The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-23
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Life in the Tower.

from the theological seminary sad
young man, whose plans for life lay
buried in the grave of his youns wife.
Accepting a work that offered a hard
field and small salary, he plunged into
the smoke of a manufacturing district
on the outskirts of great city. There,
amid the heaps of red ore and the
piles of black coal, he gathered a
church, the story of which would fill a
volume, and may not here be told Wife
less, childless, homeless, he wrought
his life into other lives and home, and
became the comfort and blessing of a
multitude.
After a while he got a church build
Ing, and there he gathered his congre-
cation and his Sunday school. And to
the plan of the church as originally de-
signed, he added feature of his own
in the shape of tall square tower.
He had to borrow the money for the
tower, for 1t was all lie could do to get
enough to build the church; and the
money to pay for 1t came largely out
of his own meager salary. But it fur
nlshed him home.
This Is the plan of the tower: The
first floor Is the vestibule Of the church
"a room 1S feet square, fronting both
streets, and with doors wide-open and
inviting. The door of tine next floor
opens out Of the gallery Of the church,
el 30 tbo 1,1i+
when the minister descends, and an
easy way to the reception room when
a member Of the congregation wants to
see the minister. 1t Is a committee
-ences Of many kinds. There commit
tees Of labor unions have met commit
tees Of the employers. There, In one
single June, were twenty-six weddings,
modest and quiet, but legal and holy as
If performed before the altar, with a
great organ playing the wedding march.
1t is said that the minister lives on his
wedding fees and gives away his salary.
This room and those above would be
eighteen feet square, but out of each
one comes stairway and little hall
The next floor contains a bedroom
and living room. There are two beds
double beds,-for sometimes the min
lister has another minister visiting him
and sometimes he takes in homeless
man; and there have been times when
the room was SO full it was said its oc
cupants had to go downstairs to change
their minds.
The next floor contains his kitchen
and dining room; and in the kitchen
one need not walk far to reach every
thing in the room; and the dining room
although elastic, Is not spacious
Then, farIup in the top, with two
windows opening to the east and two
Others opening to the west, is the study
Two walls are lined with bookcases
On one side the view Is toward thu
city; the other is toward the sunrise
and the great lake and no man anon,
the million of the city sees more-ol
more glorious than he wht
lives In the tower. Across from him
-huu Hcuiiy Oh hiS icNci, tuc SlcdI CLllll
neys put forth their flames. The ma
terial and the spiritual look across a
each other; and there he does his work
These are the rough outlines of tn,
picture. Most of the rest must be f1llet
in from the Imagination. But there ar,
stories Of the times when he has rushed
down the stairs to comfort homes
where accidents had come; stories o
how he has helped tottering men stel
by step up to the first floor of his house
on-end, and thence up the long ladde
to the recovery of a lost manhood
stories of how he averted a strike b,
his just and tactful mediation; storle
of how he has put his own life in peri
again and again, and put new life ant
heart into toiling men and anxiou
women.
Why should his name be writer
here? To publish his deeds would ro
him Of his crowning glory. Hlddel
from the world, and laboring with grea
and difficult problems, he has made hi
tower lighthouse, the beams of whic
have cheered and guided a multitude o
people out Of the smoke and turmoil t
the life of gentleness and peace
Youths Companion.