Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-23

-aAA1gF 6O 0O T. o0AhANNC4 ming; although I'm ashamed of my self. It's all right for you. who are young. to be fastidious, but your Daddy Mau ing is coward enough to want to make his peace with heaven After a lie which put a few blots on the book
 She laughed at him speculatively for moment, and then she laughed.
 You know, l don't believe that Daddy Manning. You're an old fraud who does good by stealth. in order to gain the reputation of having been pictaresquely wicked. Tell me why you belong to Market Square church.
 Because it's so respectable" he twinkled down at her. When an old sinner has lost every other claim to responsibility. he has himself put on the Fes5rg."
 He dropped behind on their way to the door, to surreptiticusly slip some thing, which locked like money, to the man with the roughly hewn counte- nance, and as he stood talking. Rev. Smith Boyd came in. not quite breath lessly, but as if he had hurried.
 q knew you were here" he said, taking Calls slender hand in his own; then his eyes turned cold.
 You recognized my pink ribbon bows" and she laughed up at him frankly. You haven't been over to sing lately"
 Mo- ne replied. twin you be at home this evening""
 "Ill have our music selected" and. ir the. very midst of her brightness. she was stopped by the sudden son. berness in the rector's eyes.
 Simple little conversation; quite trivial indeed. but II had been attend ed by much shifting thought. To be- gin with, the rector regretted the ne- cessity of disappearing of a young lady so. undeniably attractive. She was pleasure to the eye and stim- illus to the mind, and always his first impulse when he thought of her was one of pleasure. An incident flashed back to him. The night of the tobog- gan party, when she had stood with her face upturned, and the moonlight gleaming on her round white throat. He had trembled, much to his later sorrow, as he fastened the scarf about her warm neck. However, she was the visiting niece of one of his vestry- men, who lived next door to the rec tory.
 Gail ierked her pretty head impa- tiently. If Rev. Smith Boyd meant to be as somber as this. she'd rather he'd stay at home. However, he was the rector, and her Uncle Jim was vestryman, and they lived right next door.
 You just escaped a blowing up. Doctor Boyd" observed Daddy" Man ming. joining them. and his eyes twinkled from one to the other Our. young friend from the West is harsh with the venerable Market Square church"
 "Again?" and Rev. Smith Boyd was gracious enough to smile. What is the matter with it this time?"
 It is not only commercial. but crim- inal," repeated Manning, with a sly smile at Gail, who now wore a little red spot iu each cheek.
 Rev Smith Boyd's cold eyes turned green, as he glanced at this daring young person. In offending the dignity of Market Square church she offended bis own.
 What would you have us do?" he quietly asked.
 Retire from business.s she in- formed him. nettled by the covert sheer at her youth and inexperience. She laid aside a new perplexity for future solution. In moments such as this the rector was far from minis terial ma he displayed quickness to anger quite out. of proportion to the apparent cause. "The whole trouble with Market Square church is that they have no God The creator has been reduced to a formula"
 Daddy Manning saved the rector the pain of any answer.
 You're a religious anarchist" he charged Gail
 Her face softened.
 By no means" she replied. T am a devoted follower of the divine spirit. the divine will, the divine law; but not of the church; for it has forgotten these things"
 You don't know what you are say. ing the rector told her
 That isn't all you mean" she re- torted. What you have in mind is that being a woman, and young. 1 should be silent. You would not per init thought if you could avoid it. for when people begin to think, religion lives but the church dies, as it Is doing today"
 Now Rev. Smith Boyd could be triumphant There was a curl of sar- casm on his lips.
 Are you quite consistent" be charged. You have just been object ing to the prosperity of the church
 Financially" she admitted; but 1t is spiritual bankrupt Your financial prosperity is a direct sign of your re- Iiqious daeav Nour financial hank