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Unfailing in Fem aleWca kness i'J dealer. lA ie bj mail WcKruduul ,N Y 2 VUUleW , " ordinarily would. M F litow'lr STANDARD m 0 MALCOM KIRK. II 4- ii A Talc of Moral Heroism J In Overcoming the World. BY CHARLES M. SHELDON, Author of "In Hie Steps," "Crucifixion of Philip Strong," "Robert p Hardy' Seven Day,." COPTIUOIIT, 191)0. BY THE ADVASC PLUUniNO OCX I,.,liii...!llll IlitufrafimM by l1ll!!il!!!!li:il!!il!!!llll!ll!lllltl CHAPTER XIII. rwxim txaju Arm. 20 years bail Rniie by sine that night of the election, when Ioro thy had kneeled In front of Vulnier's anloon. In lite main street of Conrail, when one evening a Well d reused, ills tlngulslteil looking gentletnnn Itepped out of the west liotind txpreM upon tho platform. "lJoes Mr. Kirk live where he used to?" he asked of ono of tho loungers at the station. "Yea; he lives up ty tho church," was the answer. Tho stranger went on down tho main street, looking about him curiously, and llnally stopped in front of a com fortable looking house closo by a good sized church building. Ho went up the short board walk nnd mutf the bell. The door was opened by a girl about lit years of nge, a girl with a great pro fusion of heavy brown hair and a face that people had to look at twice before they knew whether she was what Is generally called "pretty" or uot. "Is your father at home?" asked the gentleman, smiling. "I don't know. Will yon come In? That Is, unless you have something to solL And then 1 am sure father Is out." She said It without the least n ptarance of being pert or rude. "I haven't anything to sell," replied the stranger, laughing. "I am George Wilson, one of your father's old class mates In Harmon, and he" "Come right In," said the girl. "Any ono from Mention Is welcome. I've heard father speak of you often." "This Is Faith, Is It?" he asked as be entered a pleasant sitting room. "Yes, sir," she answered shyly. "Ex cuse me, I'll call father." Sho went out of the room, and the Ilov. Oeorge Wilson of the famous In stitutional church of Boston looked around him, and bis look was full of the most absorbing Interest. What be felt and thought can per haps best be told In a letter which be wrote home two days afterward while sitting In the guest chamber of the parsonage. The letter threw much light on the events of the past 20 years and Is of value as coming from one who saw Malcom Kirk ami his fatally at this time, both as a friend and also as en Intensely Interested spectator of a very remarkable life. "I am sitting in Malcom Kirk's house," the letter began, "and it is difficult fur me to realize all that that fact means. There is no question In my mind that Kirk is In some ways one of the most remarkable ministers In this country, and yet he and his talented wife have remained In this comparatively obscure place for over 20 years, working quietly and without osteutatlon, with some most astonish ing results until lately unheard of by the churches In the east "Since I was in Conrad about 20 ' years ago great changes have occurred In tho state. Perhaps tho greatest change of all has been the prohibitory I amendment to the constitution. Every one knows that the election on the leg- i lslature's act to submit the amend- j went resulted In an affirmative vote. Every one also knows that the people havo never reversed that decision, and It seems probable that they never wilt, i "Yon will also remember what nn ex citement wns caused by one event In Conrnd at the close of that famous election day. I listened to the story iy proud of their father and of what be from Kirk's own lips, nud It was aa ' has done. exciting as any novel I ever read. I -you ask, W hat has Malcom Kirk " "Ho had been called out of town on (one? tho nftornoon of that day to see a I "la the first place. In spite of what young man who died of tho effects of Seemed like Impossibilities, be succeed a drunken debauch, nnd as he1 came ed years a go in building a church and back to Conrail In tho evening bis wife parsonage, both of which had been was kneeling In the center of a group burned down. It Is supposed, by the of other women, holding a prayer meet-1 Whisky men during the fight which Ing In front of one of the most notorl- i went on before thp amendment was ous saloons then In Conrad. ' carried The church I comfortable "He had only Just come to the place etrtlcture, seating SOU or ikj people, when a great disturbance broke out In with several classrooms attached. The the saloon behind him. Some one broko parsonage Is n good bous of eight through the erowd and attempted to rooms, fairly well furnished, although throw a bottle of vitriol at Mrs. Klrk. Kirk's peculiar habits of generosity It was afterward shown that the man ! have not permitted anything approach wns crazy with drink and awfully ex- I Ing luxury eveu In the slightest degree, cited by the events of the day. lie was ! "But tho building of the church and only partly successful In bis horrible : .... attempt. Mrs. Kirk's face was burned on one side, but a man of the name of Carver, who had been drinking, but was sober enough to realize what was going on, grappled with the other and took away the bottle, receiving dread