Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23

ton 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 famous for its music, especially for
it's soprano. Miss Winslow, of whom
shall have more to say, and. on the
| whole, as understand the fact, Max
| well was in, a comforta BILE berth, with a
! very good salary. pleasant surround
ings, not a very exacting parish 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 year ago today Maxwell came
into his church on Sunday morning and
at the close of his service made the
astounding proposition that the mem
bers of his, church volunteer for year
not to do anything without first asking
the question, What would Jesus dor
and, after answering it, to do what in
their honest, Judgment he would do, re-
gardless of what the result might be to
them
THE effect of this proposition as it
of the members of the First church of
Raymond has been SO remarkable that,
as you know, the attention of the whole
country, has been directed to the move
ment. / call it movement because
from the action taken today it seems
probable that what has been tried here
in the First church in Raymond will
reach out into the other churches and
cause a revolution in church methods,
but more especially in a new definition
of Christian discipleship
I'm the first place, Maxwell tells me
he was astonished at the response made
to his proposition, Some of the most
prominent membe in the church made
the promise to do, as Jesus would
Among them were Edward Norman,
the editor of The Daily News. which
has made such sensation in the news
paper world; Milton Wright, one of
the leading merchants in Raymond:
Alexander Powers. whose action in the
matter Of the railroads against the in
terstate commerce laws made such a
stir about Il year ago; Miss Page, one
Of Raymond s leading society heiresses,
who has lately dedicated her entire for
tune, as understand, to the Christian
daily paper and the work of reform in
the slum district known as the Rec
tangle, and Miss Winslow, whose repu-
tation as a singer is now national, but
who. in obedience to what she has de-
cided to be Jesus probable action. has
devoted her talent to volunteer work
among the girls and women who make
up d large part of the city's worst and
most abandoned population
''In addition to these well known,
people has been a gradually increasing
number .s Christians from the First
church a0sa lately from other churches,
in Raymond A large proportion of
these volunteers who pledge themselves
to do as Jesus would comes from the
Endeavor societies The young people
say that they have already embodied in
their society pledge the same principle
in the words, Il promise him that | will
strive to do whatever he would have.
me do. This is not exactly what is in
cluded in MAXWELL proposition, which
is that the disciples shall try to do what
Jesus would probably do in the disci-
pies place. bat the result of an honest
obedience to either pledge, he claims.
will be pr:.c ticilly the same. and he is
not surprised that the largest numbers
have Joined the new discipleship from
the Eudeavor society
To be continued.