I 1 ;iieV'( JWiJ,i uvl1 l!iP:": A Grat Nerve Medicine. Celeiy K n- cleanses the system and bullda it hi . It in do Iho hlood pure it bi in. s tbo complexion, it i Htlpatloa and liver dlsordi t. Iti'iirt i litudiichi and most other ached. i'.'h mi ciiroa Nerve, stomach, Liver hi.l K i lui distitsea. 1 MALCOM KIRK. A Tale of Moral Heroism In Overcoming the World. 1 BY CHARLES M. SHELDON, Author of "In Bli Step," "Crucifixion of Philip Strong, " "Eobert i Hardy's Seven Dayi." OOPTHIOUT, 1300, V TUB ADVANCS lMJUI.lsniNO OO. -i!'MI' fr z Ihuitrorloiw I J7omvm Hey r. in iiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'MiniiiiiniiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliiiiir: Hl.llllillllllll!illIill!UlllillllllllllllltllWllli;illlllllllllllllllllHllllllllllllinillHII Illllll Ill r CHAPTER I. r '-' -. , V In.. . '- 1 lm -'- "-' ' I ii S. Eureka Hk iT mess Oil ' v makestho harness and the I r bettel iMit nmlci'H ttiA I W learner soA and pliable, puts II In i on- 1 0. ,,. . dlllon to Isat tw ice as loaf IBM !' llr . 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I llionn, wo .Mil' nnt n1oaH t think this is almost tin- hist time wo shall In' together as a class," said a tall, delicate, pale faced man who was standing up at tin' top of the slops with his back against the door, He spoke in a quiet, low voice, and there was a hush after ho spoke. There Is as much sentiment among tbeologic nl Btudents as among any average number of professional men. In some directions there is more than among the liko number of law or medical Btu dents. After a moment of silence some one began to ask questions about the fu ture prospects nf tho class. The red faced, jolly looking young man in tin' center was going to take a church In northern Vermont i ho man Jusi !" hind lilin hail received a call as nssisl ant pastor of an Institutional chinch in Philadelphia. The delicate featured student up ny the chapel door was go lug in teach Bchool a year ami liml a ho hail paid olT his ail spn . 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"Hole's Kirk: hasn't sahl a word yet," cried the little man who bad ' iirst spoken. "What are you going 10 ' I do, Kirk ?" Every member of the class turned nml looked at the tlgure sluing on the i edge of the group, it was noticeable that while several of the class smiled at the question, "What are you going to do?" there was no disrespect in the smile, uinl on every man's face w a look of real interest, amounting tu , an excited curiosity, Malcoui Kirk smiled slightly tu be looked up. Ho did not look at any : member of the class in particular, but eemeu to include them an in a menu ly Interest that was affectionate anil gentle. "i don't know. 1 am walling for a call. I've bad one and accepted It, but I need another before l can go to work." Everybody Btnred. The man up by the chapel door hail a look in bis eye ns if he understood what Kirk meant, but no one else scorned to catch his meaning. "My first call was from tho Lord, several years ago. 1 feel perfectly sat Isfied with it. lie wants me tu preach. But so far none of the churches seems to agree with him. At least none of them has askcil me tu preach, tso I'm wailing for my second call." He spoke without the least touch of Irreverence or even humor. The Im pression made on the cjas was a feel ing of honest perplexity concerning the future prospects of Malcoti Kirk. "I don't hoc," raid the man who was to be the assistant paster of the insti tutional church in Philadelphia, "why Kirk hasn't bad a call to a largo church. Wo nil know he has mora brains thnu nil the rest, of us put to-j getber. 1 think it is a Bbame the! churches should pass by such a man and" "It's easy enough to see the reason." Kirk spoke without the shadow of uny Irritation In bis manner. "You fellows know its well ns 1 do that brains under hair like mine don't count with the average city congregation." He laugh ed good naturedly, and the class Joined him. Then some one paid: "Why don't you dye It black, Kirk?" "I can't afford to," bo replied grave ly. "That Isn't the only reason I don't get a call. I'm too awkward In the pulpit. Did I tell anybody the last time I preached in tho Third church at Concord 1 knocked a vase of flowers off the pulpit with my elbow, and when It fell on the floor It waked up every, officer In the church? Of course I nev er could expect to get a call from that church." Everybody laughed, and Kirk drew one of his feet np under him and smiled B little. At the sntnc time no one could detect a trace of IU humor or lack of seriousness In his tone or manner. The first Impression Malcoui Kirk made on people was that of downright sincerity. The longer people knew him the stron ger this Impression grew. mat's Hothlng," exclaimed one of the class after the laugh subsided. "I hud a great time two weeks ago when I went up to Manchester to preach. 