ful burns In doing so. This man Is now the Bexton In Mr. Kirk's church, a de vout, sincere Christian and a good ex ample, so Klrk says, of hundreds of men who will remain sober if the sa loon Is taken away nnd the constant temptation to drink Is absent. And so far as I can observe be Is decidedly right In his belief. "Well, Mrs. Klrk has recovered from tboso Injuries, and her beauty of face, which Is still remarkable, Is marred only by a scar which gives her, to all who know her history, an added inter est. The affair created nn Intense feel ing here for n long tltno. Nothing ho terrible had been known Blnce that at tempt to disfigure Mrs. Coleman of Marvtlle, Canada, while marching with other women In a temperance proces sion. The event opened many people's eyes to the sstanlc power of the drink evil. It was only one out of countless events where the whisky element has stood for the greatest crimes and for Hrrnvm Hnrr. which It must answer heavily at the Judgment bar of a long suffering !od. "It Is difficult for ate to write of Mal com Kirk without seeming to exagger ate and overemphasize his work. I want to speak of his beautiful family, which Us n part of tho best part of this western town. "Mrs. Kirk has developed Into n wo man of rare power In all the church and social life of the place. Years ago the women here recognized her ability os a leader by making her president of the Christian Temperance union. It was largely through her efforts that the township polled a very heavy vote for the amendment. She has thrown nil her rare talents as a gifted musician also Into the redemption of tho town, with the result that no woman has such an Influence as she has on all the young, thoughtless life that has crowd ed in here during the town's rapid growth In the years of eighty-six and seven. " There are three children, two boys, named Gilbert nnd Mention, and a girl, the oldest child, named Faith. The boys are bright, handsome fellows and take after the mother. Gilbert Is 17 and Bcrmon 15. Faith, who is nearly 10, is like her father. I have not yet been able to tell whether she Is what you women would call 'pretty' or not, but she Is one of the most Interesting Individual girls I ever met. Sho Is fond of trying experiments and resem bles her father In that respect. She wants to know and feel things for her self and is passionately fond of doing for other people. 1 begin to get the Impression that sho Is thoroughly un Belllsh nnd that she has the making of a remarkably useful woman. Hut I predict for her some trying experi ences. She Is one of those plrls who would make her father and mother Come rl'T'if fa." tatd fi girl, 'Any one from Jlermon in welcome." anxious for her future if It were not for the fact that they and herself are Christian in their whole nature. That Is the salvation of such a girl as Faith, nnd Mr. and Mrs. Kirk seem to be peacefully sure of the fact All of the children are members of the church. nnd all three of them are verv evident- If i it a 5 CENTS ! i i N If 1 DOBBINS' ELECTRIC S I I SOAP Just Seduced from Ten Cents Your choice of 217 twenty-five co n s i books sent free, for each threo wrappers and 8 cents for postage. It II 'camera: : P.O.BOX 594 'HARRIS BURG. PA . CuPtS ALL OOINK AND DQiM ADDICTIONS NtWLT FuONIiHtO NCW MANAOIfUNT NRTKALGIA cured t.r Dr. Mllur Pais Villu. "OiM.ceut done.'" Atalldrusalste parsonage Is In one sense the very smallest thing that Kirk has done. It Is uot too much to say that be and his wife have revolutionized the moral life f this whole town. When they came here about 20 years ago. they found a community of 1.000 people. A great amount of lawless, thoughtless life crowded the saloons, the danee hotises, the cheap resorts of amuse ment. Kirk and bis wife, after pass ing through an experience of great suffering and temptation, most of which has always been unknown even to their own people, came out of their Bill U-t inn with astonishing power over the life of the place. There Is no ques tion that the very thinking of the peo ple here is shaped by Malcom Kirk's Christianity. The promise he and bis wife made when they came here has been constantly In mind. The number of lost men and boys who have been at tracted to Kirk's ministry and to Mrs. Kirk's singing and playing and led to Christ Is amazing. Kven the business nnd political life of the town has been shaped by Kirk's purpose lu life. That means a great deal, as any one will ac knowledge. This fact, however, Is shown by the common allusions to Con rad by other towns. They speak of It ns 'Ktrkvllle.' A higher compliment to a man's Influ nee it would be difficult to find. "It Is of c ii rse still true that the devil does In -mess In Oonrad. Kirk has told me that the whisky men have never ceased from the day they were driven out of Conrad to attempt to come back in some form and carry on their work. At the present time he tells me that through failure on the part of the officers of the law to en force the law the whisky men have grown bold ami opened several places. He Is right now In the midst of the old struggle again. This time It Is a strug gle with state and county officials who have broken their oaths of office. It Is the same struggle