Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-21


 CHAPTER VII
 ,.. fa,lossesll me shall not walk in dark
 ] hody of Ioreen lay in state at
 poaa mansion on the avenue It
 Sunday morning, and the clear,
 air, just beginning to breathe
 tbe city the perfume of opening
 on,s in the woods and fields, swept
 tbe casket from one of the open
 o,ys at the end of the grand hall
 sburch bells were ringing, and the
 .le on the avenue going by to serv-
 nrned curious, inquiring looksiur
 a oreat house and went on, talking
 tbe recent events which had@ SC
 egely entered intosand made history
 he city
 inc First church Henry Maxwell,
 Emo on his face marks of the scene
 ad been through the night before,
 fronted an immense congregation
 snoke of it with a passion and 8
 erzthat came so naturally out of.
 nrofoand experiences of the Gay be-
 that.ais people felt for him some
 pg of the old feeling of pride they
 had in his dramatic delivery.
 ' this was | different attitude, and
 Through his impassioned appeal this Irning there was a note of sadness
 rebulfe and stern condemnation ht made many of the members pale 4h eelf accusation or with inward ger.
 For Raymond had awakened that brning to the fact that the city had ne for license. after alL The rumor
 the Rectangle that the second and ird wards had gone no license proved
 be false. It was true that the victory ns won by q very meager majority, at the result was the same as if 1t had Zen overwhelming. Raymond had bted to continue another year the sa- Ion. The Christians of Raymond stood bndemned by the result. More than a hndred Christians, protesting disciples, Ia failed to go to the polls, and many lore than that number had voted with he whisky men. If all the church kembers of Raymond had voted against be saloon. it would today be ort1awed bstead Of crowned king of the munich hlity. That had been the fact in Ray bond for years The saloon ruled. No be denied that What would Jesus do? And the woman who had been brutal g struck down by the very hand that lad assisted so eagerly to work her arthly ruin-what of her? Was 1t any hing more than the logical sequence of he whole horrible system of license hat for another year the saloon that eceived her so often and compassed her legradation, from whose very spot the weapon had been hurled that struck her lead, would by the law which the people of Raymond voted to upport open it's doors, perhaps tomor- ow and damn with earthly and eternal lestructioh a hundred Loreens before be year had drawn to it's bloody close? All this, with q voice that rang and rembled and broke in sobs of anguish or the result, did Henry Maxwell pour ut upon his people that Sunday morn ng and Ison and women wept as he pos1e Donald Marsh sat there, his lsual erect handsome, firm, bright. elf confident bearing all gone, his lead bowed upon his breast, the great ears rolling down his cheeks, unraind ul of the fact that never before had l.s, hown outward emotion in a publils erviee. Edward Norman near by sat- with his clear cut, keen face erect, but. is lip trembled and he ec qsched the end f the pew with feeling of emotion hat struck deep into his knowledge of he truth as Maxwell spoke of it. No, nan had given or suffered more to in- luenee public opinion that last week han Norman The thought that the 1hristian conscience had been aroused % late or too feebly lay with a weight f accusation upon the heart of the ditor What if he had begun to do s Jesus would long ago? Who could ell what might havP been accomplished y this time? And up in the choir sachel Winslow, with her face bowed n the. railing of the oak screen, gave vay to a feeling she had not yet al- owed to master her, but it so unftted Ter for her part that when Hen1y Max yell finished and she tried to sing the losing solo after the prayer her voice roke, and for the first time in her life he was obliged tosit down sobbing and Inable to go on. Over the church in the silence that ollowed this strange scene, sobs and he noise of weeping arose When had he First church yielded to such bap- Ism of tears2 What had become of its egular, precise, cold. conventional or er of service. undisturbed by any vul ar emotion and unmoved bysany fool 5h excitemeut2 But the people had ately had their deepest convictions ouched. They had been living so long n their surface feelings that they had lmost forgotten the deeper wells of Ife. Now that they had broken to the urface the people were convinced of he meaning of their discipleship.
 Henry Maxwell did not ask this