The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10

!, 'nioush tnls instrument OF God 8 pow
= = er, this mighty press which had becom
!. so largely degraded to the base uses q
L man. avarice and ambition.
Two months went by They were fu]
of action and results in the city of Raw
: mond and especially in the First church
: In spite of the approaching heat of tn
summer season, the after meeting O
the disciples who had made the pledg
.. to do as Jesus would do continued will
enthusiasm and power Gray had fin
lshed his work at the Rectangle, and a,
outward observer going through th,
place could not have seen any difference,
In the old conditions, although there wa,
an actual change in hundreds of lives
but the saloons dens, novels. gambling
houses still ran, OVERLOOKING their vile
. ness into the lives of fresh victims te
take the place of those rescued by the
evangelist, and the devil recruited his
ranks very fast
Henry Maxwell did not go abroad
Instead of that he took the money he
had been saving for the trip and quiet
~ arranged summer vacation for q
whole family living down in the Rec
tangle 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
lily making the arrangements He went
down into the Rectangle one hot day
when something of the terrible heat Of
the tenements was beginning to be felt
ana helped the family to the station
and then went with them to beautiful
spot on the coast, where, in the home
OF a Christian woman. these bewildered
city tenants breathed for the first time
IN years the cool salt air and felt blow
about them the pine scented fragrance
OF new lease of life
There was a sickly baby with the
mother-three other children. one
cripple. The father. who had been ont
OF work until he had been, as he after
ward 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 set
tied the man held his hand at parting
and choked with his utterance and
finally broke down, to Maxwell's great
confusion The mother, q wearied,
WORKOUT woman. who had lost three
children the year before from 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 miracle to her, and Henry
Maxwell, coming back into Raymond
at the end Of that week. feeling the
scorchlng, sickening heat all the more
because of his little taste of the ocean
breezes. thanked God for the ioy he had !
witnessed and entered upon his disci-
pleship with humble heart, knowing
Tor almost the first time in his life this
special kind OF sacrifice. for never be- !,
fore had he denied himself his regular
summer trip away from the heat of
Raymond. whether he felt in any great
need of rest or not
ut is a fact he said in reply TO sew
eral inquiries on the part of his church
II 90 not feel in need Of vacation this
year am very well and prefer to stay
mere 1t was with feeling of relief
1hat ne succeeded in concealing from
every one but his wife what he had
Zone with this other family He felt
Tue need OF doing anything of that sort
without display or approval from othera
80 the summer came on, and Henry
Maxwell grew into larger knowledge Of
lis Lord. The First church was still
waved by the power of the Spirit
maxwell marveled at the continuance
II his stay He knew very well that
rom the beginning nothing but the
spirits presence had kept the church
rom being torn asunder by this re-
aafkab Die testing it had received of it's
lscipleship. Even now there were
1any OF the members among those who
ad not taken the pledge who regarded
ne whole movement as Mrs Winslow
ID, IN the nature Of fanatical inter
rotation OF Christian duty. and looked
or return of the old normal condi-
on Meanwhile the whole body of dis
lples was under the influence of the
plrlt, and Henry Maxwell went his {
'ay that summer doing his parish work
great JOY. keeping up his meetings
'lth the railroad men, as he had prom '
ed Alexander Powers, and daily grow !.
lg into a better knowledge Of the i
[aster
Early one evening in August, after a Il
BY OF refreshing GOODNESS, following c
ng period of heat. Jasper Chase walk
to the window of his room in the 8
oartment house on the avenue and
oked out o
On his desk lay pile Of manuscript. a
nee that evening when he had spoken r.
Rachel Winslow he had not met her. "
ID singularly sensitive nature, sensi- Il
We to the point Of irritability when he n
as thwarted, seemed to thrust him a
to an isolation that was intensified
his habits as an author a
All through the heat of the summer n
had been writing. His book was
'arly done now He had thrown him a
IT into its construction with a feverish il
rength that threatened at any moment is
desert him and leave him helpless to
had not forgotten his pledge with
g other church members at the First re