The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-07-01

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The love story Of young clergy
man, Rev. Northmore and rich
young woman The clergyman is o
stalwart six footer, handsome and
athletic He has displeased his
wealthy father by entering the minis
try instead Of becoming Identified
with the big business his father es-
tablished and conducts, as his father
had planned he should. The young
Clergyman feels that he Ia called to
the ministry and to the work Of fe-
former. He accepts call to a
church in Mogadonia, somewhere IN
Ohio Now Mogadonia Is small
town, which is dominated by multi
millionaire, in whose big factory half
the town earns a living Northmore
on his arrival gets posted at once as
to the religious status of the town
and how It Is run by the grsspng, au-
tocratic multi-millonaire This use
full and desirable information he gets
in detail from a laborer who has just
been terribly injured in an accident
at a building where he was working.
The injured laborer is lying where his
companions have tenderly placed him
awaiting the arrival of means for
Transporting him home and North
more stays by him to care for him.
For man so badly injured and suf-
fering greatly to impart so much In
formation and gossip concerning Mo-
gadonia and its chief magnate seems
surprising. but Northmore got II and
his hearts ambition TO help the poor
and suffering and better their ply
steal and spiritual condition, is fred
anew Northmore receives warnings
and tips from Jealous practitioners 10
"go slow in his reform ideas and not
antagonize the rich men who backed
up the churches and especially Nor
gan, the backbone of Mogadonia's
prosperity. Northmore's first SER
mons make decided hit, and he
starts In then to bring the poor into
the church only TO find that there
was bitterness throughout all the poor
N-of the town against the rich Morgan
who was man who ground down
the poor. Northmore. however, per
severes In his ambition in behalf of
the oppressed and suddenly becomes
confronted by the fact that the very
beautiful and accomplished daughter
of the hated millionaire Is All
ally in his plans for the social and
spiritual uplifting of the masses.
Northmore soon discovers also that
he is deeply interested in this philan
thropic and beautiful young woman.
Later on love for her is developed and
then consuming passion. The
young woman finds her heart respon
sive to the minister's attentions. Lat
er on to her dismay she finds that her
picnic and outing devised by her In
the fullness of. her heart for the chill
dren and parents too. of the poor Is
dismal failure. The children and
parents don't come to the big and
gener5ts feast she provided. Later
she finds the reason to be the deep
rooted antagonism of the poor against
her father-a father who to her had
been ever most loving and devoted.
She finds her minstrations to the sick
and distressed rejected and discovers
that the foundation of her fathers
big fortune and its subsequent growth
was due to a great wrong done a
poor worklngman inventor, whose in
vention was wrested from him.
The reader will now see that the
author has o present day social prob
lem interviewer into the story. She
deals in the guise of the story with
the relation of the workingman TO the
church. the American saloon, that
relic of frontier days, an institution,
the like of which exists In no other
country on the earth" as was recently
said, and the sinister power Of faint
ed money" The minister, moreover,
has to contend with the money pow
er In spite of his alteration for the
money kings beautiful daughter. and
the conflict and the mental struggle
which ensues for him are we'll depict
ed How It all terminated Will highly
interest the reader.
The common people of Mogadonia
are on the whole presented as living
narrow, cherries, almost hopeless
lives and their religious views were
tlnctured with belief in the endless
torment for the "unconverted" The
closing battle al the polls wherein
Morgan's political aspirations were
downed makes rather exciting
chapter. An as athletic type of man
Northmore fails at the hands Of the
author of proving himself Of the real
virile brand, and this Is exempltied
In one of the pictures which adorn
the book wherein Northmore stands
head dropping under the tender yet
somewhat scorching sde-glance which
the princess of Mogadonia bestows
upon him As an complication OF
what ought to be done In one phase
Of social reform9ton the book is not
thoroughly convincing, but tho girl
the heroine--is a true picture Of a
fine type of class of high minded
American girls wealthy and altogeth-
err admirable
= THE MAN or yesterday. by Mary
Holland kinkaid, Coiored illustra.