Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-02-01

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his speech With it all she knew was a
deep. underlying seriousness which felt
the burden Of the cross even while car
rving it with JOY. The next time she
| spoke it was with 4 swift feeling Of
iUstica due TO ROllin and his new life
DO YOU remember l reproached You
once for not having any purpose worth
living for?' she asked, while her beau
| tiful face seemed to Rollin more beau
t!frl than ever when he had Won sufti-
Gent self control 10 look up. Il want
10 say I feel the need of saying, in jus
tice to You now, that l honor you for
your courage ard your obedience to
your promise, The life you are living
now l. a very noble one.
RoIlin trembled- His agitation was
greater than be could control Rachel
could not help seeing it. They walked
along in silence. At last ROllin said
II thank yCd. 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 Lo 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 Il am beginning
| to know what it means 10 be loved by
a noble man shall love ltollin Page.
.fter all What am 1 ,y-ng! Rachel
Ninslow, have yOu io-.,- A.
She rose and walled b;.l-- 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-
pes.icnce, and later III the day she re-
joiced with very strong and sincere
gladness that her Christian discipleship
found room for this crisis in her feel
ing. 1t was indeed part of it, for if
she were beginning to love RollIn 1t
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
a hope that had been a stranger to him
since Rachel had said no that day. In
that hope ne went on with his work as
the days sped on, and AZ no time was
he .4yse 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 her
winter season Virginia had been able
TO accomplish a part of her plan for
"capturing the Rectangle, as she
called it, but the building Of houses in
the field, the Transforming Of its bleak,
bare aspect into an attractive park, all
Of which was included in her plan, was
work too large to be completed that
fall after she had secured the property.
But a million dollars in the hands Of a
person who really wants to do with it
as Jesus would ought to accomplish
wonders for humanity in a short time,
and Henry Maxwell. going over TO the
scene Of the new work one day after a
noon hour with the shopmen, was
amazed TO sec how much had been done
outwardly.
Yet he walked home thoughtfully,
and on his way he cOuld not avoid the
question Of the continual problem thrust
into his notice by the saloon. How
much had been done for the Rectangle,
after all? Even counting in Virginia =
and Rachel's work and Mr.. Gray's,
where had it actually counted in any
visible quantity? OF course he said TO
himself that the redemptive work begun
and carried on by the Holy Spirit in
his wonderful displays Of power in the
First church and in the tent meetings
had had its effect on the life Of Ray
mond, but as he walked past saloon aft
er saloon and noticed the crowds going
in and coming out Of them, as he saw
the wretched dens, as many as ever APP
parently as he caught the brutality and
squalOr and open misery and degrade
tion on countless faces Of men and
women and children, he sic1ened at the
sight. He found himself asking how
much cleansing could even n million
dollars poured into this cesspool accom-
plish2 Was not the living source Of
nearly all the human misery they
sought TO relieve untouched as long as
these saloons did their deadly but lcgiti
mate work? What could even such I'M
selfish Christian discipleship as Vir-
ginias and Rachels do 10 lessen the
stream Of vice 50 long as the great
spring Of vice and crime flowed az deep
and strong AS ever? Was it not prac
tical waste Of beautiful lives for these
young women to throw themselves into
this earthly hell when for every soul
rescued by their sacrifice the saloon
made two more that needed rescueY
He could not escape the question. IL
was the same that Virginia had put to
Rachel in her statement that, in her
opinion. nothing really would ever be
done until the saloon was taken out Of
the Rectangle. Henry Maxwell went
back 20 his parish work that afternoon
with added convictions on the license
business.
But, if the saloon were factor in
the problem Of the life Of Raymond. no
lcss were the First church and it's little
company Of disciples who had pledged
thcmaclycs To- do rs Jesus would do.
Henry Maxwell standing at the very
center Of the movement, was not in Il
position 10 judge of its power as some
one from the outside might have done.
but Raymond itself felt the touch Of
this new discipleship and was changed
in very many ways, not knowing all
the reasons for the change
The winter had gone, and the year
was ended the year which Henry Max
well had fixed rs the time during
which the pledge should be kept 30 do
IA Jesus would do. Sunday, the ami
versary Of that one "A year ago. was in
many ways the most remarkable day
the First church ever knew. II WAS
more important than the disciples in
the First church realized. The year had
made history RO fast and so serious that
the people were not yes able 10 grasp
its significance. ana tho day itself
which marked the completion Of n
whole year of such disciplc-hip, was
characterized by such revelations and
confessions that the immediate actors
in the events themselves could not un-
dcrstaHd the value Of what had been
done or the relation Of their trial 10 tho
rest Of tho churches and cities in the
country
II happened that the week before
that anniversary Sunday the Rev. Cal
vim Bruce. - D. Of the Nazareth Av-
enue church Chicago. was in Ray
moud. where he had come on visit tp
some old friends and incidentally to SEQ
his old seminary classmate Henry Max
well He was present nt the First
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