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OsintfM, JKtf, by The CONTLTCED. CHAPTER UI. I hnvo come to see you about jroui nrrninn of yeBterday morning," bopm Mr. Winter nliruiitly. "I Consltlel wbat you sniii was a direct insult u me personElly." "Su,ij)ise 1 abould ny It was not s Intended?" replied Philip, with a good natured Bmlla "Then I should say you lied!" replied Mr. Winter sharply, Philip s:u very still. And the two men oyed eMcb other In alienee for a moment. The minister reached out liis hand and laid It on il"1 other's arm, aaying as be ilil so; "My brother, yon certainly did nol conic into my house to accuse me unjustly of wronging you' l am williug to talk the matter over in a friendly spirit, but 1 will not listen to personal abuse." There was something In the tone and iniimii-r of this declaration that sul dued the mill owner a little, lie was mi older man than Philip by 20 years. I lint a man of quick and ungoverned temper. He had mmi1 to see the min ister while in a heat of passion, ami tin' way 1'hlllp received blm, the calm ness and dignity of his attitude, thwarted his purpose. He wanted to And u man ready to quarrel. Instead he found n man ready to talk reason. Mr. Whiter replied, after a pause, ilur inj; whirh he controlled himself by a great effort: "i consider that you purposely select ed me us guilty of conduct unworthy u church member and a Christian and made me the target of your remarks yesterday. And I wish to say that such preaching will never do in Calvary church while 1 uui one of Its mem bers." "Of course you refer to the matter of renting your property to saloon men and to hulls for gambling and other evil uses," said Philip bluntly. "Are you the only member of Calvary church who lets his property for such purposes?" "It Is not a preacher's business to pry Into the affairs of his church mem bers!" replied Mr. Winter, growing more excited again. "That Is what I object to." "In the first place, Mr. Winter," said rhillp steadily, "let us settle the right and wrongs of the whole business. Is it right for a Christian man. a church member, to rent his property for sa loons and vicious resorts where human life Is ruined?" "That is not the question." "W'Iihi in V" 1'hlllp asked, with his eyes wide open to the other's face. Mr. Winter answered sullenly: "The question is whether our business nf fairs, those of other men with me, ure in be drugged Into the Sunday church servlees ami made the occasion of per sonal attacks upon us. 1 for one will not sit and listen to any such preach ing." "But aside from the matter of pri vnte business. Mr Winter, let us settle whether what you and Others are doing is right Will you let the oilier matter rest a moment mid tell me what Is the duty of a christian in the use of his property?" "it Is my property, nnd if I or my agent choose to rent it to another man lu a legal, business way, that is my af fair. I do not recognise t hut you have anything to do with It." "Not if I am convinced that you are doing what is harmful to the com munity and the church?" 'Vmi have no business to meddle in our private affairs!" replied Mr. Win ter angrily. "And If you intend to pur sue that method of preaching I shall withdraw my support, and most of the Influential, paying members will follow my example." It was a cowardly threat on the part of the excited mill owner, and it roused Philip more than if he had been phys ically slapped in the face. If there was anything In all the world that stir red Philip to his oceanic depths of feeling, it was an Intimation that he was in the ministry for pay or the sal ary, and so must lie afraid of losing the support of those members who were able to pay largely. He clinched his lingers around the arms of his study chair until his nails bent on the bard wood. His scorn and indignation burn ed iu his face, although his voice was calm enough. "Mr. Winter, this whole affair Is a mailer of the most profound principle With me. As long as I live I shall be lieve thai a Christian man has no more right to rent his property for a saloon than he has to run it saloon himself. And as long as I Jive I shall ulso be lieve that it Is a minister's duty to preach to his church plainly upon mat ters which bear npofl the right nnd WTOng of life, no matter what is in volved in those matters. Are money and houses and lands of such a charac ter thai the use of them has no bearing on moral questions, and they are there fore to be left out of the preaching ma terial of the pulpit? It is my convic tion that many men of property In this age ure coming to regard their business ns separate nnd removed from God nnd all relation to him. The business men of today do net regard their property as God's. They always speak of it as theirs. And they resent any 'Interfer ence,' as you call it, on the part of the pulpit. Nevertheless 1 say it plainly, I if it if it Ox It g 'SZaicom .