Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-01
CHAPTER xxx.
A vestry Meeting.

There was a strained atmosphere in the vestry meeting from the first. Every member present felt the tension from the moment old Joseph G. Clark walked in with Chisholm They did not even nod to Rev. Smith Boyd, but took their seats solidly in their GUS tomary places at the table, Clark, shielding his eyes. as was his won't, against the light which streamed on him from the red robe of the Good Shepherd. The repression was ap- parent, too, in Rev. Smith Boyd, who rose to address his vestrymen as soon as the late-comers arrived.
 Gentlemen" said he, T wish to speak to you as the treasury commit tee, rather than as vestrymen, for it is in the former capacity which you always attend. I am advised that we have been paid for Vedder court"
 Chisholm, to whom he directed a gaze of inquiry, nodded his head.
 Its in the Majestic" he stated. I have plans for its investment, which wish to lay before the committee"
 ''I shall lay my own before them at the same time," went on the rector. T wish, however, to preface these plans by the statement that I have. so far as I am concerned, relinquished all thought of building the new cathedral
 Nicholas Van Ploon. who had been much troubled of late, frightened and nodded his round head emphatically.
 That's what l say" he declared.
 "The decision does not lay in your hands. Doctor Boyd,' drawled a nasal voice with an unconcealed sheer in it. It was clean-shaven old Joseph G. Clark, who was not disturbed. in so much as the parting of one hair, by all the adverse criticism of him which had filled column upon column of the daily press for the past few days. "The rector has never, in the history of Market Square church. been given the control of its finances. He has in variably been hired to preach the gos- pei"
 Sargent, Cunningham. Manning, and even Van Ploon looked at Clark in surprise. He was not given to open reproof. Chisholm manifested no as- tonishment. He sat quietly in his chair, his fingers idly drumming on the edge of the table, but his mutton chop beard was pink from the red 6anipp of tha skin hapeath
 "The present rector of Market Square church means to have a voice in its deliberations so long as he is the rector," announced that young man emphatically, and Jim Sargent looked up at him with a jerk of his head. Rev. Smith Boyd was pale this afternoon, but there was a something shining through his pallor which made the face alive; and the some thing was not temper. Rufus Man ming, clasping his silvery beard with a firm grip, smiled encouragingly at the tall young orator. 'I have said that I have. so far as I am concerned. re- linquished the building of the cathe- dral," the rector went on. For this there are two reasons. The first is that its building will bring us farther away from the very purpose for which the church was founded; the worship of God with an humble and a contrite heart! l am ready to confess that ] found, on rigid self-analysis. my lead ing motive in urging the building of the new cathedral to have been van ity. l am also ready to confess. on behalf of my congregation and vestry, that their leading motive was vanity"
 You have no authority to speak for me-" interrupted Chisholm. his nut ton-chops now red.
 Gro be contlnued)