St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-11-08
IN HIS STEPS.
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO"
BY CHARLES Nj. SHELDON.

BY CHARLES Nj. SHELDON.
copyrighted by the Advance Publishing
Co. Chicago.
[Continued from last week.
Edward Norman finished reading his
plan He was very thoughtful
81 have merely sketched very faint
outline have a hundred ideas for
making the paper powerful that have
not yet thought out fully This is sim
ply suggestive | have talked it over
with other newspaper men, Some Of
them say | will have weak, mandy
PANTY Sunday school sheet If | get
out something as good as a Sunday
school, it will be pretty good Why do
men when they want to characterize
something as particularly feeble always
use Sunday school as comparison
when they ought to know that the Sun
day school is one of the strongest, most
powerful influences in our civilization
in this country today. But the paper
will not necessarily be weak because
it is good. Good things are more pow
erful than bad. The question with me
is largely one of support from the Chris
tian people of Raymond There are over
90, 900 church members here in the
city. If half of them will stand by The
News, its life is assured. What do you
think, Maxwell, is the probability of
such support2"
81 don't know enough about it to
give an intelligent answer l believe in
the paper with all my heart If it lives
q year, as Miss Virginia said there is
no telling what it can do. The great
thing will be to issue such paper, as
near as we can judge, as Jesus probably
would and put into it all the elements
of Christian brains, strength, intelli-
gence and sense and command respect
by the absence of bigotry, Of fanati-
cism, narrowness and anything else that
is contrary to the spirit of Jesus. Such
a paper will call for the best that hui
man thought and action are capable Of
giving. The greatest minds in the world
would have their powers taxed to the
utmost to issue Christian daily"
eyes, Edward Norman spoke hum
bly,. 81 shall make great mistakes, no
doubt. | need great deal of wisdom
But | want to do as Jesus would.
What would he dor | have asked it
daily and shall continue to do so and
abide by results.
81 think we are beginning to under
stand, y said Virginia 1.-THE meaning of
that command, Grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ am sure do not know
all that he would do in detail until /
know him better "
"That is very true said Henry
Maxwell 81 am beginning to under
stand that cannot interpret the prob
able action of Jesus until know better
what his spirit is. To my mind the
greatest question in all of human life is
summed up when we ask What would
Jesus dol' if as we ask it we also try
to answer it from growing knowledge
of Jesus himself We must know Jesus
before we can initiate him D."
When the arrangements had beer
made between Virginia and Edward
Norman, he found himself in possession
of the sum of $500, 900, exclusively hi
to use for the establishment Of Chris
tian daily paper When Virginia ant
Henry Maxwell had gone, Norman
closed his door and, alone with tn
Divine presence asked like child TO
help from his all powerful Father AL
through his prayer as he kneeled befor
his desk ran the promise, "lf any ma
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, VIII
giveth to all men literally and uI
him. +" Surely his prayer would be ar
swered and the kingdom be advance
through this instrument of Gods pow
er, this mighty press which had becom
80 largely degraded to the base uses {
man avarice and ambition.
Two months went by. They were flu
of action and results in the city of Ra,
mond and especially in the First churcl
In spite of the approaching heat of I'll
summer season, the after meeting
the disciples who had made the plede
to do as Jesus would do continued wit
enthusiasm and power Gray had fiji
ished his work at the Rectangle, and a
outward observer going through IL
place could not have seen any different
in the old conditions, although there WI
an actual change in hundreds of live
but the saloons, dens, novels, gamblir
houses, still ran, OVERLOOKING their vii
ness into the lives of fresh victims
take the place of those rescued by IL
evangelist, and the devil recruited h
ranks very fast
Henry Maxwell did not go abroa
Instead of that he took the money
had been saving for the trip and quie
ly arranged summer vacation for
whole family living down in the Re
tangle who had never gone outside
the foul district of the tenement II
pastor of the First church will new
forget the week he spent with this fa1
lily making the arrangements. He we
down into the Rectangle one hot d.
when something of the terrible heat
the tenements was beginning to be f
and helped the family to the stati
and then went with them to a beautif
spot on the coast, where, in the hol
of Christian woman, these bewilder
city tenants breathed for the first til
in years the cool salt air and felt bic
abput them the nine gppntpd frn urn N