-tdrorw uMWiOk; Co. regani me reining 01 inese nouses ny i you und other business men :n the church to tlie whisky men nnd the cor ruptera of youth ns wholly wroig and so wrong that the Christian sinister who would keep silent when he knew the facts would be guilty of unspeak able cowardice and disloyalty to his Lord. As to your threat of Withdrawal of support, sir, do you suppose I would be In the ministry If I were afraid of the rich nun in my congregation 1 It Shows that you are not yet acquainted with me. It would not hurl you In know me better!" .Ml tlie time Philip was talking his manner was that of dignified indigna tion. His anger was never coarse or vulgar. But when he was roused, as he was now, he spoke Willi n tidal dis regard for all coming conaeqiiences. For the time being he felt ns perhaps one of the old Hebrew prophets Us d to feel when tlie Hume of inspired wrath burned up in flu- soul of the messenger 3t I iod. The mun who sat opposite wns com pelled to keep silent until Philip hint aid what lie had to say. It was im possible for him to interrupt. Also It was out of the question that a man like Mr. Winter should understand a nature like tliut of Philip Strong. He was white to the lips with passion and so excited that Ids bands trembled and bis voice shook as he replied to Philip: "You shall answer for these Insults, sir. I withdraw my church pledge, and i ""' Km'w now nervous you sometimes you will see whether the business men mBko ""': When you get started on In the church will susi.jiu such preach- j me exciting passage and make a ges Ing." And Mr. Winter flung himself I tu,v ,ll:U nouto throw it stone image out of the study and down stairs, for-i lu,( 11 n,1l u"'" to Ill'ak of getting to take his hat, which ho had I something in n different way, like an carried un with him. I'hllin caneht It i ,ll('r person, nnd the first I know I am up up and went down stairs with it, reaching him Just as he was going out of tlie frout door, tic said simply, "You forgot your bnt, sir." Mr. Winter took it without a word nnd went out. slamming the door hard behind him. Philip turned around, and there stood his wife. Her face was very anxious. "Tell me all about It, Philip," she said. Sunday evening they bad talked over the fact of Mr. Winter's walking "Toil fhrtll rmnn r for fJicnc insulf, sir." out of the Church during the service nnd had anticipated some trouble. Philip related the facts of Mr. Winter's visit, telling his wife some things the mill owner bad said. "What did you say, Philip, to make him so angry? Phi you give him a piece of your mind?" "I gave him the whole of It," replied Philip, somewhat grimly, "at least all of it on that particular subject that lie could stand." "Oh, dear! It seems too bad to have tills trouble come so soon! What will Mr. Winter do? He Is very wealthy and Influential. Do yon think are you sure that iu this matter you have done Just right, Just for the best. Philip? It is going to be very uuplcnsns.it for you." "Well, Sarah. 1 would not do differ ently from what I have done. What have 1 done? I have simply preached God's truth, as I plainly see It, to my church. And if 1 do not do that, whnt business have I in the ministry at all? I regret this personal encounter with I Mr. Winter, but I don't see how I could avoid It." "Did you lose your temper?" "No." "There was some very loud talking. I could hear it away iu the kitchen." "Well, you know, Sarah, the more in dignant I get the less inclined I feel to 'holler.' It was Mr. Winter you heurd. He was very much excited when be came, nnd nothing that I could consci entiously say would have made any difference with him." "Did you ask blm to pray over the mntter With you?" "No. I do not think he was la a pray ing mood." "Were you?" Philip hesitated a moment and then replied seriously: "Yes. I truly believe I was- that is, I should not have been ashamed at any part of the interview to put myself Into lovlig commuuiou with my Heavenly Fntlcr." Mrs. Strong still looked disturbed and anxious. She was going over In her mind the probable result of Mr. Winter's antagonism to the minister. It looked to her like a very serious thing. Philip was inclined to treat the affair with a calm philoatphy, based ! on the knowledge that his conscience wns clear of all fault in the matter. "What do you suppose Mr. Winter will do?" Mrs. Strong asked. "He threatened to withdraw his financial support ami said other paying members would do the same." "1 io you think they will ':" "I don't know. 1 shouldn't wonder if they do." "What will you do then? It will be dreadful to have a disturbance in the church of this kind. Philip. It will ruin your prospects here. You will not be able to work under all that fric tion." And the minister's wife suddenly broke down and had a good cry, while Philip comforted her, lirst. by saying two or three funny things and. second ly, by asserting with n positive cheer fulness which was peculiar to him when he was hard pressed that even if the church withdrew all support be (Philip) could probably get u job some where on a railroad or in a hotel, where there was always a demand for porters who Could walk up several flights of stairs with u good sized trunk. "Sometimes 1 almost think I missed my calling," sai.l Philip, purposi ly talking about himself lu order to make his wife come tn the defense. "I ought to have been a locomotive fireman." "The Idea, Philip Strong! A man who has the gift of reaching people with preaching the way you do!" "The way 1 reach Mr. Winter, for example!" "Yes," sai, i,s wife: "the way you reach him. Why, the very fact that fou made such a man angry Is pretty rood proof that you reached him. Such men ore not touched by any ordi nary preaching." "So ymi really think I have a little gift ai preaching?" asked Philip slyly. "A little gift! It is a great deal more than a little. Philip." "Aren't you u little prejudiced. Sa rah?" "No, sir. I am the severest critic you ever have iu the congregation. If you caught up and hurled into the subject and forget all about you." "Thank you." said Philip. "What for?" asked his wife, laugh ing. "For forgetting you?" "I would rather be forgotten by you than remembered by any one