1 laid my notes down on the desk, and there was a strong breeze blowing across the pulpit, which stood directly between two open windows, and while the anthem was being sung half my sermon blew out of one of the win dows." "The congregation was spared Just so much, then, wasn't It?" said a man down on the bottom step. "Accidents will happen to any one." Bald Kirk quietly. "But mine are not accidents; they're habits of life. I eau Overcome them, though. The churches don't know that; so I don't blame them for not giving me n call." "Well, I think It's a Bbame, as I said," the assistant pastor of the Institutional church repeated. "The churches think more of the way a man dresses and be haves in the pulpit than they do of what he savs. And they criticise ev erything from his prayers to the polish of his boots." There was silence again. The class had been on r all that many times be fore, and they were practically a unit In their opinion of what the churches seemed to demand In a successful can didate for a call. Finally some one recurred to the class picture again. "I don't believe Kirk's In this pic ture at all. lb- sat too far out. The photographer kept telling him to move In farther. But I believe he moved out again just at the las: minute." "1 only moved one of my feet out," raid Kirk solemnly, "1 thought one of them was enough. I didn't want to have to pay extra for more than my Bhare of the photograph." "But we want the whole of you In tlie picture, Kirk," said the man next to him, I :; lug an affectionate hand on Kirk's ariii. The entire class turned again toward the awkward, shambling figure and seemed to repeat the gesture of the one classmate. Then the talk drifted back again to the future plans of the members aud to serloUSHud UU- i moroUB reminiscences of the three years' course until one after another went away and the class group was broken up Into little knots of two and three as the men w alked to their root or lingered under the great elms, arm in arm. Kirk and the companion who had laid his hand on his friend's arm re malncd a little while on the steps. "What will you do. Kirk?" "i think l shall offer myself to the Home Missionary society and ask them 1 to send me to the hardest place they can liml out west somewhere." "Hut how about all your scholarship, your -your ability?" Tho other man hesitated for the light Word. Kirk colored slightly, the tlrst Indlen- , tlon he bad shown of a sensitiveness In that direction. "1 can use anything 1 know- any where. 1 roach 1 must, even it l have BiLvQs The future for him was as indefinite aud unsettled as any condition can be. Yet the strong, patient, undisturbed realities of his call to preach the gospel were as unmoved as the sky of that lovely June day. The light would BOOH fade out of the heavens, but the sky would still remain. The next day was commencement at Hertnon seminary. The chapel was idled with a representative congrega tion of Hermon people, friends and rel ntlvos of the classes, the trustees and officers of the seminary ami the usual number of undergraduates. Before the speaking began the pres ident of the faculty came forward to make the usual list of announcements concerning the annual prizes and schol arships. It was the custom at Hermon for the annual announcements to be made nt the close of the exercises of commence ment Tor some reason, however, this order was changed, and the audience listened with unusual Interest to the president's remarks. He had read the names nf the win ners In Hebrew nnd New Testament Scholarship and the successful man In the general work of the entire course. He paused now at the end of the list and then rend the Inst name, looking down at the graduating class as he did so: "The German scholarship Is awarded to Mnlcoiu Kirk of the graduating class." There had I it nistllnir of "37iu German scholarship is awarded to JsTalootn Kirk." io go Into the streets and speak from the tail end of a wagon and never havo a parish. But I do w ant a parish and a people. I call love people lllio every thing. I feel buusry. to bavu a pat'lah of my own." Tbo other man was silent. lie had novtr felt Just like that, but ho thought he could understand. "I hope you will have such a church I some time. 1 would like to bo a teem ber of