The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-08-31

In laxury and singing. Jesus. I my
CT, ,ss have taken. all to leave and fol-
low thee and remember how my wife
di. I'd in tenement in New York city.
"a sping for air and asking God to take
thu, little girl too. Of course don't ex-
pet,t you people can prevent every one
from dying Of starvation. lack Of proper
no,irishment and tenement air. But
what does following Jesus meant I
understand that Christian people own
q good many Of the tenements. A mem
Der Of church was the owner Of the
one where my wife died. and I have
wondered II following Jesus all the
way was tr,ie in his case heard some
people singing at church prayer meet
ing the other night.
"All for Jesus. all for Jesus.
All my beings rarsomeI powers,
All my thoughts and all my dolnSA
All my days and all my hours.
and I kept wondering. as I sat on
ne steps outside. just what they meant
~ it. 1t seems to me there's an awful
, Lot 81 trouble in tho world that some
tpw wouldn't exist If all the people
who sing such songs went and lived
chem out. l suppose I don't under
stand. But what would Jesus do, Is
that what you mean by following his
,tepss 1t seems to me sometimes as II
the people in the city churches had good
clothes and nice houses to live in, and
money to spend for luxuries. and could
go away on summer vacations and all
that, while the people outside of the
churches, thousands Of them, I mean.
die in tenements. and walk the streets
sor jobs and never have a piano or q
picture In the house, and grow up in
misery ard drunkenness and sin. The
nan gave queer lurch over in the di-
4ction Of the communion table and laid
he griny hand on it. His hat fell upon
the carpet at his feet. A stir went
though the congregation. DR.. West
half rose from his seat. but as yet the
silence was unbroken by any voice or
moveuent worth mentioning in the
.-au''-lse. The man passed his other
haI Across his eyes and then. without
any warning, fell heavily forward on
biz face. full length. up the aisle
Henry Maxwell spoke. 1--WE will con-
sidBr the service dismissed He was
down the pulpit stairs and kneeling by
the proitrate form before any one else
TIL, aulience instantly rose. and the
aise was crowded DR.. West pro-
bounced the man alive. He had tainted
away.
Some heart trouble the doctor
also muttered as he helped to carry him
into the pastors study.
Eenry Maxwell and q group Of his
church members remained some time
in the study. The man lay on the couch
there and breathed heavily. When the
queftion Of what to do with him came
mp. the minister insisted upon taking
him to his house He lived near by and
had an extra room. Rachel Winslow
said: Mother has no company at pres
emit ! am sure we would be glad to
give him a place with u.s. She looked
strangely agitated No one noticed it
paatic~'""'-- "" we're all excited over
the ct .ent, the strangest that
Flint c .urch people could remember.
Bui the minister insisted on taking
charge CT the man. and when a carriage
cane the unconscious but living form
Wis carried to. his house. and with the
entrance Of that humanity into the
minister's spare room new chapter In
Henry Maxvells life began. and yet no
one. himself least Of all. dreamed Of the
remarkable change II was destined to
Iusake In all his after definition Of Chris
tian tliscipleship.
Th', event created great sensation
in the First church parish. People
talked OF nothing else for q week. 1t
was the general impression that the
man had wandered into the church In
condition Of mental disturbance caused
by hie troubles and that all the time he
was talking he was in q strange de-
Nriurn Of fever and really ignorant Of
his surroundings That was the most
charitable construction to put upon his
action. II was the general agreement
also that there was q singular absence
Of anything bitter or complaining in
what the man had said. He had through
out spoken in a mild. apologetic tone.
almost as II he were one Of the congre-
cation seeking for light on a very diff
cult subject.
The third day after his removal to
thy ministers house there was marked
change in his condition. The doctor
spike Of 1t and offered no hope. Satur-
day morning he still fingered, although
he had rapidly failed as the week drew
near to its close. Sunday morning just
before the clock struck he rallied and
asked II his child had come. The min.
lister had sent for her as soon as he had
been able to secure her address from
some letters found in the mans pocket.
He had been conscious and able to talk
colerently only few moments since
his attack. 1.-The child is coming. She
will be here" Henry Maxwell said as
he sat there, his face showing marks Of
the strain Of tbAweek's vigil. for he
NAd insisted on sitting up nearly every
light
II shall never see her in this world"