else," re plied Philip gallantly. "And you are such a delightful little Batterer that I feel courage for anything that may hapjicn." "It's not flattery: it's truth, Philip. I do believe In you and your work, and I am only anxious that you should suc ceed here. I can't bear to think of trouble in the church. It would almost kill me to go through such times us we sometimes rend about" "We must leave. results to God. I mil sure we are not responsible for more than our utmost doing and living of necessary truth." Philip spoke cour ageously. "Then you don't feel disheartened by tills morning's work?" "No, I don't know that I do. I'm very sensitive, ami 1 feel hurt at Mr. Winter's threat of withdrawing his support, but I don't for the work. Why feel disheartened should IV Am I not doing my best ?" "1 believe you ate. Only, dear Phil ip, be wise. Do not t r.v to reform everything ill a week or expert people to grow their wings before they have started even plnfeathera. It isn't nat ural." "Well, I won't." replied Philip, with a laugh. "Better trim your wings, Sa rah; they're dragging on the floor." He hunted up his hat, which was one of the things Philip could never Mini twice In the same place, kissed his wife and went out to make the visit at the mill which he was getting ready to make when Mr. Winter called. To his surprise, when he went down 1 through the business part of the tow n. he discovered that his sermon of Bun l day had roused almost every one. Peo- pie were talking about it on the Street -an almost unheard of thing in Mil ton. When the evening paper came out, it described lu sensational para graphs the Kev. Sir. Strong's attack on the wealthy sinners of his own church and went on to say that the church "was very much wrought up over the sermon and would probably make It uncomfortable for the reverend gentle man." Philip wondered, ns he read, nt the unusual stir made because a preacher of Christ had denounced an undoubted evIL "Is it. then," he asked himself, "such a remarkable piece of news that a min ister of the gospel has preached from his own pulpit against what Is without quest ion an un-Christlan use of proper ty? What is the moaning of tlie church In society unless It is Just that? Is it possible that the public Is so little ac customed to bear anything on this sub ject that when they do bear It It is in the nature of sensational news?" He pondered over these questions ns he quietly but rapidly went along with his work. He was conscious as tlie days went on that trouble was brew ing for him. Tills hurt blm in a wnv ! hard to explain, but his sensitive spirit felt the cut like a lash on a sore place. When Sunday came, he went Into his j pulpit nnd faced tlie largest audience he had yet seen In Calvary church. As i Is often the case, people Who had heard of his previous sermon on Sunday thought be would preach another like It again. Instead of that be preached a sermon on the love of God for the world. In one way the large audience was disappointed, it bad come to have its love of sensation fed, and Philip had not given it anything of the kind. In another way it was profound ly moved by the power and sweetness of Philip's unfolding of the great sub- HOYE duties to many women seem more important than health. No matter how ill they feeL they drag themselves through the daily tasks and pile up trouble. This is heroic but a penalty has to be paid. A' woman in New Matamoras, Ohio, Mrs. Isabei.l Bradkield, tells in the following letter how she fonght with disease of the feminine organs until finally forced to take to her bed. She says: Dear Mrs. Pinkham I feel it my duty to write to you to toll you that I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and think there is no medicine in the world like it I suffered for nine years, and sometimes for twelve weeks at a time I could not stand on my feet I had female troubles of J Seven different I would have an y- IS1BM1B1I advice is promptly given without charge. The present Mrs. Pinkham's experience in treating female i!!s is unparalleled ; for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometime past has had sole Charge of the correspondence department of her great busi ness, advising and helping by letter as many as a hundred thousand ailinvr women during n single year. Ject Men who had not been Inside of a church for years went away thought fully Impressed wlih the old t ruth of God's love and asked themselves what they hud done to deserve it the very thing that Philip wanted them to ask. The property owners In the church Who I ul felt offended by Philip's Ber nio;i of the Sunday before went away from the service acknowledging that the new pastor was an eloquent preacher and a mun of large gifts. In the evening Philip preached again from the same theme, using It in an en tirely different way. His audience nearly filled the church and was evi dently deeply Impressed. In spite of all this Philip felt a cer tain element in the church bad arrayed Itself against him. Mr. Winter did not appear at either service. There were certain other absences on the part of men who hnd been constant attendants on the Sunday services. He felt, without bearing it, that a great deal was being said in opposition to him; but with the burden of It beginning to wear a little on him, he saw nothing better to do than to go on with bis work as if noth ing unusual had taken place. CHAPTER IV. Pursuing the plan be had originnlly mapped out when be came to Milton, he spent much of bis time in the after noons studying tho social and civic life