The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-06
Conducted By
 nlartba Young

is a lusty: Mother. here's Ed. come. Bring out a pair of overalls"
 At evening while the mother knits and old Adams fingers his great Bible young Adams tells the story of his sue cess in New York, suddenly brought to an end by his defense of Fischer and his arraignment of the judge in his private library. Thus he gave the two old people the creed of New York as he then read 1t in the bitterness of his defeat: We are making an idol of the church, and as such 1t stands be- tween us and the light. By maintain ing these idols, these social images Of Christ, we can believe ourselves a Christian people, but the man who would really follow Christ must walk alone-Christ said, Be not of the world and the church says. Shield your daughters from vulgar things. If you do go to Newport, don't be loud Dine at the Waldorf, if you can pay the bill. Protect yourselves against ad- venturers and thieves. Be not of the world. Make your money in Wall Street, if you must. and spend 1t at Sherrys, if you will. but we draw the line positively at fast living on the Bowery.
 This was novel and alarming creed to the old people. they wondered if their youngest born had out of the contamination of the city unconsciously created it, or consciously adopted 1t. Old Adams sought the source of all his wisdom:
 Let us pray. O. God, Our Father you have heard what my son has said, and you know if 1t is true. don't and | he don't, but you do. Have so many of Thy children in the church become worldly, vain: do so many of them LOOK upon themselves as peculiarly select In manners and in morals that the great masses of Thy children outside the church can't mingle freely with them? I am now to pray for my son and for that old man we robbed. and perverted and sent to jail, and I must be heard Dear Father, now speak to my son and comfort him. Fill him with an unsel- fish love that he may wish to serve Thee. If You have work for lawyer to do give him the wisdom to do it well why is this old man in jail? l want | to know before I can enjoy my liberty
 Here am in the midst of thy good l fields, and if I work I may have plen- ty. Why does my brother. another stumbling child of Thine, languish in a | jail?- Forgive us our trespasses, Forgive us our jails.
 | Forgive us our churches. Forgive us our benevolence and our
 asylums.
 Forgive us the feeble charity we offer Thee. and make us mighty to redeem. | Amen"
 From this homecoming to the human
 father and mother, the All Father and
 the Mother of all nature, young Adams
 returned to the city with renewed cour-
 age.
 It is an axiom that any one with
 courage, industry and ordinary ability cannot fail in New York. Adams
 found his place awaiting him. One Andrew Wheeler, a very rich man in- terested in the city's charitable organi-
 cations. had heard Adams defense of
 Karl Fischer. and had the offer of con | genial work ready:
 1 What do you think of our charity organizations?" asked Wheeler.
 T think" said Adams. that the
 slums are gradually reforming them" | You are right. Some of us have awakened to that fact. and we are at tempting to separate the benevolence
 of the city from it's self-righteousness.
 As we are beginning to know some | thing. we are growing old" Adams was the new thinker set in. This is our last view of that strong growth of Young America: | He was sometimes thought to be pe-
 culiar He had in him some of that metal which, since the days of the
 prophets. has annoyed the world. but
 he chose to weld It into the figure of a comfortable and successful man" | In New York, in all America, In all
 the world this can be done. A man has but to make the first choice, and
 It Is by no means an easy one: T am l for God" when all forces for good growth array themselves for him. Not only does the cares of young
 Adams hold the readers attention with an interest that Is compelling. his love for law Is equally an enthrallng study. | The bridal bouquet of pussy willows.
 the home in Orange, the wedding un- der the greenwood tree are all happy
 endings of loves true and jostling l cruise.
 The novel is full of domestic inci-
 dents It Is intensely human. It is | in many respects a departure from tra-
 dition, adhered to by our writers of
 fiction.
 It pictures the play of ambition. love,
 religion friendship. and passion in the society, among the living people of this
 day and country with fidelity and fearlessness unusual in our novels. It
 Is forceful. truthful, revealing. | The readers sympathy Is engaged on every page The people in these pages speak think. live. labor. love with a
 reality in all they do that Is thrilling It is no problem novel. But it is a novel whose problems absorb all our
 interest and fasten all our attention.
 With each new book MT. Arthur Hen
 rvs audience becomes a larger,
 weightier and more appreciative one.
 An Embarrassing Orphan, by W. F. | Norris. W E. Norris has always known how to do it. How to write the rollicking, jolly, wholesome, we'll
 set up novel. The novel of rollicking,