It." "Thank you!" Kirk smiled. "Wilson. If you were that church I would have a unanimous call. I am euro there Is a work for me somewhere in (Jod's great woild, else why did bo give me such a passion to speak to (SCO and love them 7" Malcom Kirk looked out across the great seminary campus and spoko With a conscious cry of heart longing. Th beautiful June day was nearly gone. applause as the different names were read, but when Kirk's name was spo k'ii the clnss applauded vigorously, nml the dapping extended over the Chnpel very heartily. Kirk sat bolt up right ami blushed very red. and Wil son, w ho was sitting by him. exclaimed In a loud whisper: "Good! That means S."i"i and a year abroad." Kirk said nothing. There was no question be was pleased. His lips trem bled, and he shuttled his feel under the pew, and his great hands opened and Hhut nervously. W hen his turn came to go up on the platform to speak, he felt as if his natural awkwardness nnd BhyneSS had been doubled by the at tention directed to him by the winning of the best scholarship in the gift of the seminary. The minute be began to speak nil this shyness disappeared. It was true Kirk loved to face an audience. He loved people, ami after the Iirst mo ment of conscious fright was passed be eagerly entered ii. 1 true speaker's position ami enjoyed both the audience ami his own effort In addressing it. His subject was "The Business of Preaching." What was it? How did It differ from oratory? What was the object of preaching? What were the materials of preaching,! And so on. He spoke straight on, with his heart in What he said. It was In the thought of more than one minister in the audience that this man who had won the Ger man scholarship had a remarkably good voice. More tl.."' no pastor felt like envying the pec ar tone of that voice, it had a carrying quality that commanded attention and held it. And nearly every man on the seminary fac ulty was wondering why Kirk bad re ceived no call from any church. There was no question as to his ability. He had both brains and heart. It is true his face and figure were not In Ids fa vor. He was not of the orthodox min isterial cut. His clothes were not a very good lit. But were the churches looking for a fashion plate for an or namental failure behind the pulpit? In the audience that morning there were also two other persons who paid close attention to Kirk while he was speaking, m" of these was a young man nearly Kirk's age, with a face and manner that spoke of the most sensi tive, re lined breeding. U was the face of a dreamer dark eyes, waving dark hair, handsome features, thin, delicate, curved lips and the hands of an artist. His clothes were made of the tinost material nnd bore the stamp of that Unconscious gentlemanly feeling which always goes Wllth a man w ho has all his life been used to expensive details. As ho sat there listening to Malcom Kirk this morning Francis Raleigh was attracted by the voice of the speaker. He had llste 1 to tl thers with u conventional Interest that did not mean anything to bim. lie started the moment that Kirk spoke the Iirst word aud fastened his look upon him until he was through, lie then re sumed his previous attitude uf mild In difference to the programme. The other person who followed Kirk's Speech with especial Interest was a young woman who sat lu that part of the church reserved for the trustees of the seminary and their families. It Is said that the young women who Work In the nitroglycerin and dynamite es tablishment ut Ardeer. Scotland, have the most perfect complexions in the world, owing to the nature of the pe culiar materials they hundlo and breathe. It Is very certain that Doro thy Gilbert had never lived or worked In any more explosive atmosphere than that of her own intense energy, but her fucc would fairly bavo rivaled that of any Scotch lass In Ardeer. There was O btrlklng resemblance in many ways to Francis Raleigh's beauty. It might have been due to the similarity In training and In tastes. The New Eng land type of Independent, morally calm, but thoroughly lutercsted activity was Well represented In Dorothy Gilbert Bur father sat beside ber, a dignified, carefully dressed man of 55, iron gray ttalr and mustache, a successful book publisher, with a beautiful home In Hermon and business In Boston. Dor othy was the ouly child at home. She bad graduated a year before at North hampton and was now taking a spe cial course In music, going to the city three days In the week. Bhe did not attempt to reason with herself about tho Interest she felt in ItaleotS Kirk's