had Loreen cared for. She was fast lapsing into a wretched condition. Dnr iug tho brief scene in the hall sho had clung to Virginia so hard that Vir ginia's arm was sore from tho clutch of the girl's fingers. Virginia did not know whether her grandmother would leave tho house or not Sho hail abundant means of her owu. was perfectly well and vigorous and capable of caring for herself. She had sisters and brothers living in tho south aud was In the habit of spending several weeks in the year with them Virginia was not anxious about her welfare, so far as that went, but the in terview had lieen a painful one to her. Going over it as sho did In her room before she went down to tea. sho found little cause for regret, however. "What Would Jesus do?" There was no ques tion in Virginia's mind that she had ! doue tho right thing. If site had made a mistake, it was one of the judgment and not of the heart When the bell1 rang fur tea, she went down, and her . grandmother did not appear. She sen' a servant to her room, and the servHiit brought back word that Mme. Pagt was not there. A few minutes latei Rollin came in. He brought word that his grandmother had taken the evening train for the south. He had lieen at the station to see some friends off aud had by chance met his grandmother at he was coming out. She told him her rtasou for going. Virginia and Rollin confronted each other at the table with eurnest. sud faces. "Rollin." said Virginia, and for the first time almost since his conversion sho rnHlofl wln,t a wonderful thing her brother's change of life meant to her. "do you blame me f Am I wrong?" "No, dear; I cannot believe you are. This is very painful for us, but if yon think this poor creator owes her safety aud salvation to yonr personal care it was the only thing for you to do. Oh, Virginia, to think that we have all these years enjoyed our beautiful borne and nil these luxuries selfishly, forget ful uf the multitude like this woman! Surely Jeans, in our places would do what you have done. " And so Rollin comforti 1 Virginia and Counseled with her thi t evening, and of all the wonderful changes that Vir ginia was henceforth to know on ac count of her great pledge nothing af fect t d her so powerfully as the thought of Rolliu's change in life. Truly, this man in Christ was a new creature, Old things were passed away, Behold, all thin.-, in him hud become new I Dr. West came that eveniag at Vir ginia's summons aud did everything necessary for the outcast. She bad drhnk herself almost into delirium, The belt that could be done for her now were quiet naming and careful Watch ing and personal love. So in a beauti ful room, with 11 picture of Christ walking by the sea hanging on the wall, where her bt wildered eyes caught daily something more of its hidden meaning, Loreen lay, tossed she hardly knew how into this haven, ami Vir ginia crept nearer the Master than she had ever been as her heart went out to ward this wreck which had thus been flung torn sud beaten at her feet Meanwhile the Rectangle waited the issue uf the election with mors than usual interest, aud Gray and his wife wept over the pitiablo creatures who, after a struggle with surroundings that daily tempted them, too often wearied 1 of the struggle, and. liko Loroea. threw 1 up their arms aud weut whirling into tho boiling abyss of their previous con- ditio The after meeting at the First church woe now regularly established. Henry .Maxwell went into the lecture room on the Sunday succeeding the week of the primary and was greeted with an en thusiasm that made him tremble at first for ita reality. He noted again the ab scence of Jasper Chase, but all the oth ers wtfO present, and they seemed drawn very close together by a bond of common fellowship that demanded and enjoyed mutual confidences. It was the general feeling that the spirit of Jeeus was a spirit of very open, frank confes sion of experience. It seemed the most natural thing in the workl for Edward Norman to be tolling all the rest of the company about the details of his news paper. "The fart is. I have lost a good deal of mouey during the hit three weeka I cannot toll how much. I am losing a great many suhscriliers every day." "What do the snlKNTiU-rs give at thetr reason for dropping the papers" asked Henry Max welL All the rest were listening eagerly. "There are a good many different reasons. Some say they want a paper that prints all the news, meaning by that the crime details, sensations like prizefights, scandals and horrors of -arious kinds. Others object to the dis continuance of the Sunday edition. I Have lost hundreds of snbscriliers by that action, although I have made sat isfactory arrangements with many of the old subscribers by giving even more in the extra Saturday edition than they formerly had in the Sunday isne. My greatest loss has come from a falling off in advertisements and from the attitude I have felt obliged to take on political questions This last action has really cast me more than any other. The bulk or my snbscriliers are intensely par tisan. I may as well tell von sll frank- ly that if I continue to pursue the plan which I honestlv believe