The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-09

daughter of God-fearing man, whose
conscience knows no division where pri-
vate and business life meet and whose
sterling qualities and will are inherited
by his child, and the son Of man who
has built up great fortune by the
modern business code. Generous pur-
poses soon clash with innate selfshness
and threaten to wreck home in which
at first there was promise of much hap
piness.
While the main lesson drawn by Mrs.
Keays is evident and clearly empha-
sized, about the methods or meeting
some of the specific cases developed in
the story there is confusion and room
for doubt. The reader feels that the
young wife, tho of high purpose, is
lacking in sound judgment, and that
/ her spiritual adviser is wanting in the
same direction and in the essential grace,
of tact. There is a disposition to
quarrel with him, for example, when he
no call so needed today as the "great
call to poverty From Mrs. Keays'
story one would say rather that the
!" great call' was to wealth rightly
administered, to honesty, humaneness,
unselfshness. On the other hand, the
reader has no serious fault to find with
the answer obviously intended to the
| following question by the young wife:
"Why should one man and his home
bound woman's entire interests and
energies9"
The trouble is woman's interests
and energies seldom are SO bounded, not
even among the rich. There is evil
IDENTIFY no reason why they should be,
tho most men and the homes to which
they belong offer enough to absorb more
attention on the part Of the wife than
good many women seem to think.
Mrs. Keays has, altogether, strongly
enforced lesson that is becoming more
and more insistent, that in the end
has to be learned willy nilly, and she
| has done it in a story of more than
usual interest, if not of the purely en-.
:, pertaining sort. It is a. story to read
| and think over, problem novel with
the problem to the fore, not merely an
attempt to divert with picture Of pn.
! pleasant phases Of life. s.........
, Mcclure, Phillips & Co., New York.
GEORGE MACDONALD.
All, loving, exquisite, enraptured soul,
Who vert to me q father and friend
Who imagined and brought near, all humanity
The sweetness and the majesty of him
! Who In Judea melted human hearts,
' And the world by loneliness and love;
; Dear spirit, who to the Infinite Purity =.
! Passed without change, and humbly unabashed-
If farewell we must say, it is that thou
SO far beyond, above, we-alien SO
: From grace like thine-may hardly follow clos,
Thy shining feet in fields Of endless light
When to the goal of souls reborn we pass.
! Yet couldst thou not rest happy in that worl
Thou saw'st with eyes anointed, near tina
. Christ .'. ~. <#rs. O..
Who vast to thee human brother and friend
: If we thy brothers, with thee came not nigh
If ever saint with the Eternal stroye,
Then wouldst thou, wilt thou, strive and sup
plicate .-.sz-.
| That not one soul be lost or suffer ILL.,
If SO may be, but win to the Infinite Love
That was the faith, strength, life Of all tn
days. '' .'
Our hearts are heavy-oh, yet give we thanks
As thou didst give when died one dear to thee
: Thanks that thou livedst-that we knew an
!, loved -- ~ ~. H.. s..
! Even in the flesh one who was one with God.
q Richard Watson Glider in the Decembe