Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-16

utmost to issue Christian daily
''Yes,'' Edward Norman spoke hum
bly,. 81 shall make great mistakes, no
doubt. I need great deal of wisdom.
But I want to do as Jesus would.
daily and shall continue to do so and
abide by results.
81 think we are beginning to under
stand, :" said Virginia, "the meaning Of
that command, Grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ I am sure do not know
all that he would do in detail until I
know him better
''That is very true said Henry
Maxwell. 81 am beginning to under
stand that I 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 dor 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."
When the arrangements had been
made between Virginia and Edward
Norman, he found himself in possession
of the sum of 5000, OOO exclusively his
to use for the establishment of Chris
tian daily paper. When Virginia and
Henry Maxwell had gone, Norman
closed his door and, alone with the
Divine presence, asked like child for
help from his all powerful Father. All
through his prayer as he kneeled before
his desk ran the promise, eff any man
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who
giveth to all men literally and up
braideth not, and it shall be given
him. Surely his prayer would be an
swered and the kingdom be advanced
through this instrument Of Gods pow
er, this mighty press which had become
so largely degraded to the base uses Of
mans avarice and ambition.
Two months went by. They were full
of action and results in the city of Ray
mond and especially in the First church.
In spite of the approaching heat of the
summer season, the after meeting of
the disciples who had made the pledge
to do as Jesus would do continued with
enthusiasm and power. Gray had fin
ished his work at the Rectangle, and an
outward observer going through the
place could not have seen any difference
in the old conditions, although there was
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 to
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
ly arranged a summer vacation for
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
and helped the family to the station
and then went with them to beautiful
spot on the coast, where, in the home
of q Christian woman, these bewilGered
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 sickly baby with the
mother-three other children, one a
cripple. The father who had been out
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
De- g., a
tied the man held his hand at parting
and choked with his utterance and
finally broke down, to Maxwell's great
confusion. The mother, wearied,
wornout 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. 1t
was all miracle to her, and Henry
Maxwell, coming back into Raymond
at the end of that week, feeling the
scorching, sickening heat all the more
because of his little taste of the ocean
breezes, thanked God for the joy he had
witnessed and entered upon his disci-
pleship with humble heart, knowing
for 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.
cit is fact, " he said in reply to sew
eral inquiries on the part Of his church,
81 do not feel in need of a vacation this
year. I am very well and prefer to stay
here It was with feeling of relief
that he succeeded in concealing from
every one but his wife what he had
done with this other family. He felt
the need Of doing anything of that sort
without display or approval from others.