Jusns would i Does the Baby Thrive If not, something must be wrong with its food. If the mother's milk doesn't nour ish it, she needs SCOTTS EMULSION. It supplies the t elements 01 rai required tor i the baby. If baby is not nourisnea oy us aninaai food, then it requires Scott's Emulsion :; Half a teaspoonful three ' or four times a day in its ! bottle will have the desired effort. It seem, tn have a Y magical effect upon babies i and children. A fifty-cent t bottle will prove the truth J ot our statements. Should be taken In summer aa wall aa winter. oc. indtt.cn. all drunills. SCOT1 a now nt, uwmu j Nw York. . . A . A A. .aa. . . . a. . GAVE litt'e thought to Bell, J50 N. Walnut ham. "until I found household duties. "I had had my days of not THOUGHT LESS WOMEN Vegetable Compound that I I my mind to try it. I was troubled with falling of the womb, had sharp pains in ovaries, leucorrhcuaand painful menbes. I was so weak and dizzy that I would often have severe fainting spells. I took in all several bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Mood Purifier and used the Sanative Wash, and am now in good health. I wish others to know of the wonderful good it has done mc. and nave many friends taking it now. Will always give your medicine the highest praise." Mrs. A, Tolls, 1946 Hil ton St.. Philadelphia, Pa., writes: "Dear Mrs. Pinkham I was very thin and my friends thought I was in con sumption. Had continual headaches, backache and falling of womb, and my eyes were affected. Every one noticed how poorly I looked and I v..s advised to take Lydia B. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. One bottle relieved me, and after tak ing eight bottles am now a healthy woman; have gained pounds, and everyone asks what in the matter of political Issues and their treatment from a nonpartisan and moral standpoint Tie- News will not be able to pay its operating expenses un leas one factor 111 Raymond can de ponded un " He aiissl h moment, and the pm was very qniet Virginia seemed ipe ciallv interested. Her face glowed with Interest. It was hku the iuter-t ul h person who had Isteii thinking luari1. 01 the same thing Norman went on uw to mention, "That one factor is the Christian element in Raymond. Say The Nw has lost heavily from the dropping off of people who do not care for a t'tiria tian daily aud from others who simply look npon a newspaper us a purveyor of all sorts of material tn amuse aud interest them, are there enough genu ine Christian j pi- in Raymond who will rally to the support of a papw such as .lesns would probably adit, or are the habits of the peopl so firmly established in their demands for the reirular type of journalism that thy will Dot take a papal unless it is stnp largely of the Christian and moral purpose? I may also say in thit fellow ship tfathenutf that, owing to recent complications in my business affairs outside of my paper. I hav N'-n obliged to loos a large part of my for tune. I have had to apply the same rulo of Jesus probable conduct to certain transactions with other men who did not apply it t their conduct, and the result has N n the Ma of a gTeat deal of money. "As I understand the promise we made, we were not to ask any qnestiona almt 'Will it pay'' but all our ac tion was to be lased on the one ques tion. 'What would Jssus do?' Acting on that rule of Conduct, I have len obligisl to lw nearly all the money I have accumulated in my paper It la not necessary for me to o into details. There is no question with me now. aft er the thrio weeks' experience I have had. that a great msny men would k-oe vast sums of money under the pr(ent system of bnalaMBi if this rule of Jesus wen- honestly obeyed. I mention my loss here because I have the fullest faith in the final success of a daily paper conducted on the lines I have recently laid down, and I had planned to put Into it my entire fortune in order to win final ooceaa, As it is now, unless, as I said, the Christian people of Ray mond, the church members and profess ing disciples, will support the paper with subscriptions and advertisements. I cannot continue its publication on the prtweut kn-i. Virginia asked a question. She had followed Mr. Norman's confession with the moet intense eagerness. "Do yon mean that a Christian daily ought to le endowed with a large snui. like a Christian college, in order to ' make it pay t" "That is exactly what I mean. 1 1 have laid out plans for putting into The News such a variety of material, in such a strong and truly interesting way. that It would more than make up for whatever was aliscnt from its col MUM in the way of nn-Christian mat- 1 ter, but my plans culled for a very large j ontlay of money. I am very confident that a Christian daily such as Jesus 1 would approve, containing only what 1 he would print, can be made to succeed I financially if it is planned to tho right lines, but it will take a largo sum of ! money to work ont tho plana" "How much do you think T" asked Virginia quietly. Edward Norman looked at her keen ly, and his face flushed a moment as an idea of Virginia's purpose crossed his mind. 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