St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-11-15
IN HIS STEPS.
"WHAT WOULD JESUS DO"
BY CHARLES NJ. SHELDON.
copyrighted by the Advance Publishing
Co. Chicago.


Co. Chicago.
[Continued from last week.
Rollin spoke with enthusiasm. His
face was transformed by his interest in
the subject which had now become
part of his real life. Rachel again noted
the strong, manly, healthful tone of
his speech With it all she knew was
deep, underlying seriousness which felt
the burden of the cross even while car
rying 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 remember reproached you
once for not having any purpose worth
living torI' she asked, while her beau
tiful face seemed to Rollin more beau
tiful than ever when he had won suffi-
Gent self control to look up 81 want
to say feel the need of saying, in JUS
tice to you now that honor you for
your courage ard 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;
81 thank you. 1t has been more than
/ 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 81 am beginning
to know what it means to be loved by
q noble man shall love Rollin Page,
after all What am I sayingS Rache
Winslow, have you forgotten =
She rose and walked back and forth.
She was deeply moved. Nevertheless 1T
was evident to herself that her emotion
was not that of regret or sorrow. Some
how a glad new joy had come to her.
She had entered another circle of ex-
perience, and later in the day she re-
joiced with very strong and sincere
gladness that her Christian discipleship
IOuuu IOOlu lOi uillo CliSio III hOi lOSi
ing. 1t was indeed part of it, for if
she were beginning to love Rollin it
was the Christian man who had won
her heart The other never would have
moved her to this great change.
And Rollin as he went back treasured
hope that had been stranger to him
since Rachel had said no that day. In
that hope he went on with his work as
the days sped on, and at no time was
he more successful in reaching and saw
ing his old acquaintance than in the
time that followed that chance meeting
with Rachel Winslow.
The summer had gone and Raymond
was once more facing the rigor of hel
winter season. Virginia had been able
to accomplish part of her plan fol
Capturing the Rectangle," as sht
called it, but the building of houses il
the field the Transforming of its bleak
bare aspect into an attractive park, al
of which was included in her plan, wa
work too large to be completed tina
fall after she had secured the property
But million dollars in the hands of
person who really wants to do with i
as Jesus would ought to accomplish
wonders for humanity in short time
and Henry Maxwell, going over to tn
scene of the new work one day after
noon hour with the shopmen wa
amazed to see how much had been don
outwardly
Yet he walked home thoughtfully
and on his way he could not avoid til
question of the continual problem thru'
into his notice by the saloon Ho'
much had been done for the Rectangl
after ALI Even counting in Virginia
and Rachel's work and Mr.. Gray
where had it actually counted in an
visible quantityl OF course he said
himself that the redemptive work begu
and carried on by the Holy Spirit
his wonderful displays of power in IL
First church and in the tent meetin,
had had its effect on the life of Ra
mond but as he walked past saloon at
er saloon and noticed the crowds goir
in and coming out of them, as he !
parently, as he caught the brutality al
squalor and open misery and degrad
ton on countless faces of men al
women and children, he sickened at Il
sight He found himself asking no
much cleansing could even milliC
dollars poured into this cesspool accor
plish? Was not the living source
nearly all the human misery TIN
sought to relieve untouched as long
these saloons did their deadly but legit
mate work. What could even such u
selfish Christian discipleship as Vi
ginias and Rachels do to lessen t
stream of vice so long as the gre
spring of vice and crime flowed as de
and strong as ever2 Was it not a pra
teal waste of beautiful lives for the
young women to throw themselves in
this earthly hell when for every SC
rescued by their sacrifice the salo
made two more that needed rescue2
He could not escape the question.
was the same that Virginia had put
Rachel in her statement that in b
opinion, nothing really would ever
done until the saloon was taken out
the Rectangle. Henry Maxwell we
back to his parish work that afterno
with added convictions on the liceI
business.
But, if the saloon were factor
the problem of the life of Raymond,
less were the First church and its lit
connnnu of discinlns uhn had rlndn