wickedness of strikes and again he saw himself as a prominent citizen his clubs and associations were food comfortable to his spirit of a decent man in it was required that he should belong to one two or three of the and prosperity lunch clubs to the the or the to the odd fellows red men knights of knights of and other secret orders by a high degree of sound morals and reverence for the constitution there were four reasons for joining these orders it was the thing to do it was good for business since lodge brothers frequently became customers it gave to americans unable to become or such as high worthy and grand to add to the commonplace distinctions of colonel judge and professor and it permitted the american husband to stay away from home for one evening a week the lodge was his his pavement he could shoot pool and talk man talk and be and was what he called a for all these reasons behind the gold and scarlet banner of his public achieve ments was the background of office routine lists of properties to rent the evenings of and and stimulated him like brandy but every morning he was sandy week by week he accumulated he was in open with his outside and once though her charms had always kept him polite to her he at miss for changing his letters but in the presence of paul he relaxed at least once a week they fled from maturity on saturday they played as a you re a fine player or they all sunday afternoon stopping at village to sit on high at a counter and drink coffee from thick cups sometimes paul came over in the evening with his and even was silent as the lonely man who had lost his way and forever crept down roads spun out his dark soul in music n nothing gave more and than his labors for the sunday school his church the road was one of the largest and richest one of the most and in the was the reverend john drew m a d d ll d the ma and the d d were from university the ll d from college he was eloquent efficient and he presided at meetings for the of or the elevation of domestic service and confided to the that as a poor boy he had carried newspapers for the saturday edition of the evening advocate he wrote on the manly man s religion and the dollars and sense value of christianity which were printed in bold t e surrounded by a border he often said that he was proud to be known as a business man and that he certainly was not going to permit the old satan to all the and punch he was a thin rustic faced young man with gold spectacles and a bang of dull brown hair but when he hurled himself into he glowed with power he admitted that he was too much the scholar and poet to imitate the monday yet he had once awakened his fold to new life and to larger by the challenge my brethren the real cheap is the man who won t lend to the lord he had made his church a true community it contained everything but a bar it had a nursery a thursday evening supper with a short bright missionary lecture afterward a a motion picture show a library of books for young workmen � though unfortunately no young workman ever entered the church except to wash the windows or repair the furnace � and a sewing circle which made short little for the children of the poor while mrs drew read aloud from earnest novels though dr drew s was his was gracefully as he said it had the most features of those noble monuments of grand old england which stand as of the eternity of faith religious and civil it was built of cheery iron spot brick in an improved style and the main had lighting from electric in lavish on a december morning when the went to church dr john drew was unusually eloquent the crowd was immense ten brisk young in morning coats with white roses were bringing folding chairs up from the there was an impressive musical conducted by of the y m ca who also sang the cared less for this because some person had taught young mr to smile smile smile while he was singing but with all the appreciation of a fellow orator he admired dr drew s sermon it had the intellectual quality which distinguished the road congregation from the on smith street at this abundant harvest time of all the year dr drew when though stormy the sky and laborious the path to the yet the hovering and spirit back o er all the labors and desires of the past twelve months oh then it seems to me there sounds behind all our apparent failures the golden chorus of greeting from those passed happily on and lo on the dim horizon we see behind clouds the mighty mass of mountains � mountains of melody mountains of mirth mountains of might i certainly do like a sermon with culture and thought in it meditated at the end of the service he was delighted when the shaking hands at the door oh brother can you wait a want your advice sure doctor you bet drop into my office i think you ll like the cigars there did like the cigars he also liked the office which was distinguished from other offices only by the spirited change of the familiar wall to this is the lord s busy day came in then william w mr was the seventy year old president of the first state bank of he still wore the delicate patches of side whiskers which had been the uniform of in if was envious of the smart set of 