appearance. Theo lofues In general were mildly stupid creatures to her. Bhe had been born and brought qp la Hermon and classed the theologues as a part of the fauna and flora of the town, but her Interest hud never gone any further than that. She bad met Malcom Kirk several times during his three years' course. Uuee she had sat by him at a dinner given by her father to the class. She had found him an Interesting talker and was surprised when she thought It over afterward. His homely hair, his shyness, his remarkable awkwardness, had amused ber. She had laughed a little with her father about something that happened at the table. Hut she ! could not help listening to him today : with added Interest as he went on. Was It the voice? There was some thing very winning In It. There was 1 none of the Yankee, New England na- sal tone about It. It was full nnd deep ' and suggested an organ pipe exactly tuned. Like Francis Raleigh, she seemed to ! lose nil vital interest iii the morning's 1 programme when Kirk finished. While the next speaker was on the platform she turned her head to look over the 1 I She followed Kirk's tpecch with especial Interest. chapel, and her eyes met those of Fran cis Raleigh, He smiled, and she re turned the sinile. while II slight color deepened ou her face. And he thought to himself it was certainly more Inter esting to glance now and then at a face like Dorothy Gilbert's than to stare steadily at a tall, solemn young man on the platform who was talking about the "Philosophy of the Prophetic Idea") nml its evolution in the old testament. The programme was Qulshed at last, nnd the friends of the graduates lin gered about the platform congratulat ing the different speakers. Very many of the visitors came up and warmly greeted Kirk. Among them was one alert, active, middle aged man who said he wanted to see Kirk especially on a matter of Importance. So the two wen: up to Kirk's i md the stran ger explained bis business briefly. CHAPTER II. KIIIK BBCStTKS HIS SECOND CALL AND ACTS UPON IT. "I'm superintendent of missions for Kansas. 1 want you to take a church out there. You're just tho mnu I've been looking for. Don't say 'N'u,' for I must have you." Kirk looked nt the superintendent thoughtfully. Was this the second call be had mentioned? "There's this scholarship. I feel the neetl of the training abroad." "All light Go on with that. But there's a church that will be ready for you at the end of your year there. It's In the growing town of Conrad and u great opening for bard work. Tho man there now will leave ut the end of the year." Kirk said nothing. He looked out of his window. Right across the campus stood the beautiful residence of Doro thy Gilbert's father. It was not the first time he had looked in that direc tion. "Of course," continued the superin tendent briskly, "you understand the church Is a home missionary church und cannot olfer you u large salary. They oau raise perhaps 1400 or possi bly $450. The society will grant $200 or $LTi(J. You could count ou about $N)U probably." Kirk was silent He turned his head away from the window and glanced around his room. The shabby backed books, tho simple pieces of furniture, the faded carpet, the meager furnish ings, all smote him keenly. It was not the first time his poverty had thrust it self upon him coarsely, but ho seemed to feel It more deeply than ever. As he faced the superintendent who was waiting for u reply Kirk hail a most astonishing and absurd feeling come over him. He was not thinking about bis German scholarship or about the superintendent The superintendent would have been smitten into bewilder ment If he could have read Kirk's thought What Kirk was saying to himself was, "How can Dorothy Gil bert and I live on $8UU a year in a home missionary church?" "Well," tho superintendent spoke, with a slight trace of Impatience, "what do you say? Give me a favor able answer. You can make your mark out there; plenty of hard work, but a good field. Tell me you'll take It" "Very well, I promise to take the field if It is open when I finish my studies abroad." Kirk spoke quietly, but his lips closed firmly, and he turned bis bead and looked out over the campus again. There was a little more talk between them, and tbe superintendent went out The minute be was gone Kirk pulled down his curtains and locked his door. It was a little after noon, and the reg ular commencement dinner was served at 1. He walked up and down his darkened room talking to himself. His future was at last decided at least for a time. He had some place sa the world. Some one wanted htm. He was woocir . 