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MALCOM KIRK.
A Tale of Moral Heroism In Overcoming the World.
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The si'iiior class in the theological
Mnilnury at Hernion had just hud its
picture taken by the photographer, and
tin' members were still grouped about
tin' su ps of the chnpel,
"There's one thing the photographer
forgot," snlil a short, red faced man
wiiu sat iii thf middle of tin' group.
)li' didn't iliink tu say, 'Look pleus
nut, now, if vnii please.' "
Hi' didn't need to. Wo all look so.
i anyhow." 'J in' man wlin spoke sat
inn Ilntely behind the first speaker
and bad liln bauds on the other's shoul
ders. i " ii i sure we don't fori very pleas
ant. 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
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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
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church as boou a
; college ihiils.
i Every member of the class i
ken of bis prospects escepl oni
I ouo at ou the extreme edge
i group, as If he bad purposely
to bo ns inconspicuous a iiok
I the picture, a stranger curttlessly
walking by would have lustautly Jutlg
oil him to he tho homeliest, least In
teresting man In the class, lie had
dull brown hair, very heavy and still,
pale blue eyes, a rather large mouth,
the lips of which, however, were linn
and full of character, blgb check bom s
I ami an unusually blgb forehead. Ills
anus and Ic.rs wore very Ioiik, and his
general attitude, as he sat on the edge
of the steps, was uiiuust strikingly
J awkward.
"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
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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bindine:. free on receipt ot 21 onc-ce
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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'
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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
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