Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-09-30

Alexander Powers spoke calmly, if sadly Henry Maxwell did not need ta ask him how his wife and daughter felt He knew well enough that fhe SUI perintendent had suffered deepest at that point.
 There is one matter I wish you would see to, said Powers after awhile. ssand that is the work begun at the shops. So far as I know, the com pany will not object to that going right on It is one of the contradictions of the railroad world that the '. M C. A. and other Christian influences are en- ceuraged by the roads. while all the time the most un-Christian and lawless acts gre being committed in the official management of the roads themselves ] Of course 1t is understood that it pays railroad to have in it's employ Qen who are temperate aud honest and Christian. Sc I have no doubt the mas ter mechanic will have the same cour- ] tesY= extended to him that had in the i matter Of the room and it's uses. But what I want you to do, Mir Maxwell, is to see that my plan is carried out Will goa2 You understand what the idea was in general You made | very favorable impression on the men Go down there as often as you can Get Milton Wright interested to provide something for the furnishing and ex- pense of the coffee plant and reading tables. Will you do it2'
 Yes, replied Henry Maxwell. He staid little longer Before he went away he and the superintendent had q prayer together, and they parted with that silent hand grasp that seemed to them ike new token of their Chris tian diseipleship and fellowship.
 The pastor of the First church went home stirred deeply by the events of the week Gradually the truth was growing upon him that the pledge to do a3 Jesus would was working out q revolution in his parish and throughout the city. Every day added to the serious results of obedience to that pledge Henry Maxwell did not pretend to see the cad. He wass in fact, only now at <, the very beginning of events that were destined to change the history of hum dfeds of families, not only in Raymond. bat throughout the entire country. As i he thought of Edward Norman and Rachel and Mr. Powers and of the re- suits that had already come from their actions he could not help feeling of intense interest in the probable effect if all the persons in the First church who had made the pledge faithfully kept it. Would they all keep it, or would some of them turn back when the cross be- came too heayy2
 He was asking this question the next morning as he sat in his study when the president of the Endeavor society called to see him
 T suppose ought not to trouble you with my case, said young Morris, coming at once to his errand, "but I thought, Mir. Maxwell. that you might advise me little. .
 T m glad you came. Go on, Fred. ]" Henry Maxwell had known the young man ever since his first year in the pas torate and loved and honored him for his consistent. faithful service in the church
 Well, the fact is Pm out of a job. You know, I've been doing reporter work on The Morning Sentinel since l graduated last year. Well, last Satur- day Mir. Burr asked me to go down the road Sunday morning and get the de tails of that train robbery at the june tion and write the thing up for the ex- tra edition that came out Monday =, convince s,,a4 45 s.a4. 4l, ,4,Y& p rTtl,5 News l refused to go. and Burr gave ne my dismissal He was in bad tenn per, or I think perhaps he would not have done it. lie has always treated me well before. Now, don't you think Jesus would have done as did2e I ask ! because the other fellows say 1 was . fool not to do the work 1 want to fec that Christian acts from motives that may seem strange to others sometimes, but not foolish What do you think 7
 T think you kept your promise, Fred cannot believe Jesus would dc newspaper work on Sunday as you were asked 10 do it.
 '4Thank you. Mr Maxwell felt q little troubled over it. but the longer think it over the better 1 feel. .
 Morris rose to go, and Henry Max well rose and laid loving hand on the young man shoulder.
 E.What are you going to do, Fred 2'
 ''I don't know yet. l have thought some of going to Chicago or some large city "
 s.Why don't you try The News 2.
 'sThey are all supplied l have noi thought of applying there.
 1 Henry Maxwell thought moment.
 "Come down to The News office witt me and let us see Norman about it.
 Sc a few minutes later Edward No1. nan received into his room the minister 1 and yoRng Morris, and Henry Maxwell briefly told the cause of their errand
 q can give you q place on Tht News, 7 said Edward Norman, with hi keen look softened by a smile that mad 1t wineome T want reporters whC won't work Sundays. And, what i more. ann making plans for speeia kind of reporting which believe younG i Y F. L. L