Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1900 — Page 7

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</ V VV/ v V . It was after 10 o’clock when the meeting at the tent was closed. It had been a strange and in some respects a remarkable meeting. Henry Maxwell had come down again at Gray’s request. He was completely worn out by the dav’s work, but the appeal from Gray came to him in such a form that he did not feci able to resist it Donald Marsh was also present. He had never been to the Rectangle, and his curiosity was a-oneed from what he had noticed of the influence of the evangelist in the worst part of th« city. Dr. West and Rollin had come with Rachel and Virginia, and Loreen. who had staid with Virginia, was present near the organ, in her right mind, sober, with a humility and dread of herself that kept her as close to Virginia as a faithful dog All through the service Loreen sat with bowed head, weeping a part of the time, sobbing when Rachel sang the song. “I was a wandering sheep,” clinging with almost visible, tangible yearning to the one hope she had found, "listening to prayer and appeal and confession all about her like one who was a part of a new creation, yet fearful of her right to share in it fully. The tent had been crowded As on some other occasions, there was more or less disturbance on the outside of the tent This had increased as the night advanced, and Gray thought it wise not to prolong’ the service. Once in awhile a shout as from a large crowd swept into the tent The returns from I the election were beginning to come in, | and the Rectangle had emptied every lodgin'-- house, den and hovel into the streets. In spite of the distractions, Rachel’s singing kept the crowd in the tent from dissolving. There were a dozen or more conversions Finally the crowd became restless, and Gray closed the service, i remaining a little while with the con verts Rachel. Virginia, Loreen, Rollin and the doctor. President Marsh and Henry Maxwell went out together, intending to go down to their usual waiting place for their car As they came out of the I tent they at once were aware that the Rectangle was trembling on the edge of a drunken riot, and as they pushed through the gathering mebs in the narrow streets they began to realize that they themselves were objects of great attention. “There he is. the bloke in the tall hat He’s the leader!” shouted a rough voice President Marsh, with his Effect, commanding figure, was conspicuous in the little company. “How has the election gone? It is too early to know the result yet, isn’t it?” He asked the question aloud, and a man answered "They say second and third wards have gone almost solid for no license If that is so. the whisky men have been beaten.' ’ “Thank God! I hope it is true,” exclaimed Henry Maxwell. “Marsh, we are in danger here. Do yon realize our situation ? We ought to get the ladies to a place of safety. ” “That is true,” said Marsh gravely. At that moment a shower of stones and other missiles fell over them. The narrow street and sidewalk in front of them were completely choked with the worst elements of the Rectangle. “This looks serious, ” said Maxwell. With Marsh and RoUin and Dr. West he started to go forward through the small opening, Virginia, Rachel and Loreen following close and sheltered by the men. who now realized something of their danger. The Rectangle was drunk and enraged. It saw in Daniel Marsh and Henry Maxwell two of the leaders in the election contest who had perhaps robbed them of their beloved saloon. “Down with the aristocrats!” shouted a shrill voice, more like a woman’s than a man'a A shower of mud and stones followed. Rachel remembered afterward that Rollin jumped directly in front of her and received on his head and chest a number of blows that would probably have struck her if he had not shielded her from them. And just then, before the police reached them. Loreen darted forward at the side of Virginia and pushed her aside, looking up and screaming. It was so sudden that no one had time to tatch the face of the one who did it But out of the upper window of a room over the very saloon where Loreen had come out a week before some one had thrown a heavy bottle. It struck Loreen on the head, and she fell to the ground ■ irginia turned and instantly kneeled down by her The police officers by that time had reached the little company. Donald Marsh raised his arm and -nonted over the howl that was beginning to rise from the wild beast in the taob. Stop! You’ve killed a woman!" 1 he announcement partly sobered the crowd. Is it true ?” Henry Maxwell asked Dr West kneeled on the other side of supporting her. ‘She’s dying!" said Dr. West briefly Loreen opened her eyes and smiled at irginia. Virginia wiped the blood rom her face and then bent over and * ler Doreen smiled again, and ,‘. 18 next moment her soul was in paradise. et ’ a only one tveman out p thousands killed by this drink devil. ’■“Wd back now. ye sinful men and omen in this filthy street I Let this