1 . . 111 . r I an is auoui un niiiuen lorra oi 05. cry a man makes when rheumatism denly tweaks him. In its worst fa rheumatism is a living death. The tim, incapable of moving hand or fa has no part in the great procession I lite, on which 3 gazes with (J less eyes. A , many sulTera, from rheumatia who had given 1 hope, have bag cured by the ujti Dr. Tierce's Gofl en Medical Dj co very. A aJ cine which j cleanse tin blot trom uric acid 1 other poisons,! cure in -.. - . Golden Mejl Discovery J no etpial in power to iie the blood .un! enrich it. i covery " conuffj neither a I com nor narcotics. "I had lx-' ii tr led with rheunu lor iwfivi ytaaSJ wrurs mt n l Knixht, nf C WiUlanishiiri; Con 8. C. "so 1 1. I could nut bed. I i f Us crippled. Tried many doctors and twi gave me up to die. Nouc of them ili,l good. The pains In my back, hips laud at times in my head), would ni me. My appetite was very bad. I whu saw me said I must die. I took I of 'Oolden Medical Discovery.' and I of ' Pellets,' and to day my health R eufTcriiiK twelve years wifh rheumati- Dr. Pierce S Medical Adviser, in m bindine:. free on receipt ot 21 onc-ce atom OS to oav expense of tnailn: Address Dr. k. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.B V I I i ,inl MB 1 gull 111 I m ambitious, as a Christian geminins should be. He wanted to do ;'m things in the kingdom of God on Could he do them In that little missionary church? It was not at all contrary to I ular habits of life that he kneel uinl prayed. It was a prayer of giving and also one of petition knew with perfect clearness kneeled lu his darkened room tl loved Dorothy Gilbert with 11 might. The complete absurdity position had nothing to do fact that be loved her. She wil she was accomplished, she was ! till, she was of tin old and distill ed family, but he loved her. II poor, he was plain looking, he I prospects beyond his Bcholarsl IrTuu or SiiO a year In a home m ary church, but he loved D01 II bert. It made no difference 11 Christian training seemed ( his choice of one so far removi him In every way. That t&li ctrc Mi feel'g ' ,r her aSVil change It. In his prayer be crl wisdom; he asked to be led Spirit He was not the man to Wl -of Christian service on a pass! u heart, even if Its hunger wore fed. But when he arose and went 01 to the alumni hull to join t then; at the final banuuet he :iirlej with him the knowledge that tin ture for him must have Dorothy bert with It If be would do or In that he felt he had n right to pray fot The week that followed COIUIDSM nient day ut Hermon found lilrk most alone in the seminary baililll He had been employed by 01 professors in doing some special Ml iiH' nt n book mnntiaerlnt. In :i I' - -- . days this would be finished. Ih fixed on the following Thursday 1 for Liverpool. He bad detcrui n begin his studies as soon as pos He had been to see tho president! Un. f-ieiiltv nlioiit his scholars. . :l H to his great relief, found that largely free to study In the seemed of most value to him - l "Yotl see. It's this way, sir." explained to the president. "II nit' very little good to go to n university and take some sp in language or history. I fo I I of another method of study, use this scholarship to stin!.'. Conditions in large cities, go people for my material at Iirst w ill be of Infinitely larger vain A Letter to Mrs. Plnkham Broud Health to Mrs. Archarnj f LETT ER TO MRS. I1HRMAU MO. " Dbab Mna PtraaAK V" years 1 felt tired and so weak an that some days I could ban around the house. Baokaehc ani ache all the time and my food 1 not digest and had such pui womb and troubled with UucornJ and kidneys were affected. "After birth of eudi child 1 1 weaker, and hearing so inuc'i oil irtKxl vou had done, I wrote t have taken six bottles of I.vil'l Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, rviT nf T.n7oniria rn o wvr Liter 1 1 a SI 11'.. . ' SSSB nnr ji.ti Kiie tji Dttusiive TV' I i dav I am feeling as well as I fV(T I When I trot un in the morninC I ''''I fresh as I Hid whsn a ffirl ami ' Wn waII anrl do all of rnv wnr'1- ever I feel weak again shall where to e-et my strength. I your medicine oured ma. " M bh. sa AacUAMBO, CUAJLLEMOTfT, MASS- The present Mrs. Pinkham's eI An en In Ira. tin it bmsla ills is U0f leled; for years she worked sl side with Mrs. Lydia B. Viouai for sometime naat has had sole i'H of the correspondence departing her great business, treating "i .1 as many as a hundred thousand women a year. All women who ' m.m inmttA wit tn Mrs. Pi91 &t T.Tnn. Hui fna ad rise. Whit be promptly given irtthoatehsnl