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Raymond, whether he felt Ill any great need of rest or not.
 esIt is fact, he said in reply to sew eral inquiries son thes partof. his church, lssI do not feel in. need ofsa vacation this year. am very we'll and prefer to stay here Y ItWas with q feeling of relief that he succeeded in conoealing from every one but his wife what he had done with this other family He felt the need of doing anything of that sort able action of Jesusiuntil I know better what his spirit is.s To my mind #the greatest question in. all of human life is summed up when we ask, What would Jesus do? if as we ask it we also try to answer it from a growing knowledge of Jesus himself. We must know Jefps before we can initiate him. y 2 i t='a
 When the arrangements had been made between Virginia and Edward Norman, he found himself in possession of. the sum of $500, GOO, exclusively bis 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 2 liberally, and up, braideth not, and 1t shall be given him. Surely his prayer would be am swered and the kingdom be advanced through this instrument of God S pow CT, this mighty press which had become. 50 largely degraded to the base uses of man s avariee and ambition.
 Two months went by. They were full of action andresults in the city of Ray mond and especially in the First church. h 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 plaeecopl not have seen any difference in the old conditions, although there was an. actual sehangeains hundreds ef=lixes, but. the saloons. dens.s novels, gambling houses, still ran, overfowing 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 s' .s.s--s -z..ssz-=.sss-"
 Henry Maxwell did not go abroad. Instead of that he took the money he had been saving for the trip and quiet iy arranged a summer vacation for a whole family living down ill 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 fly making the arrangements He went down into the Reetangle 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 a Christian woman. these bewildered city tenants breathed for the first time in years the cod salt air and felt blow about thea the pine scented fragrance of new lease of life.
 There was sickly baby with the mother-tkree other children, one 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 iol.r- ney, and when Maxwell started back to Raymond after seeing the family set tied the man held his hand at parting and eloEad with his utterance and finally broke down, to Maxwell's great confusion. The mother a Wearied, wornout woman, who had lost three children ehe year before from fever seoarge in the Reeaangle, sal hy the car window &ll the uay and drank in the delights af sea and sly and field IL was all miracle 10 her, and Henry Maxwell, coming back. into Raymond at the end of that week, feeling the Bcorching, sickening heat all the more because of his little taste of the ocean breezes, thaalzed God for the joy he had witnessed and entered upon his disci- pleship with | humble heart, knowing for almost tlie first time in his life this special kind cf sacrifice, for never be- fore had he denied himself his regular without display or approval from others. So the summer came on, and Henry Maxwell grew into larger knowledge of his Lord. The First church was still swayed by the power of the Spirit, Maxwell maryeled at the continuance of his stay He knew very well that from the beginning nof;ing but the Spirit s presence had kept the church from being torn asunder by s1is re- markable testing it had received of its discipleship. Even now there were many of the members among those who had not taken the pledge who regarded the whole movement as Mrs. Winslow did, in the nature of fanatieal inter- pretation of Christian duty, and looked for return of the old normal eondi- tion. Meanwhile the whole body of dis ciples was under the influence of the Spirit, and Henry Maxwell went his