of the town. As the lirst Sunday of the next month drew near, when he was to speak again on the attitude of Christ to some aspect of modern socie ty, he determined to select the saloon is one of the prominent features of Bodern life that would naturally be noticed by Christ and doubtless lie de nounced by him as a great evil. In his study of tlie suloou question he did a thing which he bad never done before, und then only after very much deliberation and prayer. He went into the saloons themselves on different oc casions. He bad never done such a tiling before. He wanted to know from actual knowledge what sort of places the saloons were. What he saw after a dozen visits to as many different groggeries added fuel to the flame of indignation that burned already hot In him. The sight of tho vast army of men turning into beasts lu these dens created in him n loathing and n hatred of the whole iniquitous institution that language failed to express. He won dered with unspeakable astonishment lu his soul that a civilized community in the nineteenth century would toler ute for one moment the public sale of an article that led. on the confession of society itself, to countless crimes against the law of the land nnd of God. Ills indignant astonishment deepened yet more, if that were possible, when be found that the license of $."0(l n year for each saloon wns used by the town tw support the public school sys tem. That, to Philip's mind, was an awful sarcasm on Christian civiliza tion. It seemed to blm like selling a man poison according to law and then taking Hie money from the sale to help the widow to purchase mourning, it was full us ghastly as that would be. He went to see some of the other ministers, hoping to unite them in a combined attack on the saloon power. It seemed to him that If the church as a whole entered the crusade against the saloon it could be driven out even from Milton, where it hnd been so long established. To his surprise, he found the other churches unwilling to unite in a public battle nguinst whisky men. Several of the ministers openly de fended license ns the only practicable method of dealing with the saloon. All of them confessed it was evil, and only evil, but under the circumstances thought It would do little good to agi tate the subject, rhillp camo away from several interviews with tho min isters sad and sick at heart He approached several of the promi nent men In the town, hoping to enlist some of them in the fight against the WOMAN'S DEVOTION TO HOME all kinds: backache, and headache all the time. doctors treated me. Some said have to go to tho hospital and operation performed. But oh! r now tnanktui l am that I did not, tnat I tried your Vegetable Com pound Instead. 1 cannot say too much in its praise, nor thank you enough for what it has done for me. I want you to publish this in all the papers for the good of other sufferers. " The wives and mothers of America are given to over work. Let them be wise in time and at tho first indication of female troublo write to Mrs. Pink ham at Lynn, Mass., forheradvice. This rum power. Hero no met wirn an nu expected opposition, coming lu a form he had not anticipated. One prominent citizen said: "Mr. strong, you will ruiu your chances here If you attack the MlooDJ In this savage maimer, and I'll tell yon why: The whisky men bold a tremen dous influence in Milton in the muttiT of political power. The city election comes off the middle of next month. The men up for office nre dependent for election on the votes of the saloon men nnd their following. You will cut null nr. ill nil buii; 11 JUU i HUH Oil! against them lu nubile. Why, there't Mr. and so on (he named half dozen men) in your church who are o for office In the coming election. They can't be elected without the votes of the rummies, and they know it Bet ter steer clear of it, Mr. Strom- The Hfllonn hsn boon n rot-iihir ihlnie In Mil. i on i or over uu .rears, u is ns in urn a part of the towu as the churches or . . r i t . i 1. . schools, and I tell you It Is a power!" "What!" cried Philip, in unboumled astonishment, "do you tell me, you. i leading citizen of this town of 50,0m) Infinite souls, that the saloon power has Its grip to this extent on the civic and serial life of the place, and yon are willing to sit down and let this devil of crime and ruin throttle you nnd not raise a linger to expel the monster? Is It possible? It Is not In Christian America that such a state of affairs in our political life should Ik endured." "Nevertheless," replied the business man, "these are the facts. And you Will simply dash your own life out against a wall of solid rock if you try to tight tliis evil. You have my warn ing. " "May I not also have your help?" cried Philip, hungry of soul for com panionship In the struggle which he buw was coming. "It would ruin my business to come out against the saloon," replied tlie man frankly. "And what Is that?" cried Philip ear nestly. "It has already ruined far Alter Marriage They are going to be together just at much as before; going to tide the wheel, take little pleasure jaunts, etc., enjoying everything together. Isn't that what many a young couple promise each other? And yet, how very soon the wife begins to say "No, I don't think I care to go. You go alone, dear." Young women don't reckon on the great physical changes winch lollow mar riage. How can they when they are allowed to grow up in entire ignorance oi vuai pnysioiogicai facts? They feel languid, weak and nervous. 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