Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1900 — Page 7

J HIS STEPS. •AVhit WoulJ 313 CS Do?” By QUARLES M. CIIHLDON. . nnd pnbllshn 1 in book form by l"’. vrl fA., Publishing <"■ ' hicago.] tee A a ' u [continued.] „ g Jesus would not issue a Sunday '” On He would print the news of the ~ th .. t people ought to know the things that they du not need know and which would not be pub- , would be brutal prizefights, long unts of crimes, scandals in private “iii«< or any other human events Sh in any ™y would conflict with b first point mentioned in this out“10 If Jea u9 had the amount of -ner to use on a paper which we have, would probably secure the best and Lneest Christian men and women with him in the matter of ntributors That will be my pur se as I shall be able to show you in tew days. •41 Whatever the details of the pamight demand as the paper deLed’along itsdefinite plan, the main inciple that guided it would always ’th e establishment of the kingdom of i D the world. This large general j nc iple would necessarily shape all e details. Edward Norman finished reading his m He was very thoughtful. pl have merely sketched a very faint tline I have a hundred ideas for jking the paper powerful that 1 have 4 yet thought out fully This is sim ‘ suggestive I have talked it over th other newspaper men Some of cm say 1 will have a weak, namby anbv Sunday school sheet If I get it something as good as a Sunday bool, it will be pretty good. Why do be when they want to characterize mething as particularly feeble always lea Sunday school as a comparison leß they ought to know that the Sun [,• school is one of the strongest, most iwerful influences in our civilization this country today. But the paper ill not necessarily be weak because is good. Good things are more powful than bad. The question with me largely one of support from the Chrism people of Raymond. There are over 1,000 church members here in the ty. If half of them will stand by The ews, its life is assured. What do you ink, Maxwell, is the probability of ch support?” “I don't know enough about it to jve an intelligent answer. I believe in e paper with all my heart. If it lives year, as .Miss Virginia said, there is p telling what it can do. The great ling will be to issue such a paper, as ear as we can judge, as Jesus probably bnld and put into it all the elements 1 Christian brains, strength, intelli ?nce and sense and command respect r the absence of bigotry, of fanatisin. narrowness and anything else that contrary to the spirit of Jesus. Such paper will call for the best that huan thought and action are capable of ring Thegreatest minds in the world puld have their powers taxed to the [most to issue a Christian daily. ” "Yes," Edward Norman spoke humy "I shall make great mistakes, no rabt. I need a great deal of wisdom fct 1 want to do as Jesus would. ■ hat would he do?’ I have asked it ■ily and shall continue to do so and ide by results.” "I think we are beginning to undermd. said Virginia, “the meaning of st command, ‘Grow in the grace and owledge of our Lord and Saviour ins Christ.' lam sure Ido not know that he would do in detail until 1 ow him better. ” "That is very true," said Henry xweli "I am beginning to undernd that 1 cannot interpret the prvbe action of Jesus until I know better iat his spirit is. To my mind the atest question in all of human life is nmed up when we ask, ‘What would >us do ? if as we ask it we also try answer it from a growing knowledge lesus himself. We must know Jesus ore we can imitate him. ” hen the arrangements had been de between Virginia and Edward naan, he found himself in possession t e sum of $500,000, exclusively his nse for the establishment of a Chrisn ally paper When Virginia and ~ axwe " had gone, Norman M his door and, alone with the Me presence, asked like a child for P from his all powerful Father All “is prayer as he kneeled before , r an she promise, “If any man « wsdom. let him ask of God, who , a " men liberally and up- .; not. and it shall be given „ . his prayer would be annn utw t ? le kingdom be advanced I 'h lß Instrument of God’s powla/ T’ g ? ty I’ ress w hich had become T degraded to the base uses of ? 8 avarice and ambition let? Eont hß went by. They were full X°“ and r -nlts in the ci'tyof Ray- ■ ' in the First church ... '_" t ' le approaching heat of the divi ! eason ' tke after meeting of lo a- V 3 W ' lo had made the pledge insi. e*™ B Wou ld do continued with ?d hi? 10 a , Dd P ower Gray had fin-K-ra W ° at <dle Rectangle, and an Leonid tr \ er goin S through the he old ' ldVe seen an y difference ictn.n/ , Ildltlons ’ although there was the ’ n hundreds of lives, ses. still'r S ' d ™ S ' hov . els ' gambling i intn n a ?-’ over flowing their nle--theti. 6 ’. Ves fresh victims to ageli-t ace those rescued by the Ver y f”t the deVil recruited his V! 1 di<J not go abroad, been savin' » e to ° k the money he rratzed for tilo tr ’ p an d qniet- ° a summer vacation for a

