Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-28

selfish Christian discipleship as vir- glnla and Rachel's do to lessen the stream of vice so long as the great spring of vice and crime flowed as deep and strong as eyer2 Was it not n 49rac- tleal 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 rescue2
 He could not escape the question. It was the same that Virginia had put to Rachel fn her statement that, in her opinion, nothing really would ever be done until the saloon was taken out of the Reetangie, Henry Maxwell went back to 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 less were the First church and it's little company of disciples who had pledged themselves to do as Jesus would do. Henry Maxwell, standing at the very center of the movement, was not in a position to jNdge of its power as some one from the outside might have done, but RaymoGl itself felt. the touch of this new diseE pleship and was changed Tn very many ways. not knowing all the reasons fer the change
 inc winter had gone, and the wear was ended, the year which Henry Max well had fixed as the time during which the pledge should be kept to 6 as Jesus would do Sunday, the anni= versary of that one a year ago. was in many ways the most remarkable day the First church ever knew. 1t waz more important than the disc.szias 1T the First church realized. The yeaf had made history so fast and so serious that the people were not yet able to grasp is significance, and the day itself, which marked the completion of whole year Of such discipleship, was characterized by such revelations and confessions that the immediate actors in the events themselves could not un- der5tand the value of what had been done CT fhe relation of their trial to the rest of the churches and cities i'll the country.
 t happened that the week before that anniversary Sunday the Rev Cal win Bruce, D. b, Of the Nazareth Ay- enue church, Chicago, was in Ray mand, where he had come on q visit to some old friends and incidentally to see his old seminary claasnate, Henry Max wei lie was present at the First church and vas an# exceedingly atten- tive and interested spectator. His ac- coeEt of events in Raymond, and espe- eia3ty ef tl2aS sunday may throw nors light on .Ae entire situation than any description oFHeeesa4e from other sources Dr- Bruce. s statement is therefore here given.
 Letter from Re. Calvin Bruce, D. D. of the Nazareth Avenue church, to Rev. Philip 5. Ga5ton, D. B., New York eityI;
 aIY DEAR GAXTos-Tf is late St1a- d{5 night. b#zf t.ia go intensely awake ar1 so zaEeIfiaNing with what 1 have seen and hea#1 that feel driven to write yoR new some aeeoant of the situation in Raymond as ] have been 6taa3-zl2g 1t and as it las apparently e88e to q elimaz today. 50 tbia ia my only excuse for writing so extended & letter at this fime
 .Yoa remember Henry Maxwell in the seminary think y0a said fhe last sime visited you in New York that goa had n9t seen hi2a since we gradu= ated He was 2 refined scholarly fellow 7ou remember. and whom lie Was called to the First church of Raymond within year afteT leaving the seminary said to my wife Raymond has made [ good choice Maxwell will satisfy them as# q Sefmonizer He has been here II years. and ] understand that ID to a year age he had gone on in the regular course of the ministry, giving good sat i4faction and drawing a good eonsrega= tion to his morning preaching service His church WAS counted the largest, most wealthy church in Raymond. All the best people attended it. and most of them belonged The quartet choir WAS laHlQGS lDi IhS i1iASlCA tcI1GCASettS iOL it4 soprano Miss Minslow of whom shall have more to say and, on the whole, as understand the fact Max well was in q comfortable berth with very good salary pleasant surround ings not very exacting pa1ish of re fined rich respectable people such a church and parish as nearly all the young men in the seminary in our time looked forward to as very desirable
 But d year asso teelay Maxwell came into bis church on Sunday morning and at the close Of his service made the proposition that the mem. bels uf his church volunteer for a year not to do anything without first asking the question V hat would Jesus do2 and. after answering it to do what in their honest judgment he would do re- gafdless of what the result might be to them
 The effacs of this proposition as it has heen met and obeyed by number
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