august dead form be borne through your stupefied sobered ranks. She was one of your own children. The Rectan- . gle had stamped the image of the beast |on her. Thank him who died for sin- . ners that the other image of a new soul now shines out of her pale clay. Crowd back! Give them room I Let her pass reverently, followed and surrounded by the weeping, awestruck company of Christians. Ye killed her. ye drunken murderers! And yet. and yet. O Christian America, who killed this woman ? Stand back! Silence there I A woman has been killed! Who ? Loreen. child of the streets —poor, drunken, vile sinner 1 1; O Lord God. how long? Yes: the saloon killed her—that is. the voters in Christian America who license the saloon. And the judgment day only shall declare who was the murderer of Loreen CHAPTER VII lie that folloreth me shall not walk in dark neea. The body of Loreen lay in state at the Page mansion on the avenue. It was Sunday morning, and the clear, sweet air. just beginning to breathe over tho city the perfume of opening blossoms in the woods and fields, swept over the casket from one of the open windows at the end of the grand hall The church bell.-, were ringing, and the people on the avenue going by to service turned curious, inquiring looks up at the great house and went on. talking of the recent events which had so strangely entered into and made history in the city. At the First church Henry Maxwell, bearing on his face marks of the scene he had been through the night before, confronted an immense congregation and spoke of it with a passion and a power that came so naturally out of the profound experiences of the day before that bis people felt for him something of the old feeling of pride they once l.ad in his dramatic delivery Only this was a different attitude, and all through his impassioned appeal this morning there was a note of sadness and rebuke and stern condemnation that made many of the members pale with self accusation or with inward anger. For Raymond had awakened that morning to the fact that the city had gone fcr license, after all The rumor at the Rectangle that the second and third wards had gone no license proved to be false. It was true that the victory was won by a very meager majority, but the result was the same as if it had been overwhelming. Raymond had voted to continue another year the saloon. The Christians of Raymond stood condemned by the result More than a hundred Christians, professing disciples, had failed to gO to the polls, and many more than that number had voted with the whisky men. If all the church members of Raymond had voted against ' the saloon, it would today be outlawed instead of crowned king of the munici--1 pality. That had been the fact in Raymond for years. The saloon ruled. No one denied that. What would Jesus do? And the woman who had been brutal ly struck down by the very hand that had assisted so eagerly to work her earthly ruin—what of her? Was it anything more than the logical sequence of the whole horrible system of license that for another year the saloon that received her so often and compassed her degradation, from whose very spot the weapon had been hurled that struck her dead, would by the law which the Christian people of Raymond voted to support open its doors, perhaps tomorrow. and damn with earthly and eternal destruction a hundred Loreens before the year had drawn to its bloody close? All this, with a voice that rang and trembled and broke in sobs of anguish for the result, did Henry Maxwell pour out upon his people that Sunday morn* ing, and men and women wept as he spoke. Donald Marsh sat there, his usual erect, handsome, firm, bright, self confident bearing all gone, his head bowed upon his breast, the great tears rolling down his cheeks, unmindful of the fact that never before had he shown outward emotion in a public service. Edward Norman near by sat, with his clear cut. keen face erect, but his lip trembled and he clutched the end of the pew with a feeling of emotion that struck deep into his knowledge of the truth as Maxwell spoke of it. No man had given or suffered more to influence public opinion that-last week than Norman. The thought that the Christian conscience had been aroused too late or too feebly lay with a weight of accusation upon the heart of the editor. What if he had begun to do as Jesus would long ago? Who could tell what might have been accomplished by this time? And up in the choir Rachel Winslow, with her face bowed on the railing of the oak screen, gave way to a feeling she had not yet allowed to master her, but it so unfitted her for her part that when Henry Maxwell finished and she tried to sing the closing solo after the prayer her voice broke, and for the first time in her life she was obliged to sit down sobbing and unable to go on. Over the church in the silence that followed this strange scene, sobs and the noise of weeping arose- V hen had the First church yielded to such a baptism of tears? What had become of its regular, precise, cold, conventional order of service, undisturbed by any vul-

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gar emotion and unmoved by any fool- I ish excitement? But the people had ! lately had their deepest convictions i touched. They had been living so long I on their surface feelings that they had j almost forgotten the deeper wells of ! life. Now that they had broken to the surface the people were convinced of the meaning of their discipleship. Henry Maxwell did not ask this morning for volunteers to join those who had already pledged to do as Jesus would, but when the congregation had finally gone and he had entered the lecture room it needed but a glance to show him that the original company of followers had been largely increased, j The meeting was tender It glowed i with the Spirit's presence; it was alive j with strong and lasting resolve to begin a war on the whisky power of Ray mond that would break its reign. Since the first Sunday when the first company of volunteers had pledged themselves to I do as Jesus would do the different meet- | ings had been characterized by distinct impulses or impressions. Today the en- | tire force of the gathering seemed to be directed to this one large purpose. It was a meeting full of broken prayers, of contrition, confession, of strong yearning for a new and better city life, and all through it ran the one general cry for deliverance from the saloon and its awful curse. But if the First church was deeply stirred by the events of the week gone the Rectangle also felt moved strongly in its own way The death of Loreen was not in itself so remarkable a fact, i It was her recent acquaintance with the people from the city that lifted her into special prominence and surrounded her death with more than ordinary importance. Every one in the Rectangle knew that Loreen was at this moment lying in the Page mansion up on the avenue. Exaggerated reports of the magnificence of the casket had already furnished material for eager gossip The Rectangle was excited to know the details of the funeral Would it be public? What did Miss Page intend to do? The Rectangle had never before; mingled even in this distantly personal manner with the aristocracy on the boulevard. The opportunities for doing