whole family living down in the Rectangle who had never gone outside of the foul district of the tenement The pastor of the First church will never forget the week he spent with this fam i ily making the arrangements. He went down into the Rectangle one hot dav j when something of the terrible heat of | the tenements was beginning to be felt I and helped the family to the station and then went with them to a beautiful spot on the coast, where, in the home l of a Christian woman, these bewildered ' city tenants breathed for the first time in years the cool salt air and felt blow j about them the pine scented fragrance of a new lease of life. There was a sickly baby with the mother —three other children, one a cripple. The father, who had been out of work until he had been, as he afterward confessed to Maxwell, several times on the verge of suicide, sat with the baby in his arms during the jour ney. and when Maxwell started back to Raymond after seeing the family settled the man held his hand at parting and choked with his utterance and finally broke down, to Maxwell’s great confusion The mother, a wearied, wornout woman, who had lost three children the year before from a fever scourge in the Rectangle, sat by the car window all the way and drank in the delights of sea and sky and field. It was all a miracle to her, and Henry Maxwell, coming back into Raymond at the end of that week, feeling the scorching, sickening heat all the more because of his little taste of the ocean breezes, thanked God for the joy he had witnessed and entered upon his discipleship with a humble heart, knowing for almost the first time in his life this special kind of sacrifice, for never before had be denied himself his regular summer trip away from the heat of Raymond, whether he felt in any great need of rest or not “It is a fact, ” he said in reply to several inquiries on the part of his church, “1 do not feel in need of a vacation this year I am very well and prefer to stay here It was with a feeling of relief that he succeeded in concealing from every one but his wife what he bad done with this other family He felt the need of doing anything of that sort without display or approval from others. So the summer came on, and Henry Maxwell grew into larger knowledge of his Lord. The First church was still swayed by the power of the Spirit. Maxwell marveled at the continuance of his stay. He knew very well that from the beginning nothing but the Spirit’s presence had kept the church from being torn asunder by this remarkable testing it had received of its discipleship. Even now there were many of the members among those who had not taken the pledge who regarded the whole movement as Mrs. Winslow did, in the nature of a fanatical interpretation of Christian duty, and looke'd for a return of the old normal condi-. tion. Meanwhile the whole body of disciples was under the influence of the Spirit, and Henry Maxwell went his way that summer doing his parish work in great joy, keeping up his meetings with the railroad men, as he had promised Alexander Powers, and daily grow ing into a better knowledge of the Master. Early one evening in August, after a day of refreshing coolness, following a long period of heat. Jasper Chase walked to the window of his room in the apartment house on the avenue and looked out On his desk lay a pile of manuscript Since that evening when he had spoken to Rachel Winslow he had not met her His singularly sensitive nature, sensitive to the point of irritability when he was thwarted, seemed to thrust him into an isolation that was intensified by his habits as an author All through the heat of the summer he had been writing. His book was nearly done now He had thrown himself into its construction with a feverish strength that threatened at any moment to desert him and leave him helpless He had not forgotten his pledge with the other church members at the First church. It had forced itself upon his notice all through his writing and ever since Rachel had said no to him. He had asked a thousand times. “Would Jesus do this?” “Would he write this story?” It was a society novel, written in a style that had proved popular It had no purpose except to amuse. Its moral teaching was not bad, but nei ther was it Christian in any positive way Jasper Chase knew that such a story would sell He was conscious of powers in his way that the social world petted and admired. What would Jesus do ? The question obtruded on him at the most inopportune times. He be came irascible over it The standard of Jesus as an author was too ideal Os course Jesus wcilld use his powers to produce something useful or helpful or with a purpose What was he. Jasper Chase, writing this novel for? Why what nearly every writer wrote for—namely, money and fame as a writer There was no secret with him that he was writing this new story with that object. He was not poor and so had no temptation to write for money, but he was urged on by his desire for fame as •much as anything He must write this kind of matter But what would Jesus do? The question plagued him even more than Rachel's refusal Mas he going to break his promise? As he stood at the window Rollin Page came out of the clubhouse just op posite. Jasper noted his handsome face and noble figure as he started down the street. He went back to his desk and turned over some papers there. Then he returned to the window Rollin was walking down past the block, and Ra chel Winslow was walking beside him Rollin must have overtaken her as she was coming from Virginia’s that afternoon. ... Jasper watched the two figures until thev disappeared in the crowd on t e walk. Then he turned to his desk and began to write. When he had hnis e the last page of the last chapter of his book, it was nearly dark. hat would

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Jesus do? He had finally answered the question by denying his Lord It grew darker in Jasper’s room He had delib erately chosen bis course. urged on by his disappointment and loss “But Jesus said unto him. No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is tit for the kingdom of heaven CHAPTER VIII What is that to thee? Follow thou me. When Rollin started down the street that afternoon that Jasperstoed looking out of his window. he was not thinking of Rachel Winslow and did not expect to see her anywhere He had come sud denly upon her as she turned into the avenue, and his heart had leaped up at the sight of her He walked along by her now rejoicing, after all. in a little moment of this earthly love he could not drive out of his life "I have just been over to see Vir ginia. said Rachel “She tells me the arrangements are nearly completed for the transfer of the Rectangle property "Yes it has been a tedious case in the courts Did Virginia show yon all the plans and specifications for build ings?' . “We looked over a good many It is astonishing to me where Virginia has managed to get all her ideas about this work “Virginia knows more now about Arnold Toynbee and east end London and institutional church work in Amer ica than a good many professional slum workers She has been spending nearly all summer in getting information.' Rollin was beginning to feel more at ease as they talked over this coming work for humanity It was safe common ground. “What have you been doing all summer? I have not seen much of you,’ Rachel suddenly asked, and then her face warmed with its quick flush of tropical color, as if she might have implied too much interest in Rollin or too much regret at not seeing him qftener “I have been busy,” replied Rollin briefly “Tell me something about it,” persisted Rachel -You say so little Have 1 a right to ask ?'

