Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-09-09

low thee. 93ia fe.s3t fst9ef hftE- my W1t5 died in teaanenf n New York city. gasping for air and asilng God to take the little girl teo. Of cnnese l dont t ex- pect you people can prevent every one l from dying of starvation, lacll of proper nourishmens and tenement air. But what does following Jesus mean? l understand that Christian people own geod many of the tensIaents, A mem bor of q church. Nas the owner of the one where my wife died and l have wondered if following Jesus all the way was trre in hi5 caae I heard some people singing at 2 church prayer meet ing the other night,
 eAll for Jesus. all for Jesus,
 Ali my beings ransomed powers
 All my thoughts and all my doings. All my days and all my hours,
 land I kept wondering. as I sat on the steps outside, just what they meant 1 by 1t. It seems to me there's an awful lot of trouble in the world that some how wouldn't exist if all the people who sing such songs went and lived them out l suppose I don't under stand But what would Jesus do? Is that what you mean by following his steps? It seems to me sometimes as if the people in the city churches had good clothes and nice houses to live in, and money to spend for luxuries and could go away on summer vacations and all that. while the people outside of the churches, thousands of them, l mean, die in tenements, and walk the streets l for jobs, and never have piano or picture in the house, and grow up in misery and drunkenness and sin. . The man gave a queer lureh over in the di rection of the communion table and laid one grimy hand on 1t. His hat fell upon the carpet at his feet A stir went through the congregation. Dr. West dalf rose from his seat, but as yet the silence was unbroken by any voice or movement worth mentioning in the audience The man passed his other hand across his eyes and then, without any warning fell heavily forward on his face. full length, up the aisle.
 Henry Maxwell spoke, We will con- sider the service dismissed . He was down the pulpit stairs and kneoling by the prostrate fozn before any one else. The audience instantly rose. and the aisle was crowded Dr West pro- nounced the man alive. He had tainted away.
 .ssome heart trouble, the doctor also muttered as he helped to carry him into the pastor study.
 Henry Maxwell and group of his church members remained sen4e time in the study. The man lay en the couch there and breafhod heavily When the question of what to do with him came up. the minister insisted upon taking him 10 his house He lived near by and had an extra room. Rachel Winslow said Mother has no company at pres ent. am sure we would be glad 10 give him place with Us. She looked strangely agitated No one noticed It particularly. They were all excited over the strange event, the strangest that First church people could remember. 6at the minister insisted on taking ! charge cf the man, and when carriage cGtE0 the unconscious but living form Eas carried to his house, and with the entrance of that humanity into the minister spare room new chapter in Henry Maxwell s life began, and yet no enc, himself least of all, dreamed of the remarkable change it was destined to make in all his after definition of Chris tian discipleship
 The event created great sensation in the First church parish. People talked of nothing else for week It was the general impression that the man had wandered into the church in condition of mental disturbance caused by his troubles and that all the time he was talking he was in 8 strange de- lirium of fever and really ignorant of his surroundings. That was the most charitable construction to put upon his action It was the general agreement also that there was singular absence of anything bitter or complaining in what the man had said He had through out spoken in Q mild, apologetic tone, almost as If he were one of the eongre- ] gation seeking for light on very diff cult subject
 The third day after his removal to the minister house there was a marked change in his condition The doctor spoke of it and offered no hope. Satur- day morning he still fingered. although he had rapidly failed as the week drew near to it's close. Sunday morning just before the clock struck 1 he rallied and asked if his child had come. The min ister had sent for her as soon as he had been able to secure her address from some letters found in the man s pocket. He had been conscious and able to talk coherently only few moments since his attack. .'Ihe child is coming. She will be here, Henry Maxwell said as he sat there his face showing marks of the strain of the week. vigil. for he had insisted on sitting up nearly every night.
 II shall never see her in this world. y