in another form. At the bottom of the whisky business in any state,- whether It has a prohibitory statute or not, Is the incentive of gn at financial returns for n very little real labor and also the human passion for drink, two 'lungs which Kirk says must be recogulzed by the temperance people ami always reckoned upon in the problem of temperance. "It remains therefore to be said that so far as Kirk and his wife are con cerned the contest they began here, the battle they entered for victory over the world, still goes on. Is there a place la the world where a Christian may cease from fighting the good light of the faith? But l am profoundly touched by the extent of overcoming to be seen in this place. I have been unable lo silence the question, 'What If every minister as he entered a new place, no matter bow small or diffi cult, entered It with Kirk's to redeem the and bring It back to this much ll true here. There has b a passion like lost part of it God? I know the work done no unusual ex- cltement n ml no el raordlnarv means i produce the astonishing employ results. ;l B is no question that Kirk has cerl .n qualities that have helped him. Ills voice Is, ns It always was, a fine instrument, lie knows how to talk to people, and he writes uncom monly well. But. on the oilier hand, be Is st ill awkward, homely of appear once and by no means always tit his best lie loves people. lie longs, as Paul did. for the salvation of the world. And there lies the secret of his work. It Is nothing which other men may not also have. "I don't know u minister In our churches anywhere who might not claim all that Malcom Kirk and his wife have claimed. They have over come the world by means of their love, by following the plain path of duty at the cost of Buffering, by not pleasing themselves. They are still engaged In the struggle. It will never cease this side of death ami paradise. But I wish that every pastor aud every church might come here and see w hat has been dotie and what the future seems cer tain to record. The most malignant forces of evil have evidently arrayed themselves against Kirk and his wife, nnd so far these two have overcome them all. Heaven has won tho victory out here, and I do not know why It should not do so everywhere. Do we want the world to be laved? Do we have a passion to save It? Do we put the kingdom first? If wo did, should we not see tbe resulta everywhere that W6 sin." bere? I shall return homo from uiy visit to Mnlcotn Kirk with question sounding It) my lietirt." There wns one brief allusion In this letter which meant even DON than Wilson knew. It was bis alluslou to what he called Malcom Kirk's "pe culiar hiibits of generosity." Indi rectly these led to events which havo to do with this history of tho human conflict against sin and Involved In that growing conflict all the members of Kirk's family. A few duys after Wilson's departure FaiUi and her mother were sitting to gether In the "common room," as Kaith called It, the room that the family used for dining and sitting room to gether. Dorothy was sewing, and Faith was helping her with some work on the boys' suits. It was about 11 o'clock in the morn ing, and Malcom Klrk was np stairs Id his study. The boys were at school, and Faith, who had finished the high school, had been staying at home for two years helping hur mother. "Mother, bow does Gilbert manage to tear his coat across the back like that?" asked Faith, holding up that garment and looking at it with grave astonishment Dorothy could not help smiling, al though tho Mat Instant she sighed s little. "lie said one of tho boys pushed him against a wire fence last Saturday while they were out fishing near 'The Forks.' " "Well, tbe boy that did it ought to be made to wear it after I hove mended It That would ho 'making tin- punish- Uient fit the crime,'" said Faith as ahe stabbed the back of the coat with a big needle aud began turning over the basket to tiud some thread. "I'm sorry Gilbert hasn't a better suit," Bald Dorothy gravely. "He must try to get along with it this fall, any way. Mend it us carefully as you cau. Faith." "Yes, ma'am," replied Faith. "I am trying to find sotnethin; besides white silk. At the same time, mother, don't you think white silk on a black back ground would be a warning to Gilbert not to get his coot torn again?" Mrs. Kirk laughed, aud before she could answer the bell rang. Ftlth put aside the work aud went to the door. "Can I see Mr. Kirk?" asked a voice that Dorothy recognized at ouce. "No," said Faith decidedly. "Kathvr is in his study writing, and ho ought not to be disturbed." "But he told me to call today, nnd I wont to see hint very much." "Did he tell you to call this morn ing?" "Well-no-he said today. But I couldn't come at any other time." There was silence a moment while Faith stood holding the door uncertain ly, but still resolutely blocking the en trance. Malcom Klrk came out of his study at the top of the upper hfllL "Is that Mr. Barnes. Faith? Tell him to come up." Faith . t oncp stepped aside, nnd a shabby looking man came lu. As he passed the door of the sitling room he bowed clumsily and said, "Good morn ing, Mrs. Kirk." 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