Sh“ put the question very frankly, turning toward Rollin in real interest. “Yes, certainly,” he replied, with a grateful smile. “I am net so certain that I can tell you much. I have been trying to find some way to reach the men I once knew and win the a into more useful lives.” He stopped suddenly, as if he were almost afraid to go on. Racli, 1 did not venture to suggest anything, “I have bei ii a member of the same company to which you and Vir ma belong.' continued Rcllin. i mi.ng again. “I have made the pl • to do as I believe Jesus would do. and it is in trying to answer this questidh that I have been doing my work.' “That is what I do not understand. Virginia told me about the other It seems wonderful to think that you are trying to keep that pledge with ns But what can you do with the clubmen?’ “Yon have asked me a din i t question. aud I shall have to answ r it now. replied Rollin, smiling again “You see. I asked myself after that night at the tent, you remember” —he spoke hurriedly, and his voice trembled a little—“what purpose 1 could now have in my life to redeem it. to satisfy my thought of Christian discipleship, and the more 1 thought of it the more I was driven to a place where I knew I must take up this cross Did you ever think that of all the neglected beings in our social system none are quite so; completely left alone as the fast young , men who fill the clubs and waste their time and money as I used to? The churches look afti r the poor, miserable i creatures like those in the Rectangle. I they make some effort to reach .ne| workingmen. they have a large con j Etituency among the avera--e salary I earning people, they sen 1 money and! missionaries to the foreign heathen, but the fashionable, dissipated young men around town, the clubmen, are left out of all plans for reaching and Christianizing, and yet no class of people needs it more- I said to myself: ‘I know these men, their good and bad qualities. I have been one of them. lam not fitted to reach the Rectangle people. I do not know how. But I think I could possibly

reach some of these young men and ! boys who have money and time to spend. So that is what I have been trying to do When I asked, as you did. ‘What would Jesus do?' that was my answer It has been also my ( cross ’ Rollin's voice was so low on the last sentence that Rachel had difficulty in hearing him above the noise around them, but she knew what he had said She wanted to ask what his methods! were, but she did not know just how to I , ask him Her interest in his plans was , larger than mere curiosity Rollin Page ! | was so different now from the fashion- | able young man who had asked her to be his wife that she could not help thinking of him and talking with him as if he were entirely a new acquaint- I ance 1 They had turned off the avenue and | were going up the street to Rachel’s! home It was the same street where j Rollin had asked Rachel why she could not love him -They were both stricken by a sudden shyness as they went on j ’ Rachel had not forgotten that day. and Rollin could not forget it She finally broke a long silence by asking him what; she had not found words for before. “In your work for the clubmen, with ! your old acquaintances, what sort of reception do they give you ? How do . you approach them ? What do they | J say?” , Rollin was silent when Rachel spoke ( . I He answered after a moment J “Oh. it depends on the man! A good , many of them think I am a crank I ,' have kept my membership up and am | 'll good standing in that way I try to , ’ be wise and not provoke any unnecesJ sary criticism, but you would be sur- | prised to know how many of the men | have responded to my appeal I could hardly make you believo that only a few nights ago a dozen men became honestly and earnestly engaged in a conversation over religious questions. , I have had the great joy of seeing some I , of the men give up bad habits and begin a new life. ‘What would Jesus do?' I keep asking it The answer comes slowly, for I am feeling my way along One thing I have found out—the men

i are not fighting shy of me. I think I that is a good sign. Another thing—l have actually interested some of them in the Rectangle work, and when it is started up they will give something to help make it more powerful, and, in addition to all the rest. I have found a way to save some of the young fellows from going to the bad in gambling. ” Rollin spoke with enthusiasm His face was transformed by his interest in the subject which had now become a part of his real life Rachel again noted the strong, manly, healthful tone of his speech With it all she knew was a deep, underlying seriousness which felt the burden of the cross even while carrying it with joy The next time she spoke it was with a swift feeling of justice due to Rollin and his new life. “Do you rpmember I reproached you once for not having any purpose worth living for?” she asked, while her beautiful face seemed to Rollin more beautiful than ever when he had won sufficient self control to look up “I want to say I feel the need of saying, in justice to you now. that I honor you for your courage and your obedience to your promise The life you are living now is a very noble one.” Rollin trembled His agitation was greater than he could control Rachel could not help seeing it They walked along in silence. At last Rollin said: “I thank you It has been more than I can tell to hear you say that ” He looked into her face for one moment. She read his love for her in that look, but he did not speak. When they separated. Rachel went into the house, and. sitting down in her room, she put her face in her hands and said to herself "1 am beginning to know what it means to be loved by a noble man. I shall love Rollin Page. (m ns CONTINUED.]

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