so were not frequent Gray and his wife were besieged by inquiries as to what Loreen's friends and acquaintances were expected to do in paying their last respects to her, for her acquaintance was large, and many of the recent converts were among her friends. So that is how it happened Monday afternoon at the tent that the funeral service of Loreen was held before an immense audience that choked the tent and overflowed beyond all previous bounds Gray had gone to Virginia, and after talking it over with her and Henry Maxwell the arrangements had been made “I am and always have been opposed to large public funerals,'' said Gray, whose complete, wholesome simplicity of character was one of its great sources of strength, “but the cry of the poor creatures who knew Loreen is so earnest that I do not know how to refuse their desire to see her and pay her poor body some last little honor. What do yon think. Mr. Maxwell? 1 will be guided by your judgment in the matter lam sure that whatever you and Miss Page think is best ■will be right. ” “I feel as you do.” replied Mr Maxwell. “Under most circumstances 1 have a great distaste for what seems like display at such times, but this seems different The people at the Rec tangle will not come here to a service I think the most Christian thing will be to let them have the service at the tent Doyon think so. Virginia?" “Yes. "said Virginia sadly “Poor soul! Ido not know but that some time I shall know she gave her life for mine We certainly cannot and will not use the occasion for vulgar display Let her friends be allowed: the gratification of their wishes. I see no harm in it. ” So the arrangements were made with some difficulty for the service at the tent, and Virginia, with her uncle and Rollin, accompani- 1 by Henry Max well. Rachel. President Marsh and the quartet from the First church, went down and witnessed one of the strange scenes of their lives. It happened that, that afternoon a noted newspaper correspondent was passing through Ray mend on his wav to an editorial con-

vention in a neighboring city He heard of the contemplated service at the tent and was present that afternoon. His description of it was written in a graphic style that caught the attention of very many readers tho next day. A fragment of his account belongs to this part of the history of Raymond: “There was a very unique and unusual funeral service held here this afternoon at the tent of an eyangelist. Rev. John Gray, down in the slum district known as the Rectangle. The occasion was caused by the killing of a woman during an election riot last Saturday night. It seems she had been recently converted during the evangelist’s meetings and was killed while returning from one of the meetings in company with other converts and some of her friends. She was a common street drunkard, and yet the services at the tent were as impressive as any I ever witnessed in a metropolitan church over the most distinguished citizen. “In the first place, a most exquisite anthem was sung by a trained choir. It struck me. of course, being a stranger to the place, with considerable astonishment to hear voices like those one naturally expects to hear only in great churches or concerts at such a meeting as this, but the most remarkable part of the music was a solo sung by a strikingly beautiful young woman, a Miss Winslow, who, if I remember rightly, is the young singer who was sought for by Crandal. the manager of National Opera, and who for some reason refused to accept his offer to go cn the stage. She had a most wonderful manner in singing, and everybody was weeping before she had sung a dozen words. That, of course, is not so strange an effect to be produced at a funeral service,' but the voice itself was one of ten thousand. I understand Miss Winslow sings in the First church and could probably command almost any salary as a public singer. She will probably be heard from soon. Such a voice could win its way anywhere. “The service, aside from the singing, was peculiar. The evangelist, a man of apparently very simple, unassuming style, spoke a few words, and he was

followed by a fine looking man, the Rev. Henry Maxwell, pastor of the First church of Raymond. Mr. Maxwell spoke of the fact that the dead woman had been fuily prepared to go. but he spoke in a peculiarly sensitive manner of tho effect of the liquor business on the lives of men and women like this one. Raymond, of course, being a railroad town and the center of the great packing interests for this region, is full of saloons. I caught from the minister's remarks that he had only recently changed his views in regard to license. He certainly made a very striking and yet it was ia no sense an inappropriate address for a funeral. “Then followed what was perhaps the queer part of this strange service The women in the tent, at least a large part of them up near the coffin, began to sing in a soft, tearful way. *1 was a wandering sheep. ’ “Then, while the singing was going on, one row of women stood up and walked slowly past the casket, and as they went by each one placed a flower of some kind on it. Then they sat down, and another row filed past, leaving their flowers. All the time the singing continued softly, like rain on a tent cover when the wind is gentle. It was one of the simplest and at the same time one of the most impressive sights I ever witnessed. The sides of the tent were up, and hundreds cf people who could not get in stood outside, all as still as death, with wonderful sadness and solemnity for such rough looking people. There must have been a hundred of these women, and I was told many of them had been converted at the meetings just recently. I cannot describe the effect of that singing. Not a man sang a note, all women’s voices, and so soft and yet so distinct that the effect was startling.

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